Manager Management

Harvey Alan Lehrer

**** ********* ******, #* ● Santa Monica, CA 90404 ● cell 310-***-**** ● ************@*****.***

Summary of Qualifications

Senior video production manager with extensive experience in all aspects of developing & overseeing a project from inception to completion with core strengths in the creative development, execution, management, branding, marketing & deployment of a broad-spectrum of New Media, live events and broadcast television production.

Areas of Expertise

Program & Project Management ● Strategic Planning ● Staff & Client Management ● New Media Expertise ● Live Event Planning & Production ● Live & Recorded Video Production ● Oral & Written Presentations ● Social Media Marketing ● Creative Writing ● Web 2.0 ● Budgets & Schedules ● Legal ● Negotiation

Professional Experience

Jewish Television Network - Los Angeles, CA

Independent Contractor – Senior Director (2010 – 2011)

•Responsible for website management, content creation, acquisition, development, syndication, marketing and promotion. Oversee every aspect of the broadband network’s daily operation.

•Original content creation: develop, supervise, produce, direct and/or write programs distributed over broadband network. Programming includes: live events & performances, instructional, educational & video blogs.

•Negotiated and developed strategic partnerships for the explicit purpose of jointly developing, producing and sharing content. The resulting efforts included the acquisition of over 150 video programs and series for no licensing fees.

•Directly responsible for growing monthly traffic over 435 percent from May 2010 through March 2011.

JTN Productions - Los Angeles, CA

Vice President of Broadband & Production(2006 – 2010)

•Established, created & executed New Media initiative resulting in overall online traffic growth year over year.

•Responsible for site management, content creation, acquisition, development, syndication, marketing and promotion. Oversaw every aspect of the broadband network’s daily operation.

•Original content creation: developed, supervised, produced, directed and/or wrote programs distributed

over broadband network. Programming includes: live events and performances, instructional, educational

and video blogs.

•Negotiated and developed strategic partnerships for the express purpose of jointly developing, producing and sharing content.

•Wrote grant proposals and delivered live presentations that directly resulted in raising one-third

of the broadband annual budget for the first three years.

•Initiated outreach efforts including: building strategic community partnerships, implemented & built social media/network, and delivered presentations.

Vice President of Production & Programming (1997 – 2006)

•Oversaw all facets of production, post production and programming including budgeting, scheduling, hiring, coordination and supervising. Duties included producing, directing and supervising production.

•Conceptualized, developed and executed programming that elevated content from local and regional markets to national broadcast distributed to over 90 million viewers with a consistent rating of 1.5 – 2.5.

•Produced, directed, wrote and/or supervised programs distributed on network, cable and Public Television.

Programming includes: live performances, news, public affairs, documentaries, scripted dramas, lifestyle (cooking & crafts), children’s & entertainment. Guest and coverage ranged from U. S. Presidents and Heads of State to today’s top performers and entertainers.

•Directly responsible for over 250 hours of broadcast television content.

Director of Production (1989 – 1997)

•Oversaw the daily production of up to 3 hours a week of television programming. Responsible for budgets, scheduling, production coordination, videotaping and post-production.

•Produced and/or directed hundreds of hours of serial television & specials including: Music, entertainment, celebrity & political interviews, documentaries, cooking series, children’s programs & magazine style pieces.

•Qualitatively raised production values enabling content to move from community access to broadcast, cable and Public Television stations.

•Directly responsible for over 350 hours of broadcast television content.

Pixtion Productions - Los Angeles, CA

Owner/Producer/Director (1987 – 1989)

•Specialized in commercials, music videos and industrials for American and European television.

•Produced and directed magazine style series and weekly news program for cable television.

•Managed multiple projects & clients simultaneously.

•Launched, marketed and successfully grew small independent production company.

A Partial Guest/Talent List

President's Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; Vice President's Al Gore and Dan Quayle; Secretaries of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, Casper Weinberger, Gen. Alexander Haig and Lawrence Eagleburger; Senators George Mitchell, Barbara Mikulski, Joseph Lieberman, Orin Hatch, Christopher Dodd and Jack Kemp; Israel’s President Shimon Peres, Israel’s Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Shamir and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Diplomat Abba Eban, Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller; entertainers Al Franken (before he was a senator), Ben Kingsley, Natalie Portman, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Bob Saget, Jamie Gertz, Doris Roberts, Sarah Silverman, Fran Drescher, Rob Reiner, Kirk Douglas, Howie Mandel, George Segal, Leonard Nimoy, Richard Belzer, Jack Klugman, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Jules Feiffer, Lorne Michaels, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Dick Cavett, Norman Lear, Tony Curtis, Milton Berle, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon and authors Jonathan Safran Foer, Chaim Potok, Mitch Albom, Christopher Hitchens and many more.

Awards

James Beard Nomination (Best National Cooking Show), Diamond Award (News & Public Affairs), Award of Excellence - U.S. International Film Festival, Silver Remi – World Fest Houston.

Professional & Technical Skills

Broadband Manager, Social Media Expert, SEO & SEM Proficient, Marketing, Promotion, Acquisition, Distribution, Syndication, Content Management Systems, Supervising Producer, Production Manager/Coordinator, Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Video Editor, Cameraman, Sound, MS Office Suite, Computer Proficient

Education

Masters Program – Film and Television – California Institute of the Arts, CA

Mentor: Visual Artist & Department Dean, Ed Emshwiller

Bachelors of Science –Anthropology/Film – University of Southern California, CA

Mentor: Pioneering Visual Anthropologist and Department Dean, Timothy Asch

Additional Information: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant to Mr. Asch. Dean’s List

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