Thank you for stopping by on my site. Here is a little bit about myself.
I was born and grew up in the beautiful Angarsk city, Russia, located in the Eastern Siberia some 100 km away from Lake Baikal, one of the most unique environments in the world. I grew up in Siberia, my soul is of a Siberian. I love my motherland. But today, my home is in Vancouver, Washington.
In 1994 my family immigrated to the United States of America. Since then I live in Vancouver. The most I like about this area is the environment, although… yes… I admit, sometimes the rain gets to me, but living here I understand the rain is a very important element of this ecosystem. My favorite places to go here is of course the beautiful Columbia Gorge, Mt. Hood, St. Helens, and other places. The Pacific Northwest is a rich, diverse, beautiful, evergreen environment. Also I can say the same about the people of the region. I don’t know if it is a coincidence or not, but such diversity is reflected within the people who live in the area. This is mostly why I enjoy Vancouver/Portland metro area and the Pacific Northwest. I am glad to be here!
As I try my best to succeed in life, I believe the rich diversity and mixture of cultural backgrounds promote awareness and intellectual growth of the society. Intellectual growth, in its turn, I believe promotes progressive thinking, in terms of sustainability and for the greater good, social mobility (or what we like to call in part the American Dream) and the egalitarian society of individuals. As our society zips forward into the future, I’d like to optimistically believe our community is humane and supportive to everyone, without prejudice, bigotry and hypocrisy. I know more people will then become sustainable individuals supporting their community. So that is my motto in life. To succeed through becoming a sustainable individual and promote progress and development of our society. One of my goals in life is to contribute to the humanity and to succeed as a human being.
My Education
In 1994, my family moved to Vancouver, USA. With very little knowledge of English, but with Russian high school diploma equivalent, I singed up to attend Mountain View High School in order to catch up with my language skills and be able to communicate freely. In a year and a half, I obtained a high school diploma and was able to speak English well enough to proceed in my American life.
In 1995, to pursue my education, I took a placement test at the Mt. Hood Community College and was accepted. After a couple of years at MHCC, in 1997, I graduated with the Associates of Applied Science Degree in Television Production Technology. This professional technical program provided me with a good knowledge of audio, design, still and moving images, and techniques. This degree helped me build a strong foundation in video production skills.
No matter how comfortable I felt living in Vancouver, I was and often am considered a foreigner. After realizing how difficult it is for the foreigner to move up the professional ladder, in order to prove myself, I decided to enroll in WSU Vancouver and began taking classes at Clark College to fulfill general education requirements. However, in summer of 2000, due to changes in my life, I had to postpone my education experience. In 2001, my mom was diagnosed with a deadly cancer and passed away in 2006 after a fearless battle with the illness.
When life gives us lemons, we make lemonade. In the Fall of 2007 I decided to resume my education and enrolled in the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program (CMDC) at the WSU Vancouver. This progressive program with its talented faculty, teaches a variety of disciplines in arts, humanities, and social sciences. CMDC program compiles a great collection of courses to build a strong set of skills for working in a wide range of culturally diverse, technologically complex multimedia environments. I graduated in May, 2011 with the BA in Digital Technology and Culture.
My Work
During my second year of Television Production Technology Program (now called Integrated Media Program) at Mt. Hood Community College, I was hired as an intern by the award winning government access television in Clark County/City of Vancouver, WA. After graduating Mt. Hood Community College, I became a Production Assistant, performing variety of duties from shooting B-roll to directing live events, to producing monthly programming for the studio.
The experience at CVTV was simply invaluable, because I got to utilize my degree and develop my professional skills, and had a privilege to work for local, state, and often federal government officials. I worked on video production of Chkalov memorial rededication, annual Marshal Lecture, Republican and Democratic conventions, elections coverage, and many other valuable community programming produced by CVTV.
In 2000, I was offered a full time position of a playback operator for TV ETC – The Vancouver Educational Telecommunications Consortium in Clark County, WA. This job entailed a wide variety of duties, from monitoring and maintaining considerable amount of high-tech equipment, to working on schedules and collaborating with member of the consortium on educational programming, to publicity schedules, graphic design of educational content pages.
Between 2004 and 2008, my partner and I owned operated our own video production company. I had a 100% satisfaction amongst my clients, some of my works won awards. Due to my further pursuance of educational goals, I had to close my LLC business and move on.
Today I continue to work for TV ETC. I have been recognized a number of times throughout the years at ESD 112. I enjoy working with a diverse team of dedicated professionals supporting K-12 education in Southwest Washington.
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