Randall Mills

West Hollywood, California

• Design, direct and operate ten live web products on a single self-administered Linux server — architecture, product decisions, content, deployment and uptime.
• Work is AI-directed rather than hand-coded: I specify the system, drive coding agents to build it, and own the result. Comfortable in HTML; my skill is decomposition, specification and review, not writing the code.
• Shipped real commerce — Stripe and Square checkout, Printful print-on-demand fulfilment, Supabase/Postgres with row-level security, transactional email.
• Built an autonomous nightly maintenance agent that monitors the fleet, repairs common faults, and rolls back its own bad deployments.
• Operate the whole stack: nginx, PM2, TLS, DNS, off-site backups, error monitoring, and uptime alerting.

Year-round aquatics and lifeguard services company — national, concentrated in Southern California

• Took shift coverage from roughly 60% to 100% while the company was growing — the operational problem the job existed to solve.
• Hired, trained and scheduled a staff of roughly 300 at peak, across every site the company ran.
• Joined a seasonal, Southern-California operation; left it year-round with national reach. Year-round clients went from none to three, across 11 locations.
• Landed a YMCA contract, one of the company's significant accounts.
• Solely responsible for migrating the company off its previous scheduling system onto Connecteam — a substantial efficiency gain, and still what the company runs on today.
• Produced a year of weekly AI-generated marketing imagery for the company's social channels in 2023–24, well before that was common practice.
• Held American Red Cross instructor-level credentials; ran in-service training and certification.
• Carried day-to-day operations through extended absences of both owners.

RJMillsPhotography.com · Los Angeles

• Events, concerts, theatre, step-and-repeat and weddings; ~35 published galleries.
• House photographer, iO West (Hollywood comedy theatre), 2012–2014.
• Long-running assistant to fine-art photographer Eric Minh Swenson.

Weekly sketch comedy show, iO West, Hollywood

• Sole videographer for eleven years — shot, edited, and published a weekly live show.
• Ran the YouTube and Facebook channels; the most-watched episode passed 566,000 organic views with no paid promotion.

Independent internet video production, Los Angeles

• Co-founded a comedy video company at the beginning of YouTube — wrote, acted, shot, edited and produced effects in-house.

• 100 episodes of long-form arts and culture criticism. Handled all production, audio and distribution.

Punch Line Live Custom, Premiere Radio Networks

• Four-person team writing custom comedy material for radio stations nationwide; coordinated talent and delivery.

Yucaipa News Mirror · Venice Paper · PublicFigure.com

• Reported, edited, photographed and laid out pages for community newspapers. AP style, interviewing, copy editing.

B.A., English — emphasis in creative writing, in the programme run by T.C. Boyle. Additional coursework in film production and criticism at the USC School of Cinema-Television.

Sketch comedy writing programme; improvisation programme.