Cary Benbow Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, IN, US

Greater Indianapolis

• Experienced Freelance Digital Asset Manager, Creative Project Manager, photo editor, image and rights researcher for dozens of publishing projects. Rights and cost negotiator with excellent written and oral.
• Freelance writer and editor for publications focused on photography and the arts.
• Published 250+ articles, interviews and book reviews for F-Stop Magazine (senior staff writer), Lensculture, YIELD Magazine, and Vantage. Freelance writing projects include book introductions, artist and exhibition.
• Experienced freelance photographer - contributor to stock image providers (Getty Images), news organizations, non-profit groups.

Greenfield, IN

General Manager of family owned, independent, nine-screen movie theater. Champion of day-to-day operations, Staffing, Digital Content Management, Projectionist, Marketing/Advertising, Graphic Design, and Social Media Coordinator.

Mason, Ohio

• Supervised the Copyright Registration and Title Rights Ownership aspects for over 50,000 Higher-Education published products.
• Protected published products from copyright infringement and piracy, verified ownership and rights & permissions issues, worked with national and corporate accessibility councils/groups to provide accessible content.
• Supervised the centralization of the corporate copyright repository, and helped create and develop a SharePoint driven Title Rights Reversion workflow.

• Digital Asset Manager for a newly formed corporate archive, hired & supervised staff, managed over 1 million digital assets archiving and retrieval for content reuse. Performed user acceptance testing for proprietary.
• Managed and facilitated over 60,000 annual requests for accessible content, content repair, supported in-house repositories for art and photography reuse.

Greater Chicago Area

Performed Rights and Photo Research for World History textbooks, and electronic media. Managed freelance illustrators for commissioned illustrations.

Northfield, Illinois (Greater Chicago area)

• Management and administration for systems and employees at an independent photo research, photo editorial, publisher’s rights and permissions company.
• Developed and assisted with improvements to proprietary database software, website capability and functionality. Managed internal digital library of 300,000+ stock photos and illustrations. Top level Project Management.
• Managed dozens of active photo projects and staff of 20. An organized team leader, who accomplishes projects on-time and on-budget. Negotiated photo price discounts and copyright permissions with global stock photo.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Hired freelance photo researchers, photographers and directed photo shoots for over 300 core products and 1000 ancillary products each year and developed systems and a centralized library of imagery which became an.
• Managed photo programs in higher-educational textbook projects, as well as performed complete photo research for smaller projects. Built photo research budgets, created photo want lists, edited photo submissions.