Thomas McFall

As a Special Needs Adult Support Staff Member I am responsible for helping my clients (male and female varying in age from 20 to 67) adjust and move through everyday life as normally as possible. Daily assignments include:

- Escorting clients to Doctor and Therapy appointments.

- Distributing daily and nightly medications to clients.

- Escorting and assisting clients with weekly shopping trips.

- Assisting clients with meal prep and food storage.

- Assisting clients with coping and problem solving skills.

- Escorting clients to the gym for daily and weekly workouts. (Including working out with clients to assure proper training methods and foster healthy behavioral habits.)

- Companionship time with clients (including watching TV and movies, playing card and board games, general conversation, etc.)

- Thorough paperwork documentation to maintain proper records of the daily progress of clients.

I covered the local high school sports beat (primarily baseball, basketball and softball for the "small school" circuit of academia in and around Baxter County including Cotter, Flippin, Norfork, Calico Rock, Yellville, Viola, and Salem.)

Daily requirements included:

- Traveling to one of the schools listed above and covering two to three games per night.

- Completing thorough in-game documentation via copious note-taking and score-keeping for the purpose of of a complete-as-possible written piece.

- Interviewing players and coaches for personal quotes and thoughts to be used to fill out the body of the written piece.

- Compiling and organizing all in-game and after-game information into a 500 to 1500 word article to be uploaded to the Baxter Bulletin Server before midnight to be posted online immediately and then included in the following days print edition.

Selling baseball cards, comic books and other collectables on eBay.

Daily duties included:

- Communicating with customer base (answering questions about product condition, age, etc.)

- Listing new items and promote them to increase as much collector visibility as possible.

- Packing and shipping products thoroughly and safely so to arrive in the same condition they left in.

As an independent commercial filmmaker I produced, wrote, shot, cut, and edited TV commercials for local businesses to be aired on various COX Communications cable TV channels including ESPN, CNN, and The Food Network among others (prior to COX's acquisition by Suddenlink Communications).

Daily requirements included:

- Meeting and discussing potential advertising and marketing plans with local business owners to help increase foot traffic, sales and to expand the notoriety of their particular business.

- Communicating with the advertising department at COX to make sure all guidelines and rules created by the company and the FCC were followed.

- Completing the commerical from start to finish (including writing, filming, editing, sound editing, digital effects, etc.) and returning it to the customer for their approval within the set production timeline (usually within 21 days) before turning it in to COX for broadcast.