How the journey began…

Vic has over 20 years of experience as a top-performing, global content creator. He has built an extensive portfolio of achievements and key contributions across multiple functional areas and industries. In companies ranging from start-ups to S&P 500 corporations, he has fused innovative, strategic planning with product, sales, and operational solutions that have led to breakthrough results.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, he was surrounded by aspiring actors and film-makers.  This exposure cultivated a desire to explore and utilize technology to tell emotive stories.  In the mid-1980’s, he was introduced to radio controlled unmanned rovers, marine and aerial systems.  The watershed period came in the 2000’s with the advent of high power-to-weight ratio propulsion systems, high voltage discharge batteries and micro-electro mechanical systems gyroscopes.  Combining both disciplines,  he realized the acquisition of ultra stable, oblique aerial images from an unmanned aerial system was finally attainable.

After consulting with his colleagues at HP, Intel and IBM, Vic built over a dozen Unmanned Aerial Camera Systems and performed flights in some of the most densely populated cities in the USA. He has since developed a time tested and proven process for safe and repeatable performance in challenging flight conditions and extreme environments.  This formula has led to successful global filming projects over volcanic lava lakes in the island of Vanuatu, in winter blizzard conditions on the Ice Fields in British Columbia. and the warm waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.  With this technical experience, he was selected to pilot an Unmanned Aerial Camera System at the base of a 1,000-foot deep gorge located in Georgia, USA for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War.

As a SHOTOVER U1 - Commercial Flight Instructor since 2016, Vic has logged over 4,000 hours on various Unmanned Aerial Camera Systems with hundreds of hours on the SHOTOVER U1.  He has developed the syllabus and practical training programs for various heavy-lift Unmanned Aerial Camera Systems that has resulted in him personally training over 80 students worldwide.  These highly trained and skilled pilots have continued servicing the Motion Picture & Television industry to this day. 

Vic has an Unmanned Pilot Certificate with the FAA and CAA(UK).  Additionally, he has a current Manned Private Pilot Certificate issued by the FAA and uniquely possesses the only approval granted by the FAA to operate the SHOTOVER U1 at 132 lbs within the USA airspace. With his comprehensive knowledge of aviation law and communication skills, he has coordinated directly with multiple civil aviation authorities receiving approval to film using heavy-lift Unmanned Aerial Systems in Canada, Japan, Italy, Vanuatu, US Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom.   

Over the years, Vic has developed a reputation with Directors, Producers, Production Companies, Studios and camera manufactures for achieving the seemingly impossible shots with the highest level of safety and accuracy.

Vic takes a consultative approach with clients and endeavors to transform a Director’s vision into reality.