We are a small staff charged with a big mission, which we accomplish with the help of many wonderful volunteers. Our staff works collaboratively, but key areas of responsibility generally fall as follows:
Management Team - Autumn Labbe-Renault, Darrick Servis and Jeff Shaw comprise DMA's management team. All three work with the board on short- and long-term strategic planning, and have major oversight for DMA's initiatives and services.
Autumn has key responsibility for initiatives and partnerships, grants and grant administration, resource development, legal, finance, and overall management of staff and facilities. She serves as an ex officio member of DMA's board. Autumn represents DMA at many community functions, and also handles the bulk of outreach and promotion. She works full-time and is the office Tuesday-Friday.
Darrick handles day-to-day operations, works with Autumn on finances and budgets, and develops and maintains our websites. Darrick is also our technical guru, with responsibility for our computers, video and audio equipment. That sells it short, but you get the picture. Darrick is the lead on our Drupal development work with Denver Open Media, and helped develop the automation modules for the Rivedell system we use with KDRT. He works full time and is in the office Tuesday-Friday.
Jeff manages productions for both DCTV Channel 15 and DJUSD Channel 17. There's much involved with each of those, but essentially, requests for volunteers and event coverage are all routed through Jeff. He recruits, manages and trains our high-school interns, serves as liaison for many contacts in the DJUSD, City and community at large, and oversees DMA's training programs. In his "spare" time, a small portion of Jeff's time is allocated as "station manager" for KDRT. He monitors and deals with FCC regulations and filings, licensing and other such issues for KDRT. (Day-to-day management of and resource development for KDRT is the purview of the all-volunteer KDRT Steering Committee.) Jeff works full time and is in the office Tuesday-Friday.
Alex Silva-Sadder is Programming Manager for both DCTV Channel 15 and DJUSD Channel 17. Alex schedules and promotes the weekly programming blocks for both channels, coordinates import and satellite programming, and sets ups and monitors daily playback for both channels. Alex also oversees DMA's programming-related forms, and is the man to see for series slots and scheduling information. Alex also manages DCTV's Community Bulletin Board. He works full time and is in the office Tuesday-Thursday.
Clifford Garibay is DMA's Technical Assistant. He's here Tuesday-Thursday from 4-9 p.m. and is available to train and advise people on the use of DCTV's field and editing equipment. Cliff's latest project is Open Media Sessions on Tuesday nights, which provides an overview of new media techniques for community members.
Diane Dedoshka works a couple of days each month managing DCTV's studio productions, including On the Wire, 15 Stories and Service, Inc. The studio shoots are learning labs for community members, and Diane often trains people "on the fly." Her background as a producer for commercial television has brought a new level of professionalism to our community productions, and we are grateful she is sharing her time and talent with us.
Karen Vanderford works part time on marketing & administrative projects. She also helps to "hold down the fort" at the front desk. Karen is here Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Ryan Gonzales and Cliff Gamble are part-time production specialists for our educational access shoots.
Please see individual staff profiles for contact information.
