TEAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Melinda Moulton’s Career History

Melinda Moulton has joined up with her husband Rick Moulton as the founder, co-owner, CFO, and Executive Producer for Rick Moulton Productions to create documentary films, focusing on Legacy. These films celebrate people and organizations who have made a difference and contributed to human and planet wellbeing. She has been involved in environmental and socially conscious redevelopment since 1983. Melinda has devoted the last 40 years of her life creating a new model for development. This model includes a “team approach to design, development, and construction” philosophy. Melinda as CEO provided the leadership to produce a 25-year incremental redevelopment project for the Burlington Vermont Waterfront and spearheaded 250,000 square feet (about twice the area of a Manhattan city block) and thirty million dollars of built environment on Burlington’s Waterfront. Melinda retired from Main Street Landing on May 1st, 2022, to pursue her many passions.

Melinda Chaired the Boards of the Burlington Parking & Transportation Council, Burlington Business Association, Vermont Retail Association, The Intervale Center, College Steps and the Vermont Folklife Center. She served on the Boards of The Greater Burlington YMCA, Lund Family Center, Chittenden East School District, Special Olympics Vermont, Opportunities Credit Union, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, the Orton Family Foundation, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, Audubon Vermont, and the Vermont Arts Council. Melinda served on the Board and Action Fund of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England for nine years. She was a member of the Vermont Business Roundtable. Melinda co-chaired the capital campaigns for the Lund Center and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.  

She presently serves on the Executive Council of the Williston Restorative Justice Center, and the Boards of Main Street Alliance and ACLU-Vermont. Governor Shumlin appointed Melinda to the Vermont Pathways From Poverty Council in 2014. Governor Shumlin in 2015 appointed Melinda to the Vermont Commission on Women. She was the Co-Chair of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Campaign for 2011. Melinda served on the Regional Affairs Committee of the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce and has been a strong advocate for the return of passenger rail to Union Station in Burlington. Melinda served on the Advisory Councils of the Vermont Green Building Network, University of Vermont’s 2020 “Leading By Design” Sustainability Task Force, the Childhood Hunger Council of Chittenden County, Spectrum Youth Center, and Patient Choices Vermont. She participated on the development and ultimate steering committee for the Burlington Legacy Project. She serves as a Trustee of the Community Sailing Center.  

For twenty-one years Melinda has hosted CCTV’s Channel 17 Live @ 5:25 p.m. TV Show entitled “On the Waterfront with Melinda” where monthly, Melinda interviews people in Vermont who are serving their community through extraordinary vision, commitment, and challenging work to make our state a better place to live.  Her new TV show "Moments with Melinda" is syndicated across the state, and she interviews notable change makers who are making a difference in the World either through their writing, music, poetry, business, or personal lives. 

Melinda was honored by the Burlington Business Association with the Nathan Harris Award in recognition of her contribution to the economic vitality of downtown Burlington. She was also honored with the Vermont Business for Social Responsibilities’ Terry Ehrich Award.  

Main Street Landing has won the Energy Star for Small Business Award from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, the illustrious Hertzel Pasackow Award for Architectural Excellence, Chittenden County Historical Society Award, the Burlington Historic Preservation Association Award, AIA Excellence in Architecture Award, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver (LEED) Award from the U. S. Green Building Council, and the Burlington Development Award.  

Melinda as CEO of Main Street Landing endeavored to support the arts and local culture, provide incubator space for start-up local businesses, nurture social responsibility, and educate people about environmental and social conscience. Her sustainability agenda of ecological integrity, economic security, individual empowerment, and social well-being is recognized throughout the country as the way of the future for design, development, construction, and good business practice inbuilt-environment development.  Melinda lectures across the country on her work, leadership, women empowerment, and sustainable business and building practices.

2022

Michael Couture

502 B Dalton Drive, Colchester, VT 05446

Cell: 802-735-5500

Email: michaelcouture@mac.com

Website: michaelcouturemedia.com

Profile

Michael has over 45 years in the media industry as co-founder and Recording Engineer/Producer for Earth

Audio Techniques and Philo Records and co-founder, Senior Editor and Creative Director of Resolution, Inc.,

digital media specialist at Subatomic Digital, and presently, owner of Michael Couture Media.

Experience

Owner, Michael Couture Media, Colchester, VT 2007-Present

Independent media consultant for the post-production industry / Video Editorial, Graphics and Effects / Audio & Video

digital forensics /Recording Engineer/Producer / Photographer

Digital Media Specialist / Subatomic Digital, Inc., Williston, VT 2010-2017

Providing digital media supply chain services for mass market web distribution to online video platforms such as iTunes,

Netfix, GooglePlay, Amazon and others. / Tape to fle encoding / fle to fle transcoding / video processing, formatting,

editing / standards conversions / quality control methodology / metadata XML processing / Digital asset packaging / surround

sound processing / Closed captioning and subtitle services

Vice-President of Creative Services, Resolution, Inc., South Burlington, VT 1999-2007

Member of the corporate management team / Managed all technical aspects of media production and post-production,

Master Control, DVD authoring and compression / Managed and evaluated all personnel in the Creative Division / Senior

Video Editor and Special Effects Producer

President, Resolution Productions, Inc. / subsidiary of Resolution, Inc. 1997-1999

Managed video production and post-production teams / Multiple national television productions for A&E, Discovery, Turner

Broadcasting, and PBS / Senior Video Editor and Special Effects Producer

Senior Video Editor, Resolution, Inc. 1985-2007

Managed multiple editors / Offine and Online editor for local and national productions / Motion and static video graphics

Recording Engineer/Producer, Resolution, Inc. 1982-1985

Audio for Video feld recording engineer / Recorded, edited, sweetened, and mixed all soundtracks for video productions

President & Co-Owner, Philo Records, Inc., No. Ferrisburgh, VT 1970-1982

Folk label of American, Canadian & British Isles artists / Produced and recorded over 200 LP’s

Recording Engineer/Producer, Earth Audio Techniques, Inc. 1969-1982

First multi-track recording studio in Vermont / Full service 16 track recording studio / TV & Radio Spots / Mixing / Album

production / Sound Reinforcement for Concerts

Education

University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Major - Zoology Minor - Music

Champlain College, Burlington, VT

Website Design Course

Graduate study in Information Technology

Recovery Coach Academy, Vermont Association of Mental Health & Recovery, Montpelier, VT

Associations

Discogs -https://www.discogs.com/artist/1270686-Michael-Couture?page=1

Member National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences

Member Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Member Audio Engineering Society

Member and Certifed with Professional Photographers of America

President Ex Offcio, Humane Society of Chittenden County, Burlington, VT

Board member South Burlington High School Imaging Lab

Board member Maple Leaf Treatment Center

Board member Howard Center

Advisory board member Burlington Technical Center

Advisory board member Multimedia and Graphic Design - Champlain College

Advisory board member Communication & Creative Media - Champlain College

Vermont Watercolor Society

Peer Recovery Coach – Turning Point Center, Burlington, VT

Adjunct Faculty Member - Champlain College

Historical Documentaries (Senior Editor)

Voice of America: Lowell Thomas 1.5- hours PBS

Floating Palaces: Ships of the North Atlantic 4- hour Special A&E

The History of California 4- hour Special A&E

The Story of Money 4- hour Special A&E

Battleship 2-hours Discovery

Pets Part of the Family 13-part Series PBS

George Hurrell: Hollywood Photographer 1-hour Special Turner

The Secret Life of Air Freight 1-hour Discovery