Molly Olsen Operations Manager
Molly has been a producer with eMedia for five years. To say she is "living the dream" might be putting things mildly. After graduating with a Communications degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Molly packed her bags and headed south to the big city. Her ultimate goal was to pursue a career in television. Since then, Molly's co-workers have made it clear that “You can take the girl out of Point, but you can't take Point out of the girl.” Molly hits her stride working behind the scenes producing marketing, training, and educational video projects. During her spare time, she enjoys the North woods along with family and friends.



Jon Striegel Graphic Artist
Jon grew up in the small town of Waterford, WI. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where, in the spring of 2007, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in the field of Multimedia Digital Arts. For the next year, Jon continued the freelance graphic design work he had begun while attending school. In the spring of 2008, he was hired by Milwaukee’s CBS Channel 58 and worked on the Morning News Express there for 6 months, at which time he was offered and accepted a position working for Epic Creative/GE Healthcare. Jon has been happily married to his wife Katie since April of 2008.
Greg Karcher Assistant Engineer/Lead Master Control
Greg has been “in the business” for 17 years and with GE/eMedia for 12 of those years. He holds an Associates Degree from Milwaukee Area Technical College in Television Video Production. He takes pride in handling the everyday challenges that he faces in his position. “Sometimes customers aren’t exactly sure what they need, so I try to help them figure out how their product should be delivered and then help make that become a reality. People come to eMedia for help––that’s why I’m here. My goal is to make everyone else’s job as easy as possible.” Greg truly enjoys helping people: it a conscious lifestyle choice for him. He has a child with special needs whom he is continuously helping, and that attitude carries pretty naturally over into his profession. He enjoys fishing with his wife and children, playing softball and kickball, and cheering for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Roberto Martinez Virella Avid Editor
Roberto was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where he worked on a documentary series for Puerto Rico’s Public Broadcast Corporation. For the last 10 years he has been involved in various television productions and independent projects, as an editor and in other capacities as well. He most recently worked for Milwaukee’s WTMJ-TV Channel 4 as a news editor. Roberto has been with eMedia Services since 2006. A man walks into a bar . . .


Scott Emerson Producer
Scott has been involved in the video production industry for over 20 years. His accomplishments as a videographer include hundreds of commercials and corporate communications videos and several television shows. After a couple of years teaching video production, he moved to the Milwaukee area and started working as an editor and producer. He has produced commercials and videos for some of Milwaukee’s largest companies including GE, Harley-Davidson, and Briggs & Stratton.

Scott has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Media from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. In 2007, he expanded his skill set by adding a degree in Website Design and Integration.

During his off-hours, Scott enjoys spending time in the outdoors with his wife and daughter.
Vicki Hesser Assistant Producer
Vicki holds a Bachelor of Science degree from UW-Oshkosh. She came to eMedia in 1995 from the Fox Valley, where she had worked on evening newscasts as a news photographer. Since her arrival here, she has worked in various roles from videographer to assistant producer. She is a valuable part of the eMedia production team and does some transcribing as well.




Jim Zajac Producer/Director
Jim has been in the television “biz” for 19 years. He started out at WITI-Channel 6 as a floor director, prompter operator, and character generator operator and worked his way into directing newscast and writing, producing, and directing commercials. He stayed at Channel 6 for eight years. Jim came to GE in 1998 as a director and moved into a producing role in 2002. He has worked on numerous TiP-TV programs and created many videos for the various marketing teams throughout the years. He loves music––plays guitar, collects CDs, and attend concerts whenever he can. And his mind stores a vast amount of useless music trivia. Jim also likes movies and playing golf and volleyball.
Joan Rustad-Kennedy General Manager
Joan is a well-rounded communications professional with more than 20 years experience in the media and entertainment industries. She has experience as a project manager, entertainment manager, talent manager, tour manager in the music industry (with Cheap Trick), technical administrator, stage manager, and project coordinator.

Joan has worked in various communication and entertainment areas, including the attraction industry/live show production, music industry, community/political special events, corporate events/meetings, video and film production, and corporate communications and print. She has worked with such inductry leaders as Disney, Universal Studios, Anheuser-Busch Theme Parks, and Miller Brewing. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Julie Babcock Media Archivist/Duplication Coordinator
Julie has held a wide variety of positions through the course of her career, from educator to accounts payable clerk. She holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in History with minors in English and Art History from Northern Illinois University. Julie currently works for EPIC at the eMedia Studios, located at GE Healthcare. She has been their Media Archivist and Duplication Coordinator for the past fourteen years. “Our library is a great resource. We have an extensive collection and have supplied footage for the NBC program ER and for Discovery Channel projects.” Away from the office, Julie prowls through cemeteries and old archives searching for clues to solve her family’s genealogical questions.
Tom Schwerm Chief Engineer
Tom is a broadcast engineer with nearly 30 years of experience. He’s been with eMedia since 1991 as Chief Engineer and is one of the original employees at the company. Before that he served in the USAF repairing navigation equipment on expensive jets. He graduated from MATC earning “Best Student Operating Engineer” and “Assistant Chief Engineer” awards. He started working at WTMJ as cameraman, audio, videotape and master control assistant. Then to UW-Milwaukee TV Studios doing everything from editing on 2 & 1-inch video tape, building a three camera remote truck, to building from scratch a computer based automated playback system for the campus cable system. He started helping out at GE Medical Systems TV and was soon asked to be their Chief Engineer. He had the opportunity to work with the architects for a new GE Healthcare Institute building where he designed the sound studios, consoles, video production system and multi channel satellite uplink, which he still maintains at eMedia.

Tom and his wife have two children, now young adults. He relishes time with his family or any free time he can throw a leg over his Harley and just take off, or sit behind his drum set and bang out a rhythm to some R&B song with his band.
Shannon Mullarkey Master Control Specialist/Technical Director/Editor
Shannon came to eMedia with a diverse production background, working as technical director, camera operator, floor manager, director, TelePrompTer operator and lighting director for the Bradley Center and WHA Wisconsin Public Television. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications Arts from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.




Charlie Wise Production Specialist
“It's special thing . . . having a career doing what you love everyday.” Charlie has been in broadcasting for more than 20 years as an engineer, video editor, technical director, audio guy, camera operator and also as a freelance camera operator for FSN, ABC Sports, ESPN and The Speed Channel, among others. He is also involved in scoreboard operations at The Cell for the Milwaukee WAVE and at Miller Park for the Brewers. He says that returning to corporate life has been great, because it has allowed him to spend more time with his family: his wife Annie and his kids, Chris and Heather. His oldest daughter, Stephanie, just recently married. Charlie is an avid biker and owns a Harley-Davidson Dyna Wide Glide––his passion. It's a passion that he and Annie share as often as possible. Other hobbies include golfing and skiing.
Keith N. Pawlak Senior Director
After graduating in 1992 from MATC's telecasting program, Keith joined GE Medical Systems in the infant stages of what was then called GEMS-TV. Over the last 18 years, he contributed much to the birth and success of GE Healthcare’s Tip-TV Network. Keith has worked for many years as a freelance cameraman, shooting everything from Packer games at Lambeau Field to motorcycle racing at Elkhart Lake. He has worked for 6 years at the Bradley Center, filming events and holding various other positions for the local and away sports teams. Plus, he worked for ten years at the Marcus Amphitheater, shooting and directing live concerts for touring shows. In his off hours, Keith likes to spend his time outdoors. He has been an avid bow hunter for over 28 years, and he likes to fish whenever he can. His other interests include music and playing the guitar.
Allyson de la Houssaye Producer
Allyson has over seven years experience in documentary, news, and entertainment television production prior to coming to eMedia Studios & Services. Originally from Cleveland, she earned her B.S. in Organizational Communications from Ohio University. Post college, she headed to the Windy City to take on the production scene, where she started her career with the Jerry Springer Show. Since then she has had the pleasure of producing programming for NBC, A&E, History Channel, The Weather Channel, National Geographic Channel, Animal Planet, Comcast, WE tv, and OLN.

In her downtime, Allyson enjoys anything athletic she can beat her husband in, and she remains convinced this is the year the Cleveland Browns will go to the Super Bowl. (Seriously, it's going to happen.)