Select Accomplishments
2025
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Big Bend Ranch State Park
Photography Drive My Car
2024
Telly Awards People's Telly Gold Winner: Brazos Bend
Telly Awards Gold Winner: View Boston
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Brazos Bend
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Enchanted Rock
Telly Awards Bronze Winner: View Boston
Photography Summit K12: Dynamic Science Textbooks
2023
Telly Awards Bronze Winner: SMU Pride
2022
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Preserving History
Telly Awards Silver Winner: Discovery District
Telly Awards Bronze Winner: Preserving History
Photography Time Magazine: The Best Inventions of 2022
Photography WSJ: The Future of Everything
Ricardo J. Santiago
Award-winning Dallas-based filmmaker and published photographer with a decade of experience in creative marketing.
I am a 10x Telly Award-winning creative with projects I've worked on winning a total of 13. With ten years of professional experience in creative marketing, I have developed content for numerous global brands, including AT&T, Electrosonic, Verizon, Intel, DLA Piper, and Bose. My photography has been seen in TIME Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and textbooks nationwide.
Currently, I serve as a Post-Production Producer at Summit K12, where I oversee and ensure quality control of the post-production process. Notable projects include the post-production of both our award-winning flagship shows: Dynamic Science with Kate the Chemist and Virtual Field Investigations. In 2025, I directed a documentary titled Towering Babel in collaboration with the California Association of Bilingual Education, and it is due for release in Summer 2026.
Previously, I served as the Creative Lead at MarketScale, where my responsibilities included supervising a team of 25 editors, developing and presenting company-wide training, and revitalizing the post-production process by optimizing and automating editing workflows.
Before that, I worked as a Podcast Producer at Master Networks and as a Videographer with Del Frisco's Restaurant Group. I have one photography collection, Drive My Car, and a second due for release in 2026.