Mike Petzinger Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

- Sole Operations Manager responsible for distribution of production materials and support for all Digital and Translation licensing partners worldwide, servicing teams based in the US, UK, Beijing, and Singapore.- Business lead for in-house rights management system and department liaison with IT responsible for prioritization of system maintenance, integration with SalesForce, and training new hires. Cross-trained to assist Royalty Analyst and Contracts team.Accomplishments include:- Provided production material and support for over 1900 titles to over 150 customers worldwide in the past year.- Worked with IT and SalesForce Development to successfully plan and test the first stage of new integration between SalesForce and rights management database to eliminate duplicate work between the two systems.- Trained department new hires on rights management database, product information system, and content management system.- Compiled report and took ownership of all internal email distribution lists used by sales team for communication with editorial colleagues to ensure lists are up-to-date and improve internal communication and transparency.- Provided customers with over 50 invoices for production materials and royalties in the past year.

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

- Senior coordinator of Operations team continuing support of department content orders responsible for all licensing teams world-wide and department IT liaison.- Worked on prioritization of licensing-related IT activities.- Conducted weekly meetings with IT.- Participated on committee formed to vet potential replacement systems for rights management system.

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

- Member of 5-person operations team responsible for all content requests for the entire Rights and Licensing department reporting to Director of Operations.- Built upon previously established processes for the Digital team to serve the entire department world-wide.

Hoboken, Nj

- Continued day-to-day support of Digital Rights team with increased focus on supporting customers' use of licensed content.- Developed an inter-departmental process to handle large scale content requests.- Worked with IT to develop an improved company-wide content search/indexing system across several content repositories.

Hoboken, Nj

- Day-to-Day support of Digital Rights licensing team.- Established department's first basic digital-only workflow to provide content to licensees.- Responsible for non-fee digital licenses.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Freelance photographer based in New York metro area specializing in event and performance photography.- Documented performances and events in many high profile venues including Lincoln Center, Citi Field, Terminal 5, Neil Simon Theater, Count Basie Theater, and The Stone Pony.- Worked with brands including Merge Records, Asbury Park Denim, AcdWsh, Terlato Wines, Little Dickman Records, Round Hill Records.- Published in Impose Magazine, Bullett Magazine, The Aquarian, Tri-City News, Courier News, The Taipei Times, NJ.com, CoolDad Music, and Speak Into My Good Eye.- 3-time nominee for Asbury Park Music Award for Best Photographer.- Managed customer negotiations and relationships.

New York, New York, United States

Intern for Cordless Recordings focusing mainly on online promotion included databasing, writing materials, marketing/promotional research, assembling press kits, and mailings.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Intern tasked with writing press releases, contacting media for promotions, writing/recording/editing music, and helping maintain website and database.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Tasked with assembling and mailing press kits, writing press releases, contacting radio stations in support of artist release campaign.Attended 2006 Association for Jazz Education Conference.