Matt Pickar Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

New York, NY

• doctoroz.com is the official website for the award-winning, nationally syndicated “The Dr. Oz Show”. Its parent company, Sharecare, is a digital health and wellness platform that includes doctoroz.com, sharecare.com.
• Conceive, produce and implement video strategy across doctoroz.com, sharecare.com, dailystrength.com and related social platforms.
• Transformed video departments in New York and Atlanta offices. Manage in-house team of nine employees across both locations, as well as freelance contributors.
• Implemented YouTube strategy in December 2015 that since resulted in an 11% increase in Dr. Oz channel subscribers and 3% growth in Sharecare channel subscribers.
• Collaborate with sponsors and third parties to produce exclusive branded content.
• Responsible for creating, managing and allocating video budget across all platforms.

Greater New York City Area

• Oversaw a 26% increase in video play rate from 2013-2015.
• Designed and executed Facebook-specific content plan producing popular videos, each with over 800K views.
• Instituted new guidelines to improve video-production quality across all sites.
• Coordinated with Dr. Oz Show Studio and Production teams to develop digital-specific content that is featured in-show and on doctoroz.com
• Oversaw and managed daily tasks specific to video content for doctoroz.com and related social sites.
• Engaged directly with Dr. Oz and other celebrity talent to pitch, script and produce digital-exclusive content.

• Developed, produced, shot and edited original video content for the site daily.
• Created and managed calendar to meet daily deadlines and accommodate last-minute projects.

Greater New York City Area

• Made is a notable Emmy-Award winning television documentary series that enjoyed a 15-season run on MTV.Show Producer (June–September 2011)
• Created and executed creative vision for episode through entire production schedule.
• Managed production team in office and in field to ensure delivery of quality content.
• Wrote voice-over script in the subject’s voice that served as show narration.
• Collaborated with show editor throughout the post-production process.Field Producer/Director/Shooter – (October 2008–June 2009, March-May 2011)
• Coordinated and executed the daily production schedule from the field.

• Co-Founder of an independent video production company that specialized in production of digital video content.
• Responsible for the day-to-day operations of a video production company.
• Produced and directed television, commercial and web content for a diverse set of clients.
• Oversaw and managed all edits to ensure quality and on-schedule delivery.
• Developed reality and scripted programming for television.

Produced and conducted interviews across the country for the following Biographies:Denzel WashingtonKiefer SutherlandJennifer Lopez'N SyncEddie Murphy

Health related internet videos featuring Dr. Bob Arnot for Google Health web site.Videos focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions such as Alzheimer's, back pain and colon cancer, among others.Produced and conducted interviews and collected b-roll with leading medical experts in their respective fields at the top.

Ba, Theater

Activities and Societies: Thurtene Honorary, Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity, Resident Advisor, Theater, LacrosseBusiness Minor Served as 2000.

Masters, Theater

Masters Thesis: Published by the National Institute for Sport and Human Performance, University of Oregon "Vince McMahon/Mister McMahon.