David Ohman Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, MO, US

Remote

EDGAR / XBRIL report formatting and automation.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Flexing my eclectic skill set in Digital Media, Digital Production, and Digital Operations for creative and entertainment Digital Products.
• Partnering with punchworldwide.com
• Partnering with AutomatedWorkflows.com consulting with adidas USTS Collateral & Marketing
• Video development for Avant Food Media

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Accountable for production and distribution of all content channels including Digital Products, Digital Syndication and Digital Hosted Products. Portfolio owner for development of emerging digital syndication products.
• Drove processes and efficiencies resulting in cost-savings including significant gains with outside vender expenses driving over $1,000,000 annually to the Andrews McMeel Syndication division's bottom line.
• Product Manager and Product Producer for the USA TODAY Crossword mobile app that launched in April 2019.
• Led development for the rebranding of the Licensing.AndrewsMcMeel.com website adding point of sale functionality, upgraded search functionality, and a modern e-commerce experience.
• Drove and developed processes for automating content for GoComics.com, Uexpress.com (DearAbby.com), Dilbert.com, USA TODAY Crossword HTML5 game and other digital channels.
• Directed the development of AMU core CMS managing over 1.8+ million unique assets and 10+ million variations and supporting content.

• Led development staff including Project Manager, Business Analyst, and Developers for the AMU Digital Products group. Products ranged from business to business products that aggregated content (digital syndication for.
• Drove implementation of task and effort administration solutions (JIRA, Liquid Planner) giving AMU Digital Products a way to quantify development and project efforts.
• Developed outside resources to contribute to HTML5 game support and development raising stability in AMU digital games and puzzles.
• Worked with USA TODAY's digital development staff and partners supporting products on their platforms, both native applications and HTML5 games on puzzles.usatoday.com protecting and supporting AMU's interests across a.
• Drove consolidation of smaller sites from different multiple stacks to one consistent platform (WordPress & WP Engine) allowing quicker development cycles able to manage smaller sites proportionate development resources.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Directed production workflows for all Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) content and distribution channels. Led customer services for direct to consumer products including GoComics.com, Dilbert.com and syndication.
• Drove migration of the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system from its original VB1 stack to the more modern Ruby on Rails stack with a Sphinx search service which now supports search across all AMU Digital Products.
• Championed resurrection of ongoing keyword tagging and data entry for the CMS system. This now supplies the metadata that is the foundation of all search on the Licensing.AndrewsMcMeel.com, GoComics.com, and SEO.
• Transformed processes of the entire text feature line up with automation which made a significant impact on cost, accuracy, and synergy between all channels.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Expanded and refined the production of content for all syndicate distribution channels.
• Executed operational takeover of all United Features Syndicate (UFS) business (a 150% increase of features) while adding only one additional head count to the production staff.
• Automated entire Sunday Color Comics for AMS and UFS turning a significant annual expense into a profit center for the AMU Digital Color department, this continues to drive over $250,000 annually to the AMS bottom line
• Automated all production content for the Syndicate including text, puzzles, comics, for all channels digital and traditional.
• Drove scope and development of CMS that is involved with every digital product and channel.
• Developed several SharePoint instances to manage efforts, production, and late fees for creators.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Pioneered the creation of the Andrews McMeel Pagination Service (AMPS). Hired staff and created the process and production flows that became the AMPS. Managed the development of back-end and external partner.
• Created then nurtured the AMPS into profitability in 2003. Which began the consistent year over year growth and profit to this day. AMSP is the only syndication product that had growth from 2015-2020.
• Coordinated back-end development (Mod-Perl and Ruby) with front-end WEB application level workflows into a system that manages 2500+ client unique feature layouts for 250+ clients worldwide.
• Drove creation of the AMU Digital Color department turning a $250.000 annual expense into a profitable product service group.
• Pioneered the first development of production automation into AMU resulting in mass improvements in accuracy and margin growth, this was a key part of the AMS divisions ability to retain profitability throughout the.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Supported 200+ Macs for the creative and production departments and supplemental support for PCs company wide. Performed general A+ duties.

Digital Marketing Strategies: Data, Automation, Ai & Analytics Certificate

8 week program outlining Agile development principles applied to Digital Marketing including segmentation, customer journey mapping.

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