Jim Presley

Senior Technical Manager – Digital Asset Management

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Senior Technical Manager with extensive experience in both hands-on, and managing teams in the design, build, deployment and operation of web-based technologies. Understands the big picture to focus on core issues. Known as an effective liaison between technical and business teams at all levels, building cross-functional participation from funding through implementation. Strong belief in the statement "To do something great, you have to do something". Active, thoughtful and effective baby-steps every day. Keep the ball moving.

Core competencies include:

• Digital Asset Management design,

implementation, ongoing enhancements

• Global video encoding / video streaming / video

presentation and delivery platforms

• Technical Program Management

• Automated workflow design and implementation

• Metadata and Taxonomy design and implementation

• Technology planning and deployment

• Systems integration

• Vendor and product evaluation / comparison

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TAILORED BRANDS – FREMONT CA 4/2022 – 4/2023

Mgr. Digital Asset Management

Responsible for day-to-day operations, ongoing enhancements and overall program management of the company Digital Asset Management digital library which manages 1 million+ photographs. ORANGEPEOPLE. On assignment at Facebook in Fremont CA 9/2020 – 4/2022 PM Lead, Digital Asset Management – Infrastructure TechPubs Creative Responsible for the initial build-out, day to day operations, ongoing enhancements and overall program management of the Widen Digital Asset Management digital library.

• Performed in-depth discovery with line of business owners concerning all user-types, workflow needs, applications utilized and delivery platforms supported.

• Defined and created required taxonomy, schemas, file naming standards, ingest and export format requirements, and supporting workflows.

• Provided all day-to-day ingest of assets

• Provided training to all users of the DAMS.

• Provide support for all aspects of the DAMS.

SYMANTEC CORP. Mountain View, CA 9/2015 – 3/2020

Digital Asset Management / Video Platforms

Responsible for new deployment, day–to-day operations, ongoing enhancements and overall program management of all video platforms and the company Digital Asset Management library. Defined and was the business owner of the Adobe AEM Digital Asset Management system which housed all Marketing video, photography, and images. The system provided a secure managed self- service rendition / source delivery service worldwide.

• Defined and created required taxonomy, schemas, file naming standards, ingest and export formats utilized, and supporting workflows based on client input from various marketing groups within Symantec.

• Integrated Adobe AEM DAMs with Workfront project management application and 3rd party video cloud platform for secure, managed workflow from WIP to delivery and archive.

• Owned all video player management and integrations with analytics and SEO. (5,000 videos)

• Evaluated user cases throughout Corp. Marketing to define and build automated workflows for all assets.

• Defined and deployed secure worldwide live streaming service for internal all-hands and company communications.

• Delivered all training, providing via live video as well as on-demand walk-throughs and how-to docs and videos.. ORACLE CORP, Redwood City, CA 7/2010 – 9/2015

Principal Digital Media Architect

I was responsible for all Brand asset workflows from edit room to final publishing platforms and the management of associated metadata and rendition distribution.

• Defined and owned the Digital Asset Management system (OpenText) which houses all Marketing brand assets. The system contained approx. 95,000 assets and provides access to those assets to 130,000 employees offering secure, managed self- service rendition delivery service worldwide.

• Performed initial discovery with Marketing Brand managers to address unique requirements per each silo (Design, Logos, Video, Social etc.)

• Designed and implemented metadata schemas, taxonomy, naming standards and all DB integrations required by various line managers.

• Owned and managed all video player integrations with analytics and SEO.

• Responsible for the technical implementation and operation of the Oracle Media Network site. This site houses approx. 5,000 public-facing video assets with dynamically updated assets from the video cloud delivery platform.

• Defined and built all automated workflows for assets. When an asset is approved, it is encoded / exported for all required formats and distributed to all end-point platforms (Brightcove, Akamai, YouTube etc.) and into the asset management application for archive and employee access. Secure, managed asset flow outbound and inbound enables efficient asset exchange with partners, vendors and agencies.

• Managed a team which provided new product and vendor evaluation and comparison, systems administration, media management administration, and database / Java development in support of all video platforms and the Digital Asset Management system.

• Managed and maintained production video encoding systems and their integration with required systems and workflows. SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC, Menlo Park, CA 9/2001 – 7/2010 Senior Program Manager / Operations, Media Strategy and Production group Managed a team of 32 and oversaw day-to-day program management for the group that brought an incredibly successful online video program to Sun Microsystems Inc. I drove and managed all initial project development, deployment and execution of the worldwide audio / video streaming program for multimedia delivery capability.

• Defined, managed, and owned all audio / video asset hosting and publishing from asset encode to live availability.

• Complete redesign in 2009 of process reduced the time frame for publication that was up to 24 hours, to as little as 5 minutes.

• Defined and owned the Digital Asset Management System (Artesia) project from initial vendor evaluation, multi-dept funding, integration, and training. Achieved world-wide deployment within 1 year and full payback in 9 months.

• Drove efforts for the co-development and deployment of Solaris-based video players (RealMedia, Adobe Flash), which enabled native video streaming to Sun-based systems throughout the company, providing cost-free video players with full compliance and support for the Sun Solaris operating system used throughout the world.

• Managed and negotiated all aspects of vendor/partner relationships. Constant review and control of licensing and pricing enabled highly efficient costs as capability and bandwidth were greatly expanded.

• Built and distributed monthly metrics reporting for all Sun-based servers, providing content owners accountability with proven, continued growth.

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