Welcome to the Junk Drawer

Every good home has a drawer where they stash all of their odds and ends - a place where a variety of tools and trinkets live waiting for their moment to shine for that one odd job. The junk drawer is an honest place, and the more you put into it, the more versatile it becomes. Clutch.

Well, here's the honest part; my life experience, and thus my work experience, is a junk drawer. Fitting my family of ten into our little blue Yugo, then inevitably all piling out to push it home after it dies a few blocks away from home is just the right amount of insight you'll need to understand how life started for the Zenchenko's in the U.S.

All silly stories aside, growing up that way couldn't help but instill a work ethic, a curiosity, a desire to learn, and a hunger for life. It has been the catalyst to my success.

Since then, I've done a lot of everything, and I've done it well. It started with 60 hour work weeks when I was 16. Did you know book binderies still exist? I found out via two brutal summers at The Bindery. From the little things, like scrubbing toilets at Panera to put myself through college, along with learning to take apart and repair iPhones, laptops, and computers on the college campus, to the bigger things, like tour managing acts out of Nashville to working on a Sony feature, nothing is below me, and nothing is above me, because it all goes into in the junk drawer. 

I've volunteered, demo-ed, interviewed, gripped, budgeted, typed, PA-ed, dug, built, ran, carried, produced, sound op-ed, cooked, cleaned, managed, photographed, directed, waited, fought, grown, traveled, emailed, called, knocked on doors, wired, connected, delivered, folded, troubleshot, started conversations with strangers, bagged, operated at a loss, shoveled, dog-sat, changed diapers, repaired, taken-apart, consulted, advised, encouraged, mentored, served, swept, washed, networked, and rebuilt.

Whether it was with an organic gardening non-profit in downtown Springfield, MA focused on revitalizing poor ghettos, or a big-money tech start-up in downtown Austin, TX. focused on IPO-ing, it all fell into my wheelhouse. 

LawnStarter, the SEC, ESPN, NeedToBreathe, Hamilton, Mosaic Church, Gardening the Community, UMASS Dining Services, MercyHouse, NewSeabury Country Club, Takeda, Kid Quill, Salt Conference, Springfield Rescue Mission, New England Patriots, Converse, Stealing Oceans, Moody's Financial Institute, Proud Mary, TD Bank, Duracell, Audrey Assad, Scooter Braun, Boston Public Schools, Yamaha, Craigslist, eBay. 

Russia, Germany, Iceland, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Scotland, Sweden, Scotland, the States.  

What does a producer do? Just about everything. The bigger the junk drawer, the better the producer.

Jack of all Trades,
Master of None.
Often times Better,
Than a Master of One

Welcome to my Junk Drawer.

Enjoy this treat from Philly-based director Will Drinker - The LittleBuddyGuy Theme Song