Web Project Coordinator
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
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- Web Project Coordinator (Consultant) at Sony Latin America
- Webmaster (Consultant) at S.K.Ripstein Enterprises
- Web Consultant for internal sales team (eBay listings) at AuctionSetup
- Multimedia Producer at Vision Earth Society
- Line Producer (staff) at NBC Universal
- Senior Associate Producer (staff) at MTV Networks Latin America
- Local Production Manager/Coordinator at Nickelodeon International
- TV Producer / Production Manager / Crew Coordinator at Akerman Productions
- Education
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- The Avid Institute
- Instituto Superior de Enseñanza de Radiodifusión
- Universidad del Cine
- El Camino Community College
- Harbor College
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Colegio Lincoln Hall
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Melvin Akerman’s Summary
Counsultant as Web Project Coordinator in Miami for Sony Latin America's websites, associated to most of regional campaigns.
Melvin Akerman’s Specialties:
Web:
Advanced SEO knowledge, diverse project management with web agencies, Adwords and Adsense (Google), PPC, Internet Publishing, HTML and WYSIWYG editing.
Multimedia:
Online Video Editing (Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere), iNews (NBC), Broadcast Video cameraman (ENG/EFP, studio)
Melvin Akerman’s Experience
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Web Project Coordinator (Consultant)
Sony Latin America
(Public Company; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)
July 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 9 months)
Working in the position of external Consultant for the Marketing department, with responsibilities to manage the process of creating or adapting the needed Sony Latin America's online minisites, making appropriate recommendations for the strategies that best suit current and future needs.
This position also includes:
- Discussing online strategies with all marketing/advertising team members and product managers, based also on the target market and audience, for all the regional marketing campaigns
- Provide briefings for these projects to assigned agencies
- Process feedback from the concepts received
- Final online deployments, by coordinating the deployment dates
- Test the required online measurement metrics -
Webmaster (Consultant)
S.K.Ripstein Enterprises
(Online Media industry)
June 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Responsibilities include making appropriate recommendations for the strategies that best suit the needs to optimize web traffic, including:
- Search Engine Optimization of the site
- Inserting different movie, entertainment and event contents
- Creation thumbnails and ads to promote all new media available.
These strategies did finally increase ways to attract audiences. -
Web Consultant for internal sales team (eBay listings)
AuctionSetup
(Retail industry)
March 2004 — March 2007 (3 years 1 month)
Responsibilities included making all appropriate recommendations for sale strategies by using the eBay platform, and to best suit the needs to promote and sale of this company’s high ticket items (such as Broadcast TV Cameras and its accessories).
This task was performed by the internal sales team, after being thought to do the following tasks:
- Research products to list on eBay for auction
- Acquire of the proper pictures, thumbnails and descriptions of items
- Contact potential buyers by email exchange
- Final handling of all payment procedures
- Processing the final shipping, handling and online tracking -
Multimedia Producer
Vision Earth Society
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
April 2002 — July 2005 (3 years 4 months)
Responsibilities included multimedia productions (recording, editing DVD authoring, replications, etc) of several documentaries on the folowing topics: better nutricional education, different types of alternative medicine cures using organic meal supplements, the aquatic life-style of different animals, and a variety of client promotional videos.
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Line Producer (staff)
NBC Universal
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Entertainment industry)
October 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 7 months)
TV production of the live in-studio show "The Roof”, which aired prime-time on weekdays, including also all daily pre and post productions of show including young urban-oriented guests and daily performances of artists oriented to hip-hop and reggaeton music-styles.
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Senior Associate Producer (staff)
MTV Networks Latin America
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VIA; Entertainment industry)
November 1994 — October 2001 (7 years )
Responsibilities included all aspects of the production of the show "Conexion", including production of remote interviews and supervision of talent, all pre and post productions of show, Associate Producers, Production Assistants, and Interns.
• Created programming which responded to its "cutting edge" style.
• Produced the coverage of a total of 4 MTV International shows, remotely on locations which included the worldwide teamwork effort of all parts included.
• Produced a total of 18 interviews with internationally known music artists, in Europe, US, and the Americas, gaining more interest from the audience in seeing their favorite artists. -
Local Production Manager/Coordinator
Nickelodeon International
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
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TV Producer / Production Manager / Crew Coordinator
Akerman Productions
(Media Production industry)
November 1994 — November 1999 (5 years 1 month)
Assisted with the complete local production, which consisted of maintaining clients' "network" style, rrequently working on remote and sometimes difficult to access locations.
Worked as a local Production Manager for the regional segments of the special show "Nickelenio" (shot in Mexico, Argentina, Honduras, Dominican Rep.), working also locally during the remote shoots. Some of these regional takes also become part of the US-Nickelodeon main show.
Developed and produced a total of 55 shows "MTV Afuera 95" which involved extensive traveling to landmark locations in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and Argentina.
Other list of clients included:
Nickelodeon Latin America, MTV Latin America, CNN, Cartoon Networks Latin America, USA Networks, Don King Productions, BBC, Bridgestone/Firestone, Sheraton Luxury Collection, etc.
Productions required handling of both equipment and TV crew members.
Melvin Akerman’s Education
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The Avid Institute
Avid Composer/Express Editor , Online Video Editor , 2001 — 2001
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Instituto Superior de Enseñanza de Radiodifusión
Production of Broadcast TV and Radio 1990 — 1991
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Universidad del Cine
Cinematography 1990 — 1991
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El Camino Community College
Psychology 1986 — 1988
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Harbor College
English as a Second Language 1985 — 1986
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Universidad de Buenos Aires
Ingenieria Electronica 1984 — 1985
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Colegio Lincoln Hall
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