The JMT Mission

JMT seeks to broaden the vision of its founder by making available to Veterans the information resources, products and services they need to successfully navigate job, career and contract opportunities in connection with key industry sectors – starting with the Oil and Gas industry.

  As the founder of the Veterans Opportunity Network family of enterprises, the JMT mission is to produce and bring to market information tools and resources that will inspire, inform and connect the “New Millennium Veteran,” to Industries where their value is recognized as an important asset to a business’ workforce and supply chain.

Who we are as a Company

ohnson Media Tech (JMT) was established in 2010 as a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Melvin Johnson, a civil engineer and Ret. Vietnam Veteran with two Purple Hearts for being wounded in two tours of duty. Mr. Johnson’s founding of the Company was motivated by a passion to help young Veterans access job, career and business enterprise opportunities within the key and emerging industry sectors. The core competencies of the Company are the result of its management team’s decades of professional experience in traditional and emerging multimedia communications, digital technology and education.

What we do

Johnson Media Tech (JMT) was established in 2010 as a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Melvin Johnson, a civil engineer and Ret. Vietnam Veteran with two Purple Hearts for being wounded in two tours of duty. Mr. Johnson’s founding of the Company was motivated by a passion to help young Veterans access job, career and business enterprise opportunities within the key and emerging industry sectors. The core competencies of the Company are the result of its management team’s decades of professional experience in traditional and emerging multimedia communications, digital technology and education.

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JMT also organizes live events and videotapes each event activity including conference workshops, presentations as well as conducts interviews and Company profiles. JMT edits and packages original content for media broadcasts, Internet mobile device distribution platforms.

How we fund what we do

JMT invests in media /event ventures and generates revenue from advertising-sponsorships, subscriptions and consulting services.

  Who we outreach to

MT established the Veterans Opportunity Network a platform for Veteran outreach to those who are seeking to secure work by gaining a competitive edge by way of access to innovative resources designed to improve a knowledge of required skills and education and successful opportunity matching with industry workforce and small business development industry representatives – specifically, within the Oil and Gas industry. The Company also positions business and industry, education resources, government, and organizations that serve Veteran in its Opportunity Matching enterprise.

The JMT Management team

Stanley Richardson, Johnson Media Tech, Inc., Managing Venture Partner brings 35 plus years of content production, business management and fundraising to the Veterans Opportunity enterprise. His journalistic experience has its roots in his a decade of work as a news editor with NBC News in Burbank, California. While at NBC he also worked with Dick Clark Productions, alongside music giants such as Quincy Jones at A&M Records, with whom he received multiple gold and platinum music awards and industry accolades, and served as an Associate Producer on a ground breaking television report on the recording industry as a five part NBC Today Show special. Richardson completing his under-graduate education at the University of Pittsburgh and served as the University's media consultant and media project fundraiser. He then launched his career as an executive television producer with at the PBS affiliate in Pittsburgh WQEX/WQED where he combined print and television content for and about women and a unique media sales campaign to great effect. In Florida he then launched a small business television show on WPBF, an ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, FL before locating to New York to establish a media venture firm in the early to mid 1990's, while making investments in the cutting edge world of online services and electronic journalism. After receiving offers from IBM, AOL and Apple, Richardson choose to create content services for what was to become MSN (the Microsoft Network) where he developed Food, Nutrition and Health content as well as Small Business content and New Age content. Again, Richardson’s unique brand of content and approach to media sales complemented Microsoft’s effort to attract top tier advertising clients for MSN.  As a consultant to Microsoft, Richardson developed content for Microsoft.com/Smallbiz and produced one of the first MS Office downloadable applications for the small business market. As an entrepreneur and angel investor, Richardson introduced one of the first online video services targeting the enterprise sector, the Smallbiz Video Network http://www.smallbizvideonetwork.com Since then Richardson managed the development of Johnson Media Tech, Inc. (SDVOB) and it’s founding of the Veterans Opportunity Network.

Joyce Johnson, Corporate Operations Manager, Joyce Johnson. Ms. Johnson brings to the JMT her decades of experience as accounting manager in the media and entertainment industry, and a BS degree she received in Business Administration. Specifically, she has held managerial level accounting positions at PBS affiliate, WQED, in Pittsburgh and WNET, the PBS network flagship station located in New York. Ms. Johnson has hands on knowledge of how media companies operate and are administered. She comes from a family of entrepreneurs and possesses the special set of skills needed to competently start, run and grow an enterprise.

Carol Hasegawa, Education and Training Manager, brings 20 plus years of education experience to JMT as a former classroom instructor, a successful proprietary school owner in Japan for e business enterprise executives, a curriculum writer and a director of education at a proprietary school teaching life sciences. Ms. Hasegawa has extensive experience in working with underserved populations and has conducted events, training and consultation to business development groups and technology consortiums seeking solutions to the digital divide for purposes of educating the disadvantaged.

George J. Kramer, Award Winning News Editor and Producer and Motion Picture Studio Post-Production Supervisor, brings to JMT more than three decades of Film and Television experience. At NBC in Burbank, where he worked alongside Stanley Richardson, George received Golden Globe Awards for both editing and producing, as well as the coveted Los Angeles Press Club Award for Producing. After his tenure at NBC, George joined Warner Bros. pictures in Burbank, CA and was instrumental in their post-production transition from film to non-linear computer editing, and eventually put under contract as Post-Production Supervisor/Technical Operations. Retiring after twenty years at Warner Bros., Richardson and Kramer re-united to work together on feature film and television Venture development. Currently, George supervises JMT's creative development activities including video and the use of new and emerging technologies to enhance the production and distribution of visual media content.

Noelle Chartier brings to JMT over 20 years of meeting planning experience involving conferences and meetings ranging from 25 to 10,000 attendees. Ms. Chartier has extensive experience in managing large conventions with 40 concurrent sessions, and over 500,000 sq ft. of exhibit space that include complex audio visual requirements with budgets of over $150,000. She has successfully planned and executed over 200 events throughout the US, Canada and England. She has also created amazing themed parties for over 5,000 guests and produced award shows with top talent including Ellen DeGeneres and Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has been responsible for numerous annual events with sponsors such as; NIKE, AVIA and Reebok and others. Her event marketing and promotion experience includes content selection and campaign leadership for traditional, web and social media outreach for attracting and accommodating attendees, exhibitors and sponsors. Ms. Chartier obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of San Diego. She also holds a Convention Liaison Council, Certified Meeting Professional Certificate.