On air · Los Angeles
EVAN KING
On air, in C4D, or in the terminal — same guy, same headset.
I'm Chief Technology Officer at Consumer Watchdog. Thirty years of live television, motion direction and engineering, all in Los Angeles, all still one job.
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Practice
Four disciplines, one person.
Most of this work needs three of the four at once — which is exactly why it gets done by one person instead of getting split across three departments that would just have to keep talking to each other anyway.
- 01 Live & broadcast Multi-camera switching, real-time titling, two mixes running at once. Over a thousand news conferences and counting.
- 02 Motion & direction Cinema 4D and After Effects. Commercial direction, title sequences, documentary work shot on location.
- 03 Engineering Investigative platforms built from the server up, carrying a decade of filings without losing one. Native ports on Metal.
- 04 Event production A concert, inside an awards show, inside a fundraiser — produced annually, and yes it's always this much at once.
Highlights
Thirty years, counted.
- 1,000+
- Live news press conferences
- 300+
- Radio spots produced
- 150+
- Podcast episodes
- 30yr
- On air and in the rack
Separate live concerts with Jackson Browne and with Tom Morello — different years, both real. Commercial direction with Jane Fonda. More collaborations with Bernie Sanders than I've bothered to count. Documentary camera and direction for Save the Children, The Anne Frank Foundation, LINK and Make Her Beautiful.
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- PBS
- Telemundo
- Forbes
- TechCrunch
The gallery
Six sources. One program out.
This is the part of a live show nobody sees. Pick a source, take it to air. Number keys punch, Enter takes, \ dissolves — or drag the T-bar and do it by hand.
Selected work
Selected work.
A decade of policy filings kept findable, products built from nothing but a real problem, and a show that goes live exactly once a year with no second take available.
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About
One person, both halves.
I'm Chief Technology Officer at Consumer Watchdog, where I built and still run the entire platform alone — front end, back end, email, telecom, broadcast integration and donor systems, no ticket handed off to anyone.
The engineering came first — years in financial and government backend development, starting with a 196-line predictive dialer I built for a merchant processor back in 2007. Alongside that, thirty years of live television stacked up: over a thousand news conferences, concert production, commercial direction and documentary work shot on location.
These were never separate careers, whatever two resumes would suggest. I'm the same person keying the broadcast and writing the Java behind it, and that's exactly why a nonprofit running on me can move faster than its headcount would predict.
What people say
★★★★★“He means business, and has an enormous and practical knowledge that is usually hard to find. Combine that with his technical background and the hybrid skills are unique and much in demand.”
★★★★★“A result-driven, open-minded team player with a brilliant technical mind. If you ever need someone to deliver under pressure — no slip-ups, just results — Evan is your man.”
★★★★★“Deep technical skill across design and platforms. Within minutes he was helping me understand my own tools in ways I never knew.”
Forthcoming
A Field Guide for Nonprofit IT
From the servers to the studio to the satellite truck — decades of running technology for advocacy organisations, written for the one person who has to do all of it, because that person used to be me looking for exactly this book and not finding it.
From the journal
- March 2026 Producing the Rage for Justice Awards One night, three productions in one: a live concert, a televised awards ceremony, and a political gala.
- February 2026 Building ConsumerWatchdog.org, Solo Sole CTO for a national nonprofit advocacy organization: the tech stack, the operations, and what breaks at 2am.
- January 2026 Inside a Motion Graphics Reel The toolchain and the editing philosophy behind cutting two decades of broadcast work into ninety seconds.