Under the supervision of Director of Data Archive in Asset Management this position is responsible for the delivery and incorporation of feature television and other content data into the digital archive including ordering data quality assurance on data reports labeling and documentation as well as creating and updating relevant information in SPE systems. As part of this role supervise Data Facilitators who assist in the delivery and documentation of assets. Liaison with asset management and department/vendor/internal functions as required to direct the manufacture delivery and storage of final archive data. Budgeting and tracking for the digital archive migration planning and communication of policy and specifications for data archive to internal and external clients vendors and partners.
Responsibilities
Oversees the work of Data Facilitators provides day to day direction on logistics activities record entry and order creation.
Manages the acquisition of data deliverables for new features television archival projects (restoration and re-mastering) and other data resources from internal sources and external suppliers per contract.
Oversees the movement of data for remastering projects advises on protocols and processes for such movement and identifies the sources for such project requests.
Oversees the ingest processing and duplication of material in the data archive and reviews the implementation of asset management protocols for data.
Manages the correction updating or other modification of archival data as necessary.
Examines data at the end of the normalization phase to determine its completeness and viability for the archive; reviews and approves technical reports concerning material in the data archive.
Documents and oversees data resources in GOLD and other data repositories
Tracks and manages data including storage retrieval modification documentation and migration.
Retrieves and supplies data from the archive as required and interacts with asset management personnel and other departments to affect the timely and accurate delivery of data resources for deployment in various business lines as needed.
Supervises the migration and/or transcoding of data resources from physical copies and network repositories to new copies locations and formats and as prescribed by asset management policy for long-term retention of data resources. Creates purchase orders work orders and other instructions associated with the digital archive.
Reviews invoices for accuracy and completeness.
Tracks project status and workflow performs research and preparation of activity reports as necessary
Prepares reports for budgeting and work volumes for Management as required.
Manage workflow of data from productions through archive process including physical and cloud processes. Participate in reconstruction of Sony feature and television assets from data resources. Participate in management and training of personnel involved in the archive.
Participate in (a) content policy for data accessioning and (b) implementation new storage scenarios for archival data types. Participate in planning and development meetings with Technology Development regarding the archive (production hand-off cloud storage protocol accessioning of archival resources and data deliveries). Participate in the development of workflows and workflow documentation for cloud storage
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelors degree or higher
Courses and/or training in Film/Television video production data/information or archive management
Years of Experience:
4-6 years of experience within the film and video industry technical understanding of production and postproduction and digital workflows and technical experience with industry standards of quality management.
Skills Required:
Excellent organizational skills required including working knowledge of scheduling and coordinating work at postproduction film and video facilities.
Written and oral communication skills including Microsoft Windows (Excel) required.
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