Relevant past performance

Transferable Experience for Government Requirements

These are real commercial, university, healthcare, and public-affairs projects, shown as transferable past performance. None are federal contracts. Each explains the scope, challenge, production approach, deliverables, and why it maps to government requirements.

Multi-brand corporate organization

Multi-Location Executive and Workforce Headshot Program

Client: MHS Legacy Group
Location: St. Louis, Missouri and additional sites
Services: Executive portraits, Workforce headshots, Retouching
Timeframe: 2026

Scope

Executive and staff portraits produced to one visual standard across leadership and multiple operating brands, delivered on location with a mobile studio.

Challenge

Leadership and staff needed portraits that looked like one organization even though people were photographed on different days and in different settings. Backgrounds, lighting, framing, and retouching all had to match.

Production approach

A repeatable mobile studio setup with controlled lighting and consistent framing. Subjects were coached on expression and posture, selects were proofed on site, and retouching followed a single specification so every portrait matched.

Deliverables

Executive portraits
Employee headshots
Retouched high-resolution files
Web-ready and publication-ready exports
Consistent framing across participants

Schedule

Scheduled shoot days with next-day proofing and delivery within the week.

Results

A consistent portrait library used across communications and the organization's rebrand, with the same standard held from the first frame to the last.

Relevance to government buyers

Mirrors a workforce headshot program for an agency or institution: many people, multiple locations, one repeatable visual standard, and organized delivery.

“You nailed it once again. Thank you for your incredible professionalism and outstanding experience for everyone. You continue to deliver the most amazing photos for us.”
Jessie Haupt, MBA, Director of Marketing, MHS Legacy Group

Workforce photographyExecutive portraitsMulti-location production

Group photograph of attendees at a business and public-affairs program in a St. Louis convention center

A Missouri state official addressing attendees at a public-affairs business program

A Missouri state treasurer speaking at a business and public-affairs event

Panel discussion coverage at a trade council program in St. Louis

Membership and public-affairs organization

Conference and Public-Affairs Coverage for a Trade Council

Client: U.S.-India Business Council program
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Services: Event photography, Public-affairs coverage, Same-day selects
Timeframe: 2026

Scope

Full-day coverage of a business and public-affairs program, including keynote remarks by state officials, panels, networking, and stakeholder moments.

Challenge

A single day with a fixed agenda, public officials on stage, and no second chances at the key moments. Coverage had to be reliable, unobtrusive, and organized for fast communications use.

Production approach

A planned shot list mapped to the run of show, discreet coverage of speakers and stakeholders, and an organized selection and delivery workflow so the communications team could publish quickly.

Deliverables

Speaker and panel coverage
Networking and reception photography
Stakeholder and official imagery
Organized image archive
Web and communications-ready exports

Schedule

Single-day coverage with organized selects delivered for prompt communications use.

Results

A complete, organized record of the program that supported communications, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.

Relevance to government buyers

Directly transferable to conferences, ceremonies, official meetings, and public programs where schedule reliability and fast, organized delivery matter.

EventsInstitutional photography

Formal portrait of a public-facing candidate in navy with an American flag background

Standing studio portrait of a public-facing candidate with controlled lighting

Public-facing candidate

Campaign and Public-Facing Portraits

Client: Congressional campaign (name withheld)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Services: Executive portraits, Environmental portraits, Retouching
Timeframe: 2026

Scope

A portrait set for a public-facing candidate spanning studio and on-location looks for use across web, print, and media.

Challenge

One session had to produce a range of usable, credible portraits for very different contexts, from formal to approachable, all reading as the same confident person.

Production approach

A planned run of studio and environmental setups with expression and posture direction, controlled lighting, and retouching tuned to keep the results natural and credible.

Deliverables

Studio portraits
Environmental portraits
Retouched high-resolution files
Web and publication-ready exports
Multiple looks from one session

Schedule

Single session covering multiple looks, delivered with retouched selects.

Results

A flexible portrait library that worked across formal and approachable contexts from a single production day.

Relevance to government buyers

Public-facing leaders, appointees, and spokespeople need portraits that hold up across formal reports, web, and media. This is the same controlled, expression-directed portrait work.

Executive portraitsInstitutional photography

University and academic medical center

Academic Medical Center Physician and Faculty Portraits

Client: Washington University Neurosurgery
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Services: Workforce headshots, Executive portraits, Retouching
Timeframe: 2025

Scope

White-coat portraits of physicians, faculty, advanced practice providers, and researchers produced to one departmental standard for web and directory use.

Challenge

A large department with busy clinicians needed matching portraits captured across limited availability windows, with strict consistency for a public faculty directory.

Production approach

An efficient on-site station with consistent lighting and framing, quick expression direction to keep clinicians at ease, and retouching to a single specification across the department.

Deliverables

White-coat physician and faculty portraits
Advanced practice provider portraits
Directory and web-ready files
Consistent framing across the department
Retouched high-resolution files

Schedule

On-site sessions scheduled around clinical availability, delivered department-wide.

Results

A uniform faculty portrait library used across the department's public directory and communications.

Relevance to government buyers

Universities, public health systems, and research institutions run exactly this kind of directory-consistent portrait program across a large, hard-to-schedule staff.

Workforce photographyExecutive portraitsInstitutional photography

Branded lobby wall photographed for a recruiting and culture library

Professional-services firm

Professional-Services Workforce and Culture Photography

Client: RubinBrown
Location: Clayton, Missouri
Services: Workforce headshots, Institutional photography, Documentation
Timeframe: 2025

Scope

Consistent staff headshots plus a culture and environment library documenting the firm's offices, spaces, and brand details for recruiting and communications.

Challenge

The firm needed both matching professional headshots at volume and authentic culture imagery that could be used across careers, recruiting, and communications without looking like stock.

Production approach

A repeatable headshot station for consistency across staff, paired with a planned walk-through capturing spaces, signage, and details that communicate the firm's culture.

Deliverables

Consistent staff headshots
Office and environment photography
Culture and brand-detail imagery
Recruiting and careers assets
Organized, web-ready delivery

Schedule

Multi-part production with organized delivery for recruiting and communications use.

Results

A combined headshot and culture library used publicly across the firm's careers and culture presence.

Relevance to government buyers

Recruiting and workforce communications for public institutions need the same pairing: consistent people photography plus authentic facility and culture imagery.

Workforce photographyInstitutional photographyDocumentation

B-roll frame from an institutional video shoot in a university neuroscience research lab

University and academic medical center

Institutional Interview and Documentary Video

Client: Washington University Medicine
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Services: Interviews, B-roll, Editing, Post-production
Timeframe: 2025

Scope

Interview-led institutional video with controlled lighting, professional audio, and supporting b-roll, edited into finished pieces for communications and outreach.

Challenge

Clinical and research settings are busy and unpredictable. Interviews needed clean audio and consistent lighting captured efficiently, without disrupting operations.

Production approach

An efficient interview setup with controlled lighting and professional audio, planned b-roll of the environment, and an organized edit and review workflow through to finished delivery.

Deliverables

Interview capture
B-roll acquisition
Edited institutional video
Color finishing and audio cleanup
Web and social-ready versions

Schedule

On-site capture with structured editing, review rounds, and final delivery.

Results

Finished institutional video used across the organization's communications and outreach.

Relevance to government buyers

Leadership messages, recruiting stories, program profiles, and training video all run on this same interview-plus-b-roll production and post workflow.

InterviewsVideo productionPost-productionTraining content

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