Daniel Kotani Email & Phone Number

Huntington Beach, Ca, Us

Irvine, California, United States

• Working alongside the Social Media Manager and team in collaborating with all of the media departments at Surfline. My role entails helping managing the social media for Surfline, with an audience of 4+ million followers, focusing on digital content promotion and strategy.• Served as Assistant Project Manager for the Surfline Creator Program from start to finish: Influencer vetting and outreach, contract negotiations, content strategy, campaign activations, budget management (US, Aus, and NZ regions), creative direction, and execution.• Assisted in curation of all social media efforts including design, visual assets and copywriting within our team and across various levels of the organization. Managed and executed live-video activations and premieres across YouTube Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Assisted in execution of influencer marketing campaigns from outreach until final launch of creative asset.• Working directly with the Marketing Director, Brand Director, and Social Media Manager in ideation, management, and execution of new product campaigns and creative partnership launches for social media.• Manage weekly social media reports involving: Week-over-week statistics, developing KPIs, tracking conversions, sessions, user demographics, analyze performance of content, and create a strategy to consistently grow each social platform's audience and promote conversions.

Newport Beach, Ca

I discovered my passion for photography in the Surf / Lifestyle / Product / Nightlife when I bought my camera back in 2012.Through many internships I was able to utilize the skills to capture content used in online features and social media posts. Thereafter, opportunities arose to work with brands such as Jose Cuervo, Michelob Ultra, Nobleman Magazine, Rolls Royce, and more.As a hobby, photography has taught me how important perspective is whether it be from a personal or client-sided standpoint.

Newport Beach, Ca

Nobleman Magazine is an exclusive luxury magazine that strives to become the most celebrated and prestigious men's luxury magazine in the world. Nobleman embraces travel, events, cuisine, people, relationships and is distributed locally and internationally. NM has collaborated with some of the largest brands and influencers in the luxury industry and continues to grow.Relations• Assist in organizing and planning local events for branded partners• Research new and existing brands to collaborate with / preserve relations with current partners of the magazine• Distribution of magazines throughout Orange CountyDigital Content• Desktop Publishing: editing digital images, designing page layouts, and using online publishing software such as Wordpress / Weebly / Wix• Copywriting & StorytellingSocial Media• Use of Instagram and Canva to create stories and posts, and assist in maintaining vision of the Magazine• Create weekly branded features with social media partnersPhoto• Knowledge and use of DSLR cameras• Taking product & lifestyle photos for new and partnered brands• Through Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop: color correction / cropping / sequencing

Huntington Beach, Ca

• Assemble content from photographers, videographers, writers and other contributors to build stories in CMS and push live.• Capture photos during sponsored events that are used for branded features and product shots.• Work alongside the Editor-in-chief to build out articles from World Surf League and other large international surfing events and pushing them live.• Utilized Hootsuite to post content to and manage multiple social platforms at once.

Huntington Beach, Ca

Focused on Camera Rewinds - A subcategory of Surfline.com that allows premium users to view live camera footage by hour and day within the last 3 days. • Sourcing, editing, and pushing Cam Rewinds to both Surfline's original and new site • Compiling quality footage, from a live camera, into 1.5 minute clip • Publishing Cam rewinds to social sites: Facebook and Twitter • Editing through Adobe Premiere

Orange County, California Area

Created video edits from outside sourced content through Adobe Premiere: boosting attraction for Surfline's social media pages.• Assisted in attracting 7,000+ new followers to Surfline's twitter page and 56,000+ to Facebook since the beginning of 2017From a total of 7 edits, each under 1 minute long:Facebook: 390,350+ people reached / 100,000+ views / 4,700+ likes / 550+ sharesTwitter: 270+ retweets / 620+ likes

Orange County, California Area

Owned a Surfline editorial project: Social Absorption.• Spearheaded 25+ posts beginning 2017 at the start of my internship bringing over $50,000 in sponsored ad revenue• Brought over 900,000+ total visits to Surfline through all social platforms• Built out stories in the content management system• Sized, color corrected, and sequenced photos for editorial team• Utilized Adobe Photoshop, Bridge, and Lightroom

California State University, Fullerton

• Help create and design flyers for upcoming alumni events using MailChimp• Network with and assist in recruiting CSUF Alumni to speak at events• Plan and assist in coordinating AMA gatherings outside of University

Business Marketing

Activities and Societies: American Marketing Association - Member of Alumni Relations

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Dean's List and Honor Roll from 2014 - 2016