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.