Mathieu Castano Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Discovery Education Experience provides engaging high-quality content, ready-to-use digital lessons, creative collaboration tools, and practical professional learning resources to give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction and create a lasting educational impact in any learning environment.My current role:Oversee the overall operations of an extremely busy international production team.Responsible for the day-to-day business side of the department, controlling and monitoring production spending, hiring and needs of the production staff.Key Responsibilities• Developing, controlling and adapting production budgets and schedules.• Negotiating costs and approving the booking of resources, equipment and suppliers.• Approving locations, equipment, and other necessary resources• Informing and communicating with producers and stakeholders of projects/production progress.• Hiring production staff/crew.• Looking over scripts, admin, processes and discusses production ideas with producer and senior production staff.

Aldermaston

Basingstoke

Responsible for managing all French accounts and overseeing sales opportunities in French speaking countries in the HVAC industry through different distribution channels (distributors wholesalers, retailers), maintaining long term relationships with key accounts and maximizing sales opportunities. . Also, in charge of growing business development opportunities in French speaking territories. Also, in charge of establishing, maintaining and developing working relationships with both internal and external partners.

Basingstoke

This role combined video and marketing with French account handling – from the creation of marketing materials including online ‘how to’ videos and marketing print support, through to translations and business proposals. During this period, I also ran my own business importing goods from France and selling them online and through shops. This taught me a great deal from product sourcing, branding, direct selling, marketing, and the creation of an online sales platform. Although a success I decided to the close the business for personal reasons following the birth of my daughter.

Winchester

Le Petit Provençal brings the South of France to your local high street.Le Petit Provençal carefully hand picks products for their authenticity and quality. The company director grew up in the region and he inspires the choice of style scents and flavours.

Achievements:• Managed the setup of the ‘in-house’ digital video process to set budget and agreed procurement rules.• Provide all film/video needs for the charity and it’s partners (BAFTA, BFI, House of Parliaments)• Line management for production assistant and other freelancers• Film experience includes red carpet events, film premieres, interviews, press conferences, press junkets, short films on a variety of subjects, training films, Live webcast, film industry visits, school visits, film set/studio visits, live events as well as promotional films.• Accomplished project manager - brief taking, planning, managing and implementing projects to a specified timescale and budget.• Acted as project lead on the following assignments; yearly democracy in action week (House of Parliaments), monthly webcast week, BAFTA awards coverage, live event webcast production (London film festival, Edinburgh film festival), Skillset industry jobs film campaign and filmclub of the year awards.• Initiated a creative and cost effective way to engage with our young audience through the set up and management of live webcast.

London, United Kingdom

Achievements:• Responsible for weekly broadcasts, data researching, archiving, encoding as well as budgeting, reporting and line management.• Played an integral role in the following projects; an international archiving library called ‘ECL’ Education Clip Library and news service aimed at children called ‘Newsbites’.• Implemented and developed the ‘in-house’ digital video process.• Supervised and managed the digital video process, which consists of filming, editing, compiling and compressing to various digital formats.• Developed and implemented projects with ITN ON, ITN technology and ITN archive.• Produced other digital assets from video, digital stills and scans for different educational modules.• Carried out web development projects (designing, building and caching websites)• Arranged projects, time management, edit planning and module building.• Compiled and maintained weekly data for editorial news database.• Supported and trained members of editorial and marketing team.• Undertook and organised several research projects, such as new video formats tests

Bachelor'S Degree, Radio And Television

Baccalauréat, Business/Managerial Economics, A+

Activities and Societies: Film school