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Jim Bruton

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Middlebury, CT 06762

Telephone: 203-***-****. Email: hjfen5@r.postjobfree.com

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT

Project Management – Business Development – Multiple-Media Production

Quality project management, financial oversight and technical problem solving background gained through over 20 years of corporate experience in pharmaceutical, television and interactive media. Experienced in budget forecasting and cost analysis, project management and meeting tight deadlines within strict budgets for major television networks, government agencies, Fortune 500 corporations and Ivy League universities.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Cost Analysis & Reduction

• Budget Forecasting/Management

• Business Case Analysis

• Project Management

• Strategic Planning

• Leadership & Innovation

• Business Development

• Technical Problem Solving

• Negotiating

• Vendor Management

• Customer Relationship Management

• Technical Logistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR 2008 – Present

ERNST & YOUNG LLP

Global Lead, Voice & Video Telecommunications. Manage globally dispersed & culturally diverse teams for solutions engineering, technical production and customer support. In Year 1 of employment, redesigned webcast streaming architecture to save over $7.5 Million in 3 years. Serve on Women in Americas IT Outreach committee & Black Professional Network.

• Created and implemented strategy for webcasting, video & audio conferencing throughout the world. Required needs-gathering from stakeholders, choosing and testing vendors, selection and negotiation.

• Proposal and design of new streaming architecture for global deployment and $2.5 Million per year savings.

• Created global standards for enterprise-wide infrastructure engineering framework.

• Business Case creation and Executive presentation.

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR 2007 – 2008

UNICEF- NY

Managed technical operations & projects for the Film, Television, Internet, Image & Radio Division. Re-designed workflow processes to optimize production efficiencies, migrated television to HD and internet-based video to Flash. Additional projects included upgrading digital asset management systems and contracting with National Geographic to integrate all historic UNICEF media with NGS archives. Management of 15 personnel, and growing.

• Designed & implemented lower and higher level production processes by upgrading and standardizing post-production software across all edit suites, upgrading SAN systems to handle HD traffic and introducing workflow software tailored to the UNICEF production environment.

• Removal of legacy systems for more efficient ones, e.g. Real Media to Flash; SD to HD.

• Management oversight of UNICEF lobby experience- replacing poster media with digital signage. RFP issue, vendor negotiation and selection, timelines & deliverables.

MEDIA DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNICAL MANAGER 2004 – 2007

Pfizer Inc.

Managed business programming projects and a studio production team of up to 25 personnel. Needs assessment, followed by issue of RFPs to vendors, final selection of vendor relationships while integrating best business practices, authoring of SOPs for satellite and terrestrial media delivery systems to the US Pfizer Field Force and World HQ.

• Produced cost analysis and business case presentations of multiple satellite television and terrestrial internet media business communication technologies.

• Implemented significant cost saving methods ($2 Million+) and technologies, such as the reduction of business programming transmission operating costs while meeting bandwidth and reliability requirements.

• Led the migration from traditional to new media technologies, providing telecommunications savings of 30%-50%, while increasing the number of distribution channels.

• Negotiated and reduced costs with multiple service providers while aligning internal stakeholders.

• Provided design and budget for webcasting platform as well as the implementation of quality procedures. Expedited productions’ turnaround time after writing new SOPs. Reduced Help Desk calls to 3 per 5000 viewers.

• Project managed the deployment of a 3 months business communications strategy, while coordinating the removal of home office satellite television systems simultaneously. Project finished early and within budget.

• Developed and delivered new webcasting platform for CEO communications to the Pfizer field force. Requirements included live interactive video with XGA graphics, plus viewer metrics.

• Expanded programming to include entire US sales force audience through negotiations with AT&T Internet Services.

ALPHANET INC. 1993 – 2004

• As Embedded Journalist & Special Projects Manager (NBC News, NY) - produced live from warzones, responsible for budgets, acquisition, research and design of new portable telecommunications technologies for news-related media.

• Clinical Lecturer (Yale University School of Medicine) to the Section of Anatomy and Experimental Surgery, with an emphasis on Telemedical Applications. Project manager with financial responsibility for high-tech medical projects. NASA Principal Investigator- biometric monitoring in high altitude environments (Mount Everest).

• Pioneer and Provisional Patent Holder of the Live by VideoPhone solution used by television networks globally to report breaking news events.

• Created and trademarked the GeoNavigator Interactive Distance Learning solution.

• Program Manager (Mount Everest 1997-01) for yearly live video transmissions and news stories from Everest Base Camp, for ABC, NBC and CBS. Required mission planning, cost analysis, financial disbursement and delivering on timeline-established milestones.

• Developed guidelines for scalable growth of UNICEF global internet presence (UNICEF 1997).

PRODUCER 1990 –1996

Des Bartlett Productions.

• Won the Coveted EMMY Award from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences for National Geographic Television’s Survivors of the Skeleton Coast.

• Negotiated corporate sponsorship of computer and satellite technologies, as well as expedition clothing.

• Constructed and managed production budgets, managed disbursements of for various television programs.

• Produced natural history documentaries. Developed storylines and sequences and handled logistics.

EDUCATION

B.A.

University of North Carolina

1978

MEDIA LINKS:

WEB

Streaming Media

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Featured-News/Streaming-Spotlight-The-Many-Lives-of-Jim-Bruton-67769.aspx

Business to Business (regarding digital user analytics)

http://www.btobonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081013/FREE/310139955

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/cyber/articles/03television.html

Wired

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49790,00.html

Streaming Media

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=64483

TELEVISION

The History Channel (as Technology Evangelist)

“Tactical to Practical”

CNET TV (as Inventor)

“The New Edge”

NBC News (as War Correspondent)

“Missionaries of Charity”, Baghdad, Iraq

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