Resume
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Brian C. Janes is an experienced and creative Producer and Manager whose skill set covers a range of disciplines across production and post-production including photography, video shooting & editing, music composition & production, and project management.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
- Final Cut Pro
- Premiere Pro
- Photoshop
- Logic Studio Pro
- Pro Tools
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- Expert user of Mac and Windows
- Microsoft Office
- WordPress
- Business software solutions for project management and product development (MS Project, Visio, etc).
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Buzzine Networks
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March 2011 -- Current
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Los Angeles, CA
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- Lead Camera Operator and Video Editor for weekly music interviews featuring established and rising stars in the music industry. (Videos: Moby, Sims, OFF!)
- Manage Buzzine’s team of video editors and define, implement, and maintain standards and procedures for production workflows from video shoots through to completed videos published on the site.
- Photographer for live concerts and shows producing photo galleries published on the site. (Galleries: ¡Satiristas! Live, The Rendezvous, LA Comedy Shorts Film Fest)
Freelance Production
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January 2007 -- Current
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Los Angeles, CA
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Producer / Director / Camera Operator / Editor / Audio Engineer / Web Site Development
- It’s All That Glitters: Portraits of Burlesque Performers In Their Homes -- A multimedia endeavor that will culminate in a coffee table book published by Schiffer Publishing, a documentary film, and gallery exhibitions in cities throughout the United States. To gather content for this project I traveled over 14,000 miles and photographed & interviewed over 100 performers. It is currently being edited. (http://allthatglittersbook.net)
- The Finer Things -- A weekly web show featuring actress Alison Janes. (http://alisonjanes.com/youtube)
- Ali’s 12 Songs of Christmas -- A Christmas holiday spectacular during which one video was produced every day for 12 days featuring Alison singing her favorite holiday songs. (http://bit.ly/Ali12Songs)
Photographer: BCJ Photography -- Professional photographer specializing in headshots for actors, pinup & glamour photography, and photos for theater & events. (http://bcjphotography.com)
Editor
Assistant Editor
Production Assistant: Simply New Studios -- NBA All-Star Jam Session
Festival Airlines, Inc.
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July 2006 -- January 2007
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Chicago, IL
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Director, Electronic Distribution & IT
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- Responsible for the implementation, configuration and on-going operations of all methods by which a customer could purchase an electronic ticket, including:
- Web site: Collaborated with Trisept Solutions (Milwaukee, WI) to design, develop and implement the Festival web site. Maintained policies and vacation destination content.
- Call Center: Worked with Airline Reservations Center (Daniels, WV) to seamlessly integrate their call center services into Festival’s product offerings.
- Reservations Systems: Managed the relationship with Radixx International (Orlando, FL) to integrate and configure airline reservations capabilities on Festival’s web site.
- Responsible for researching and developing requirements for the IT infrastructure needs and assembling a budget and plan to implement the required infrastructure. This included e-mail and intranet solutions, and all desktop and communications solutions.
TravelCLICK, Inc.
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December 2000 -- July 2006
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Schaumburg, IL
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- Responsible for product development initiatives for all data & revenue products including Hotelligence, RateVIEW & ChannelManager, a combined annual revenue source of over $35 million.
- Led the product development and project management for Hotelligence FuturePACE, a new data report that provides hoteliers the ability to analyze future booking trends. Project completed on schedule with successful release date in April 2005 and over $1.7 million in sales by year’s end.
- Completed a project to migrate electronic advertising support, a $12 million/year source of revenue, from legacy partner systems to the DoubleClick DART Enterprise platform without interruption to production.
- Led product development and project management efforts for the implementation of electronic advertising functionality, a $10 million/year source of revenue, using DoubleClick’s Dart Enterprise and ZEDO’s “3rd Generation Ad Serving” software, into multiple high transaction volume mainframe environments and multiple on-line travel web sites including StarCite.com and Hotwire.com
- Managed major enhancements to existing advertising products and operational processes, including implementation of additional ad inventory resulting in a $50,000 reduction of spoilage risk and creation of process documentation and diagrams for the Internet Media operations group where such documentation did not previously exist.
- Developed and introduced numerous management reports for ad campaign analysis. Use of these reports enabled the company to avoid a potential annual loss of $500,000 in revenue.
Classified Ventures
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November 1997 -- December 2000
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Chicago, IL
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- Developed, documented and maintained technical specifications for ad serving integration and implementation into web sites including Cars.com, Apartments.com and 140 Affiliates of each site.
- Responsible for hiring, training and management of the daily operations of on-line ad serving for leading web sites in the transportation and real estate on-line classifieds industry.
- Acted as technical and functional business lead in a project to research, document, and recommend alternative ad serving solutions.
- Collaborated with sales, marketing and product development to define requirements to ensure robust ad targeting capabilities within the ad serving products.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Music, Composition
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Wheaton College Conservatory of Music
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May 1997
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Wheaton, IL
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