Rolando Gomez(VI)
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Rolando Gómez, the 2021 National Hispanic Media Coalition Series Screenwriter Program, and Writer's Guild Foundation Veterans Writing Project alumnus drinks deadlines for breakfast. The 2022 Austin Film Festival semi-finalist for his drama teleplay spec, "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" script, has worked in 45 countries on assignment as a former combat photographer and photojournalist.
Gómez served almost nine years active-duty army as a non-commissioned officer then over eight years as the Chief, Multimedia Branch for the Air Force News Agency, now the Air Force Public Affairs Agency, whereas a civilian, he managed radio and television streaming products for internal and external media to include the U.S. Air Force website.
A trained mediator in conflict resolution, Gómez earned a Bachelor's. in Communication from the University of Texas, San Antonio plus trained as a mediator in conflict resolution.
In the army Gómez worked directly for Gen. George A. Joulwan, the former NATO commander, at USSOUTHCOM in Central America and V Corps in Germany. They remain friends today.
The Dept. of Defense honored Gómez as one of the "Top-Five" combat photographers worldwide after deployments to Desert Storm, 26-months in the Latin America drug war where his military unit tracked Pablo Escobar, other narcos, and the Shining Path guerrillas, the Rwanda Genocide in Africa, the Haiti invasion, and other deployments.
As a photojournalist, Gómez' largest assignment, 32 million printed copies, was a cover story for PARADE magazine about U.S. soldiers as part of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) international peacekeeping force in the Saini desert between Israel and Egypt.
Gómez served almost nine years active-duty army as a non-commissioned officer then over eight years as the Chief, Multimedia Branch for the Air Force News Agency, now the Air Force Public Affairs Agency, whereas a civilian, he managed radio and television streaming products for internal and external media to include the U.S. Air Force website.
A trained mediator in conflict resolution, Gómez earned a Bachelor's. in Communication from the University of Texas, San Antonio plus trained as a mediator in conflict resolution.
In the army Gómez worked directly for Gen. George A. Joulwan, the former NATO commander, at USSOUTHCOM in Central America and V Corps in Germany. They remain friends today.
The Dept. of Defense honored Gómez as one of the "Top-Five" combat photographers worldwide after deployments to Desert Storm, 26-months in the Latin America drug war where his military unit tracked Pablo Escobar, other narcos, and the Shining Path guerrillas, the Rwanda Genocide in Africa, the Haiti invasion, and other deployments.
As a photojournalist, Gómez' largest assignment, 32 million printed copies, was a cover story for PARADE magazine about U.S. soldiers as part of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) international peacekeeping force in the Saini desert between Israel and Egypt.
