SCOTT ANGER

anger.scott(at)gmail.com

Seeking an opportunity to apply aviation skills, project management experience, and problem-solving talents to conduct UAS flight operations in a dynamic work environment. Exceptional collaborative and interpersonal skills; team player with well-developed visual, written, and verbal communication abilities.

Cinematographer / sUAS pilot / Flight School Ground Instructor
Independent | Los Angeles
May 2010 - present

● Cinematographer and producer for long-form documentary film productions in United States, Ukraine, and Afghanistan for PBS FRONTLINE. Recent sUAS cinematography experience includes manual flight control in complex environments, COA for BVLOS in Ukraine, and high-altitude image capture missions (above 12,000’ MSL) in Afghanistan.
● sUAS mission planning and flight-plan filing for IFR flights under Part 91. Experience with Leidos Flight Service, Aviation Weather Center, and LAANC authorizations.
● Experience teaching in-person ground instruction courses at a Part 61 flight school to students seeking a sport, recreational or private pilot certificate. Topics include: Aeronautical Decision Making, Crew Resource Management, Single-Pilot Resource Management, weather, navigation, and aerodynamic principles.
● Taught specialized course in boundary layer weather as it applies to aviation in Southern and Central California.
● Extensive experience planning, executing, and managing team logistics for travel in regions of armed conflict, natural disaster, and remote productions worldwide.
● Working knowledge of aerial mapping and photogrammetry techniques and applications.

Managing Director
The Lost Bird Project | New York
June 2012 - Aug. 2013

● Designed and implemented digital outreach, live audience engagement, and feature documentary film distribution for the art-based environmental nonprofit organization.
● Co-founded and directed Smartfin, a project to gather near-shore ocean data using telemetry built into surfboard fins.
● Established technology, content, and art distribution partnerships with National Audubon Society and Surfrider Foundation.
● Managed daily operations, including but not limited to, staff, budget and payroll.

Director of Video
Los Angeles Times
Nov. 2008 - May 2010

● Directed editorial video content creation and strategy across all sections of the news organization.
● Developed diversified distribution channels, including regional partnerships, social media platforms, and live
audience events.
● Successfully grew online video audiences by more than four-hundred percent.
● Supervised a staff of 10 full-time video journalists and editors.

Deputy Director of Video
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 2007 - Nov. 2008

● Worked closely with editorial staff to conceptualize, report, photograph, and edit impactful visual stories.
● Developed work-flow solutions for video across the newsroom and foreign bureaus.
● Developed and implemented video training curriculum for 650 journalists and editors.

Journalist / Filmmaker / Consultant - Independent | New York
Oct. 2000 - Dec. 2007

● Reported, produced, photographed, and edited current affairs documentary projects.
● Taught workshops on documentary filmmaking and non-fiction storytelling using character-driven
narratives.

Radio Correspondent / Bureau Chief
Voice of America | Islamabad, Pakistan
Oct. 1998 - Oct. 2000

● Provided news coverage, feature reports, and analysis of events in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia for English radio broadcasts and language service translations.
● Established and maintained a news bureau under the first Taliban regime in Kabul, Afghanistan.
● Expanded news coverage to include full-time Urdu language broadcasts and distribution on regional FM
broadcast stations in Pakistan.
● Supervised bureau staff and managed regional stringers in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
● Responsibilities included; management of bureau budget, employee payroll and bureau purchases.

Multimedia Journalist
Independent | Fresno, San Francisco & Bangkok
June 1984 - Oct. 1998

● Owned and operated a successful freelance photojournalism and radio production business. Photography represented worldwide by Gamma/Liaison picture agency.
● Photographed assignments for publications, including TIME, U.S. News & World Report, Business Week, Paris Match, Audubon, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Fresno Bee.
● Reported and produced radio stories for National Public Radio, KQED, WGBH and Public Radio International in the United States, BBC World Service in Thailand and Cambodia.

Certifications
● FAA Private Pilot Certificate with Instrument Rating
● FAA Part 107 sUAS Pilot Certificate
● FAA Basic Ground Instructor Certificate
● Third-Class medical certificate

Professional Courses
● Hostile Environment Training (Pilgrims Group, Longmoor, United Kingdom) Intensive, 14-day course in
first-aid, working in hostile environments, kidnapping, and surviving nuclear, biological, or chemical attack.

References available upon request.