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>> When I graduated from Rollins, both my
wife and I knew that we wanted to go off

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to grad school, but we didn't
quite know what it was.

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I thought at the time that I wanted to go
to get my MBA and all of the MBA programs

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that I was looking at that
had, you know, entertainment

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or a very international [inaudible]
required 5 years of work experience.

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So we -- my wife and I kind of talked, and you
know, as a [inaudible] go for the standard,

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you know, try to get a job in consultant --
consulting or banking or something like that?

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Or do you -- do we try to kind
of make a unique statement.

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So my wife and I both decided
that joining the Peace Corp was a,

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you know, kind of fit into our paradigm.

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It's a project that you -- it's your
own work that makes your experience.

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You know, you're kind of dropped off in a
village and you have to go out and meet people

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and learn the language, and figure out
what skills you have innately yourself

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that you can help improve the community with.

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I had a variety of careers -- or I wouldn't
say careers -- but a variety of jobs.

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Especially while I was at Rollins.

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And then after Rollins.

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And then while I was at grad
school, and after grad school.

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And I tried to look for what
thread, among all those jobs,

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all the things that -- what
did I really like to do?

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And we realized that it was in story telling.

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So I tried to chase what my spark was, and kind
of stumbled into the work that I'm doing now.

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I ended up falling into the entertainment
industry by working on a project

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that was -- I was hired to do by Sony.

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It was part of my graduate degree, and
it was specifically to help them start

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up their Arabia offices in the Middle East.

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So it was based out of Dubai
with offices in Cairo and Beirut.

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When I actually showed up to
start implementing it, you know,

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it ended up moving a lot slower
than anybody anticipated.

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There are 3 different cultures.

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3 different legal systems; approvals

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where culturally they aren't
as efficient as the US works.

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So as kind of that downtime happened, you know,
I started volunteering for different areas

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and it ended up being that I was
sitting in the development area.

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So I started working with
the light entertainment group

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to actually start pitching some shows.

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And those were picked up, so
we started pitching some more.

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And just kind of fell into the
development side, along with production --

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which production is much more business oriented.

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But it was low-level, project-based
work right off the bat.

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And then when Brada actually opened up,
I saw on the last day of my project,

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I saw that in "Variety" that they
put out a press release for it.

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Went around to all -- you know,
what you're supposed to do --

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went around to all your friends;
all your connections saying,

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hey does anybody know Galmar D'Otoro [phonetic]
Garamond Navarro [phonetic] or Matt [Inaudible],

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you know how do we -- how can
I make a connection to them?

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Strangely enough, nobody
from Sony knew them at all.

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So I ended up doing what you're
-- they tell you not to do,

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which is submit a resume to a blank website.

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And the Director of HR, you know, by chance
was -- read every single resume that came in

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and I -- I made a statement with
her, and it was enough to get me

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in for an interview and we went from there.

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