PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Friday's Films
San Francisco, CA / 2008 - Present
VP of Post Production and Senior Editor
Clients Include: AMB Property Corporation, Aryaka, Aurora Biofuels, Battery Ventures, Bayer, Beringer, Big Fish Games, Boomer Esiason Foundation, Carol Stevenson, Catholic Healthcare West, Cellar360 San Francisco, Child Neurology Foundation, Conceptus, Cyberonics, Dorado, Equinix, Eurand, Fosters, Horn Group, Inc., Kaiser Permanente, Land O' Lakes, Linqia, Inc., Logitech, LS9, Inc., LSI Corporation, Marvell, Math Solutions, McKesson Corp., Mission Motor Company, Navigenics, Inc., Nexsan, Personalized Medicine Coalition, Plexxicon, Powerset (Microsoft Bing), Prologis, Questcor, Responsys, RightNow, Ruder Finn, Inc., San Francisco Unified School District, Sony Corporation of America, StubHub Inc., SunRun, Inc., TerreStar Corporation, The New Stanford Hospital, TiVo Inc., Treasury Wine Estates, UCSF, Ultimate Ears, VantagePoint Capital Partners
• Systems, Operations Management, Staff Management, Training, Data Management, Account Management, Editing
• Define, implement best practices for post-production systems and workflow
• Ensure systems, equipment are operational, competitive, in compliance with industry standard practices
• Identify, research, propose, implement new business, workflow solutions, practices
• Audit company production, post-production systems, general operations to ensure best possible business decisions, optimize overhead, costs, increase revenue, profit margin
• Establish systems documentation, provide orientation, training sessions as needed
• Define, maintain, oversee management of company projects, data
• Supervise editorial staff, ensure project consistency, compliance
• Provide project estimates, budgets, track costs, progress, delivery
• Communicate with clients about creative, technical aspects of projects
• Organize, set up, edit, revise, export projects

Vuze, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA / 2006 - 2008
Product Manager
Projects included: video publishing, transcoding, delivery and ingestion automation / content management / embedded player / platform data model / content syndication / games / community and social network / QA / process development / monetization
• Established ad-support, VOD/sell through business models for self and contract publishers.
• Spearheaded video upload, ingestion pipeline overhauls decreasing content delivery to live-on-site from weeks to minutes, reducing costs below .08% of outsourcing, increasing content availability, downloads.
• Established video transcoding pipeline, cross-platform video upload and universal playback, reducing bandwidth costs, increasing user base, content downloads.
• Established content management process, tools, and policy to reduce presence, streamline management of infringing content.
• Initiated community, internal social network enabling universal content sharing, increasing user base, content downloads.
• Enabled video publishers to geo-target content.
• Revived, managed game content area increasing revenue by 50%.
• Initiated content/platform QA, development processes enhancing cross-functional transparency, optimizing resource time, improving development, deployment cycle.

Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Redondo Beach, CA / 2005 - 2007
Producer, Director, Editor, DVD Author
Project topics include: homeland security / space exploration / communications satellites / weather satellites / space telescopes / company morale / company promotion
• Produce, direct, edit and author video and multimedia productions to support project proposals for government and commercial contracts on products that are defining the future of space technology, space exploration, scientific advancement, communications, military defense and US homeland security.

Paul Heller Productions, Inc.
Beverly Hills, CA / 2000 - 2005
Producer, Director, Editor, Programmer, Technology Consultant
Clients Included: Warner Home Video / Skirball Cultural Center / Edgerton Lab at UCLA / British Academy of Film & Television Arts Los Angeles / Science Center of Iowa / Hong Kong Museum of History
• Advised president and executive producers on multimedia exhibit development and design, increasing exhibit efficiency and reducing budgets and production costs.
• Developed, installed, and maintained in-house, networked, scalable post production studio from the ground up, reducing outsource production overhead.
• Head in-house producer, director, editor, and programmer on all film, video, and multimedia projects.
• Installed and maintained office LAN, backup server.

Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm Company
Marin County, CA / April - June 1994
Assistant to Sound Designer – Internship with Randy Thom
Projects included: Forrest Gump, feature film / 500 Nations, television documentary miniseries
• Collaborated with the film director to shape an overall, consistent film soundtrack that exploits the expressive possibilities of the sound medium and lead to an Academy Award nomination.
• Assisted in development of the first-of-its-kind, award winning, digital software and hardware based audio and MIDI recording system for use on feature films.
• Created, archived, organized, logged, and mixed sound effects for use in major motion picture.

EDUCATION

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA / 1994 – 1999
Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Television Production, May 1999
Honors: Cum Laude, Dean’s list

Studio Art Center International
Florence, Italy / Fall 1996
Semester abroad program

SKILLS, ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

Motion Picture Production / Cinematography / Special Effects / Editing / Motion Graphics / DVD Authoring / Cameras (Panavision / Arri / Bolex / Super-8 / BetaCam / DigiBetacam / MiniDV / PixelVision) // Lighting (Mole-Richardson / Kino Flo / Dedo) // Special Photography & Lighting (Underwater / Blue Screen / Optical and in-camera special effects) // Computers / Mac/PC hardware and software technical support and repair // Editorial / Avid / Final Cut / DVD Studio Pro / Motion // DaVinci Resolve // Adobe / Photoshop / After Effects / Illustrator / GoLive / Premiere / Dreamweaver // Pro Audio / ProTools / Bias Peak // Microsoft / Windows / Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook // American Film Institute / Invention Concepts / Conceptual & Theoretical Audio-Visual Applications / Writing / Theatre / Travel / Sports (skiing / sailing / golf)