Douglas Aarniokoski

Douglas Aarniokoski born August 25 1965 is an American television director and producer He is well known for his work on the CBS series Star Trek Discovery Star Trek Short Treks Star Trek Picard Criminal Minds SWAT and the CW superhero drama Arrow He has also worked on FOXs supernatural series Sleepy Hollow Aarniokoski got his start as a production assistant on Turner Hooch and as a personal assistant to Tom Cruise on his 1990 film Days of Thunder He then worked on the 1992 horror feature Doctor Mordrid as the first assistant director He went on to serve as assistant director on several other films such as From Dusk till Dawn Living Out Loud The Faculty and Spy Kids Later he began serving as a second unit director for features such as The Medallion Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Resident Evil Extinction His directorial debut was with the 2000 action film Highlander Endgame His other credits include Animals and The Day He cowrote and directed the 2013 horror Nurse 3D Aarniokoski has directed 8 installments of the CBS series Criminal Minds since 2011 while directing two episodes of The CWs Green Arrow origin series Arrow and one of its sister series The Flash During the first season of the FOX series Sleepy Hollow Aarniokoski directed the 7th episode The Midnight Ride In winter 2014 he joined as supervising producer and main director on the show He has since directed the secondseason episodes Go Where I Send Thee And the Abyss Gazes Back Kali Yuga and Awakening In 2015 he joined the new CBS series Limitless as supervising producer and director The show will be run by former Sleepy Hollow coworker Mark Goffman Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas Aarniokoski licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia