During my 13 year tenure with the Walt Disney Company, I had the opportunity to serve on the creative, production, and operational teams of literally thousands of parades.  Parades are presented 365 days a year in the theme parks as well as special holiday parades mounted for the Easter and Christmas seasons.  In addition, several ABC Television specials included live parade broadcasts.
   

Televised on BBC throughout the United Kingdom, this parade was the first "Macy's style" parade ever presented through the West End of London.  With over 1 million live spectators, the parade began near Piccadilly Circus and traversed the streets of London along Regent Street, Oxford Street and ended at Hyde Park.  Each float in the parade was created as a full "Production Number" and eight Show-stops were planned along the route to allow performers to showcase a 90 second number prior to resuming the parade's forward motion.  Proceeds from the parade benefited the Prince's trust charity.
   

Served for 4 years as contracted Parade Consultant to upgrade the existing parade to national quality.  I was in residence in Indianapolis 13 - 20 weeks per year leading teams of staff and volunteers in all aspects of parade production including sponsorship, scripting, staging, operations, unit recruitment, television cueing, risk management, creative concepts, community interaction, float design, music recording/mixing, and celebrity emcees.  The parade was televised nationally on TNN and regionally on the CBS affiliate.  With the 500 parade staged the day prior to the famous Indianapolis 500 race, the finale each year was the presentation, in race order, of the qualifying racecar drivers.
   

Gung Hay Fat Choy! - or Happy Chinese New Year.  Served as Parade Consultant for 2 years and resided in San Francisco 8 - 10 weeks per year.  Worked with the parade staff, community leaders, sponsors, and volunteer committees to stage the largest Chinese New Year's Parade in the United States.  Attended by over 600,000 people and televised on KTVU the FOX affiliate, my role was to work with the television station on all script preparation, segment line-ups, unit timing, and show-flow.  Also, to recruit and stage parade units consisting of Lion Dance Groups, Dragons, Floats, Bands and Specialty Units.  Overseeing the parade line-up and staging of all aspects of the parade, I then was the point person at "integration" stage managing the entire parade into the television zone and liaison with the television Director and Executive Producer to insure all timings and camera angles for the live telecast.
   

Celebrating Independence Day, this July 4th parade is one of the largest in the South.  Televised by WSB-TV the ABC affiliate in Atlanta, my role was primarily to oversee "integration" and cue all units at the beginning of the parade insuring the Parade Line-up integrity, spacing, personnel and elements were all accounted for and relay communications to the television Director of any changes.
   

Televised on WSB-TV the ABC affiliate in Atlanta, this holiday parade was staged near the famed Underground Atlanta.  At the start of the parade, "Integration", my role was to cue all units, insure the Parade Line-up integrity, Set spacing, Verity personnel and elements were all accounted for, and relay any changes or necessary communications to the television Director .