Jon Tedesco, Chief Executive Officer
Jon was born into a printing / publishing family and began his career as a graphic designer and technical illustrator. He is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, product designer and patent holder. He launched a software company in the Silicon Valley where he partnered with Art Linkletter and coined the term Infotainment. Jon created many unique products including the first hand-held gaming device with interchangeable cartridges, Family Bible Fun software, a line of computer software interactive books and many computer games that featured fun and learning.
Jon realized the role good promotions play when launching new products and shifted his interests to advertising and marketing where he worked as an executive for over 30 years. He filled roles as creative director, partner and then principle in his own advertising, marketing, PR and design firms based in Miami and the San Francisco Bay Area. Jon joint-ventured with over 100 startup companies where he gained an invaluable working knowledge of what it really takes to launch, fund, operate, staff, expand, merge or sell a business. He is uniquely qualified as a board member, mentor and business coach.
Tim Aydelott, Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Aydelott has 25 years of experience writing, directing, and producing documentaries and exhibit videos. He has worked with children, young adults, and adults in tribal and rural communities. His combination of education, skills, and experiences give him a broad perspective and contacts with professionals who will make Dream Ranch Productions a success.
Tim has received three Emmy nominations for his work on the films, Earthshaker and Sleeping Monsters, Sacred Fires, and Landscapes of Enchantment. In 2009 he received an Emmy Award for his film Desert Reef. Tim is the Director and Executive Producer of Valles Caldera: The Science, a one-hour PBS documentary about the Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico. This environmental documentary won 2 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards for Best Documentary - Topical and Best Photography. All of these programs have contained significant levels of educational animations explaining complex scientific concepts.
COLLABORATORS
Marc Noreikas
Illustrator
Marc is a professional illustrator that has been working in the industry for over ten years. Since graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design, he has applied his talents to a variety of projects, from concept and character design to children’s books and murals. Marc resides in Dayton Ohio.
Jenny Bloomquist
Illustrator
Jenny Blomquist is a New Mexico painter whose work explores the unseen forces that shape human experience. Her paintings move between the cosmic and the deeply personal, inviting viewers into spaces of transition, reflection, and emotional.
Her work is shaped by a lifelong engagement with both painting and horses, and by a deep interest in the places where intuition and meaning intersect. Whether working in abstraction or in horse imagery, she approaches painting as a way of making visible what is often felt but not easily spoken.
Antony Lostetter
Videographer, Editor
Antony Lostetter is a videographer, graphic designer and editor with over 20 years of professional experience. His work at New Mexico PBS and the City of Albuquerque continues to educate, inform and inspire audiences.
Antony strives to walk a balance between cutting edge media creation and down to earth living practices. He lives with his family in the South Valley of Albuquerque where he farms and experiments with sustainability.
Matt Pavolatis
Music Producer
Matt is a Multi Emmy, Addy and Telly awarded composer and music producer with 5,000 plus tracks with BMI and ASCAP. His work has been heard in commercials, on Netflix, A&E, Disney, Discovery, daytime television, PBS, The Dome in Las Vegas, in industrial and instructional videos. He was considered for a Grammy in 2024.
Matt composed the soundtracks for Desert Reef and Valles Caldera, The Science. The animation
sequences of these two programs can be seen (and heard) in the Media Services section of the DRP
website.
Sheila Book
Voice Over
Sheila Book has over 30 years experience In TV writing plus Voice Overs and in Radio as an on air talent.
You can hear her across the globe in commercials and audiobooks. She has been a spokesperson for various clients such as The Ritz Carlton, Cadillac
and Zoom Tan. Sheila also just had her first book published called Pour Decisions.
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