Project Manager Technical Production
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Profile
A clever ** year veteran of Events small and large. Managed thousands of
data points through hundreds of events. A beacon of answers and solutions, Bringing your processes and your teams to the next level with best practices & industry wisdom. No matter if the budget is hundreds or millions, "I make things work."
Professional Experience
05/2021 – present
New York CIty
Event Technology Specialist, AVI-SPL
•Hired in early 2021 as a Technical Production Subject Matter Expert to integrate CitiGroup HQ's hybrid production studio. Consulted on purchasing and design with AVI-SPL, Diversified, and Dyventive.
•Provides expertise in all areas of technical production and offers key insights for event production.
•Upskills level 1 and level 2 technicians regularly, contributing to the team's continuous growth and development.
•Acted as a primary consultant on purchases, rentals, and production vendor relations, ensuring cost- effective and high-quality results. Creating business cases for new technology and personnel, as well as RFP's for vendors.
•A key member of Citi's production team, collaborating with multimedia teams and members of the C- Suite frequently as a specialist on high-risk, high-reward projects.
•Created a standard for pop-up production quality during and post-pandemic, establishing new industry benchmarks for production quality.
02/2019 – 01/2021
New York City
Senior Project Manager & Lighting Engineer, Michael Andrews AVS
•Supported the sales team pitches by drafting, scoping and producing complete technical & personnel requirements for quotes.
•Managed from Idea phase through to post-event analysis.
•Assistant Technical Produced a $3.3m budget for a Free-to-the-Public Concert & Screening at Madison Square Garden for POWER on Starz. Managed 260 crew, 88 talent, and $2.6m of equipment logistics. 04/2008 – 05/2019
NAM, LATAM, EMEA, APAC
Chief Technical Producer, Adam Gearhart Design
•Managing Events, Film, Marketing Campaigns, and Technical Production.
•Managing Agile teams of 5 to 250 Tech & Event Production professionals, on multiple timelines.
•Takes Initiative: Started one job as Lighting/LED Wall/Electrics lead for Artistix Fashion Brand, which developed into a Technical Production Manager role within 1 month of the timeline.
•I organized thirty vendors across three countries for simultaneous successful hybrid events, managed from a single command center studio in NYC.
•Facilitated $40m AV Integration for a client's global infrastructure in eight countries. Collaborated with client-side stakeholders to ensure proper documentation and template form creation, as well as over 12 international Audio Visual Equipment vendors.
11/2015 – 10/2018
New York City
Project Manager, Frost Productions Inc
•Lighting, Electrics and Rigging specialist tasked with value add to ongoing projects.
•After handling lower to mid range budget events (i.e. <$150k), priority was put on high profile activations and events. (i.e. international or >$500k).
•Consistently able to solve infrastructure obstacles before timelines were established, saving us and the client thousands in scope creep and change requests. Adam J Gearhart
Project Manager & Technical
Producer
New York City, NY
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https://www.adamgearhartdesign.com
10/2012 – 07/2015
New York City
Technical Director, Strategic Hospitality & TAO Group
•Led nightly club Technical Operations for Provocateur, Marquee, and other exclusive bottle service venues as needed.
•Connected a network of event planners and location scouts to our event teams, opening us to hundreds of leads and dozens of executed contracts per year.
•Worked closely with Food & Beverage vendors and culturally specialized caterers for client's specific needs.
•Created a standardized client event intake form for Amenable Cultural and Medical Needs, cutting down on costs, risk, and improving client relations. Certificates
AWS Fundamentals
Coursera
Automation w/Python
Coursera
OSHA 30
Dante
Level 1 +2+3
Google IT Certification
Coursera
Javascript
Codecademy
Permitting and Licensing for Events
NAM, LATAM, & EMEA Markets
CTS
Avixa
Technologies & Expertise
Project Management (PMI)
PMP in process
Compliance for AI Software
use in Enterprise
Finance & Tech Sector
CRS
Adobe CC Suite
International Logistics
Broadcast Engineering
Lighting Design for
Installation and Events
Cost Budget Management
Business Case Writing &
Development
PMI
EMS
Event Managment System
PMP Best Practices (PMBOK
7th Ed.)
Film Production
Live Streaming
Talent Education &
Development (upskilling)
Zoom, Cisco, Webex, Teams
meeting software
Jira
IT and Event Management
Data Governance
Finance and Tech
Hybrid Events
Video & Audio Over IP
Compliant NDI
Studio Production
Vendor Negotiation &
Account Success
Microsoft Collaboration
Suite
Unity XR Development
Digital Signage
Barco & Scala
Video Distribution
CTS Integration & Design
Agile
TPA & Permitting
Audio Visual Production
Vectorworks Drafting
AV Vendor Relations
AVI-SPL Diversified Unified
Yorktel USIS Tekworks
Dynamic AV UAE
DGI Communications
LMI Audiovisuel Paris
Education
Buckhannon, WV West Virginia Wesleyan College
B.A. Technical Theater Design & Management
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