About Me
I was born in New York in 1994.
My family moved to South Florida in 1995 so that was all I remembered.
(2009) I had a normal Floridian childhood, spending most of my time outside playing sports.
(2010) Occasionally taking advantage of the best beaches in the country.
(2011) When I reached the age that sports became serious, I chose Lacrosse.
I was an average sized kid of average talent, but I played for a good team and I rose to the occasion.
(2012) My Coach, Doug Shanahan (right), was one of the best lacrosse players who ever lived. The first ever Tewaaraton Award Winner (The Heisman of Lacrosse) and the MVP of Team USA when they won the World Lacrosse Championship against Canada in 2002.
He taught me a thing or two.
I even got to play in a tournament at Sunlife Stadium, where the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami Hurricanes played.
After high school I went to the University of Miami. Here I am in 2013 with the then President of the University, Donna Shalala, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton.
(2015) Despite picking up on the usual bad habits in college I got into the best shape of my life.
Coach Shanahan who was always passionate about growing the sport of Lacrosse in South Florida, went on to start a brand new program at St. Brendan Catholic High School and he hired me to be his JV Head Coach while I was in college in Miami. It was a school for first generation immigrants from Cuba so the three of us coaches in this photo were the only faculty members who couldn't speak Spanish. The boys had a field day with that.
(2016) Of course all good things must come to an end.
(2017) But as one door closes another opens. I moved myself to Los Angeles on a hope and a prayer and ended up landing a job on an ABC Sitcom.
Here's my first ever on screen credit that aired on National Television in 2017.
More proof that I worked on the show. Can you spot me? I doubt it.
(2018) But it wasn't enough to work on someone else's show. I had the hunger to write my own. Thus the Web Series, Welcome to Weho, was born out of the minds of myself and my roommate Richie and our friend Morgan.
Naturally we had to do some research on the subject matter. Here's us with some more friends at the West Hollywood pride parade.
I continued to write and direct my own short films in my free time while working on American Housewife.
Thus Mediform Productions was born.
Started by myself, Jeeraya 'Bill' Moranon, and Desiree Cardona (both pictured above).
While shooting independent content I linked up with a talented Actor named Matt Kempner.
He would star in many of my projects going forward.
(2020) A lot changed when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. I got laid off from ABC along with many others and started focusing on Mediform full time and Bill and I started a homemade hand sanitizer brand called Astro Moonbeam.
Naturally we made our own promotional content for the brand.
We used that to get more ecommerce brands as clients.
One of them was a tea brand called Ekon that was started by a friend of mine from U Miami.
As you can see I had a short lived brand ambassadorship with them which led to the rare occasion where I found myself in front of the camera.
(2021) All the while we were still focusing on making independent films whenever we could afford to.
Here I am in 2021 between scenes of the third short film that I wrote and directed, The Task.
We were consistently booking music videos through 2022.
We had a couple wins here and there.
But without a steady job I needed to pick up a few side hustles. One that I had been doing since I moved to LA was driving for Uber and Lyft. It was a great way to get to know the, but I don't want to know what percentage of my life I've spent sitting in LA traffic.
In 2023, I started bartending.
And then I fell in love with latte art and became a barista.
Still managing to find the time and inspiration for new projects.
Until I found the Big One.
Naturally it was inspired by one of my side gigs, Rideshare driving.
What else would I call it other than Rideshare and who else would star in it but my friend and creative partner, Matt Kempner.
Then while in the middle of production I was honored to be Best Man at a wedding...
Twice!
I must've done a good job because I was then asked to officiate another friend's wedding...
Twice!
And by the time Rideshare was complete I had already gotten some experience speaking into a microphone before I was honored to win an award at a prestigious Web Series Festival...
Twice!
Rideshare came out in 2023 in the midst of the WGA Strike. Ever since then the entertainment industry has yet to bounce back to where it was when I first moved to LA when there was a lot more opportunity. Over the course of the next 2 years, I continued to work in service jobs to pay off the budget of the web series while promoting it. I was offered a few streaming deals from some up and coming streaming services but none of the offers were enough to cover the cost of production and they wanted to own the web series and the intellectual property. This was the point where I realized I had to make a change in my direction in life. I've been so fulfilled in my creative pursuits but it's become clear that in the current industry climate there's no way for someone to break in without already being established and with Artificial Intelligence on the horizon it doesn't seem like it's going to get any better in the long run. So I thought to myself where can I be creative and get onto the forefront of something new? Well the same thing that would've eventually taken my job if I stayed in entertainment: Artificial Intelligence.