Bryan Starr Email & Phone Number

Manhattan, New York, United States

- Owner and operator of insured and bonded Manhattan pet service company- Regular engagement with a roster of 50+ clients- Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the business: * Designed, developed and maintain company website * Established RWTC-specific invoicing system and protocols * Personally vetted, hired and trained all employees over a 10 year period * Directly responsible for management of up to six full time employees including payroll distribution, scheduling, ongoing training, etc. * Marketing * Day-to-day logistics

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Full-lifecycle management of editorial licensing requests:• Generate and respond to third-party licensing opportunities of Conde Nast content. • Negotiate licensing terms and fees with third parties in accordance with contributor contracts and corporate policies.• Draft client-specific, legally binding Letters of Agreement and invoices.• Manage and maintain client hardcopy, electronic and Microsoft Access files. Customized reprints:• Generate and respond to third-party reprint opportunities.• Negotiate costs and handle client invoices and remittance. • Collaborate with clients on reprint designs, and communicate layout instructions to the printing house.• Maintain complete client and reprint house files. Internal Conde Nast requests:• Discern contractual rights to editorial content for reuse in Conde Nast print and web publications.• Determine acceptable promotional and advertising uses as sanctioned by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME).

Traveled throughout the United States on the installation of pagination and archiving systems for use by middle-to-large publications. • Oversaw the dispersing of published content from the print side of a publication to affiliated websites.• Oversaw the transfer of content (including metadata), into a searchable archive. • Developed searches to govern the inflow of aggregate content from various syndication sources.• Created tagging sequences that corresponded to the style each publication. These sequences were embedded into shortcut keys and used by writers and editors for daily pagination.• Conducted training courses for end users, primarily writers and editors.• Contributed to the authoring of instruction and workflow manuals. • Between assignments authored a 21-page document on the future prospects of Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology. Also assisted the sales division in answering Requests for Proposals (RFP).