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Philadephia

- Manage production of Savvas’ responsive epubs for Elementary and Middle Grades Science, Chemistry, Biology, and Physics.- Manage vendor digital producer support roles. Oversee task lists, evaluate performance and work to split time in the most productive way.- Plan and execute reprint corrections, new program proof of concepts and the repurposing of content.- Create and utilize Python scripts to file manage, improve workflows, create production input documents and repurpose legacy assets.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Developing and producing feature and episodic content as well as corporate video.

I've written many feature screenplays and series pilots. My original sci-fi feature, PARALLEL, was released by Bron Studios and starred Aml Ameen, Martin Wallstöm, Georgia King and Mark O’Brien.

Los Angeles

- Assisted with camera operation and audio recording on in-house shoots for DirecTV Latin America promos.- Identified selects and cut promo material for DirecTV Latin America Sports.- Spearheaded the first ever OnDIRECTV Latin America Video On Demand delivery workflow and processed more than three hundred shows. - Saved company tens of thousands of dollars by initiating the migration of Video On Demand transcoding from an outside vendor to our in-house prep team.- Quality assured, prepped, transcoded and delivered advertisements.- Copyedited OnDIRECTV promotional spots and marketing materials.- Created Process Documentation for VOD and programming video workflows.

Los Angeles

- Prepped short-form material and graphical elements for live events and inserted commercials during DirecTV-produced live sporting and entertainment events. - Project managed subtitling of daily talk shows, movies and narrative television programming.- Headed a year-long project tracking viewership ratings and on-channel promotional spot placement to ensure priorities were carried to broadcast. Results led to a shift in promo-scheduling protocol that increased scheduling accuracy and efficiency.- Received, quality assured, transcoded, prepped and delivered HD and SD long-form material to broadcast centers for OnDIRECTV Latin America channels.- Facilitated Aspera and FTP access for content vendors.- Developed and implemented transcoding and delivery workflows over the course of two moves to new broadcast facilities.

Wrote and produced nine radio pieces for this arts and culture public radio program that airs on over 100 stations across the United States.- Talkin’ Web 2.0 Blues- The Ballad of Lost- RIAA Nightmare* (in development) - The Green Assassin- The Green Assassin Mailbag* - Free Is Not Enough- Movie Marketing Goes Awry- Talkin’ Media Bias Blues- The Ballad of Lady Gaga*Conceived, scripted, directed, edited and delivered final files for three video pieces for Studio 360’s website. - Stephen Colbert: American Icon*- The Green Assassin Proposal*- Free Is Not EnoughPitched original ideas during weekly calls, collaborated with producers, auditioned and directed actors, edited and mixed satirical monologs, dialogues and songs.Participated in brainstorming sessions and assisted in identifying future story areas.Examples available at http://www.studio360.org/people/scott-blaszak and www.scottblaszak.carbonmade.com.

Produced nine videos for SlateV, Slate.com's daily video channel.- So You Stole My iPhone- Buy One Anyway- Hulu Ads Nauseum- The Wiki Breakup- Goodbye, Mary- The Chinese Are Coming- The Most Meta Internet Video Ever- Google Earth’s Downside- Sound To Blow Your MindPitched original concepts, wrote scripts, collaborated with senior producers, cast and directed talent, supervised shoots and created motion graphic packages for live action and animated videos. Edited, color corrected and compressed video files for delivery with Final Cut Pro.

Managed delivery of the courseware-related products and projects for MyCompLab and MyPoliSciLab.Managed MyPoliSciLab special edition website for the 2008 election.

Assembled edits and color corrected a wide array of video content (instructional programs, author interviews, student speeches, documentary and news footage) on Final Cut Pro for presentation on the web and DVD. Created titling and promotional material for video and websites. Project managed Allyn & Bacon’s flash-based video player through two releases, served as in-house liaison for video player issues and created video tutorials. Developed company-wide preferred settings for flash video and compressed clips.Edited, mixed and produced audio podcasts on Soundtrack Pro, and designed and maintained the podcast websites and RSS feeds.

Boston

- Composed and proofed front matter and back cover copy. - Collaborated with media editors to develop companion websites.- Assisted acquisitions editor in evaluating book proposals from prospective authors.