Trey Fales, REJ’s Vice President and Director of Production, is a manager, technical expert, and creative professional with more than 19 years of experience at REJ. In his role, he oversees daily operations, including project and production management, budgeting, personnel management, business development, employee benefits/HR, account management, and creative direction, and serves as the primary liaison between REJ and its clients, ensuring their objectives are met from budget and production planning through final delivery. He provides technical and creative production oversight, art direction for graphics and animation, and ensures quality control measures are adhered to across all platforms.
Trey is skilled in video editing, graphic and web design, still photography, and video and webcast production. He is well-versed in agile project management methods and SCRUM, using platforms including JIRA, Confluence, Monday.com, SmartSheets, Basecamp, Slack, and Trello. His technical toolkit spans the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, Avid Media Composer, and Final Cut Pro, as well as web content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla, AFPIMS (Dot-Net-Nuke) — Trey is a certified AFPIMS site manager — and Drupal. He is knowledgeable in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and is an expert in WCAG web standards and accessibility optimization using tools such as JAWS, WAVE, and Color Contrast Analyzer.
His extensive background includes roles as an art director, print production manager, broadcast producer, and agency executive producer, with early career stints at Ripken Professional Baseball, the Aberdeen IronBirds, WJZ-TV 13, and WBAL-TV 11. A four-time Gold ADDY and multiple Silver ADDY award winner, Trey earned a BS in Film/Video/Theatre from Villa Julie College (now Stevenson University) and an AA in Broadcast Management/Journalism from Howard Community College.
Trey lives in Baltimore County with his wife, Michelle, their son Ford, their Lab Reese, and the “Jack Pack” — Willow, Denver, and Tucker. In his time off, he’s usually found in one of three places: at home with his family (and the pack); out relaxing with friends; or at his “happy place,” Deep Creek Lake, where he enjoys boating in the summer, the scenery in the fall, and snowmobiling in the winter.