Digital Cinema Package Mastering Lead, Quality Control, and Quality Assurance for hundreds of feature and short films. As Quality Assurance I oversee the Quality Control team, including the hiring and training of new talent. With our partnerships with myriad film festivals, we deal with a high volume of content that includes feature films, short films, and series. Featured projects that I encoded and oversaw include The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (HBO - Emmy nominee), Bob Ross:… Show more Digital Cinema Package Mastering Lead, Quality Control, and Quality Assurance for hundreds of feature and short films. As Quality Assurance I oversee the Quality Control team, including the hiring and training of new talent. With our partnerships with myriad film festivals, we deal with a high volume of content that includes feature films, short films, and series. Featured projects that I encoded and oversaw include The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (HBO - Emmy nominee), Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed (Netflix), Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (Netflix), Dean Martin: King of Cool (TCM), Summertime (Sundance), "Period. End of Sentence." (Oscar-winning documentary short), and Skin (Oscar-winning narrative short). Show less

Digital Cinema Package mastering for 60+ feature films, documentaries and shorts, for wide distribution and film festival exhibition, including Christmas Eve, The Possession Experiment, Sensitivity Training, and writer/director Neil LaBute’s The Mulberry Bush.Project support, asset management, and creation of tape and file deliverables for director Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, The Possession Experiment, Mia: A Dancer’s Journey, Comedy Central’s… Show more Digital Cinema Package mastering for 60+ feature films, documentaries and shorts, for wide distribution and film festival exhibition, including Christmas Eve, The Possession Experiment, Sensitivity Training, and writer/director Neil LaBute’s The Mulberry Bush.Project support, asset management, and creation of tape and file deliverables for director Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, The Possession Experiment, Mia: A Dancer’s Journey, Comedy Central’s Workaholics and Adam Devine’s House Party, National Geographic Channel’s The Strange Truth, and many others. Improved post facility infrastructure. Show less

Reduced company error rates by providing Quality Assurance for Ingest and Quality Control departments on encodes of feature films, trailers, television shows, and music videos uploaded to iTunes, Netflix, YouTube, Xbox, Amazon, Hulu, Vudu, Vimeo, Cinema Now, In-Demand, Comcast, and other digital media platforms. Studios included 20th Century Fox, NBC Universal, Warner Bros., IFC Films, eOne Films, FilmBuff, Millennium, Vista India, and others. Ingested and managed digital assets, evaluated and… Show more Reduced company error rates by providing Quality Assurance for Ingest and Quality Control departments on encodes of feature films, trailers, television shows, and music videos uploaded to iTunes, Netflix, YouTube, Xbox, Amazon, Hulu, Vudu, Vimeo, Cinema Now, In-Demand, Comcast, and other digital media platforms. Studios included 20th Century Fox, NBC Universal, Warner Bros., IFC Films, eOne Films, FilmBuff, Millennium, Vista India, and others. Ingested and managed digital assets, evaluated and revised QC results, performed digital repair work to address audio/visual issues, performed editing and audio conforms for localization, overturned QC failures, liaised with client reps regarding rejected assets and next-step recommendations, and trained new hires. Show less

Rio – 7 Blu-ray bonus featurettes

Blu-ray/DVD bonus featurettes, making-of documentaries, and interactive features included District 9, The Wizard of Oz, You’ve Got Mail, Say Anything, Road to Perdition documentary A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall, Hellboy II, We Own the Night, Dan in Real Life, Quarantine, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Gossip Girl, The Prisoner, Batman: Gotham Knight, Batman: The Animated Series, Super Friends, Justice League, and The Jetsons.Support for Blu-ray and DVD… Show more Blu-ray/DVD bonus featurettes, making-of documentaries, and interactive features included District 9, The Wizard of Oz, You’ve Got Mail, Say Anything, Road to Perdition documentary A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall, Hellboy II, We Own the Night, Dan in Real Life, Quarantine, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Gossip Girl, The Prisoner, Batman: Gotham Knight, Batman: The Animated Series, Super Friends, Justice League, and The Jetsons.Support for Blu-ray and DVD menu design, pioneering BD-Live and BD-Java development, interactive games, and educational featurettes included Lost, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, WALL-E, District 9, Anne Frank, Life Is Beautiful, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Princess and the Frog, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.EPK assemblies for feature films Dan in Real Life, Four Christmases, Bride Wars, Shutter and Jennifer’s Body, and video games like Blur, the Guitar Hero series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, F.E.A.R. 2, Transformers, Kung Fu Panda, Ice Age, Quantum of Solace, and Tomb Raider: Underworld. Show less

Created/reformatted subtitles/closed captions for DVD releases of feature films and TV series, including bonus materials (featurettes, interactive games, trailers). Performed Quality Control on co-workers’ projects. Captured/encoded project media, ensuring high audio/video quality for easier workflow.Clients included Universal, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Disney, DreamWorks, Paramount, Miramax, Columbia House. Feature films included The Incredibles, National Treasure, Lemony Snicket’s A… Show more Created/reformatted subtitles/closed captions for DVD releases of feature films and TV series, including bonus materials (featurettes, interactive games, trailers). Performed Quality Control on co-workers’ projects. Captured/encoded project media, ensuring high audio/video quality for easier workflow.Clients included Universal, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Disney, DreamWorks, Paramount, Miramax, Columbia House. Feature films included The Incredibles, National Treasure, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Half Baked. TV series included Lost, Scrubs, The Golden Girls, The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, and Popular. Show less

Screened talent for feature film and commercial auditions, based on pictures and résumés. Built and maintained audition/callback schedule and contact database in FileMaker Pro. Contacted talent agencies/managers for appointments and confirmations. Logged and organized audition information. Coordinated nightly casting tape shipments to ad agencies and production companies. Managed heavy phone activity for the office, as well as the filing of business expenses.

Wrote casting breakdowns for TV shows, commercials, print ads, music videos, short films, industrials and editorial photo shoots. Edited casting directors’/producers’ breakdowns for grammar, content and readability. QC'd co-workers' breakdowns. Encouraged development of e-mail/Web breakdown submission forms. Conducted Web research to corroborate/augment breakdown information.

Worked on the lighting crew, which included spotlight operation during performances, and lighting rigging and maintenance during load-in, throughout performance runs, and during load-out. Also worked as a pyrotechnics operator, a hydraulics operator, and as a general stage hand.