Alan Atkinson Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Platinum Media Concepts/Platinum Media Studios is the first of it's kind, digital content creation studio in Washington D.C.'s beautiful Waterfront. Our studios are created to help small, medium and large content creators build broadcast worthy media, affordably. We'll help you produce it and then help you promote it.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Deputy to the Director of Audiovisual and Multimedia Productions providing administrative, technical as well as team managerial support for the director. Current duties include but are not limited to the following:• Recruit, schedule, train and support audiovisual contract staff.• Responsible for cross training Wilson Center audiovisual staff.• Provide audiovisual support for over twelve hundred Wilson Center events annually.• Coordinate and support national and local broadcast networks such as NBC, Fox, CNN and CSPAN, using Verizon’s AVOC bridge to ensuring clear and clean transmission of network coverage of Wilson Center programming.• Shoot multi-camera, broadcast worthy video for both television and web formats.• Create and/or edit still and motion graphic designs for various branding projects including the complete re-design/re-branding of the Wilson Center studio, opening graphics for Wilson Center short-form videos as well as studio backgrounds graphics for network “hits” in the Wilson Center studio.• Senior Director for all Wilson Center media-multi camera productions to include high profile events.• Operate studio equipment including audio and video patch-bays, routing systems, TriCaster Video Switchers, robotic cameras, Shure auto-mixers and microphones. • Edit video and audio content, on an expert level using Adobe’s Creative Cloud programs to include, After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere, Audition, and Dreamweaver. • Update and manage the storage and distribution of Wilson Center content via C.M.S., C.D.N., and XSAND Server (Content Management Systems/Content Delivery Networks).• Operate and troubleshoot video conferencing systems, using Polycom Conferencing Systems.• Provide excellent customer service to a myriad of high profile speakers including Presidents, Congressman, Ambassadors, etc.• Manage multiple projects and deadlines with excellent time management.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

A-1 Audio Engineer responsible for audio mix for the station’s most prestigious content, the 4pm, 5pm, 6pm and 11:00pm news. Worked on production crews for historic shows such as, It’s Academic, Redskin Report, The McLaughlin Group as well as the George Michael’s Sports Machine. Exceptional mastery in every discipline of news production such as robotic cameras, teleprompter, chyron operator video editing, as well as on location shoots. Additional duties included:• Worked with award winning crew, obtaining Daytime Emmys for coverage of “The Crash of Metro’s Redline” as well as our coverage of President Obama’s 2009 Inauguration.• Routed and tuned all remotes, satellite, aux, and frame sync feeds to insure air worthy audio and video. • Maintained mix-minus for internal and external sources.• Pre and post-production to include marring audio with graphics, show openings as well as packages for segments in shows. • Mixed newscasts in a Top Ten Market under extreme, fast paced, ever-changing news environment. • Troubleshoot all audio/video related problems for quick resolutions. • Set-up, operate and light remote cameras for bump shots, interviews, and special segments. • Coordinate with transmission to insure proper working audio/visual transmission of the Roving Cam. • Insure proper lighting and shot comprehension.