Doug Kirkpatrick is an award-winning marketing film producer/director, media specialist and vocational trainer living in Melbourne.

His professional background covers corporate film-making, radio and television production and public events as well as commercial/industrial command and control system design and integration. He has formal qualifications in electrical engineering (Australia) and broadcast media communications (US).

After graduating B.Sc (Hons) from Oregon State University in 1989, Doug moved to New York City for an International Radio & Television Society (IRTS) Fellowship before working for several media and technology companies.

In 1996, Doug founded Streamliner Productions in New York to meet demand for complex multiscreen visual production backed by expertise in audiovisual staging and display technologies.  His work has attracted significant industry awards.

Doug has produced live-to-satellite multi-camera broadcasts from the streets of Manhattan, produced and directed corporate films and multimedia products for Australian and US organisations, and supervised the design and installation of complex custom-designed audiovisual command/control and electronic presentation systems in the United States and Japan.

In October 2002, Doug created and delivered the first annual Jersey Central Railroad Heritage Festival celebrating the life and work of veteran railway workers in a festival atmosphere. This highly successful inaugural event hosted by a local television personality brought together over 40 different heritage, community and commercial organisations and attracted over 8,000 members of the public to the historic Jersey Central Railroad passenger terminal on the Hudson River waterfront opposite Manhattan. The State of New Jersey has since adopted the festival as an annual event.

Doug returned to Australia in December 2002 to develop Being Australian, a social venture for the Australian community and to work on other projects including a documentary film about the life experiences of train drivers employed on Australia's railways during the latter half of the 20th Century. The proposal for this work models an earlier project he initiated in the United States about life through the eyes of retired American railroad engineers.

Doug also launched preparations for Sydney's first annual Eveleigh Heritage Festival, bringing transport heritage to life in the heart of Sydney at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops to coincide with the 150th anniversary of NSW railways.

In 2003, Doug received a Vincent Fairfax Fellowship from St. James Ethics Centre. The 20-month program is given annually to twelve Australians for the study of ethics and leadership in Australia and Asia. Today, Doug is developing Internet properties, advising institutions on communication strategy and using his experience in media and communications to deliver training to adult vocational learners preparing for their futures at Swinburne University.