Corey Tatum Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Southeast Emmy nominated and Gabby Award winning editor. I’m nicknamed The King Of Pops. Funny, energetic and hardworking employee that always delivers ahead of schedule. - Editing high paced stylized branded ads, investigative promos and documentary that showcase our brand and talent. Examples: AM Team marketing promos, Special topics such as Georgia’s Hidden Treasures, Special Investigations marketing promos, Daily Topical promos showcasing breaking news, traffic and weather.- Encoding and converting media using Adobe Media Encoder to be used on multiple platforms and devices. Editing promotional stories for social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. - Photographing multiple talents within the company using still photography and video cameras. Lead videographer and b-camera for image productions, lead photographer for talent headshots and event coverage.- Editor and contributor to Public Affairs department by editing content for events happening in Atlanta with our sponsors. Edited presentation videos, event public service announcements and appeal videos for new partnerships.- Training marketing producers to edit content for the newscast and social platforms. - Media management of projects and media from local shoots to our archival storage (MAM) to make sure the drive space is not exceeding capacity.- Working with management and engineering to come up with solutions for new video codecs and workflows for using them.- Working with the Engineering Team to ensure all editing suites in the department are up to date on current software upgrades.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Primary responsibilities involve leading edit projects and working with other editors assigned on the project to ensure continuity and high level of creativity. Leading the editing staff to improve the level of creativity and quality of cross platform including live programming, promos, lifestyles, ad sales & broadband. Developing new ideas and products to benefit the Edit department and company objectives. Editing broadcast quality video using multiple formats such as RED, P2, XDCAM, HD-CAM, HDV & Digi-beta for long-form, promos, stunt week specials and news breaking events.• Designing and executing new workflows to increase edit efficiencies and to ensure quality assurance of product and effective communication and collaboration with internal partners and editors. Working with outside clients to upgrade hardware and software needs for our current workflows.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Primary responsibilities involved editing raw footage for broadcast playback and off-air presentations. Editing voice-overs, packages, teases and other projects as needed. Recording on-air talent for the 6pm edition headlines as well as operating multi-format tape machines, such as Beta SP, Digi-beta, DV, DVCPro, HD Cam, etc.• This was a tremendous opportunity to demonstrate my excellent work ethic, solid communication skills and the abilities to complete projects with-in a timely manner, with little or no supervision. I also had the opportunity to foster great professional relationships with The Weather Channel staff members.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Primary responsibility involved designing and editing broadcast quality career commercials and advertising promos, creating 3D animations for company profiles for web design, and encoding and uploading video products using WS FTP Pro. Also responsible for keeping HTML pages updated on a weekly basis.• Demonstrated excellent quality control skills to produce professional television programming weekly. Solid leading and mentoring skills with part time and full time employees to maximize levels of productivity. Developed and implemented a “Weekly Encoding Chart Checklist” which decreased the possibility for error by 80%.• Coordinated with television station representatives on tape inventory and customer service needs.

Burlington, North Carolina

• Videographer and editor on major company profiles and educational videos. Created storyboards for production shoots and location shoots. • Encoded monthly videos for updating company website. Maintained production equipment and kept inventory on current software applications. Upgraded post production software as needed. • Developed company’s first DVD product, “Story of Streams”.• Recorded Voice-Over narrations using Sound Edit for educational video production.