JAMES WESTC0TT
Hermitage,TN
Summary
Voiceover talent, Broadcaster, Broadcast Producer, Commercial Photographer.
Overview
61
61
years of professional experience
Work History
Oak Ridge History Museum
Oak Ridge, TN
01.2024 - 01.2024
- Narrated two videos.
E-Commerce Photographer
Goodwill
Nashville, TN
01.2010 - 01.2024
- Assigned to photograph high quality photos for Goodwills on-line auction sales; Later transferred to the Book Department as a Book Processor.
Narrator
YouTube
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
01.2014 - 01.2014
- Narrator for a YouTube travel video shot in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and narrated in Nashville.
Radio Broadcast Technician
Voice of America
Washington, D.C.
01.1985 - 01.2005
- Provided analog and digital audio products to 57 language services, maintained automated studios in the Far East Division, nightly maintenance on automated systems for Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty satellite transmission to Europe; maintained 57 core studios; VOA Photo Journalist at the White House photographing VOA employees at work for in house display. Photographed President George W. Bush during a visit to the VOA.
On Air Broadcast Talent, Radio Engineer
Ten radio stations
01.1963 - 01.1985
- In 1973, assigned to produce a sales promotion for a two day remote broadcast for a mobile home company promotion resulting in 22 mobile homes sold, netting over $10K in sales revenue for the mobile home company. In 1983 I organized a one-day radio station’s One Million Dollar Fishing Tournament, it had no winner but station made money through entry fees.
- Tennessee, Virginia, and Delaware
Education
Credit Hours - Commercial Photography and Elementary Spanish
USDA Graduate School
Washington, D.C.01.1987
FCC First Class Radio Telephone Broadcast License - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Radio Engineering Institute
Fredericksburg, VA01.1980
Radio Announcing And Broadcast Production - Radio Broadcast Production
Mid-South Electronics Institute
Nashville, TN01.1963
Skills
- Photo editing
- Problem-solving
- Adobe photoshop
- Video editing
Affiliations
Former Radio Broadcast Technician with the Voice of America in Washington, D.C 1985-2025..
Exclusive Mutual Broadcasting System coverage of the 1972 Southern Airline Hijacking over Tennessee to Havana Cuba.
Received Associated Press award.
Exclusive coverage of the murder of United Mine Worker President Jock Yablonski,wife and children and arrest of the murder in 1969 and arrest and conviction of Tony Boyle in the same year.
First to report the death of Drew Pearson the 71 year old journalist and creator of the popular Washington-Merry go round column.
Timeline
Oak Ridge History Museum
01.2024 - 01.2024
Narrator
YouTube
01.2014 - 01.2014
E-Commerce Photographer
Goodwill
01.2010 - 01.2024
Radio Broadcast Technician
Voice of America
01.1985 - 01.2005
On Air Broadcast Talent, Radio Engineer
Ten radio stations
01.1963 - 01.1985
Credit Hours - Commercial Photography and Elementary Spanish
USDA Graduate School
FCC First Class Radio Telephone Broadcast License - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Radio Engineering Institute
Radio Announcing And Broadcast Production - Radio Broadcast Production
Mid-South Electronics Institute