John Rost

Summary

A dynamic leader with over 25 years of professional media production experience and over ten years in higher education. I have served in numerous creative and technical roles for various broadcast and corporate outlets and focused primarily on nonprofit projects. My expertise includes managing a West Coast studio for an international Christian broadcasting ministry and serving as executive producer and director for numerous projects targeted at worldwide markets. I have successfully consulted with more than 250 professional clients on production needs.

Key Skills

• Strategic media design work: development campaigns, market analysis, TV studio design, and system builds
• Production and post-production workflows
• Media shared-storage networks and asset management
• Advanced television editing and compositing systems
• Virtual (VR) and eXtended Reality (XR) production systems
• Concept development and completion of television, digital cinema, and audio narrative works, marketing pieces, talk-format shows, and music projects

Publications

Alongside numerous credited and uncredited creative works, I have authored a simplified English language manual to guide digital cinema and television production workflow for individuals who speak English as a second language. This manual demonstrates my commitment to engaging and informing a diverse target audience of students and professionals in the field. My Ph.D. dissertation discussed “The Safe and Meaningful Use of Virtual Reality: The Strategic Media Professional’s Storytelling Challenge.” The work explored what content creation techniques are most meaningful in building an engaging virtual story experience that encourages audience empathy for characters within the virtual environment.