Derek Harper Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Field Level Media is a national sports content provider featuring a suite of direct-to-reader solutions and syndication products delivered to global clients and strategic partners.FLM features North American sports coverage including a full breaking news desk, coverage of professional and college sports, and unique commentary and analysis geared toward.

New York, NY, US

• Management: Oversaw staff of six full-time employees and 10 freelancers for leading syndicated video provider. Worked directly with COO and CTO. Responsible for driving monetization goals for syndication and consumer.
• Content Management & Strategy: Drove editorial strategy, working with internal stakeholders including producers, finance, product and advertising for national content distribution. Managed content strategy, setting.
• Strategic Partnerships: Collaborated with video and content partners to identify local and national market opportunities, increase ad inventory and leverage audience extension relationships.
• Business Development: Managed publisher relationships and negotiated deals with multiple video providers seeking OneUp's ad platform. Established social media strategy, including testing Facebook's Instant Articles as.
• Editorial: Wrote and edited stories. Uploaded content into third-party CMS, paired it with photos, videos and distributed multimedia packages direct through the CMS platform and to social (Instant Articles, Facebook.
• Data analysis: Controlled programmatic advertising accounts and analyzed content performance metrics in the CMS. Analyzed metrics to evaluate traction of distributed content and effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Sacramento, CA, US

• Strategic Partnerships: Positioned TSX as the primary sports text provider for Reuters America in a deal worth more than $1 million annually, collaborating with partners including USA Today and Nielsen. Forged.
• Business Development: Negotiated licensing contract with STATS Inc., winning the primary contract away from the Associated Press and generating $3 million in new business. Negotiated contracts with Microsoft, Yahoo.
• Client management: First point of contact and traveled regularly to meet with clients. Worked with Reuters' sales team on new client leads and in-person meetings with potential clients.
• Content Management & Strategy: Drove the build-out of a national wire service from the ground up, a two-year process that included creating a national news desk and collaborating with Managing Editor to spin up.
• Editorial: Daily content production, editing copy and writing news stories, columns and regular features. Established editorial calendar and created daily schedule for virtual national news desk. Posted all TSX content.
• Budgeting: Budgeted spin up of coverage of more than 7,000 annual events with more than $1 million in annual overhead. Responsible for maintaining budget and reporting expenses to partners for revenue sharing and.

• Worked with third-party developer and internal Lead team on content strategies.
• Created Content Plan and conducted Competitive Analysis for two versions of Inside Drive basketball title.
• Produced Commentary scripts and other content needs for basketball and hockey titles.
• Organized and directed recording sessions with professional voice talent.
• Wrote, edited and distributed content via Microsoft's CMS.

• Developed editorial processes and worked with sales and marketing to plan content strategy.
• Maintained aggressive production/editorial schedule despite limited budget and resources.
• Managed relationship with content provider (AP/Stats Inc.) and freelance writers.
• Worked with lead developer on build out of proprietary CMS, ingesting provider content and distributing all content to website.
• Worked with designers and artists to review site designs and implement changes.

US

• Hired and managed freelance network for all 32 NFL teams.
• Contracted by EA Sports to create player rankings system for Madden 2001 video game.
• Coordinated with newsroom, producers and national writers to devise NFL coverage plan.
• Edited staff and wire copy, built section fronts, created content packages and wrote headlines and teasers. Published all content through CBS' internal CMS platform.

Bachelor Of Science, Communications / Journalism

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Journalism & English