Jonathan Kutner Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Key impacts:• Launched and run a successful production and post-production services company that has delivered 50+ projects to date.• Managed a pipeline of projects spanning shooting, editing and color correction for award-winning narrative features, documentaries, commercials, and music videos; also managed certain projects end-to-end, from concept to post.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Key impacts:• Led the transition from Final Cut to Premiere Pro across the entire organization; recommended and implemented the move to the ProRes codec; ensured settings and workflows for all projects were adapted to suit the new architecture. • Built out the entire technical infrastructure and backend for a new 20k sf post facility, spanning servers to storage to workstations.• Drove technological innovations that boosted productivity, including a new remote editorial solution that ensures high-end output across WFH scenarios and collaboration tools that allow synchronous virtual editing sessions from different locations.• Created and implemented a theater (from the ground up) for screening projects for sound design and coloring; also designed and implemented a VO booth for ADR and narration. • Scoped and designed a CMS tool to manage all company billing and accounting. • Successfully designed and deployed a render farm and graphics workflow.• Created a disaster recovery plan consisting of backup to tape, backup to disk, and offsite backup storage.• Developed resilient systems and automated workflows that resulted in downtime that is significantly below industry average.

Santa Monica, California, United States

Key impacts:• Planned and implemented a new network infrastructure for the entire company; also proposed a visionary strategy to migrate the company to an entirely cloud-based architecture. • Architected and deployed a new VOIP system that resulted in a 33% project ROI.• Successfully managed a companywide email migration.

Laguna Beach, California, United States

Key impacts:• Proposed and successfully launched one of the first ever migrations to a companywide all-virtual work environment at this interactive marketing and web development agency with 70 staff.• Migrated all physical servers to virtual servers in the very early days of virtualization.• Played an integral role in the development and launch of customized and complex websites for major commercial clients.• Led the companywide migration to Azure, reducing tech infrastructure and operations costs by over 50%.• Developed a server cluster to provide redundancy across all critical services, approximating an early version of a virtual server farm.• Successfully managed two companywide email migrations with Office 365 and G Suite.

Yorba Linda, California, United States

Key impacts:• Launched and managed a video and computer retail business that offered cutting-edge tech services to the public.• Drove a 129% increase in sales in the business’s second year of operations.• Designed and implemented an early e-commerce prototype website, driving a 60% increase in customer base.• Created and implemented an automated ordering system, increasing revenue by 10%.