Associate Editor
Resume:
Robert Landau (Secret Level clearance)
Robert Half
HR Director/Manager:
Good day. My name is Bob Landau and I am submitting my CV for your Associate Editor role. As my resume indicates, I have an expert-level background in all facets of video, broadcast and multimedia production, especially digital editing (Adobe CS), videography, lighting and still photography, as well as an extensive level of proficiency in managing, scheduling, budgeting and managing both clients and internal and external personnel, within multimedia arenas. Further, in my work in film production same as Video/Broadcast/Multimedia Producer/Editor, I served in the capacities of all production and studio management: negotiating and maintaining contracts for equipment, facilities, outside vendors and talent, scheduling and post-production. I draw on personal experience, which comes from years of working & producing field and studio news broadcasts, government broadcast and web events, narrative production, news shooting, editing and playback. In recent years, I have worked under multiple government contracts with companies like ITI, OmniTec, Kizano Corp., Tyto Athene and CACI. Much of that work has been in the government and government contracting sectors, where I brought a high level of expertise and the ability to collaborate and speak easily with my colleagues and government supervisors. Other work includes, but is not limited to, the Dept. of V.A., U.S.P.S., Voice of America, HHS and NGO’s like B’nai B’rith International, IMF and many private sector companies. Over time, I have garnished a reputation (and awards) not only for my creative and technical skills, but also my management and my interpersonal skills. On my last contract at H.U.D. (I have had three, there), I worked directly with Secretary Fudge and her staff, not only on managing and directing her video broadcast and editing work, but also writing/editing her Prompter scripts – which does not usually befall a contractor.
A key for this position is the multifaceted aspect of handling the creative side of editing and producing as well as the technical sides of production; trouble-shooting when issues arise, fixing those and furthering relations with the staff and clientele – all of which I excel in doing. I take pride in my work in all these areas, and my ability to partner with my client(s) and colleagues. This is done, in large part, by way of proper planning and preparation. From a first-hand knowledge standpoint, I bring a premium level of skill sets that I bring to the table. And I am also the go-to guy for finding the right music to match the mood of any project. In closing, allow me to say that I have had the success I refer to because of my ability to combine my diverse and extensive technical abilities with cooperatively and easily collaborating with many people and adapt to changes in what is best for the overall project. I see the big picture and work thoroughly with all parties, to achieve it, and I see that we deliver the best product possible for them. I look forward to hearing from you regarding my potentials with you and your client in greater detail. Respectfully Yours,
Robert S. Landau
ROBERT S. LANDAU
443-***-**** *********@*******.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-landau-93712b2/ EXPERTISE
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION • PRODUCTION MANAGING
• CONCEPT IDEATION • PRODUCING • PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• LOGISTICAL SCHEDULING • WRITING • PRODUCTION COORDINATING
• PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS • CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
• BUDGET OVERSIGHT • STRATEGIC PLANNING • PROJECT DELIVERY
• NEEDS ANALYSIS • CREATIVE STORYTELLING • DIRECTING
• VIDEOGRAPHY • DIGITAL EDITING • STILL PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMARY
An established, creative-minded professional with 25+ years of experience integrating technical, logistical & creative expertise and an aptitude for assessing, planning, project management, production coordinating & management to support film, television, live event, radio, and print production initiatives. Digital Media strategist, visionary, and pioneering leader with a positive approach to translating larger-than-life visionary concepts into stimulating, inspiring, and manageable projects while directing cross-functional teams responsible for all aspects of production, creative development, engagement, and client management. Collaborates with stake- holders, colleagues and clients ensure everyone knows the current status of projects. WORK HISTORY
PRODUCER/PRODUCTION & PROJECT MANAGER, Bonnette Productions 2000 – present PROJECT MANAGER//EDITOR, Tyto Athene/DAU 2023 – 2024 PRODUCTION MANAGER//EDITOR/EDITOR/VIDEOGRAPHER, Kizano Corp. 2021– 2022 PROJECT MANAGER/COORDINATOR, Encore Global 2019 – 2020 PRODUCER/PRODUCTION MANAGER/WRITER, B’nai B’rith Int’l 1996 – 1999 PRODUCER/WRITER/ON AIR TALENT, Paulist Media Works, Inc., 1995 – 1996 LONG TERM CONTRACTS:
Videographer/Still Photographer/Coordinator: Portrait Gallery, DC District Court, PAX River Navy Base Producer/Production Manager/Editor: The Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Producer/Production Manager/Editor, Omnitec Solutions, Inc., (2008 – 2015) Producer/Production Manager/Editor, Innovative Technologies, Inc., (2004 – 2009) Production Specialist: Voice of America: Innovative Technologies, Inc., (2004 – 2008) ROBERT S. LANDAU
443-***-**** *********@*******.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-landau-93712b2/ CORE QUALIFICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• Ability to envision the big picture, engaging a new perspective and approach to managing projects to best determine how all project phases and the parent company are addressed.
• Maintained quality, style, budget, and scheduling expectations as established by network/clients.
• Worked collaboratively with clients, contractors, and colleagues, offering clear and concise directives that ensured the organic delivery of the client’s message in support of the final product.
• Identified client requirements in order to design and deliver a product that exceeded expectations, managing and coordinating technical logistics to ensure a seamless presentation with a high level of production value.
• All project-related planning, documentation, communication, recordation, billing, and archiving.
• Evaluated requirements to determine and source necessary technical equipment, production artists and craftsmen, contract source vendors, and solidify licensing elements while managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Developed and executed programming and promotional content that engaged brand objectives and provided an interactive experience across both digital and broadcast platforms, contributing meaningful insight into the ideation and development of creative concepts, carefully ensuring requirements and expectations are met.
• Managed staff & contractors to ensure the optimization of studio functions, demonstrating notable expertise in lighting, graphics, audio, and equipment functions for live broadcasts.
• Engaged notable expertise in the fields of film, television, broadcast media and printing to support organizational growth and provide added production value with proven levels of competency and creativity applied across multiple disciplines.
• Writing, editing, reviewing, and approving scripts, overseeing the direction of project and working with other producers/engineers/artists to establish best practices for story development, fostering an environment based on innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
• Creative Producer and Director, who is comfortable guiding the crew and working with the talent to create a productive working space, while getting the best out of all participants.
• Hands on work in all aspects of production creation; blocking, lighting, shooting, audio recording, digital editing (Adobe CSS), color correction, audio mixing and various deliverables.
• Managed client expectations throughout the production life cycle including pre-production planning, managing shoot logistics, setting budgets, allocating resources, producing scripts, and overseeing post-production edits.
• Planned and coordinated logistics for project time-line, all printing approvals and production, managing each phase of operations through to delivery, demonstrating flexibility, critical thinking, and problem solving skills in identifying requirements, establishing budgets, sourcing contractors, and producing documentation including shot lists, call sheets, and scripts.
• Managed post-delivery performance including overseeing enhancements, corrections, cropping and other video, audio, and photographic manipulations.
• Expanded the production department and organizational reach with increased profitability.
• Developed and executed programming and promotional content that engaged brand objectives and provided an interactive experience across both digital and broadcast platforms, contributing meaningful insight into the ideation and development of creative concepts, carefully ensuring requirements and expectations are met.
ROBERT S. LANDAU
443-***-**** *********@*******.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-landau-93712b2/ PRODUCTION
• Developed and executed programming and promotional content that engaged brand objectives and provided an interactive experience across both digital and tactile platforms, contributing meaningful insight into the ideation and development of creative concepts, carefully ensuring requirements and expectations are met.
• Managed creative team to ensure the optimization of functionality, demonstrating notable expertise in writing to audience, branding and personnel management to support organizational growth and provide added production value with proven levels of competency and creativity applied across multiple disciplines.
• Writing, editing, reviewing, photo editing and approving materials/plans, overseeing the direction of creative work, fostering an environment based on innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
• Creative Producer and Director, who is comfortable guiding the various contributors and creating a productive working space, while getting the best out of all participants.
• Managed client expectations throughout the production life cycle including pre-production planning, managing shoot logistics, setting budgets, allocating resources, planning scripts, and overseeing finishing and deliverables.
• Planned and coordinated shoot logistics for in-studio and field productions, managing each phase of operations through to delivery, demonstrating flexibility, critical thinking, and problem solving skills in identifying requirements, establishing budgets, sourcing contractors, and producing documentation including shot lists, call sheets, and scripts.
• Managed post-delivery performance including overseeing enhancements, corrections, cropping and other video, audio, and photographic manipulations.
• Expanded the production department and organizational reach under budget and with increased profitability.
OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT
• Fostered partnerships with key industry vendors and service providers leading to repeat usage/ patronage, ensuring their service offerings best suited organizational needs and client requirements to optimize contracting and production.
• Maintained an awareness of emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends in media production, promptly solving any problems in a time-sensitive work environment.
• Facilitated operational strategy meetings to develop marketing, sales, and branding objectives and address performance in relation to target metrics, established goals, and client satisfaction.
• Implemented process improvements and technologies that streamlined workflows and resulted in notable growth, expanded service offerings, and shifts in quality while educating staff on how to best disseminate messaging.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a deadline driven environment.
• History of bringing productions run, or under, budget, while still providing the highest level of production values.
• Big believer in the proper “branding” of the product &/or company/organization, showing a consistency of visual formatting and brand recognition on all media presented by company.
• Managed crew members to ensure the optimization of studio functions, demonstrating notable expertise in lighting, graphics, audio, and equipment functions for live broadcasts. ROBERT S. LANDAU
443-***-**** *********@*******.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-landau-93712b2/
• Engaged notable expertise in the fields of communication, media management, and broadcast media to support organizational growth and provide added production value with proven levels of competency and creativity applied across multiple disciplines.
• skills in identifying requirements, establishing budgets, sourcing contractors, and producing documentation including shot lists, call sheets, and scripts.
• Managed post-delivery performance including overseeing enhancements, corrections, cropping and other video, audio, and photographic manipulations.
• Expanded the production department and organizational reach under budget and with increased profitability.
• Creative production management, knowing equipment, budgets, planning/scheduling, licensing and media management.
TECHNICAL & CREATIVE OVERSIGHT
• Crafted compelling narratives and scripts aligned with multiple writing and production styles including film, TV, live broadcast, and pre-recorded commercials.
• Ability to engage on-camera spokesperson, narration, voice-over, and hosting (radio, TV, podcast, hybrid and webinar) work.
• Well versed in all styles of production, including feature films, cable, TV, industrial, educational, corporate, PSA’s and commercials
• Invaluable technical expertise and notable skills and familiarity of myriad of production equipment, formats, styles; analog and electronic production for broadcasts and live events (Beta, DVC-Pro, Mini-DV, Ki-Pro, Non-Linear Systems (Premiere, Final Cut) and Servers, as well as record, all on a variety of formats including tape, digital drives, and servers.
• Writing, editing, reviewing, and approving material, overseeing the direction of production and working with producers/engineers and craftsmen to establish best practices for story development and sound design, fostering an environment based on innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
• Creative Producer/Production Manager/Coordinator, who is comfortable guiding the work, with the talent to create a productive working space, while getting the best out of all participants.
• Hands on work in all aspects of production creation and various deliverables.
• Planned and coordinated shoot logistics for in-studio and field productions, managing each phase of operations through to delivery, demonstrating flexibility, critical thinking, and problem solving.
• Managed client expectations throughout the production life cycle including pre-production planning, managing project logistics, setting budgets, allocating resources, reviewing and proof reading all written materials, and overseeing finishing work. EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF ART, FILM PRODUCTION, California State University, Northridge AWARDS
GABRIELLE AWARD, Excellence in Broadcasting (National) - Paulist News Magazine “Earth Day” SILVER TELLY AWARD, HUD “Who We Are” promotional video BRONZE TELLY AWARD, “Reflexology: The Living, Loving Woman” educational video & literature. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD, “Reflexology: The Living, Loving Woman” educational literature.
“WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES” Multimedia Samples for Bob Landau
I am giving you choices for what it is you want to look at to see my work. There are individual links to videos on YouTube that show a variety of production skill sets and styles to give examples of the diversity of my abilities, as well as the consistency of quality. These include informative videos
(mostly for government agencies), an award winning PSA and also a sampling of photography and Photoshop work.
Producing, Directing, Editing, Videography and Lighting The Video Services department at DAU is experiencing new growth, adding three Producer/ Multimedia Specialist/Editor positions as contractors and a new Production Lead on the government side. This new blood will be advancing the use of creative story-telling and video techniques to further the University’s presence and ability to deliver top-notch product. Seeing as my current position is as a Producer/Multimedia Specialist and Production Manager for DAU. For the first one, the lighting and camera set up was all new for DAU, something I worked on and designed. There will be graphics that can be added on an as-needed basis, but this is sampling of the video of guest speakers, and their introductions to their video modules that are in progress. Towards that end, one of my main responsibilities – aside from Production Managing shoots, running cameras, setting lights and setting audio – is in the directing of talent, switching the live broadcasts and massaging the scripts that the clients initial come up with. https://youtu.be/RjMeXs5RXdY
This clip is the promotional video (PSA) for HUD, in which the Broadcast/Video Division Director wanted to showcase the variety of production elements they could do for their stakeholders. The Director of this division wanted to have visuals that would “pop”, using different colors and production techniques to highlight what they had to offer. He asked me – a day-hire contractor, before I was FT staff – to bring my vast experience in producing, shooting and design to create a montage like segment that needed no voice over/dialog to communicate these elements. Purposefully using different color splashes for backgrounds, low lit areas of technical components to allow the lighted buttons to stand out and the use of a variety of production techniques such as Jib, Steadi-cam, hand held and circumference “spinning” tripod shots allowed us to show these available devices & techniques. All along, I specifically used clips from projects and events that had a high level of agency personnel, marketing exposure and importance to the agency, as a whole. Specifically, the shot of a staff videographer shooting a commercial for the in house gym gave the look of seeing the production being done.
The editing of the piece had a purposeful design, as well, starting with the basics of intra-agency scheduling to a classroom to the bigger and more involved productions, showing a number of the same events repeating in different stages of the creative & technical process, culminating with the final preparations for the Secretary of HUD about give an on-camera address. (This production won a Telly Award for original Government Agency Self Promotion spots) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdjv0ZXYiIc
Photo Retouching
Color correction and retouching form various clients. Color grading and correction, as well as masking and highlighting – down to the thin sparks of flame from a welder. At HUD, I also serve as the back-up still photographer for the department, and have won her (and her staffs’) trust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of5Z6IL5XTo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-landau-93712b2/
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