Resume

1. Anthony Lopez
6358 E 43rd St, Yuma, AZ 85365
Home: (951) 687-9924, Cell: (951) 858-4209
Email: aalopez1972@gmail.com
Summary of Qualifications:
• Extensive experience planning, budgeting, and executing internal
and external audience information operations and
communications strategies across multiple disciplines.
• Twenty-two year, combat veteran with the United States Marine
Corps.
• Undergraduate, B.A. Communications; Graduate M.S. Education
• SECRET clearance, valid until 2024
Senior Visual Information/Information Operations Officer,
Community Relations Planner
I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, September 2013 -
Present
- Supervise 50 Marines and one contractor.
- Serve as Military Information Support Operations Planner and
identify target audiences and develop objectives/supporting objectives
for campaigns and product development.
- Serve as requirements officer and tasking authority for Community
Relations events throughout San Diego and Los Angeles Counties
promoting personnel and equipment support for local community and
Marine Corps relations.
- Coordinated 20 video productions to include the history of the Battle
of Ramadi, I MEF capabilities targeting 21 foreign attaché officers on
the strengths of MCB Camp Pendleton as a training installation, and
the Semper Fi, Your Story campaign targeting 18-24 year old Marines
to share their most favorable stories in their Marine Corps Career via

2. social media channels. Two hundred photo shoots to include the
documentation of I MEF support during the recent California Wildfires,
VIP/Foreign Dignitary visits, training, and external media requests.
- Serve as Functional Area Inspector for Combat Camera/Visual
Information and Operations Security Programs under the Commanding
Generals Inspection Program team. Responsible for ensuring the
readiness of both functional areas through command directed
inspections, identifying shortfalls and providing recommendations for
compliance with applicable regulations.
Senior Watch Officer
Naval Support Activity, Kingdom of Bahrain, September 2012 -
September 2013
-Serve as Combat Operations Center, Senior Watch Officer; the direct
representative of the commander to support his/her decision-making
processes through the real-time flow of information, current
operations, and communications, while prioritizing the flow of
resources and information between higher, adjacent, and subordinate
units.
-Coordinate command events with host nation representatives to
improve U.S. military and foreign relations.
Department Head, Combat Camera/Visual Information
Specialist, Academics Officer
Marine Aviation Weapons Tactics Squadron One. Marine Corps Air
Station, September 2009 – September 2012
- Supervise seven Marines and 12 contractors.
- Serve as Contracting Officer Representative to the Naval Air Warfare
Center Training Systems Division for Cubic Inc. (Training Systems
Management (TSM), and Models and Simulations (M&S), Audiovisual
(A/V).

3. - Maintain official MAWTS-1 social media sites to include Flickr,
YouTube and Vimeo in order to provide instructors, staff and decision
makers external to MAWTS-1 with quality imagery and video for
instructional, historical, and briefing purposes.
- Provided leadership to Visual Information, Instructional Support, and
Audiovisual Teams consisting of Instructional Systems Developers,
Graphic Artists, Technical Librarian, Audiovisual technicians, and
Reproduction specialists. Worked closely with instructors, instructional
designers, photographers and graphic artists to develop courseware
and instructional media.
- Supervised for the design and development of instructional
approaches and/or strategies to meet training requirements,
conducting analysis of training requirements and media requirements,
development of appropriate learning objectives and test methods to
achieve instructionally valid training, and development to include flow
charting, storyboarding, graphics identification and selection, and QA
for over 500 courses/presentations.
- Tracked monthly status reports from the contractor monitoring
milestones and goals.
- Coordinate the planning and execution of interactive courseware
classes for employment on a Marine Corps Learning Management
System. Assess data collection from student critiques as well as the
inventory and generic exams.
Officer In Charge, Visual Information Specialist
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, 29 Palms, July 2008 –
September 2009
-Supervise 12 Marines and two civilian employees.

4. -Plan, coordinate and execute Visual Information operations in support
of academic and field training events.
-Provide publicly released and FOUO imagery to support commanders
communications strategy, historical and training requirements
- Develop training audience analysis, product development, and
assessment of effectiveness with regards to visual communications
strategies for academic, field training, and community relations
products.
-Plan, budget, and track production and production equipment costs to
include printing assets and outsourced contract support for internal
and external audience campaigns and programs.
-Maintain 24 hour duty photographer in support of the Provost
Marshal’s Office, Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Criminal
Investigations Department.
-Serve on boards, committees, panels, working groups. Attend
meetings and conferences related to visual information/public affairs
activities, communications strategy, and public relations.
Officer In Charge, Combat Camera Unit
1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, June 2006 – July 2008
-Supervise 40 Marines.
-Write operations directives for deployment to a combat zone.
-Conduct cultural audience analysis for military information support
operations and synchronize with the commander’s communications
strategy, themes, and messages to inform and influence local
populations.

5. -Develop production schedules, produce, direct and approve all
scriptwriting and content development for print products (brochures,
pamphlets, leaflets, posters, etc.).
-Print management officer and copier control point officer responsible
as the technical representative for copier lease and maintenance
contracts.
-Procure consumables and contract maintenance for permanent and
mobile print facilities.
-Maintain local stock photo and video archives. Procure and maintain
music and special effects libraries.
-Operate standard radio broadcast equipment and digital recording
equipment, produce prerecorded programs (voice narration or sound),
coordinate product dissemination via contract and or loud speaker
capabilities.
-Brief the Multi-national Forces and Iraqi commanders face to face or
via video teleconferencing with regards to communications strategies
and the synchronization of information related capabilities such as
public affairs, combat camera, operations security, military information
support operations, civil military operations, and assessments.
Director, Visual Information Support Center
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, June 2003 – June 2006
- Supervised 22 Marines and civilian employees.
- Manage Customer Service of Visual Information products and
Audiovisual services. Interact with customers to provide information
in response to inquiries about products and services and to handle and
resolve complaints.

6. - Market Visual Information services. Plan, direct, and coordinate
communications strategies, policies and programs. Determine demand
for products and services. Identify potential customers.
- Serve as Purchasing Agent and Manager. Purchase photographic,
motion media, audiovisual, training devices, and printing equipment,
necessary for operations and training support to an entire installation.
Prepare purchase orders, Purchase the highest quality merchandise at
the lowest possible price, and monitor and follow applicable laws and
regulations. Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of department
heads and related employees involved in purchasing materials,
products, and services.
- Serve as local and higher headquarters digital imagery archivist.
Appraise, edit, and direct safekeeping of still imagery and motion
media as historically valuable documents.
- Serve as Contracting Officer Representative for audiovisual repair of
training facilities, audiovisual temporary loan, and the base theater
operations.
- Responsible for a multi-million dollar inventory of A/V, studio
production, imagery/video acquisition, training device equipment
supporting MCB Camp Pendleton, tenant and visiting units.
- Maintain 24-hour duty photographer in support of the Provost
Marshal’s Office, Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Criminal
Investigations Department.
- Serve on boards, committees, panels, working groups. Attend
meetings and conferences related to visual information/public affairs
activities, communications strategy, and public relations.
Multimedia Developer
MCCSSS Camp Johnson, June 2001 – June 2003
-Created special effects, animations, and visual images using video,

7. computers, and media for use in products, music videos, and
commercials.
-Created two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting
objects in motion and illustrating products using computer animation
or modeling programs.
-Designed complex graphics and animation, using independent
judgment, creativity, and computer equipment.
-Collaborate with requestors and clients with regards to the creative
employment of imagery, illustrations, and video to communicate ideas,
concepts, themes, and messages.
-Conceptualize production end-states and provide graphics,
illustration, and video post-production support to achieve customer
requirements.
-Serve as project manager for multimedia training programs,
programming oversight, interface development, and user
functionality/testing and evaluation. Develop unit/employee training
plan.
Video Editor
Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, November 1998 – June 2000
- Edited still images and motion media on video, synchronized
soundtracks with images and produced computer graphics for
postproduction projects.
- Organized and edited together raw footage into a prime cuts for
archival processes and productions according to scripts or the
instructions of directors and producers.
- Reviewed assembled productions on screens or monitors to
determine if corrections are necessary.
-Support public affairs television productions, news features, public
service announcements, and interactive productions, for training and

8. operations on virtually any topic relating to military operations and
community outreach communication.
Graphics Designer
Marine Corps Air Stations Yuma and El Toro, November 1992 – June
1998
- Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional
needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. Employed a variety of
mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.
- Created designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge
of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts.
- Determined size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy,
and select style and size of type.
- Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design.
Education:
Marine Corps University
Camp Pendleton, CA United States
Associate's Degree 05/2014
Major: Expeditionary Warfare
National University
La Jolla, CA United States
Master's Degree 04/2005
GPA: 3.333 of a maximum 4.0
Credits Earned: 45 Semester hours
Major: Instructional Technology
Syracuse University

9. Syracuse, NY United States
Technical or Occupational Certificate 05/2001
Major: Military Media
National University
La Jolla, CA United States
Bachelor's Degree 07/2000
GPA: 3.228 of a maximum 4.0
Credits Earned: 75 Semester hours
Major: Communication Minor: Media and Multimedia Art
Arizona Western College
Yuma, AZ United States
Associate's Degree 06/1997
Major: General Studies
Riverside Community College
Riverside, CA United States
Technical or Occupational Certificate 06/1992
Major: Commercial Art