21 years as IVR voice with regional, national, international experience: Banking, Stock Purchase Plans, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Technical, Call Center, University and Government phone directories, Voice of Dial-a-Buoy for NOAA, Traffic voice for OnStar, 17 years as voice of Computershare/Equiserve (Stock Purchase plans for many of the Fortune 500.) Signature voice for Working Solutions. Principal and Legacy voice for Syntellect/Enghouse. Produced voice files for nearly all IVR platforms.
Representative Voice over client list:
National City Mortgage, T-Mobile, NOAA, American Heart Association, Akron General Hospital, Provident Savings, Qwestar Gas, NACTA, Bisys Banks, SWBell, Unum, Healthnet-Irvine, Delta Dental, Arvest Bank, Allfirst, Time Warner, Verizon, Arizona Public Service, State of Ohio, Purina, State of Wyoming, AT&T, Alltel, University of Chicago, Whitney Bank, LA Fidelity Data Center, Albany Fidelity Data Center, PCSU Services, Asurion
*Master of Fine Arts: Theatre: Acting and Directing, University of Missouri-Kansas City Professional Actor Training Program. Extensive voice work in Lessac and musical theatre.
*Bachelor of Arts: Theatre, Northwest Missouri State
*The Billion-Dollar Read, Audio book Demo Recording Workshop, Doppler Studios, taught by Pay Fraley, 2011
*Audio book Voice over Techniques, Jeffrey Umberger, YourAct Studio, 2011
*Masters of the Microphone, Atlanta, GA Professional Voice over Seminar, Susan Berkley, Pat Fraley, instructors, March 2010
*Voice Talent Teleclass, Susan Berkley, instructor, Feb-March 2002
*Invitational Seminar, Acting for the Camera with Mari Lyn Henry, Casting Director, ABC-TV, East Coast, 1989
Verse Drama Analysis, Leon Rubin, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1985
*Member, Actors Equity Association
*Charter Member, Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association
*Voting Member, Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammy’s)
*Classically-trained pianist
Recording programs: Sound Forge, Sonar, Acid, Bitworks, Garage Band, VOX Over, Audacity, Vegas.
Mackie Mixer Board
Shure KSM32 studio mic
Audio-Technica studio mic
Blue Tube PreAmp
Blue Tube Compressor
Yamaha Clavinova keyboards
Sound isolation booth
Most work (within reason)turned around in 24-48 hours. Extensive experience with doing scripts of hundreds and thousands of voice files.
Quality and voice consistant voice file to voice file, day to day, week to week, year to year.