Mar 2016 – Aug 2022 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• ★ Accountable for designing and implementing production media strategies, coordinating all resources, and achieving a 36 percent increase in sales by reengineering workflows and processes.
• ➤ KEY RESULT AREAS
• Responsible for establishing and enforcing procedures pertaining to media production, resource management, and the 36% increase in sales that were achieved as a result of reorganizing workflows and processes.
• Providing the idea and the video material to producers, ensuring that the media broadcast met specified company objectives and improved product offering.
• Successfully planned and conducted training for 15 editors on new procedures for partner material.
• Defined skills in supporting Uniphore Systems Pvt. Ltd. in building artificial intelligence for well-known brands in Vietnamese, Japanese, Singlish, and German, including PNB Met Life, Bajaj Allianz, Apollo Munich, Swiggy, Dominos, BYJUs, NHC, Royal Enfield, and International Brands.
• Extensive background providing Media Services in the fields of subtitling and closed captioning for videos shot in languages other than English, including but not limited to Kurdish, French, Spanish, Russian, Malay, Sinhala, Arabic, Nepali, etc. for Forest Creative Pvt. Ltd.
• Dynamically generated creative resources; provided creative direction and leadership for numerous TV commercials, radio jingles, e-learning videos, corporate films, marketing videos, translation, localization, dubbing, and voice-over projects.
• Completed the 2018 Karnataka Innovation Report translation with flying colors (An IIM Bangalore undertaking for Govt. of Karnataka).
• Leading a group of more than 120 writers, translators, voice actors, editors, audio engineers, and designers.
• Headed the creative team in developing new ideas and concepts while managing the operations and marketing departments to increase income. Leading daily scrums, weekly, and monthly status meetings.

Dec 2014 – Oct 2015 · 10 mos · beIN sports (Al Jazeera Sports) Television, Doha, Qatar · On-site

• ★ Professional experience with specific applications such as Harmonic Pro Drive, Selenio x100 (Dual Channel Frame synchronize and converter), BATON, and DIVA Director.
• ➤ KEY RESULT AREAS
• Directed the day-to-day operations of the media department, oversaw the team's work, served as a resource, and led the media department's strategic planning and implementation.
• Project revived after 15 years of neglect; coordinated production; archived 20 years' worth of the company's best stories.
• Through the implementation of a template system that enabled editors to generate metadata for numerous videos simultaneously, productivity was increased by 21%, and costs were decreased by 9%.
• Monitored various recordings/captures and the ingested files, transferred confirmed files for quality check, and digitized all tape-based assets for the Media Asset Management system (MAM).
• Created and led a team with great potential to ease the burden of searching for certain images among numerous obsolete video formats and cassettes.
• Directed the successful completion of around 50,000 hours of post-production work, including video editing, digitization, tagging, and metadata insertion.
• Led negotiations and was the point person for the project's day-to-day running.
• Served as the main point of contact for all matters pertaining to project management, operations management, strategic planning and analysis, employee training and advancement, financial forecasting, turnaround and crisis management, quality benchmarking, and content-operation collaboration.

Feb 2009 – Nov 2014 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• ★ Adaptively delivered media and language services to Google Inc. for their Google News Initiative (training seminars for journalists are being held around India).
• ➤ KEY RESULT AREAS
• Google Inc. received media and language services that were dynamically offered for use in their Google News Initiative (train the journalist workshops being held across India).
• Delivered a successful online training project totaling close to 200 hours for Maruti Suzuki, Castrol, and Mahindra Navistar together.
• ETV Bharat News Network's content promotion, marketing, advertising, and social media campaigns have all been expertly translated into thirteen regional languages.
• Managed teams of scriptwriters, translators, cameramen, editors, audio engineers, animators, and graphic designers to ensure the timely, high-quality completion of audio/video and other projects.
• Managed day-to-day operations, including staffing, client relations, vendor relations, project scope, timeliness, cost estimates, timeliness of execution and delivery, process improvement, change management, evaluations, training, and quality assurance.

Mar 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Gathering and writing stories related to Technology and Cyber crime.

Jun 2000 – Feb 2006 · 5 yrs 8 mos

• General:
• Sourcing, training and managing production teams for all projects, including graphics, editing, closed captioning, re purposing, meta tagging etc
• Management of process and quality assurance for the above
• Achievement of delivery and billing targets and resource planning for the same
• Interaction with technical/support teams to achieve delivery targets
• Managing customer relations and business development with all existing clients
• Creative inputs, guidelines and decisions to individual producers on projects
• In charge of building News Bulletin and Breakfast show using the available technology facility in ETV Kannada.
• Production and Technical:
• Controlling live PCR as Director and assisting in production of daily News
• Packaging promos for various programs and channel promotions
• Editing news, entertainment stories and ensuring correct transfer to the server
• Troubleshooting with Main actor Editing software, Adobe Premier and making back-ups
• Supervising live operation of Microwave OB Vans and coordinating live hits during newscasts
• Administrative:
• Managing and coordinating the News Operations
• Managing and coordinating the Breakfast show and other in-house Productions
• Facilitating the requirements for smooth news and production programming
• Quality control of all on-air programming
• Managing log books and assigning shifts of the Production team and editors
• Gave periodic seminars to the production team on improving and learning editing skills