Jon Cohen Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Canada Area

•Provided inspiration behind the festival and was/am the primary director of its events. •Planned and handled the artistic direction and overall artistic vision of this festival.•Composed and coordinated the team of creative/production personnel and volunteers. Getting them involved in helping to promote and oversee the festival.•Contributed original content for promotional and funding material like grant proposals.•Communications liaison and official speaker/voice for the festival.•Established and administered budgets to meet production needs like booking fees.•Played a key role in the selection of artists performing in the festival.•Responsible for overall planning of the festival's schedule and core operations.

460 Ste-Catherine Ouest, Suite 610 Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7

• Managed and coordinated crew of twenty-five staff, cast and volunteers.• Worked at concessions stands and dealt with emergencies on site. • Prepared locations contracts, show details and scheduling with city park managers to insure smoothly run events.• Acted as liaison between staff, cityworks, technicians and park managers. • Wrote and edited original content and created all graphic design of banners, flyers, logos, magazine and programs for shows.• Established long-lasting partnerships through sponsorship with major institutions like Via Rail, CAM, CALQ, SODEC, The Gazette and Centaur.• Dealt with promoters, venue managers, ticket agents and confirmed showtimes, cast schedules and equipment/van rentals. • Managed info-line and answered queries for audiences.

Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Usa, Europe

• Controlled and monitor engineer for hundreds of artists’ performances, on stage Including compression, “EQ-ing” and special effects.• Lighting and mixing in concert halls and clubs of up to 1000 capacity. • Boom Operator; led the on-set location sound and dialogue capture and developed innovative microphone installations in vehicle & with wireless mics (Safran films, Canada Arts Council, Frenco productions, DLI and TV5) • Assisted in reorganization and optimization of hall acoustics, and recording setup.• Intimate knowledge of “Midas” live mixing consoles both split, In-line as well as archiving tools, digital recording tools and microphones techniques.• Collaborated in a team on meeting specific technical needs and interpreted tech-spec sheets in preparation for a show.• Operated stage equipment “Genie stretch machine” for SoCo lighting grid.• Boom Operator; led the on-set location sound and dialogue capture and developed innovative microphone installations in a moving vehicle.• Responsable for placement and proper functioning of stage and audio equipment.• Designed, and built various stage, sound and lighting schemes for live applications.• Storing and warehousing of audiovisual merchandise on the set. • Collaborated in a team on meeting specific technical needs.• Understood and interpreted tech-spec sheets in preparation for a show.• Manipulation of equipment like the operation of a “Genie” stretch machine.• Participated in constructing a stage lighting grid and organized SoCo cabling setup for lights & sound on the plateau.• Performed booking, artist coordination and administrative duties off set.

Montreal, Canada Area

(2008-2010)Online Web Marketing coordinator for “Lotus Palm School of Massage Therapy” who have trained over 20 000 students worldwide with centers all over the world. • Successfully promoted all courses through aggressive and extensive media campaigns and watched the student/client numbers grow dramatically. • Optimized search engine results and managed interactive website almost doubling net-traffic to over 5000 hits a month.• Built and moderated a powerful online interactive network keeping all members informed and connected through web writing, web promotion and social media. • Opened the school up to mass media by solliciting TV, radio and print press. • Wrote and edited original content and created all graphic design of banners, flyers, logos, magazine and book covers from scratch.• Established long-lasting partnerships through collaborations with major institutions like Unicef, The Canadian Cancer society and our government.• Excelled in administration as front desk coordinator by handling cash and payroll duties, student enrollment, spa clients, inventory and student records. • Spearheaded the hugely popular online video series of Thai massage that became the basis for their famous DVD and online courses. • Excelled in administration as front desk coordinator by handling cash and payroll duties, student enrollment, spa clients, inventory and student records.

Montreuil Area, France

(2006-present)•Acting tour and booking agent, press and media publicist for Montreal acts like JF, Robitaille, John Lennox Band, The Social Register and The Jon Cohen Experimental.• Promoted several record releases, tours and shows in North America through aggressive media campaigns, media and industry relations. •Single-handedly built an impressive press portfolio by soliciting print-press, blogs, web tv and radio stations (for charts) which generated over one hundred articles, record reviews and write-ups in the past year alone. • From the grass roots, built and maintained a powerful online interactive network and blog for a growing fan base keeping all members informed of artist’s activity and updating new content (web writing, social media etc).• Composed, edited, packaged and shipped original written content for press releases, media relations, biographies, one-sheets and grant applications.• Singlehandedly booked coordinated and organized tours, shows and festivals appearances across North America, as well as managing cash-flow, merch, guarantees and riders, most notably for the Pilgrim tour in winter 2011, (up to 500 capacity venues in 47 cities in Canada/USA andsecured opening slots for concerts like Mini Mansions (members of Queens of the Stone Age) Lydia Loveless and The Dropkick Murphy’s among others.

• Digitized, imported & consolidated all footage from studio & location shoots. • Oversaw HD, SD, DVD, DVCPROHD, HDCAM & DVCPRO50 outputs for all offline, online & network broadcast versions.• Performed assembly cuts & edits on rushes to facilitate the work of editors.• Worked with BNC deck Patching, Avid/Final Cut log capture, transfers, SATA systems, renders, compressions & FTP uploads.• Recorded voice-overs for shows like “Bye Bye Maison” & “Ado Secours!”• Coordinated all incoming and outgoing camera, grip & lighting equipment by preparing, calibrating and expediting film gear for shooting crews. • Maximized and allocated hard disk storage for all productions. Overlooked all technical aspects of computer lab workflow.