Owner of DowneyDigital LLC, a digital content production company. The company produces a vast array of projects, including podcasts, livestreams, and digital marketing campaigns. DowneyDigital also offers remote and in-class instructional courses on the essentials of podcast production to individuals interested in learning about and leveraging the medium for their businesses or personal interests.https://www.chrisdowneydigital.com

Full Service Podcast Developer. Skilled in creating, designing, producing, and launching podcasts across multiple platforms. Create web design. Establish marketing strategy. Develop brand. Define content goals. Edit audio, video, and images. Set up RSS audio feeds. Automate content posts. Grow audience and subscribers through online communities. Provide subscribers multiple tiers and access to exclusive content. Post livestreams, links, polls, text, and pdfs. Create a Google Analytics ID to generate traffic data reports.

Supervised Operations team for three television stations (WRAL-TV, FOX50, WILM-TV). Managed daily execution of on-air programming and commercials targeting 100% accuracy. Maintained 98% success rate on-air signal from transmitter to homes across top 25 market (live news, live sporting events and syndicated programming). Acted as a capable standby operator for Master Control, Quality Control, and Ingest Control. Hired and trained new and existing operators. Reviewed and directed optimization of department’s work schedules, effectively managed overtime resulting in departmental savings.Collaborated and coordinated projects with departments throughout the station (News,Engineering, Traffic, Sales, Creative Services, Digital Media, Programming). Achieved 98% success rate executing sales inventory to air through multiple platforms (OTA, Digital, OTT). Resolved viewer concerns regarding audio and video signal issues. Finalized and distributed satellite feed information for live events, network programming, and syndicated programming. Coordinated special projects for Master Control. Identified and developed Master Control personnel for high impact scenarios resulting in optimal efficiency.

Supervised Operations team. Performed as a fully capable standby operator for Master Control, Quality Control, and Ingest. Hired new operators, as needed. Trained new and existing operators. Reviewed and directed optimization of department’s work schedules. Wrote and conducted employees’ reviews. Acted as liaison to other departments in the station (News, Engineering, Traffic, Sales,Promotions, Programming).