Kevin Graff Email & Phone Number

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.

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.
• 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.
• Co-authored the company guide of Standard Operating Procedures.