The National RV Training Academy (NRVTA) hired Garrett Syfrett as video production manager to enhance the school’s online video imagery.
A native of Washington state, Syfrett and his family moved to Texas in 2020 to attend NRVTA training classes and become a certified RV technician. He also served as a Workamper at the Texan RV Park to help cover the costs of attending classes.
As the video production manager, Syfrett is responsible for producing Tech Tip Tuesday YouTube video clips, creating course-related videos and working on projects with RV manufacturers and suppliers to produce training videos. Syfrett will report to Tony Flammia, NRVTA’s director of sales and marketing.
Syfrett and Flammia will work with YouTube influencers to help promote the academy and its courses, NRVTA said.
“Tony is the visionary and I figure out how to make it happen,” Syfrett said. “He is one of the best directors I have worked with. Tony knows what he’s doing and that helps me to trust his judgment. He instills confidence by encouraging me to experiment with ideas to make videos even better.”
Although he has no formal video production training, Syfrett taught himself the skills needed to produce quality videos by watching clips created by others and mimicking their style. He learned video editing through trial, error and experimentation by creating videos for his family’s YouTube channel Diary of a Family.
His first project with NRVTA was to develop the 2022 RVTechCourse.com home-study course, which sold more than 400 copies in the first 15 days following its April release in
“Garrett is a naturally talented videographer,” Flammia said. “We call him ‘the golden boy’ because he has a knack for making anything he touches look even better. We are fortunate to have him on our team.”
