Candidates About

 Robert B. Schuman

 Digital Asset Management Specialist

Creating efficient storage and archive systems

to run businesses more efficiently. 

Ø  Created and launched an end to end broadcast digital asset management system for Sesame Workshop, allowing full search, edit, and library access on every desktop.

Ø  Managed the global implementation of a Marketing Operations Management (DAM) system for Merck Consumer Products division.

Ø  Managed software development for a leading broadcast media asset management firm, including product development, scheduling, client contact, training, and bug fixes.

Ø  Designed digital work flows, metadata and encoding technologies, creating the most efficient and cost effective ways of completing complex multistep digitization on thousands of assets.

            Home Box Office, Inc.

            Programming Technical Service Operations Database Coordinator                  2015

Coordinating and organizing hundreds of files and tapes with multiple formats and audio tracks. Entry of  metadata in the HBO master database file system meeting daily deadlines.

            DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT                                                                              2008-2015

New York City Ballet                                                                                                                                                 

                  Provide Technical and Logistical Support to video library digitization and asset management project

Merck Consumer Care                                                                                                                                                         

Manage the implementation of global digital asset management system for Merck non-prescription products (Coppertone, Dr. Scholl’s, Claritin, etc.).   Responsibilities include metadata schemes, digital library taxonomy, implementation and process training.

Preferred Media

                        Consultant on DAM Systems and long term asset storage.

Vidipax, LLC     Magnetic Media Restoration                                                                 2006-2008

·         Designed digital work flows, metadata and encoding technologies, creating the most efficient and cost effective ways of completing complex multistep digitization on thousands of tapes.

THE NEWSMARKET, INC.           (now Synaptic Digital)                                                                                                    

 Digital Video Systems Architect                                                                                                                                    2005-2006

·         Resident video expert for a leading global distributor of corporate news stories, including encoding and distribution formats, procedures and equipment. 

·         Redesigned, expanded and outfitted two multi-million dollar video encoding and transcoding facilities (New York and London) including work flow and metadata for distribution of digital video to over 9000 journalists worldwide.

VENACA, INC.   Broadcast Asset Management

 Senior Project Manager                                                                                                                                                   2003-2005

Managed software development for a leading broadcast media asset management firm, including product development, scheduling, client contact, training, and bug fixes.

SESAME WORKSHOP INC.,

aka CHILDREN’S TELEVISION WORKSHOP                                                                                     1997-2003

Director, Technical Operations

·         Developed, designed and implemented a company-wide digital asset management system; including broadcast quality storage, assignment of metadata, desktop browsing, retrieval, and proxy editing, allowing users to screen any clip on demand on their PC including the transcoding any program or clip in any format.

·         Managed production budgets for worldwide video shoots and special events

• Initiated, organized, and completed backup, cleaning, and restoration of entire CTW video library, including over 6,000 hours of programming at a cost of well over a million dollars. Preserved a valuable company asset for future use.

• Designed and re-engineered an internal duplication facility from machines on bookshelves to an integrated, professionally wired state of the art digital duplication room, doubling capacity and adding broadcast quality duplication. 

 DOW JONES AND CO., INC.                                                                                           

 Dow Jones Multimedia Division - Dow Jones Investor Network

 Operations Producer

·         Produced, directed, budgeted, booked and coordinated live digital video feeds to the desktops of Wall Street money managers. 

·        Content included live, market moving announcements, exclusive interviews with market movers controlling $40 billion in assets.

AUDIO PLUS VIDEO INTERNATIONAL, INC.                                                

International Post Division

General Manager

   Complete responsibility for start up and day-to-day operations of an international, multistandard post production facility, including construction, engineering, hiring, and budgeting.

   Facility broke even after only one year of operation.

EDUCATION

New York University, M.B.A.          

Syracuse University, M.S.   TV/Radio/Film

Assistantship in Broadcasting:  Taught television news and broadcast regulation.

Princeton University, B.A.    Social Psychology, Cum Laude

     Board of Trustees, WPRB-FM, Princeton, NJ

     Adjunct Faculty at Marymount Manhattan College, New York

                  Taught “Communications and the Future” course at college level