Matt Golin / Editor / Ogilvy

If it weren't for Rosemary, I may not have a career in this
industry. She was the one who championed me right out of college;
hiring me on various USG video shoots as everything from a
P.A. to a Director. Most of my colleagues, contacts, and even
current employer came because of Rosemary and her contacts.
I've had nothing but positive experiences working with Ro.
There's no ego and little nonsense in Rosemary's work
- she's a true pleasure to work with and to know.

Jim Mikalsen, editor, Harpo Studio's

Creative, on time, on budget. Easy to work with, has great ideas on how to make your ideas look even better than you imagined. Innovative, shooting where no one has shot before. And, has the experience and diversity in to make me look GREAT at my client presentations.

Roy Strauss, president, CedarInteractive

Rosemary is a great person, and has been committed to quality and reliability in all our projects together. She has a wealth of experience in media and communications, and has great ideas that are practical and can be implemented. She is fun to work with ,and would be an asset to any organization.

Mike Janowski,President/editor, Jaz & Company Electronic Post Production

I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Rosemary Cutinelli for far too long than she'd like me to reveal, but in the interest of full disclosure and truth, our professional relationship began in 1978, when I was first hired as a part-time "Production Assistant" (camera, lighting, studio setup and maintenance, teleprompter, etc) at Deltak, Inc., a pioneering developer of multimedia computer skills training. Rosemary acted as my de-facto "graduate school tutor" in all things television production, mentoring me through crucial early on-the-job learning experiences and really helping me find my place in the corporate television industry of the 80s.

We've continued to work together closely as we both navigated our separate career paths. As I moved into post production and editing, Rosemary became a favored client of mine, because our close working relationship allowed us to communicate "in shorthand", as it were, on projects. I always knew that when Rosemary was at the helm, as a writer/producer/director for freelance clients like Blue Cross/Blue Shield, or as Producer and Project Manager for United States Gypsum, that I'd get a completely realized, strongly managed project which I could jump right in on and begin the editorial process without a lot of muss, fuss and bother. Our years working together at USG are especially important. She efficiently and economically produced literally dozens of video and new media projects for a diverse cross-section of internal clients (marketing, manufacturing, customer support, human resources and corporate communications), always managing to juggle several projects at once with creativity and aplomb. I always enjoyed freelancing for her, and always looked forward to her calls to come in and work on another USG job.

With Rosemary, you'll be getting an experienced, organized and dedicated media professional who knows film and television from the ground up; who can write, produce and direct; who has lots of new media skills, including presentations, website development, on-line marketing, on-line training and on-line learning. And she's someone who possesses those "intangibles" most employers look for; great communications skills, an outgoing and winning personality, taste and discrimination, and the ability to manage a team and work by consensus. Perhaps I'm a bit biased by our long working relationship, but I think Ms. Cutinelli is the ideal candidate for the position you're looking to fill.

Early Experience

In 1978 I was the first woman hired in the video production department at Deltak, Inc.

Deltak was a producer of training materials mostly for advanced technologies and computer languages.

We had fun working there. The company was great, the people even better. The large studios were like our playground. What works for a background n video? How can we play with the lighting? Practice your camera moves!

I remember one day taking a TK46 out of the studio, down the hall and calling it a remote.

Deltak eventually bought a remote package and suddenly we were playing with dollies, tracks, and booms. It’s no wonder it took me eight years to master each piece of production style. I loved it all. Finally I decided, I wanted to Direct.

At Deltak every production had a set budget. Little did I realize that you had to become a producer/director to get more authority and control over your project?

Hence the move to USG.

Work History with USG

For the last part of my professional life I had a great managerial position at USG.
When I first came to USG Peter Rooney was the supervisor of the producer/director staff. We had a department of fourteen. The studio, control room, sound booth and graphics room were state of the art in 1985 and remained that way until Peter now Manager took the studio apart in 1990 and went to desktop.

Around my third year with USG as a producer/director, I overheard Peter, our manager and her boss discussing a number of projects that were not completed. If not completed by the end of the year we would loose the budget money. So I volunteered myself for a promotion. I asked them to make me an executive producer. I would hire the producer and directors necessary to do the job. It was a done deal and I got quite a nice raise that year.

USG in order to stop a hostile take over, re-organized. I was the last producer to leave with a consulting job still in production. My daughter was young so I worked Freelance; my clients included Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, HFC, Quaker Oats and many others. As USG got busier I did more and more work for them. Soon they asked me to come back on staff.

My first project was a huge interactive project piece on product knowledge using macromedia director Then they bought me an AVID Media Composer. It didn’t stop there USG kept hitting me with new software and hardware. Each night I’d lay awake until my brain said just visualize what you want to see. Sit at the screen until it materializes, by then you’ll know what your doing.

Having many friends and colleagues in this industry helps, even if they just teach you to use bulletin boards!

I continue to work at USG and I am involved in populating their Learning Management System by designing on-line training modules.

Some other clients have put things on hold due to the economy. So I find my self looking for freelance or full time work.

About me

I am a very warm and conscientious person. I love life and always know the right moment to make people laugh. I can be very tough, I don’t take many excuses and I expect people to work at my pace. I know things change. Just make me aware of the reason. I can always manage expectations, and I do set mine high.

I have never heard back from a person that said I was hard to work for, in fact most people love to work with me and for me.