Gabriel Grünbaum Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Helped to found the bootstrap startup without seeking investors, instead reinvesting profits for growth by carefully managing budget and expenditures.➧ Increased revenue by over 100% through financial modeling and successful packaging, branding, and marketing of digital media products and services, including securing a major new client and opening new revenue streams; generating a contract worth over $1M within my first weeks in the role.➧ Accelerated “12-month” project by 68% with an organizational assessment, then used findings to augment team with contract developers, coordinating cross-functional multi-company teams to deliver the beta release under budget and ahead of schedule. Instantly-scalable and hardened solution released on time and on budget, running with 99.999% uptime.➧ Expanded business visibility and credibility, utilizing personal-professional networks to generate partnerships and endorsements. Resulted in mutually beneficial relationships with companies including IBM and Amazon AWS to cross-promote and integrate each other's products and services, producing a 7x increase in new business opportunities.

Oversee and participate in a creative collective for arts, entertainment, and tech. Advising when otherwise engaged and taking on larger projects between roles.➧ After the success of a live national tour promoting EPSON products for use in the arts, invited to write and perform approximately 80 educational episodes for successful years-long series featuring tech tips for the arts, contributing to a reported 21% increase in sales and adoption internationally.➧ Optimized video, audio, compression, designed menus, and authored Seth Green’s pitch reel DVD to network executives that resulted in Robot Chicken; a show that has run for 159 episodes over 11 seasons, garnered 35 Emmy nominations and 11 wins, and become a cult hit with a devoted fanbase.➧ Visual Effects Director on viral video for Bud Light directed by Justin Halpern to create an “impossible” golf stunt. Came in under budget, hired a holistic computer animator, ensured accuracy on location. Video was a viral success, preceding a reported 53% global sales increase for the new beverage.➧ Trained City of Los Angeles’ select department members on equipment and software for pre- to post-production; resulting in their first self-produced PSA; saving the city $35k, and ongoing savings for subsequent productions.➧ Contracted by Warner Bros., a member of the Burbank City Council, to produce a documentary promoting local schools, which resulted in an 84% increase in business engagement with the school district.

Armonk, New York, Us

Accepted position to expand network and explore another part of the industry; learned a lot, broadened experience, and made valuable connections throughout.➧ Defined industry requirements to commission a functional demo interface to generate leads and increase sales for Watson Media after IBM’s acquisition of Clearleap, resulting in 6x new entertainment sales engagement, including companies such as Disney, Hulu, and Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC).➧ Successfully retained 100% of existing west coast entertainment clients (even those I wasn’t responsible for), including Lionsgate, HBO, and AT&T, and increased expanded orders by approximately 62% through meeting with clients to offer local support and answer questions in person, ensuring they felt connected and valued with Watson Media and IBM Cloud Video.➧ Transformed a potential major entertainment client deal from prospect to reality by taking initiative beyond my responsibilities when others felt it was too hard, resulting in Watson Media’s first new entertainment industry deal. Went on to bring in over 400% more new-business revenue compared to my closest competition in the same role.

Initially took on role to lead 3-month contract that I expanded to over two years by facilitating client’s growth. Promoted to direct a large multifaceted team.➧ Defined and implemented optimized workflow procedures for Technicolor’s digital media processing, resulting in a 119.2% time savings, a 17% revenue increase, 3 renewed contracts, and securing major partnership with Verizon.➧ Designed and built an integrated media processing and delivery department, VDMS, for Verizon with Technicolor, leading 7-10 direct reports and a cross-functional, multi-company, 50-150-member team, while collaborating with executives from various companies; resulting in a reported $120M first-year beta release and a primary contributor to an additional approximated $40B in annual media-related revenue within 3 years. Verizon’s Digital Media Services served as the foundation to integrate new acquisitions of upLynk, EdgeCast, Intel Media, and AOL over the following years and led to the launches of go90 and RedBox’s streaming service as well as FreeBee Data.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

• Solutions Architecture of source content quality control processes and delivery workflow, focusing on studio packaging (Sony, Paramount, Disney…) for Apple iTunes to improve Business Development efforts. Optimized scripted tools to enhance workflow automation.

Culver City, California, Us

Long term contract for encoding/transcoding, post-production, compositing, animation, color correction, graphic design, advanced audio mixing, technical and creative training, metadata creation & packaging, and R&D for emerging codecs and technologies working with developers.• Specification engineering & documentation• Encoding/transcoding and Post-Production of multimedia products; including Quality Control, Project Management and Customer Management• Create graphic design, animations, and motion graphics as well as illustrations for clients including Microsoft, Paramount, Sony, Disney, Warner Bros., and Universal • Conducted training courses on Editing, Graphics, Animation and Special Effects techniques• Supervise creation of graphic and commercial art• Evaluate bids, identify, contract vendors and coordinate the production schedule• Solutions Architecture Consulting for clients

Us

• Client Engagement (Sony, Warner Bros., Apple, Farm Club, Limp Bizkit, etc.) to optimize deliverables, Project Management and Digital Media Engineering, Directed Southern California office’s Quality Control department• Database Architecture and Analytics, Encoding/transcoding, Workflow and Methods & Procedures documentation• Metadata creation and packaging• Promoted from department in Seattle

• Audio Engineering & Transcoding, Quality Control, Digital Image Engineering, Program Producer

• Produced and broadcast live 6 hour music program• Commercial advertisement writing, production, voice work, Advertising Campaign development• Audio Engineering & Transcoding• On-location broadcasts for various events live on air