Digital Media & Broadcasting Specialist / Educator
Bobbi has an extensive background spanning two decades in broadcast television operations, production and assistance with FCC compliance at WTVE TV51 in the Philadelphia market where she produced and directed numerous talk shows, commercials and public service announcements in both English and Spanish languages. Bobbi also worked freelance for over a decade with the BerksCable/Time Warner Cable mobile production truck crew for high school sports and community event coverage with primary duties of operating Chyron graphics during productions of school football and basketball games throughout Northeast and Southeast Pennsylvania. In addition to the weekly games, she also performed the same duties for coverage at championship games and various parades and other public affairs event coverage. She also worked on the Comcast CN8 studio production crew as a Chyron Infinite operator, camera operator and day producer for two years on talk shows Comcast Tonight and Comcast Newsmakers between Reading and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
In 1996, she received a Pennsylvania Association of Broadcaster's Award (PAB) for Broadcasting Excellence with Best PSA titled "Seat Belt Safety" for WTVE and has held memberships with the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE), the International Television Association (ITVA), the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF), the Independent Feature Project (IFP) New York Chapter and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).
Bobbi has seen numerous celebrities and dignitaries through her viewfinder to include former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, the late General H. Norman Schwartzkopf, John Tesh, Richard Simmons and the late Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's Restaurants just to name a few. Bobbi also shot ENG footage for a segment on The Montel Williams Show and did some work in front of the camera as a fill-in host of local community talk shows on WTVE.
In 1998, Bobbi directed her first feature-length independent movie titled "Out of Control" with the original working titles of "See You At The Top & Hometown Legend: The Bob Nye Story". In 1999, the movie was promoted at the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE) convention held in New Orleans, LA. After six years of shopping the production around distributors from coast to coast, it was finally in 2005 at a NATPE TV Producer's TV Boot Camp event in West Hollywood, CA, where the movie finally found distribution with an online company named Akimbo which since has taken on the name Greencine.
In 2001, Bobbi directed her first stage play which was the musical production of Grease for her alma mater, Oley Valley High School. The production featured a cast of 65 high school students who performed to a sold out auditorium two of the three performance nights. Bobbi also choreographed the Greased Lightin' scene and taught all the vocals for the show to the cast. She will always be grateful to the cast and the students who assisted with the show choreography, pit band performers and stage crew who helped make Grease become part of the rank of successful musical performances over the decades on the school's stage. Also in 1993, Bobbi founded and was president of the non-profit organization Oley Valley Alumni Band Association gathering about 40 members to perform both on stage and in local parades around Berks County, Pennsylvania.
In 2007, while attending a seminar at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C., Bobbi was asked to become a speaker for the National Association of Broadcaster's initiative on consumer digital television (DTV) education about the 2009 transition to DTV through the public relations firm of Crosby~Volmer International Communications. Bobbi accepted the honor and served as a volunteer speaker through 2008 representing WTVE.
Bobbi was also an adjunct professor for several colleges spanning over a decade of her broadcast career where she taught TV Production, Mass Media, Public Speaking and other communications courses at Penn State University, Kutztown University, Ursinus College, Reading Area Community College and Montgomery County Community College from 2000-2013. After a decade hiatus for parental caregiving, Bobbi returned to college teaching at Penn State University and Alvernia University and is an account executive for radio station WEEU of Reading, PA.
Bobbi holds a B.S. & M.S in Telecommunications from Kutztown University encompassing script to screen TV production with a concentration in broadcast television station management. Bobbi also holds a M.S. in Entrepreneurship & Innovation with Drexel University. Additionally. she is a degree candidate for an MBA at Kutztown University.