Cam Vokey - Co-Founder
About Me
I'm a Creative Technology Producer. That means I'm a utility creative technologist who primarily functions as a producer. I know how to do a lot of things. A big part of my career has also been post-production and VFX supervision. There's a lot of crossover there to Creative Technology. I don't code, not really, but I've dipped my toes in pretty much everything else and I can vibe code/script pretty good. I typically work with companies like RadicalMedia, Production Triangle, and 3-Legged Dog. My favorite work is figuring out something that's never been done before... knowing that it's just a unique combination of things other people have done.
I’ve done work for lots of clients across many industries and I’m a pretty good guy, so I have some level of expertise in several fields. Film, Sports, Architecture, Fashion, Retail, Education, Hospitality, Broadcast, and Fine Art. I also strive to be ethical and humanist.
I started tracking information that I've gathered over the years in a massive, privately shared, google doc – and I wanted to make that information more widely accessible, as well as easier to search, and allow more folks to contribute. From that idea, I joined forces with Blair Neal (of a similar mind) to develop a Creative Technology Almanac, which is somewhere between The Backstage Handbook, a nerd-centric wikipedia, and editorial commentary you might see in a forum full of dorks arguing about banding in H264 files. I try not to take things too seriously.
Vacationland is my personal website and portfolio. I'm proud of the people I work with and what we've accomplished together.
I live in Brooklyn with my partner and son.
Personal Disclosure
I think transparency about money and privilege – is important. Companies don’t want you to talk about our rates with our coworkers because you’ll find out that someone who doesn’t know how to set up their email signature makes $50k more than you, even though you started before them, and you both have the same title. That’ll make you ask for a raise. The man doesn’t like that!
I come from a middle class small Massachusetts city.city (that is now upper class and I'll never be able to live there lol). I went to an expensive liberal arts college in western Massachusetts and learned a lot there,lot, but in retrospect, it’s very clear why the drop-out rate was so high. My parents and I each have our own set of loans. I’m very thankful for that support. Also I got an eat-the-rich tattoo in my 30s, so you get thethat vibe.I've got a chip on my shoulder and I'm out to prove something.
As long as I have been able to work, I have. I started working as a paper boy at 12, grocery store clerk at 14, interned for a boat builder at 15, side-hustled as a tech support person at 16, and worked full-time as a convenience store generalist at 18. After that, I worked as a Summer Stock PA, then a Company Manager, and eventually a Production Manager, moved to NYC in 2009, and then did lots and lots of questionable jobs (we can talk about that offline) until I landed at 3-Legged Dog in 2012.
I've been lucky enough to have long-term contracts with a few different companies over the years, but I haven't been hired in a salaried role for a very long time. It's not for lack of trying! I'd love to work for a company that could use my extremely weird skill-set regularly. I just want to belong. Some years are better than others. 2021 was terrible. 2022, 2023, 2024 were really good. 2025? We'll see...