Quality Assurance Manager

Kristin Holodak

abpqmf@r.postjobfree.com 240-***-**** (cell)

Professional Experience

Freelance Producer, Heron Media

College Park, MD, 8/99 – presentApple Certified Final Cut Pro editorApple Certified Final Cut Pro instructorCamera operator experienced with DV and HDV cameras.Instructor for production courses at the Institute for Documentary Filmmaking at the George Washington University. Additional tasks included project management, quality assurance,

editorial review of content, and voiceovers.

Multimedia Coordinator, J. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Instructional Media Developer, ARTSEDGE

Washington, DC, 10/02 – 06/08Responsible for the creation of all audio and video on the web site, and on, the national arts and education web site.Create promotional and educational video features by researching subjects, interviewing experts, shooting footage, capturing and editing material, rendering, compressing, and streaming finished clips.Create and maintain arts education podcasts.Supervised and trained part time staff of video technicians.

Producer, National Geographic Society

Washington, DC, 2/00 – 12/01Maintained the Complete NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC product line. Created

the 111 and 112 year versions of National Geographic Magazine on a

32 CD set, plus the 30 year, 10 year, and Year in Review products,

while maintaining the budget and schedule. Created a Spanish language demo version

of the Complete NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Collaborated with international

partners to create foreign versions of this and other products.Coordinated the efforts of outside developers and marketing staff

to bring products from concept design, through product development,

testing, packaging, and distribution.Produced audio and video segments for nationalgeographic.com by researching

topics, capturing and editing video, music, and sound effects, and

encoding video and audio to be streamed as Real Media and Windows

Media files.

Production Manager, ELF, Inc.

Bethesda, MD, 4/97 – 2/00Directed all media asset production for multimedia training projects.

Coordinated photo shoots, directed narration and voiceovers, produced

videos, created screen cams, captured and normalized audio, and tracked the status of all media assets.Supervised production staff. Assigned projects to Production Coordinators

and tasks to Production Assistants, ensuring that production activities

for all projects were completed as scheduled and budgeted. Interviewed

and mentored new staff, and assisted in the professional development

of all production staff.Created web pages for internal and external

projects. Created multi-disk software training applications using

Director.Led quality assurance teams for all CD-ROMs and Web sites. Wrote

test plans, organized QA teams of up to ten people, maintained version

control. Wrote SBIR grant proposal that was awarded for $100,000. Wrote

scripts for video and CD-ROM narration, wrote and maintained functional

specifications and design documents.

Coordinator of Foreign Languages, Akademia Istropolitana

Bratislava, Slovakia 1/94 - 12/94Supervised staff of six English teachers in the development and delivery

of English curriculum.Taught English conversation, grammar, and writing to graduate students

in all departments of the school.Recruited teachers and scheduled all foreign language classes.

Related ExperienceProgramming Assistant, KEDM, Monroe, LA

Maintained the library of jazz and classical music, ran software reports

to select music for the schedule.Board Operator/News Reader, WRVO, Oswego, NY Coordinated local cutaways

during network news broadcasts.

Computer Experience Experienced with both PCs and Macs. Multimedia: Final Cut Pro, Live Type, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Squeeze, Compressor, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, QuickTime Pro, Fetch, Macromedia Director, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Fireworks, Sound Forge, Media Cleaner Pro, Toast, Stuffit InstallerMaker, Microsoft Office, HTML, RSSStreaming and Delivery technology: Real Media, QuickTime, Flash, Podcasting

AwardsPlaying with Shadows, Macromedia Site of the DayPOST Learner's First, Best of Show at the Society for Technical

Communication. American Red Cross Notagains: Disaster Preparedness and Response,

finalist, New York Festivals.AAA Driver-ZED, Macromedia People's Choice, CINE Golden Eagle, Silver

award from the New York Festivals, finalist for New Media Invision

awards.

Educational ExperienceIthaca College, Park School of Communications, Ithaca, NY, 14850

12/96

Master of Science, Major: Corporate CommunicationsSUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY, 13126 12/91

Bachelor of Arts, Major: Broadcasting/Mass Communications

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