WADL Productions

In the spring of 2009, four friends with complemetary skills got together and decided to form WADL Productions, a video production company that focuses on helping people in their search for employment. The first planned production is "How to Interview for a Job." The business plan calls for two more videos in the two years following. One is instruction on writing resumes, and the third concerns networking.

The four amigos (for whom WADL is named):

Walt Luthy has been involved in the video business for over thirty years. His company, Eldor Communications, has produced training videos, commercials and other video projects needing professional videographers and crew. He has put together training videos for the Kroger Company, Sunoco Oil, and several local Cincinnati businesses. He is currently working with a company that provides real-time video training from one location to any PC anywhere in the world.

Alan McLaughlin, that's me. You can find out more aboout me by perusing this website. Suffice it to say that I have written scripts and directed many training videos for companies such as Kroger, P&G, Superx Drug Stores, American Laundry Machinery, Stop&Go Convenience Stores and many many more. I have written the script upon which WADL is basing its first piece of training. And I look forward to stage-directing the actual video when funding becomes available.

Debbie Rumke has more than twenty-five years' experience in human resources and corporate training and development. She is a former head of training at the Kroger Company, and former vice-president of training for PNC Bank. Her consulting company, DMR Associates, Inc., specializes in providing career transition and outplacement counseling. She consults with cyber companies in developing resumes and advising on interviewing techniques. She has developed materials widely used in the area of human resources, and these materials are the foundation of the WADL trainings.

Linda Ray Rubel is a former head of a seven-store retail chain in Cincinnati. As such, she developed business plans and marketing and advertising plans, as well as dealing on a daily basis with human resource issues. Linda coalesced information from the other three people into an airtight business plan designed to present to bankers, venture capitalists, and other possible sources of funding.