Rolando Gomez

Rolando Gómez is an American film producer, screenwriter, freelance photographer, author and an alumnus of the 2021 National Hispanic Media Coalition Series Scriptwriters Program and the Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Project. In 2021 he was an on-set associate producer for the feature films, I Am Gitmo and Everything Will Be Fine in the End. and Quora honored him in 2016, 2017 and 2018 as a Top Writer.

Life and career One of the original Lexar Media Elite Photographers, after Gómez left the active-duty U.S. Army as a staff sergeant, he joined the U.S. Air Force as a civilian and served as the Chief, Multimedia Production for the Air Force News Agency (AFNEWS), now the Air Force Public Affairs Agency (AFPAA). There he served for nine years and oversaw print, radio, and television streaming content for the Air Force official website plus other internal and external media publication and broadcast products.

One product, AFLINK (Air Force Link), increased its download video and radio streams from 180,000 to almost 700,000 monthly in the first year under Gómez' supervision and was touted in an article by Tech Republic. and worked directly for the CINC United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), Gen. George A. Joulwan, who created Operation Support Justice, in Germany at V Corps and at USSOUTHCOM headquarters in Panama for a total of four years.

His work has appeared in PARADE (cover story), NEWSWEEK, Rangefinder, D-Pixx, Peterson's 4-Wheel Drive, Stars and Stripes, Army Times, Airman, Soldiers, Playboy, Netscape, Studio Photography & Design, PMA Daily, and Leica World News plus other publications.

Gómez earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication, Electronic Media, summa cum laude (4.0 GPA), from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in 2001 and an associate degree in Business Administration from St. Philips College, San Antonio. Gomez is also a State of Texas mediator in conflict resolution. He is listed by the University of Texas, San Antonio as a “notable graduate.”