Rob McNeely

I can do several North American characters, for commercials, and because of a time spent living overseas, I am capable of British, Australian, and east African accents.

My first voice over experiences were in Lusaka, Zambia (Africa) in the late 70's and early 80's, doing lite work on Zambian natiional radio and television, during college. I was able to write some of my own material in many cases and appeared in late-night "epilogues". These were the nightly sign-offs to Zambian national television. (I had the privilege of putting Zambia "to sleep" at night.) After 20+ years (yikes!) of sales experience in computers and educational technology, I have decided to return to the microphone this year. I hope to pull from a variety of experiences and knowledge gained over the last 20 years in sales, technology work and occasional performing. I also hope to tap into significant performance work done in college in the oral interpretation of literature. In college I earned degrees in Speech Communication and French. I studied under Dr. Jerry Reynolds in the Communication Studies department (Baylor Univ) and performed in multiple Reader's Theater productions over a 2 year period. For the past two years, I have performed on weekends with the Verrily Merrily Madrigal Singers, out of Arlington, Tx, doing acapella music from the English Renaissance period for a variety of audiences. This summer (2008) I completed an introductory course in voice overs by Linda Obrian in Dallas (KD Studios). Home studio equipment: Sterling ST51 Microphone and pop filter M-Audio pre-amp and USB audio interface (portable) Dell Latitude D620 (in separate room) 15" LCD display (in studio) Adobe Audition 3.0 software high speed Internet access Accoustic foam throughout studio. Since 1998, I have been actively involved in educational technology sales to public schools, with two companies: Scientific Learning Corporation (Oakland, CA); and Headsprout Early Reading (Seattle, WA). My work with these organizations has led to over 600 sales presentations for groups ranging in size from 10 to 200 participants, in a territory stretching from Arkansas to California. I have a rich experience in sales and communicating to groups of many sizes.