Jonathan Payne Email & Phone Number

Burbank, Ca / Hybrid

Program Manager supervising several projects within the Avid Alliances & Partnerships team while also supporting the Cloud Practice on the joint MCU Editorial library project. In this role I've been working directly with the Senior Director of Partners and Alliances as well as Avid, Disney & Microsoft program managers, project managers, Solutions Architects and Network Engineers to help manage the Avid Panel SDK Partner Program and the Marvel Cinematic Library. Responsibilities include: Building the Avid Program Plans for multiple projects, Milestone tracking, intercommunications between development, engineering teams and external clients. I help to monitor/report on development sprints in Jira, workflow issues and feature requests in Jira, updating/approving work in Salesforce, troubleshoot technological issues w/ engineering, contribute to operational documents, write confluence pages, help setup legal agreements w/ 3rd party clients. Additional skills include hosting meetings and writing world-class meeting notes in real-time.

Burbank, Ca

-Manages multiple clients and Workflows for the Deluxe On Demand Platform.-Works with Ops integrations to onboard new clients, projects and workflows.-Helps troubleshoot and resolve problems with client orders that travel through our suite of automated content processing systems.-Helps to request and track feature updates on monthly sprints, interfaces with developers and communicates development timelines to clients.-Running and documenting regular meetings with current clients and coordinating onboarding efforts for new clients and/or workflows-Documenting and tracking client stories through internal confluence and smart sheet pages.-Works to create quick-turnaround solutions for new and emerging client workflows.

Burbank, Ca

At Deluxe I managed a focused, highly technical team of three whose sole purpose is to create, QC and deliver Netflix Originals series streaming video masters. My specialties include:▪ IMF creation (4k/UHD/HD) HDR/SDR mastering, troubleshooting and fulfillment.▪ High-touch coordination of Master QC, File download/upload archive and asset management between multiple divisions.▪ All work orders created and billed in Xytech ▪ Ensuring timely and correct delivery of all finished assets for my clients.▪ My team has serviced such titles as Daredevil S2, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Cloverfield Paradox and hundreds more.

I worked as one of several account managers at Visual Data specializing in the processing and delivery of Video, Audio, and Captions/Subtitles to Netflix, Itunes and Vimeo. Duties included:▪ Working with clients to place orders, manage schedules and meet deadlines so that we can provide an outstanding customer service experience.▪ Tracking/processing of thousands of unique work orders and their video/caption/audio source elements using Media Pulse / Xytech. ▪ Ensuring timely and correct delivery of all of finished assets for my clients.▪ Deep coordination with subtitling, Data I/O, Digital Services (transcoding) and QC to troubleshoot sources and create and delivery elements.▪ Billing orders for all accounts managed.

Glendale, Ca

I worked in tandem with the account executive to service and co-manage the processing of streaming video library content for Netflix and several of it’s 3rd party vendors. This includes:▪ Receipt/tracking of thousands of unique video/caption/audio source elements using our internal custom SharePoint tracker and creating WOs in Oasis and scheduALL for the processing of client content.▪ Ensuring timely and correct delivery of dozens to hundreds of finished assets daily including co-creation of unique Netflix metadata files for every element delivered that day as well as overseeing and troubleshooting any issues that arose during encoding/transcoding/QC.▪ Daily coordination with various Netflix 3rd Party content providers in the European and Latin American markets.▪ Restoring, downloading and transferring digital elements to/from our internal network using HDD direct transfer, Media Affinity, Aspera, Signiant and Faspex connections.

Hollywood, Ca

Assisted senior trailer/tv spot producers on the following:▪ 2k film/HD picture finishing, mixing and dubbing. Compressing feature trailer deliverable QuickTimes and trafficking to studio clients.▪ TV spot finishing, encoding deliverable files, compressing/uncompressing, cross converting elements as well as downloading prep files, making slates, QC’ing deliverables, dubbing and trafficking for Weinstein Co and Relativity Media.▪ Helped archive/restore and transfer digital elements to/from our internal SAN volume.▪ Helped coordinate billing block creation for Paramount features.▪ Created and actualized WOs for all levels of trailer and TV finishing.

Worked for 4.5 years in the post servicing dept. at Lionsgate. Job highlights:▪ Encoded QuickTimes, performed minor Final Cut Pro editing and audio laybacks.▪ Personally approved feature film prints and DCPs for premiere screenings, color guides and duplication masters.▪ Supervised technical setup and execution of several Lionsgate feature premieres, research and promotional screenings. These films include such titles as: The Expendables, Precious, 3:10 to Yuma, Saw #s 4-7, Haunting in Connecticut, Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls.▪ Worked regularly with the following labs/vendors: Technicolor (multiple labs/locations), Deluxe Hollywood/Toronto, Fotokem, SSI, ADS, SMV.▪ Deep technical understanding of HD, Film Digital Cinema formats.

I was responsible for the creation and ordering of a large portion of feature film screeners for executives, actors and clients. I also helped to coordinate ordering with out of house vendors and creating purchase orders for executives.

I started at In-Three as a dimensionalist and from there was promoted to a keyframer position. There I gained deep understanding of Stereoscopic 3D, conversion and a finely tuned eye for stereo 3D content.We used proprietary software to rotoscope and define shape and volume of for a big budget Hollywood feature film (still under NDA) from 2D to stereoscopic 3D.

Education record

2D and 3D animation

Education record

Ba, Media Theater Arts - Emphasis Film

Areas of study was primarily narrative filmmaking (directing, cinematography, acting, editing). Other areas of study included photography.