Anthony Lopez

6358 E 43rd St, Yuma, AZ 85365 Home: (951) 687-9924, Cell: (951) 858-4209

Email: aalopez1972@gmail.com

Summary of Qualifications:

• Extensive experience planning, budgeting, and executing internal and external audience information operations and communications strategies across multiple disciplines.

• Twenty-two year, combat veteran with the United States Marine Corps.

• Undergraduate, B.A. Communications; Graduate M.S. Education • SECRET clearance, valid until 2024

Senior Visual Information/Information Operations Officer, Community Relations Planner

I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, September 2013 - Present

- Supervise 50 Marines and one contractor.

- Serve as Military Information Support Operations Planner and identify target audiences and develop objectives/supporting objectives for campaigns and product development.

- Serve as requirements officer and tasking authority for Community Relations events throughout San Diego and Los Angeles Counties promoting personnel and equipment support for local community and Marine Corps relations.

- Coordinated 20 video productions to include the history of the Battle of Ramadi, I MEF capabilities targeting 21 foreign attaché officers on the strengths of MCB Camp Pendleton as a training installation, and the Semper Fi, Your Story campaign targeting 18-24 year old Marines to share their most favorable stories in their Marine Corps Career via

social media channels. Two hundred photo shoots to include the documentation of I MEF support during the recent California Wildfires, VIP/Foreign Dignitary visits, training, and external media requests.

- Serve as Functional Area Inspector for Combat Camera/Visual Information and Operations Security Programs under the Commanding Generals Inspection Program team. Responsible for ensuring the readiness of both functional areas through command directed inspections, identifying shortfalls and providing recommendations for compliance with applicable regulations.

Senior Watch Officer

Naval Support Activity, Kingdom of Bahrain, September 2012 - September 2013

-Serve as Combat Operations Center, Senior Watch Officer; the direct representative of the commander to support his/her decision-making processes through the real-time flow of information, current operations, and communications, while prioritizing the flow of resources and information between higher, adjacent, and subordinate units. -Coordinate command events with host nation representatives to improve U.S. military and foreign relations. Department Head, Combat Camera/Visual Information Specialist, Academics Officer

Marine Aviation Weapons Tactics Squadron One. Marine Corps Air Station, September 2009 – September 2012

- Supervise seven Marines and 12 contractors.

- Serve as Contracting Officer Representative to the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division for Cubic Inc. (Training Systems Management (TSM), and Models and Simulations (M&S), Audiovisual (A/V).

- Maintain official MAWTS-1 social media sites to include Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo in order to provide instructors, staff and decision makers external to MAWTS-1 with quality imagery and video for instructional, historical, and briefing purposes. - Provided leadership to Visual Information, Instructional Support, and Audiovisual Teams consisting of Instructional Systems Developers, Graphic Artists, Technical Librarian, Audiovisual technicians, and Reproduction specialists. Worked closely with instructors, instructional designers, photographers and graphic artists to develop courseware and instructional media. - Supervised for the design and development of instructional approaches and/or strategies to meet training requirements, conducting analysis of training requirements and media requirements, development of appropriate learning objectives and test methods to achieve instructionally valid training, and development to include flow charting, storyboarding, graphics identification and selection, and QA for over 500 courses/presentations. - Tracked monthly status reports from the contractor monitoring milestones and goals. - Coordinate the planning and execution of interactive courseware classes for employment on a Marine Corps Learning Management System. Assess data collection from student critiques as well as the inventory and generic exams. Officer In Charge, Visual Information Specialist

Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, 29 Palms, July 2008 – September 2009

-Supervise 12 Marines and two civilian employees.

-Plan, coordinate and execute Visual Information operations in support of academic and field training events.

-Provide publicly released and FOUO imagery to support commanders communications strategy, historical and training requirements

- Develop training audience analysis, product development, and assessment of effectiveness with regards to visual communications strategies for academic, field training, and community relations products.

-Plan, budget, and track production and production equipment costs to include printing assets and outsourced contract support for internal and external audience campaigns and programs.

-Maintain 24 hour duty photographer in support of the Provost Marshal’s Office, Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Criminal Investigations Department.

-Serve on boards, committees, panels, working groups. Attend meetings and conferences related to visual information/public affairs activities, communications strategy, and public relations.

Officer In Charge, Combat Camera Unit

1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, June 2006 – July 2008

-Supervise 40 Marines.

-Write operations directives for deployment to a combat zone.

-Conduct cultural audience analysis for military information support operations and synchronize with the commander’s communications strategy, themes, and messages to inform and influence local populations.

-Develop production schedules, produce, direct and approve all scriptwriting and content development for print products (brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, posters, etc.).

-Print management officer and copier control point officer responsible as the technical representative for copier lease and maintenance contracts. -Procure consumables and contract maintenance for permanent and mobile print facilities. -Maintain local stock photo and video archives. Procure and maintain music and special effects libraries. -Operate standard radio broadcast equipment and digital recording equipment, produce prerecorded programs (voice narration or sound), coordinate product dissemination via contract and or loud speaker capabilities. -Brief the Multi-national Forces and Iraqi commanders face to face or via video teleconferencing with regards to communications strategies and the synchronization of information related capabilities such as public affairs, combat camera, operations security, military information support operations, civil military operations, and assessments.

Director, Visual Information Support Center

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, June 2003 – June 2006

- Supervised 22 Marines and civilian employees.

- Manage Customer Service of Visual Information products and Audiovisual services. Interact with customers to provide information in response to inquiries about products and services and to handle and resolve complaints.

- Market Visual Information services. Plan, direct, and coordinate communications strategies, policies and programs. Determine demand for products and services. Identify potential customers.

- Serve as Purchasing Agent and Manager. Purchase photographic, motion media, audiovisual, training devices, and printing equipment, necessary for operations and training support to an entire installation. Prepare purchase orders, Purchase the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible price, and monitor and follow applicable laws and regulations. Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of department heads and related employees involved in purchasing materials, products, and services.

- Serve as local and higher headquarters digital imagery archivist. Appraise, edit, and direct safekeeping of still imagery and motion media as historically valuable documents.

- Serve as Contracting Officer Representative for audiovisual repair of training facilities, audiovisual temporary loan, and the base theater operations.

- Responsible for a multi-million dollar inventory of A/V, studio production, imagery/video acquisition, training device equipment supporting MCB Camp Pendleton, tenant and visiting units.

- Maintain 24-hour duty photographer in support of the Provost Marshal’s Office, Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Criminal Investigations Department. - Serve on boards, committees, panels, working groups. Attend meetings and conferences related to visual information/public affairs activities, communications strategy, and public relations. Multimedia Developer

MCCSSS Camp Johnson, June 2001 – June 2003 -Created special effects, animations, and visual images using video,

computers, and media for use in products, music videos, and commercials.

-Created two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion and illustrating products using computer animation or modeling programs.

-Designed complex graphics and animation, using independent judgment, creativity, and computer equipment.

-Collaborate with requestors and clients with regards to the creative employment of imagery, illustrations, and video to communicate ideas, concepts, themes, and messages.

-Conceptualize production end-states and provide graphics, illustration, and video post-production support to achieve customer requirements.

-Serve as project manager for multimedia training programs, programming oversight, interface development, and user functionality/testing and evaluation. Develop unit/employee training plan.

Video Editor

Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, November 1998 – June 2000 - Edited still images and motion media on video, synchronized soundtracks with images and produced computer graphics for postproduction projects.

- Organized and edited together raw footage into a prime cuts for archival processes and productions according to scripts or the instructions of directors and producers. - Reviewed assembled productions on screens or monitors to determine if corrections are necessary. -Support public affairs television productions, news features, public service announcements, and interactive productions, for training and

operations on virtually any topic relating to military operations and community outreach communication.

Graphics Designer

Marine Corps Air Stations Yuma and El Toro, November 1992 – June 1998

- Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. Employed a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.

- Created designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts. - Determined size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type. - Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design.

Education:

Marine Corps University

Camp Pendleton, CA United States

Associate's Degree 05/2014

Major: Expeditionary Warfare

National University

La Jolla, CA United States

Master's Degree 04/2005

GPA: 3.333 of a maximum 4.0

Credits Earned: 45 Semester hours

Major: Instructional Technology

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY United States

Technical or Occupational Certificate 05/2001

Major: Military Media

National University

La Jolla, CA United States

Bachelor's Degree 07/2000

GPA: 3.228 of a maximum 4.0

Credits Earned: 75 Semester hours

Major: Communication Minor: Media and Multimedia Art

Arizona Western College

Yuma, AZ United States

Associate's Degree 06/1997

Major: General Studies

Riverside Community College

Riverside, CA United States

Technical or Occupational Certificate 06/1992

Major: Commercial Art