Ben Wyman is a communications director, video producer, photographer, and live television director living in Houston, Texas.

He... and by "he," I mean "I," of course, it's obviously me writing this thing, there's no point in pretending otherwise, so let's dispense with some of the stiffness that these pages can get. It's just the internet, after all.

This is my website. I have it because I shoot pictures and make videos and I really, truly love the work that I get to do, and I hope that you sense that as you poke around the site. 

If you want to see if I'm available to work on a project, go ahead and hit the "contact" tab, and hopefully we'll be able to make something fun and wonderful together. 

I've put some of my  information below, if you clicked here looking for that, and also a million ways you can connect with me, from email to Instagram. Feel free to stalk me as much as you wish, in a safe, internet-friendly sort of way. Let me know if there's anything that you need.

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Résumé

I grew up without a television.

This is not the traditional sort of opening to a professional introduction - when it comes to video, "familiarity with the medium" is generally one of the most basic things one tries to sell one's self on - but it's a defining fact in my life. 

Now, I wasn't banned from watching television, my parents just didn't have one. They'd made the decision that there were better things for all of us to be doing, and so I grew up reading voraciously, going on elaborate adventures in the woods behind our house, and showing absolutely no athletic talent of any kind in at least seven different sports. Watching television was the rarest of treats, so whenever I got a chance to watch television, any television, I leapt at the chance.

Jump to college, where I chose to major in Media Communications, mostly because it sounded fun. I was immediately hooked. By the end of the first semester, I was working producing spots for the campus radio station and had my own radio show. I just signed up for everything. I took the school’s film production class for our university’s first ever major film production, ended up with five different positions on the crew by the end of it, and then the next year took it again for no credit just because I had so much fun doing it the first time.

By the time I graduated, I had managed to finish with a triple major - Media Production, Film Studies, and Media Performance - just because I had signed up for everything that there was to do.

I moved to Houston after graduation to take up a job as a video producer at a megachurch. I had assumed that it would be a short stay as a I leapfrogged on to another position somewhere else, but that turned out to not be what I wanted. A year in, I felt called to stay and keep pushing.

So I put down roots in the community, moved up to Senior Video Producer, and focused on deepening and growth. By the time I left, I’d been a part of two massive, multi-million dollar fundraising campaigns, had helped design a new worship center, won a Gold Addy for an advertising campaign, and been a part of the church ballooning from 6,000 to 14,000 members.

I accepted a position in 2017 at Houston’s oldest church to help revitalize the production of the longest-running church broadcast in American history. By 2018, I had moved up to Creative Director and then to Communications Director, overseeing a team of 40 full- and part-time employees.

I oversaw both growth and structured resizing, planning and building a half-million dollar media expansion on our West Campus, while also cutting the operating budget by a two-thirds.

I’m still in that role today, focused on growth, renewal, and rebranding.