Welcome
Hello, I'm R. Slade Walters, welcome to sladewalters.com, my online bio and portfolio site. If you found this site, I hope it gives you some insight into who I am and what I do.

If you have any questions about what you find here, feel free to drop me a line. I will try to get back to you when I have some time.

Bio (?!)
I was born in the Northeast U.S. and moved to the Southeast when I was fairly young. I grew up in the south but my family were clearly Yankees. Let's just say that I like grits, sweet tea and pastrami on rye.

I joined the U.S. Air Force just out of high school, got married when I was 19 (I'm still married to the same girl) and deployed to Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. I got out of the Air Force in the early 1990's.

After I got out of the Air Force I took a job at a recording studio where I learned high-end audio production skills and how professional media production was generally done. In 1995, I decided to branch out to television and video production so I found a job at WSRE TV, a PBS affiliate in Pensacola, Florida. About a year later, I accepted a position at a high-profile film and video post production company in Nashville, TN where I worked on regional and national TV shows and commercials.

In 1998, I took what I had learned about audio and TV production and started a multimedia production company with a partner. In a few years we built our company into a full-fledged advertising, marketing and public relations firm serving the entertainment and publishing industries.

In 2004, I sold my part of the company to my partner to get away from the long hours that tend to inherently come with advertising and production. For a change of pace, I took a job as the Creative Director for a record company in Nashville.

in 2005, I set out with the goal of starting a new career. I took a job working for the U.S. Army and have been with the Army ever since in a few different positions that have brought me from Fort Rucker, Alabama to as far away as Camp Zama near Tokyo, Japan and Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, Republic of Korea where I created the U.S. Army Korea Media Center.

Now I work in Public Affairs at the Headquarters of the U.S. Army Installation Management Command in San Antonio, Texas. I have enjoyed having the ability to travel for my job in the last few years and I hope to travel more in the years to come.

Hobbies
I take photos and make short videos for fun. I like to build unusual vehicle fabrication projects. I have 35 hours of private pilot training and hope to get my Private Pilot Certification sometime in the not-too-distant future. I am a musician and singer. I play drums (well), bass (enough to get by) and guitar (horribly).

Clubs & Organizations
Lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)
Member of the Experimental Aircraft Associtation (EAA)
Member of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)