Candidates About

 

Sadat Valentine

SUMMARY

Senior Digital Asset Manager and Senior Metadata Librarian/ Taxonomy with over 15 years of experience working in large enterprise environments such as Twentieth Century Fox, TMZ and AOL.  I have an innate ability in understanding media and its relationship from an asset level. Media assets and the associated metadata are the driving force in technology and getting a handle on these tangible items are what I excel at. Developing and implementing strategies that push the organizations desired goals. Managing projects, teams and technology assets from start to finish.

•                    Deep understanding of Metadata and it's Analytic Relationships

•                    Quality Control expert working with all audio and video formats and equipment.

•                    Video Management Systems and Media Transcoding Encoding - Digital Rapids, Rhozet Carbon Coder, Anystream, Dalet, Kaltura, Brightcove and Digitalsmiths

•                    Expert in transcoding environments: HLS, H.264, H.265, MPEG-DASH and OTT

•                    Video Systems - Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Premiere, After Effects

•                    20+ years Audio Engineer - Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Cubase, Logic, Sound Forge

•                    Area of Expertise - Media Streaming, Video Gaming, Music Production and Television/Film Industries

•                    10+ years’ experience as a Systems Engineer and Solution Architect

•                    Experience in developing CDN integrations

•                    Experience in developing scalable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based web services

•                    Experience in Business Systems Analysis and high-level architectural designs and detailed designs

•                    Understanding of Cloud, Data Solutions, Data warehousing and environment integration

•                    Understanding of software development methodologies and structured approaches to system development

•                    Experience with distributed media applications, video-on-demand and broadcast systems

•                    Experience in integration with any open source media engines: Kaltura, Digital Rapids, DigitalSmiths and Dalet

•                    Experience in web services integration with platforms like web, mobile (smartphones, tablets) and Set Top boxes

•                    Media delivery strategies for web, RSS, API and syndication feeds

•                    Deep understanding of software development cycles for web and mobile.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

General:                              Adobe Experience Manager, API Management, SOA, Agile Project Management, Web Services, Avid Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.; FileMaker Pro, Adobe Encore, Adobe Prelude, Crowd Fusion, Sound Forge, CDN Management, , Adobe Media Encoder, Aspera, Freemake Video Converter, Subtitle Edit, WordPress, TeamViewer.

 

Media Solutions:              Digital Rapids Transcode Manager/StreamZ, Kaltura Video Management System VMS, Dalet Plus, Limelight Video Platform, FFmpeg, Rhozet Carbon Coder, Brightcove Manager.

 

Systems/ Languages:     Windows, MAC OS, HTML, Extensible Markup Language (XML), CSS, C++, Flash Action script, Android, iOS

 

EXPERIENCE

 

Perficient/ Cedar Sinai                                                                                                     July 2017 – Present

Senior Digital Asset Manager/Taxonomy (Consultant)

 

Adobe Experience Manager/ Enterprise Content Management

 

Metadata and Taxonomy Architect.

    *cataloging, classification, information architecture

·         Implementing the team’s taxonomy strategies and vision, driving execution of roadmaps and project plans to continually improve and creating a single source of truth

·         Identifying toolset gaps and potential gaps

·         Identifying a taxonomy or knowledge management system to use

 

Migrating DAM and Website Assets

Managing Company Assets

Digital Asset Management (DAM / MAM) & Metadata Analytics Management

Transcoding Workflow.

 

 

Twentieth Century Fox                                                                                                    August 2016 – July 2017

Senior Digital Asset Manager (Consultant)

•                    Acting as Metadata and Taxonomy Architect.

•                    Participating in daily scrum meetings.

•                    Migrating assets from old system to new system. 

•                    Managing the transcoding. 

•                    Digital Asset Management (DAM /  MAM) & Metadata Analytics Management

•                    Transcoding Workflow.

•                    SQL Metadata queries and reports.

•                    Agile/Scrum Methodology, Development Sprint Documentation (JIRA, Confluence)

•                    Project Overview: Daily and Weekly JIRA Reporting.

•                    Transcoding QC.

 

Estee Lauder/Smashbox        

Consulting Project

Digital Asset Manager

 

•        Organizing Graphic Editor and Photographer Assets

•        Installation and manager DAM

•        Archiving and Storage

•        CDN Managment

•        Organizing Images during and after Photo Shoots                                                     

 

TMZ/Telepictures Inc. | Los Angeles, CA                                                                                  February 2011 - 2016

Senior Technical Digital Asset Manager & Integration Specialist

•                    Media/Solution Architect developing standards and manage product integration for Kaltura Video Management System (VMS) , Dalet, Limelight Video Platform, Windows Azure, Broadcast Crossfire, and Cloud / Data Solutions.

•                    Digital Asset Management (DAM /  MAM), Digital Rights & Metadata Analytics Management

•                    Content Distribution: Web, Hulu, YouTube, Xbox, Roku, iOS and Android

•                    Manage CDN video workflow and accounts. (Azure, Level 3, Limelight)

•                    Live Streaming (Digital Rapids StreamZ)

•                    Digital Librarian Supervisor & Manage web-video editors, media/metadata coordinators.

•                    Video encoding/transcoding farms: Digital Rapids, Adobe Media Encoders and Dalet.

•                    Manage technology teams and video assets for TMZ television and web platforms (broadcast - TMZ TV Show, TMZ Live Show, TMZ Fox Sports Show); (web - TMZ.com, TooFab.com, Fishwrapper.com).

•                    In House Codecs HDV, H.264, HLS, DVCPro/DVC ProHD (in MXF)

•                    Manage video assets for social media integration. (Facebook, YouTube and Instagram)

•                    Identify, develop and implement strategies for developing and managing video assets across asset management systems for TV broadcast, web, streaming devices and mobile apps.

•                    Asset QC (Incoming and Outgoing)

•                    Work with dev team and vendors creating apps (iOS, Android: tablets, smartphones, Set top-box)

•                    Kaltura VMS  and player integration VAST Double Click ad server

•                    Provide documentation and training to users and staff of the asset management system.

•                    Collaborate with creative teams to develop asset management and tracking policies.

•                    Video Compression and Distribution – Headend: Encoders and Decoders, multiplexers

•                    Work closely with creative, post-production and dev/programming teams to get assets ready for transfers, daily playlist and rundown.

 

 

Encompass Digital Media | Los Angeles, CA                                                       January 2010 - December 2011

Control Room Media Specialist (Shift Supervisor)

•                    Manage digital assets for video on demand (VOD) - encoding, delivery and publishing.

•                    Metadata management for Rhozet ingests and digital delivery through Aspera.

•                    Audio/Video editing and production including creation of graphics, XML and subtitles.

•                    Train production staff and new personnel about media logging, description and reporting.

•                    Manage the workflow of editors and encoding personal. Making sure all shipping, timelines, content and assets are delivered and received.

•                    Project Manager developing strategies and keeping track of all orders and in house projects

•                    Video QC (Tape and file based)

•                    Blu Ray/DVD Authoring

•                    Tape ingestion and transcoding

•                    Caption Integration on all assets

 

AOL / Time Warner | Beverly Hills, CA                                                                                 December 2002 - January 2010

Senior Media Editor/ Video Encoding (Shift Lead Supervisor)              

•                    VOD (Video on Demand) Delivery & Publishing

•                    Manage the workflow of editors and encoding personal. Making sure all shipping, timelines, content and assets are delivered and received.

•                    Maintain media on all AOL properties

•                    Live concert/event streaming

•                    Duplication and encoding using multiple formats including, but not limited to, HD, Digital Betacam, D2, D1, D5, Beta SP, 3/4, DVD, and Telestream

•                    Video/Graphic Editing and transcoding

•                    Video QC (Tape and file based)

•                    Manage shift video editors and encoders.

•                    Tape Ingestion

•                    ACCOMPLISHMENTS

•                    Developed a Gaming Pop Culture Website and YouTube TV Show

•                    Developed and implement SOP guidelines for managing digital assets in Video Management Systems.

•                    Developing a Indie Video Game

•                    Building and establishing workflows in Digital Rapids transcoding farms.

•                    Eliminated 70 percent of system errors in transcoding farms by implementing new standards and workflows.

•                    Enhanced reputation by establishing and enhancing CDN relationships

•                    Negotiating CDN & VMS yearly contract deals.

•                    Helped TMZ & Time Warner stay on budget and save monthly increases by creating a new delivery workflow.

•                    Reduced CDN storage cost

•                    Selected by Director to create a workflow for creating subtitle captions for all assets.

 

EDUCATION

Webster University

Bachelor of Arts, Media Studies

St Louis, MO

 

Trebas Institute

Audio Engineering

Los Angeles, CA

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

•                    AOL/NASA Space Launch Media Award

•                    Minority Scholastic Award

•                    Black Belt Genbukan

•                    Black Belt Shotokan Karate

•                    Nomination Music Production

•                    Quake III: Arena Production Team