Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Craig is a results-driven Operations leader with over 25 years orchestrating complex, high-stakes live productions for network television. He is a three-time Emmy Award winner with a consistent record of zero budget overruns across an impressive career spanning late-night, reality competition, and large-scale live events. Craig brings proven expertise in multi-million-dollar budget oversight, cross-functional team leadership, vendor negotiation, employee task delegation and real-time crisis management to any role. He is equally fluent in creative vision and operational execution, bridging the gap between artistic intent and resource reality. A strong team leader, Craig excels in real-time crisis resolution, cross-functional stakeholder coordination, live broadcast operations, process improvement, talent & artist relations, and union crew management.
• Oversee an annual production budget of $1.5M–$2.1M, encompassing crew wages, equipment rentals, and vendor services; sole decision-maker with $20k in annual discretionary spending authority. • Lead a core team of 7 full-time direct reports, scaling to 20+ on high-demand production days through delegated personnel management. • Serve as the primary interface between production, creative teams, and vendor network by translating artistic vision into actionable, cost-efficient technical briefs. • Operate as the operations nerve center in a live broadcast environment where technical failures require immediate resolution: no pauses, no second opportunities. Lead real-time resolution for technical failures in live broadcast environments, maintaining 100% uptime through decisive leadership and team oversight.
• Managed single-event production budgets ranging from $75k-$250k across experiential, broadcast, and live events for major brands and networks. • Selected credits: Amazon Juneteenth (2023), Amazon Winter Ball (2022), Tom Segura: Sledgehammer (2022), Spotify/Rap Caviar (2022), Generation Gap ABC (2022), Paula Abdul Live (2022), The Cube TBS (2022), MOCA Geffen (2024), COD Zombies/Activision (2020), World of Dance NBC (2020), Hannah Gadsby: Douglas Netflix (2020), RuPaul's Drag Race VH1 (2019), Miss America NBC (2019), A Little Late with Lily Singh NBC (2019), Jabbawockeez: Timeless MGM (2020), Puma/Balmain Media Event (2019).
• Directed lighting operations on NBC's highest-rated reality competition series across 18 seasons. Weekly production budget represented approximately 40% of operational production cost. • Functioned as operations middleman between the lighting designer's creative vision and vendor execution: translated design intent into cost-efficient specs, identified value-engineering opportunities, and communicated creative trade-offs back to the design team. • Mentored junior crew members through hands-on production experience. Ex: A former reporting Technician subsequently advanced to Media Server Operator and earned multiple Emmy nominations. • Received 7 Emmy nominations and 3 Primetime Emmy Awards (2013, 2015, 2016) for Outstanding Lighting Design/Direction, peer recognition representing sustained excellence across multiple seasons.
• Volunteered with Sean Penn's pandemic relief organization (CORE) to help stand up UCLA's COVID-19 drive-through testing center during the first weeks of the pandemic. • Applied production operations methodology to a crisis logistics environment: built daily throughput systems from scratch, ran end-of-day retrospectives, and iteratively refined the process; by utilizing process optimization scaled capacity from 200 cars/day to 200 cars/hour within 2 weeks.
Ran all technical operations for a working theater company.