Jerome Forney Email & Phone Number

Sebastopol, California, United States

Work closely with Mickey Hart on sound design, editing, mixing for Planet Drum and Dead & Co. and various other projectsMixing Engineer / Sound Design highlights include Planet Drum - "In The Groove", The Grateful Dead - "Workingman's Dead" Atmos/Spacial Audio remix, backing tracks and electronic drum sound design for Dead and Company ‘Drums and Space’ section of the showsCatalog, organize and tag files for sound library containing hundreds of thousands of recorded and produced samples

San Francisco Bay Area

Client management and developmentBrand development and consolidationMusic publishing, licensing strategy and contract negotiationsInitial design and consulting on all aspects of PR, digital marketing, social networking & retail campaignsManaging contractors including publicist, digital marketing, social networking, SEO, and retail support teamsB2B and B2C marketing via phone, e-mail, web promotion, industry eventsDirect marketing to all retail accounts throughout the individual campaign’s from conception to point of saleCreate detailed reports for sales, online promotion, and publicity analytics

Developed the submission, ingestion and distribution process of video assets to numerous online and mobile retailers.Manage the ingestion, cataloging and distribution of all video, television and film assets, domestically and internationally for both UMG & INgrooves content.Generate and maintain relationships with on-line and mobile retailers (iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, Vevo, Thumbplay, etc). Ensure assets are live, features and placements are secured and monitor analytics & sales reporting.Responsible for the encoding of all video assets for various retailers.Responsible for video marketing and promotional campaigns for high profile artists and new releases. Work closely with artists, labels, label managers, artist managers, encoding houses and production companies to ensure the delivery of appropriate assets for distribution, marketing and promotions.Responsible for teaming up with content providers to create marketing plans, set up release schedules, and gauge the quality of the product.Create concepts, artwork and video for online, mobile, print, and television promotions.Develop and maintain mobile applications, manage snipe campaigns, set up exclusives and premiers, manage contests. Work with internal and retail partner engineering teams to set up custom metadata schemas, determine correct asset file types, encodings and delivery methods.

Working as a digital effects artist, editor, and composer for clients such as PG&E, The McClatchy Company, The Sacramento Bee, Snell, The California Dept of Human Assistance, and icanaffordcollege.com (California Community Colleges). My responsibilities included every aspect of the post-production process, from concept to broadcast.