I am a nationally recognized video professional. I have over 20 years of video production experience.
My company, Thunderhead Media, produces videos for non-profits, corporate training, presentations, corporate conferences, business profiles, and children’s events.
I have a passion for visual storytelling. I enjoy it so much I want everyone to know how to tell a story visually. I teach Journalism as well.
My passion for instruction guided me, lecturing in nearly 30 states at conferences, colleges, news-stations and workshops.
Along with being the CEO of Thunderhead Media, I am an Assistant Professor in the Journalism & Media Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado. Previously I instructed in the Video Production & Editing Program Emily Griffith Technical College. Before that I was an Adjunct Professor at Front Range Community College in the Multimedia Graphic Design Program.
My passion spills over into blogs I write. I started The Edit Foundry, an educational blog with an emphasis in video editing in 2008. The Edit Foundry was named one of the 50 best blogs for Movie Makers by Movie Maker Magazine.
I would love to hear from you if you are interested in working together on a project, being tutored or if you just have a few questions about this crazy media world we are in.
Shawn
Shawn Montano's latest award is a 2015 National Television Arts & Sciences Student Achievement Award for Sense of Security. This Public Affairs/Community Service Documentary was produced by his former student Tanya Kisakova. He has won 5 Regional Emmys, 3 Colorado Broadcasters Association awards, a Edward R. Murrow award and he is the only person ever to win the title of Video Editor of the Year by the National Press Photographer Association 4 times. 
