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San Francisco Bay Area

• Orchestrate all phases of multiple complex video, media, digital interactive, and print projects from concept to completion; approximately $2M annually. • Scope, define, estimate, and manage budgets, specifications, and production schedules ensuring that creative and production milestones are met throughout the project.• Collaborate with Account Manager, Strategists, Creative Directors and other Producers on client messaging, audience experience, creative development, project scope and deliverables, and proposal design and delivery.• Recruit, hire, and lead cross-functional teams of graphic designers, developers, production and post-production technicians.• Assessed and coordinated equipment purchases and implemented technical upgrades to the InVision edit suite that directly contributed to a year over year 25% increase in post-production billingover a five-year period.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Lead, on-site technical manager during media event campaigns.• Directed on-site, event media infrastructure from asset management and operating media playback to supervising an on-site team of editors, motion graphics artists, and technicians.• Designed technically complex workflows and established methods to streamline integration and installations.• Identified, diagnosed, and resolved on-site issues involving video, audio or production workflow• Coordinated purchases and rentals for event on-site media department needs.• Synchronized and facilitated meetings with post-production staff and producers to review content, branding, and technical specifications of all media produced for events.• Identified and recommended new equipment for specific on-site production goals.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Managed the daily schedule of client jobs, be a point of contact and host to clients, provided technical support and assistance to contactors, and created billing work orders.• Supervised technical maintenance of edit suites and patch bay racks including: software/hardware installation, cable repair, network configuration, rack wiring, monitor calibration, HD projection, 5.1 surround sound, and RAID disk array organization.• Identified, diagnosed, and resolved issues involving video, audio or production workflow.• Designed and built animations for Charter Communications’ TV spots and various corporate communications.• Completed standards conversion and frame rate conversion between international formats.

South San Francisco, California, United States

• Created motion graphics and “literature-in-motion” promos.• Responsible for managing the entire technical workflow of various high profile accounts from initial asset organization to final product quality control.• Authored standard and BluRay DVDs: encoded content, designed menus, authored, burned, labeled, and duplicated master discs.• Extensive knowledge of master control room and patch bay setups including: Waveform and Vectorscope monitors, Video (Composite, Component, SDI) and Audio (AES/EBU and Analog) patch channels, Digital and Analog tape decks, DVD burners, Miranda HDV to HD/ SD-SDI decoders, SAN drive arrays, and NTSC/PAL Monitors.• Co-authored the company guide of Standard Operating Procedures.