Executive Producer Project Manager
Resume:
D.K. DANG
PRODUCTION /
Television and Film
Glendale, CA
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HTTPS://WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/DUC-KHOI-D-BA12303
HIGHLIGHTS
Over 19 years of experience in film and television production and research
Saved more than 40% of estimated rental costs for film production through savvy research and negotiation
Cut tape department spending by over 50% in archival overhead and over 20% in satellite overage while retaining and maintaining current staff
Organized thousands of hours of video footage for fast access and retrieval, saving editors countless hours
TELEVISION
MOVIES
EXPERIENCE
KABC-TV – Glendale, CA 2012 - 2020
News station for Los Angeles and Southern California View site
Broadcast Operation
·Provide AV Quality Control for all incoming commercials, promos, PSA’s, and in-house programming.
·Monitor Live Day of Air schedules and maintain the integrity of the programming.
·Work to identify audio, video, and or sync issues and relay the issues to our engineers.
·Provide AV supports to the Directors, Playback and Transmission.
·Ingest and repurpose morning shows and syndicated shows with emphasis on quality control.
·Ingest and re-cut promos, commercials, billboards and weather inserts for air.
·Provide proactive and organized daily assignments for
morning, day and night shift.
·QA of all live station launches and platform releases.
Concussion Film – Montclair, NJ 2011
Award-winning independent film View site
3rd Assistant Director
·Researched and negotiated rental agreements with third-party vendors, saving more than 40% of estimated cost for rentals.
·Hired, directed and managed Production Coordinators and background actors and managed their locations.
·Maintained all confidential paperwork of the casts for the Screen Actor’s Guild.
·Maintained set time schedule by acting as liaison between departments, including camera, grips and electronics, art, wardrobe, hair and makeup
·Created artwork for the production set.
ABC News – New York, NY 2010 - 2011
Global news broadcasting organization View site
Associate Producer, Best in Films
Associate Producer, In the Spotlight with Robin Roberts
·Researched and gathered factoids regarding
movie productions.
·Researched and acquired rare archival video elements that highlighted the program.
·Produced and edited all trailers to third parties.
·Negotiated terms and cost for the project with third-party vendors, which resulted in savings of over 30% of projected costs.
·Worked closely with Standards and Practices, Rights and Clearances department in clearance of all deliverables.
·Managed production timetable and schedule to ensure deadlines are met.
·Coordinated and managed all cut AV projects to third party vendors.
D.K. DANG (cont)
Glendale, CA
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SKILLS
ITX, Florical, MediaFiler, MediaTimer, Avid, Interplay, Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word, Outlook
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
DK is the most efficient and resourceful tape coordinator I've ever worked with. He gets what you need faster than you can articulate it, and he gets it done record speed. He has the best connections in the business but never brags about them. He's smart, hard-working and kind. I highly recommend him - DK drives results.
-Mable Chan
Founder/President,
China Personified and former Coordinating Producer,
Good Morning America
Trilogy Films – Montclair, NJ 2007 - 2011
Film production for feature-length documentaries View site
Senior Researcher
·Researched and acquired archived video elements, including extremely difficult-to-find video for documentaries.
·Logged and highlighted dynamic video for use in documentary.
·Organized hours of video footage for easy access and retrieval.
Good Morning America – NYC 2004 - 2010
Morning news and talk show View site
Supervisor
·Manage, trained, and mentored a team of seven staff coordinators, two freelancers, and a rotating group of interns preparing them to take on the roll of associate producers and or producers.
·Led the GMA Tape Department Team with AV operating procedures to ensure broadcast quality.
·Provided and supervised AV support to Producers and Associate Producers.
·Researched and provided recommendations of new Audio Video technology to Associate Director of Production and Operations.
·Managed annual budgetary reports for the Good Morning America tape department and the projected future. Cut overall spending in the department by over 50% in archival overhead and over 20% in satellite overage, while retaining and maintaining the current number of staffed workers.
·Cultivated and managed relationships with vendors, reducing outside purchases by over 40%.
·Digitized, cut and produced crash projects and clip reels for Good Morning America / ABC News.
·Completed large volume of producing and special projects work for Robin Roberts.
·Established, cultivated and encouraged a close partnership with key departments at Disney and ABC News.
·Worked as project manager and participated in weekly program meeting with SVP, executive producer and seniors for story development and updating on progression of particular projects.
·Managed/oversaw all departmental projects to completion, including late-night and early-morning approvals.
·Worked closely with sales and marketing on daily commercial inserts for use in local markets.
·Worked closely with legal counsel to rectify claims and litigations regarding audio, video usage.
·Collaborated with the business management department in setting the technology direction and objectives, prioritizing business needs and formulating plans to deliver optimized performance and reduce redundancies
·Managed the metadata and coordinated the Media Archival Retrieval System (M.A.R.S.) with end users, stressing testing and developing the best possible ways to search to optimize system performance.
·Completely reorganized GMA vault by streamlining the numbering system, location and searching process to allow for quick access to video elements.
·Provided quality control of all video / audio elements fed and/or ingested.
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