Our Dynamic Team
If you’re involved with closed captioning services, you know this business is one of precision and detail: captioning accurately, meeting deadlines, and receiving competitive rates. Technical criteria are just as vital: format delivery, experienced technical support and compliance with government standards.
That’s why our leadership team is one of the industry’s best. We represent decades of closed captioning experience, providing effective solutions to customers’ problems and testing and integrating new technology. Our responsiveness and unflagging work ethic are unparalleled.
Leadership Team
Brenda Clark
Most satisfying aspect of my work: In Operations, I have the opportunity to work closely with both our clients and staff. As a member of our leadership team, I believe it is my responsibility not only to serve our customers but also to serve our staff members in a meaningful way. It is extremely rewarding to be a part of an organization where the corporate commitment to “Customers, Co-Workers and Community” is palpable and each team member is recognized and respected for their individual contribution. I am honored to be member of this special group of people we call Team Dynamic.
Off duty: I enjoy spending time with my children and my very large, close-knit family. I love to cook, entertain and host family events, which actually happens quite often.
Hobby: When time allows, and my eyes are not burning from overexposure to multiple video communication devices (desktop, laptop, smart phone and tablet), I love to read historical fiction.
Greg Wolf
My work: Developing long-term relationships with broadcasters, studios, content creators and content aggregators and serving them and their needs with concierge-level service in their mission-critical segment of the entertainment industry.
Most-used skills at work: Empathy and leadership; knowing what our clients face daily and their need for sustainable solutions and leading in innovations to meet their unique requirements.
Favorite book: The One Thing by Gary Keller. In our frenetic culture of multi-tasking, Gary Keller gives clarity to doing fewer things well and doing them with mastery in order to accomplish more with greater effectiveness.
When it comes to sports: My favorite individual sport is fly fishing. Nothing is more peaceful to me than standing in a river waist deep surrounded by mountains and forest and casting to large, hungry trout. My favorite team sport is water polo. It’s a great metaphor for life. I have great respect for the endurance required not only to just tread water but to actually excel at the game and score.
Hobby: Sailing. There are no bad days sailing. A day on the ocean or out on the lake is one of the greatest erasers of frowns and stress I know.
Wes Long
My work: I handle all the “nuts and bolts” pieces of our operations, ensuring that all the hardware and software required for our clients’ service delivery is installed and working. Sometimes I even write some of our software, especially for custom implementations. I also make sure our support team is up to speed with all of our technology and do technical evaluations of all of our realtime captioning writers.
How I became interested in the closed captioning industry: I accidentally became the “House Expert” in captioning while I was an engineer at TCI’s National Digital Television Center (now Comcast Digital Media Centers). I wrote some custom software for their captioning group, and came to the attention of an executive of Dynamic Captioning. I found I enjoyed working with closed captioning a great deal.
Most-used skills at work: Software development, network administration, desktop support, and recess monitor.
Favorite movie: “The Princess Bride.” I *LOVE* the Inigo Montoya character.
Favorite game: Three Cornered Pitney, because I can’t find enough people to play 43-Man Squamish.
If I could live in another era, it would be: I’d want it to be 20 minutes ago, because I just thought of the *perfect* comeback to what that guy said…
Somdeday I’d like to visit: Florence, Italy. I love Italian Renaissance architecture, especially Brunelleschi.
Offline Production & Client Services
My work: As Director of Client Services, I work to insure the smooth flow of closed captioning services from initial client inquiry through project completion by the offline staff. Communications skills are the most useful in the job because of my responsibilities with both clients and staff, and for the successful integration of client requirements and staff needs.
Off duty: I have volunteered at WYCE, a local, non-profit, community radio station serving Grand Rapids and western Michigan for 11 years. I program and host a weekly radio show that airs Fridays from 7am-9am. If you’re in our area, you’ll find the station at 88.1 on your FM dial or listen online. I try to look/listen to present a balance between older, more traditional types of music and the wonderfully inspiring new music that I am introduced to each week.
My pre-Dynamic Captioning life: I spent 37 years of my life working in the restaurant and entertainment businesses. I am an excellent cook and have a broad based knowledge of most things food and drink-related.
Favorite food: That’s whatever I happen to be interested in at any given time. Sometimes it’s simple, sometimes complex, but always high quality and entertaining to eat. I’ve also been known to consume lots and lots of popcorn!
I love to: travel, but don’t do enough of it to satisfy my wanderlust!
Senior Caption Editor/Quality Assurance – Grand RapidsOffline Editing
Caption Editor – Grand Rapids
Background: Graduated from Grand Rapids Community College with an Associate’s degree and Grand Valley State University with a B.A. in Film and Video Production.
Most satisfying aspect of my work: Our work helps children to learn.
Favorite graphic novel: The Walking Dead. It’s just a great post-apocalyptic series.
Favorite game: Quelf because, first off, there’s a ninja monkey. Second, it’s one of the most fun and silliest games you’ll ever play in your life. You definitely get to see people’s creative side.
Favorite junk food: Cookies.
Off duty: I’m outside! Running around and hiking.
Senior Caption Editor – Grand Rapids
STELLAR SERVICE
Dynamic Captioning creates visual audio for our client’s programming, allowing unfettered access to their content by the deaf and hearing impaired community across all platforms of their content delivery. Our visual hearing enhances the viewing experiences of social media.
Our visual hearing services meet the rigorous standards of the FCC and Canada’s CRTC. Dynamic is a service innovator developing API applications enhancing state-of-industry software to maintain our edge in the tech race.
THE CLIENTS WE SERVE
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Serving our clients with dependable, accurate and cost effective closed captioning is our first priority.
