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Michael M.

Michael M.

Associate Creative Director, Cinematographer, Photographer

I’m Mike, an Austin-based creative director, shooter, and editor who loves turning big ideas into engaging visual stories, all while utilizing AI-enabled tools to help get things done. Right now, I’m putting those skills to work as a Senior Content Creator at Indeed. My career has been a mix of agency leadership (ACD at Drumroll/BondX) and production house know-how (Creative Director and Cinematographer at Row One Productions). Because I can both lead the strategy and physically shoot/edit the content, I know what it takes to get a project across the finish line, whether it's a social campaign, a web ecosystem, or a feature-length documentary. Outside of work, it's pretty much all Formula 1, top 10 lists, and pastries. Career TL;DR: 🎥 Shot and edited a feature-length documentary 📈 Helped raise $4M+ for an Austin nonprofit 📧 Led design for Microsoft Store's CRM (campaigns scaled to 12M email subscribers) and helped launch 5 products 🎨 Art directed covers for Harper’s Magazine 🤖 Part of an AI enablement team to help streamline workflows at Indeed Let's talk about: Creative & Art Direction, Cinematography, Photography, Video/Photo Editing, AI-optimized workflows Brand Experience: Indeed, Prime Video, Amazon, Capital One, Microsoft, AMD, Bing, Xbox, LinkedIn, Church’s Chicken, Upliv, Expressable, HostGator, Epicor, Dell Children’s Medical Center, Center for Child Protection, Jacob Bromwell, Macerich, Certified Employee-Owned, Susan G. Komen, MDS Foundation, Christy Maz Network, MIT Technology Review, Harper’s magazine, The Sporting News

🇺🇸Austin, United States$95/hr95% JSS5.00 (1)Since Aug 2024

Earnings and projects

MRR
$20k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#215 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#118 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$26k

Last 6 months: $121k

World#134 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#74 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$508k

Billed in all: $537k

World#2,656 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#913 / 62.1k
Per project
$254k

$121k in the last 6 months

World#14 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#6 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#128,095 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#16,472 / 62.1k
Projects in all
2
0% fixed100% hourly
World#328,889 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#47,959 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$537k+$25.8k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$500k$520k$540kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: #1 in 3 skills of 15

Rarest: top <0.01% in Photo Editing, of 10,456. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 1Photo Editing10,456 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top <0.01%
  2. 1Art Direction1,623 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.06%
  3. 1Cinematography770 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.13%
  4. 2UI/UX Prototyping6,982 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.03%
  5. 2Animation6,859 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.03%
  6. 2Photography5,410 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.04%
  7. 2Creative Direction2,705 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 0.07%
  8. 2Social Media Imagery1,915 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.10%