Jim Kowats Email & Phone Number

601 F St Nw, Washington Dc 20004

Lead all production for Monumental Sports & Entertainment, including the Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals, Washington Mystics, Wizards District Gaming, Capital City Go-Go and the Monumental Sports Network, as well as all in-game and global sponsorship programming. Execute content strategies, manage content development work, workflow, pre-production, execution and content delivery to internal clients. Manage programming delivery, budgeting, client communications and seasonal priorities ensuring production goals are met. • Oversee production staff, including 40+ full time personnel and contractors• Provide editorial guidance on more than 2,000 original short and long-form digital content projects yearly, ensuring that they are fresh, compelling and relevant, and utilized across all platforms and distribution points, including online, in-game, television, VR/AR, marketing, advertising, promotion and branding campaigns.• Oversight of creative and budgetary processes for all content produced on a year-by-year basis, including live shows, network series and specials, reality and access-based content, in-game entertainment, promo campaigns, sponsored commercial vignettes and global sales and marketing videos. • Develop and oversee annual production budget, forecasting all digital and linear production requirements, project based invoicing and actualization, capital expenditure purchases, media asset management and digitization plans, content storage upgrades, archival library services and staffing needs. • Stay competitive in landscape of emerging digital video and production strategy, and drive staff to increase creative, dynamic, engaging formats and techniques that delight consumers and distinguish MSE content from competitors.

Silver Spring, Md

• Oversee more than 80+ hours of content production per year.• Manage project budgets, ensuring the timely production and delivery of more than 80 hours of programming yearly.• Review and approve casting, preliminary and final treatments, outlines, scripts, production schedules, budgets, selects, graphics, music, rough and fine cuts, final narration, and final versions for all assigned programs. • Hire and direct the activities of key external producers and personnel on projects, manage internal support staff, and work collaboratively with social media, digital, and marketing teams.• Act as network representative within the production community, for broadcast and print media, and at conferences and events. • Conceive and pitch series and specials internally, and work collaboratively with outside producers on new projects. • Oversee creative of ad sales client integration and product placement for programming, and work in partnership with sponsors and advertisers to maximize revenue. • Advise and help manage talent, including providing creative advice and editorial guidance. Credits Include• Inside the Human Body• Kennedys’ Home Movies• William & Kate: The Royal Wedding Live• Breaking Amish• Breaking the Faith• Cake Boss• Next Great Baker• Buddy’s Bakery Rescue • Kitchen Boss• Long Island Medium• Long Island Medium: Knock and Shock Live• On the Fly• Four Houses• D.U.I.• Lottery Changed My Life• Untold Stories of the E.R.

Washington D.C.

Guided the creative and execution of network and non-profit projects for clients worldwide. Clients include Discovery, National Geographic, TLC, Animal Planet, CourtTV, PBS, History Channel, UKTV, Channel 7 Australia, non-profits, NGOs and others.Managed talent, budgets, schedules, staff, and all aspects of production. Credits highlights include:• Chad and Darfur: Displaced Spirits, PBS and International Relief & Development• Treasure Quest, Discovery Channel• Some Assembly Required with Brian Unger, Discovery Channel• Speed Capital of the World: Bonneville, Discovery Channel• Lottery Changed My Life, TLC• Body of Evidence with Dayle Hinman, CourtTV

Washington D.C.

Credit highlights Include: • Expedition: Blue Planet with Alexandra Cousteau: digital series chronicles the interconnectivity of water and water issues around the globe through interactive, expedition-based storytelling.• Break It Down: series follows crews as they use science and engineering to take apart some of the world’s most complex man-made structures. • Lockdown: docu-series follows inmates and staff in America’s most challenging jails and prisons. • Dangerous Encounters: wildlife series hosted by Dr. Brady Barr, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, as he investigates curiosities in the animal kingdom.

Silver Spring, Md

• Oversaw extensive development, pre-production, field production, direction, and post-production of dozens of hours of original and reversioned programming for Discovery Networks International and U.S. networks for Discovery's in-house production group. • Managed direct reports and multiple teams of writers, directors, casting directors, department heads, and production staff.• Oversaw production finances and ensured adherence to budgets and schedules. • Co-managed production of Discovery’s National Park Parkdocs for Discovery, Travel Channel & the National Park Service. Credit highlights include:• Eco-Challenge: Australia, Morocco & Argentina• Everglades: River of Life• A Revolutionary Idea: The National Parks of Massachusetts• Secrets of America’s National Parks• Top Ten National Parks to View Wildlife• Ushuaia Nature with Nicolas Hulot• Animal Encounters• Animal Adventures with Jack Hanna• Behind the Terror• A World Beneath the War• A Personal Story

Master’S Degree, Communications, Culture & Technology

https://cct.georgetown.edu Thesis - Redefining the Role of Documentary in Television

Bachelor’S Degree, Journalism And International Studies

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Dance Marathon, Homecoming Chairhttp://www.medill.northwestern.edu