Michael Vesia Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Achievements:• Created and managed the restaurant's social media accounts, ensuring brand consistency and facilitating its ascent as one of the nation's premier fine dining establishments.• Consistently increased Instagram engagement by 30% annually through the implementation of visually appealing and shareable content.• Implemented a user-generated content campaign, encouraging customers to share their dining experiences, resulting in a 40% boost in user-generated content.• Led the design and visual branding strategy for a range of products and merchandise, including clothing and packaged grocery items sold in the Metro chain of grocery stores. • Led the redesign of the restaurant's website, resulting in a 25% increase in online reservations. Responsibilities:• Conceptualize, produce, and edit engaging photography and videocontent for various platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, DoorDash and UberEats.• Spearhead the development and execution of comprehensive marketing strategies to enhance the brand presence for both restaurants.• Collaborate with the chef/owner and kitchen staff to create visuallyenticing content that highlights the restaurant's unique culinary offerings.• Conduct market research to stay abreast of industry trends and competitor strategies, adapting content strategies accordingly.• Led the marketing strategy for the restaurant’s successful launching of a take-out & delivery location, optimizing brand visibility and customer reach.

Montreal, Canada Area

Achievements:• Established strategic partnerships with prominent restaurants andcorporate event organizers, expanding market reach.• From 2013-2019, provided food & restaurant photography/video services for Yellow Pages (YPDine), covering 200+ restaurants across Montreal, Ottawa & Quebec City.• Captured and delivered memorable moments for approximately 100 weddings, receiving consistent positive client feedback.• Garnered recognition for excellence in restaurant and food photography, with images featured in local and national publications. • Photographed a successful marketing campaign for BMW Canada, visually capturing the essence of their luxury vehicles by highlighting the brand's aesthetic of sleek design and dynamic performance.Responsibilities:• Operate and manage a company specializing in wedding, family, corporate events, e-commerce product and restaurant/food photography.• Develop and implement business strategies, overseeing all aspects of operations and client relations.• Conduct client consultations to understand unique requirements and preferences, ensuring personalized and high-quality photography services.• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, equipment, and techniques.

Wedding photographer and image editor.RESPONSIBILITIES:• Photograph weddings and events on a weekly basis. • Edit and retouch wedding and event photographs.• Prepare edited images for print and web publication.

Montreal, Canada Area

Led the Technical Operations department and ensured that technical requirements were met during the creation of subtitle files. ACHIEVEMENTS:• Coordinated efforts to design and implement new features within the Deluxe Media subtitling software suite.• Created and maintained training documentation for the rendering of Digital Cinema, DVD, and Blu-ray subtitles. • Oversaw the daily scheduling of approximately 100,000 deliverable subtitle files over a 4 year period.• Ensured the proper font and technical specifications were used when rendering image and text-based subtitles in over 35 languages.• Trained co-workers in the use of the Deluxe Media subtitling software suite.RESPONSIBILITIES:• Create custom subtitle and localization graphics for DVD/Blu-ray content and Digital Cinema releases for major Hollywood studios• Troubleshoot technical and software related subtitle issues. • Manage the subtitling services for international film festival screenings.• Work closely with Senior Management to ensure that content localization meets global quality standards.• Liaised with translation and project coordinators to ensure that project specific localization and subtitle specifications were confirmed and verified as per client requirements.

Montreal, Canada Area

Led the Compression Encoding Authoring Quality Control department, which tracked video, audio, and subtitle errors in Blu-ray discs. ACHIEVEMENTS:• Coordinated the purchase and installation of video/audio equipment for the creation of 3 Blu-ray Quality Control rooms. • Supervised a team of 20 Blu-ray QC technicians, who performed quality control checks on over 75 movie titles in a 13 month period.• Aided management to set workflow priorities by providing key statistics about the quality control checks completed on a daily basis. • Provided quality control training to over 25 QC technicians in a 13 month period, and created daily production schedules.RESPONSIBILITIES:• Provided QC technicians with performance reviews and feedback. • Created training documentation and instructions for quality control tasks.• Captured, compressed, and encoded video for on-line digital distribution.

Montreal, Canada Area

Rendered subtitles and closed captions in various image and text-based formats for DVD and Blu-ray content.ACHIEVEMENTS:• Contributed to the establishment of standardized departmental scheduling and training procedures for subtitle file creation and delivery to the client.• Coordinated the launch of the Montreal Digital Distribution Group, a team of Quality-control technicians that identify and track video, audio, and subtitle errors in various digital video formats. RESPONSIBILITIES:• Ensured that rendered subtitles complied with technical requirements for high-profile DVD/Blu-ray and Digital Cinema releases.• Coordinated daily workload in accordance with the subtitle production workflow and project deadlines.

Montreal, Canada Area

Assisted professors in their research for the instruction of undergraduate and graduate level film studies courses.RESPONSIBILITIES:• Corrected term papers and homework assignments.• Managed the Graduate Lounge Library and catalogued the books and periodicals held in the library collection.• Assisted students with finding research material.

Master Of Arts, Film Studies

• Awarded the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Graduate Scholarship

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Specialization In Film Studies

• Graduated with Distinction • Awarded the Allegra Solutions Undergraduate Scholarship in Film Studies

Dec, Communication Art, Media, Theatre