Dan Kern makes stuff.
Dan Kern is a career producer and master of many trades. With over four decades of experience, his expertise spans live production, radio and television broadcasting, videography, music composition, writing, and performance. He’s engineered sound, acted for stage and film, voiced characters, and captured life through a lens. Dan has produced hundreds of radio commercials, composed more than 100 songs, and directed numerous video projects. Beyond the arts, he’s built IT infrastructure, taught classes, and taken the stage as a public speaker and competitive orator. Known for his creative range, unwavering dedication and hands-on approach, Dan lovingly weaves meaningful stories across every medium he touches.
The Bona Fides
live production
1980's - FOH sound technician, crew, mixed sound for over 400 performances, band management
2020's - producer, camera operator, editor, sound, mixing & mastering engineer, "After Hours at the Commodore" YouTube music series (2024)
studio production & voice work
1980's - Produced hundreds of radio commercials
1980's - Produced over 200 one-hour news magazine shows
2000's - Voiced International, National, Regional, Local radio, television, corporate, film, Internet, cartoon characters, accents (2 Signature awards)
2000's - voiced dozens of corporate videos, documentaries, short films
2010's - sound design & mixing for 2 episodes of Canadian Rockies Series
2020's - music production
videography
Writing, producing, directing, shooting, editing, sound, graphics, colour, finishing, delivery
Lighting & Grip
Field recording & sound
DOP
photography
2000's - Headshots, publicity, and résumé photos for over 1200 performers
2000's - Hundreds of portraits
Dozens of events
2010's - Architecture
writing
2010's - story structure & story consulting services
2010's - curricula
1990's - newsletters
1990's - magazine articles
hundreds of website pages
6 novels (unpublished)
performance, film & television
2000's - Actor, ACTRA member (past)
2000's - Over 20 featured extra and background roles
2000's - Various roles in numerous short films, including lead roles
2000's - Regional and national commercials
performance, theatre
2000's - Actor, CAEA member (past)
2000's - 5 major productions, 2 in leading roles
broadcasting, radio & television
1990's, 2000's - built 2 radio stations
1980's, 1990's - 11 years on-air, radio, all dayparts, including news
1980's, 1990's - promotions director, music director, program director
2000's - directed 3 television commercials
2000's - 4 seasons with CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival Broadcast crew
public speaking
2010's - Competent Communicator status, Toastmasters International
Represented District 42 at the Western Canada finals for 2013 World Speech Competition
2000's - hundreds of hours of classroom lecturing
teaching
English grammar
Broadcast newswriting
Audio Production
Social media
Workshops
IT
2010's - Infrastructure & admin (servers, network, support, systems)
2010's - Data storage systems, bare metal and virtual NAS, cloud, backup, archiving, cataloging, WIKIS, Obsidian
2010's - Built Request Tracker bare-metal server, ran 720 consecutive days, solved over 2000 tickets in 2 years
2015 - Local Team Lead, ERP upgrade for $100M company
Websites, Wordpress, Elementor, DIVI and others
"In time, life will take everything from us.
But it cannot take the things that we've done."
-Dan Kern
Get busy.
Make stuff.
