Christopher Stankiewicz Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Connect premium content creator sellers with appropriate buyers to develop audience growth and revenue
• Collaborate with video partners and editorial teams to ensure their respective content goals are met
• Create and exploit editorial efficiencies that result in greater engagement and greater revenues for video buyers and sellers
• Co-develop and manage a self-service digital video content exchange, management system and business intelligence platform
• Develop digital video exchange strategy, syndication and monetization rubrics. Contribute to go-to-market and product-launch strategies
• Create detail-oriented product requirements, ensuring clear communication of those requirements to the business and development teams

Greater New York City Area

• Manage and nurture publisher partnerships with enterprise clients such as Hearst, Gannett, Sun Media, Complex Media, The Canadian Press, and The Toronto Star. During this period customers grew by more than 200%.
• Collaborate with publisher partners to create customized editorial efficiencies; i.e. a 300% increase in videos published by The Toronto Star facilitated by providing 20% of their newsroom with NewsLook tools over a.
• Coordinate with sales department for pre-sale opportunity analysis, on-site demos and tutorials, and post-sale training.
• Manage and nurture video partnerships with creators such as AP, Reuters, TIME, Condé Nast, Getty and TMZ, among more than 120 premium brands. During this period content library grew by more than 80%.
• Created content recommendation campaigns to help clients meet deliver goals on oversold inventory.
• Collaborate with technology and editorial department on product roadmap. Instrumental in providing feedback to CTO and Product Team in order to innovate such new technology offerings as a consumer-facing video.

Greater New York City Area

• Oversaw a 3-person team responsible for management of a growing content library (285K+ assets), creating a metadata extraction and syndication workflow that resulted in a more than 1500% increase in editorial output.
• Initiated the development and implementation of company taxonomy and metadata best practices for NewsLook content library.
• Developed outsourced video tagging workflows, utilizing virtual curation teams to allow for reduction in weeknight and weekend staffing.
• Member of the NewsLook team honored for the 2013 SIIA CODiE award for “Best Video Platform for Media & Publishers.”

Greater New York City Area

• Curated video inventory for domestic and international content providers.
• Provided direct troubleshooting and customer support for content creator and publisher partners.
• Mentor junior editorial staff in video curation techniques, broadcast style and caption writing.

Camp Fallujah, Iraq & Camp Lejeune, NC

• Oversaw daily analysis of U.S., Arab-language, and international media coverage of Iraq’s Al Anbar province, providing daily media briefs to II MEF command staff.
• Embedded with U.S. and Iraqi military units to provide internal photographic, video and radio media coverage highlighting coalition force activities and contributions.
• Created animations and graphics in support of public affairs mission.
• Coordinated transportation, accommodations, and interaction with military liaisons for U.S. and international media in Al Anbar Province.

Iwakuni, Japan

• Produced more than 200 video packages over a two year period, ranging from hard news and feature-length information programs to spot advertisements.
• Broadcast more than 300 live television broadcasts over a two year period, serving as anchor for a 7-10 minute news program televised twice daily.
• Broadcast more than 1,500 live hours of radio over a two year period to an audience of more than 200,000.
• Added more than 5 hours of live radio programming per week to station’s schedule.
• Implemented a new command information program, giving local leaders a forum allowing residents to call and express questions and concerns.
• Created and executed a survey system to gauge audience satisfaction, leading to program changes resulting in a documented increase in audience satisfaction of more than 600%.

Anthropology

Broadcast Journalism