Resume

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A true Renaissance man, Mr. Janes (aka BCJ) is an experienced Multimedia Producer and Program Manager with an impressive track record in translating business needs into system requirements for solutions, and then implementing them.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Owner, Multimedia Producer & Program Manager

Multimedia Producer

• Currently producing "All That Glitters: Portraits of Burlesque Performers In Their Homes", a multimedia endeavor that seeks the answer to the question: What is burlesque? The project will culminate in a coffee table book, a documentary film, and gallery exhibitions in cities throughout the United States.
• Professional photographer operating BCJ Photography, a full-service photography studio providing portrait and commercial photography services to private parties and corporations.
• Launched PinupPhotoParty.com in 2008, an event where ladies unleash their inner Pinup Girl
• Served as the official photographer for burlesque productions throughout Chicago, including Varietease Cabaret, Belmont Burlesque and Lavender Cabaret, among others.
• Completed workshops with renowned glamour photographers Rolando Gomez, Mark Daughn and Moses Marquez.
• Gallery debut in the summer of 2009 at the Nineteen Hundred and One Gallery in Chicago.

Program Manager

• Product Development & Project Management consultant providing solutions to help companies solve problems, maximize efficiency and increase revenue.
• Enhanced a report for Weichert Realtors - Endeavor based on analysis of real estate listing data that enables agents and home sellers to understand when they should modify a home's listing price.
• Consulted with Rewards Network to understand their current and future on-line advertising needs, evaluate their existing solution and make recommendations on the changes required to realize their long-term goals efficiently and with reasonable cost.
• Built and maintain a web site for internationally-acclaimed stage director James Marvel, as well as provide web hosting and maintenance services for other small to medium-sized businesses.

Director, Electronic Distribution & IT

• Festival Airlines was a startup vacation airline based in Chicago, IL with plans to provide safe, reliable and affordable air transportation between major metropolitan airports and popular vacation destinations in the Americas. As of January 2007, Festival ceased operations.
• Responsible for the implementation, configuration and on-going operations of all methods by which a customer could purchase an electronic ticket. This included:
  • Web site: Collaborated with Trisept Solutions (Milwaukee, WI) to design, develop and implement the Festival web site. Maintained policies and vacation destination content.
  • Call Center: Worked with Airline Reservations Center (Daniels, WV) to seamlessly integrate their call center services into Festival's product offerings.
  • Reservations Systems: Managed the relationship with Radixx International (Orlando, FL) to integrate and configure airline reservations capabilities on Festival's web site, and with Trisept Solutions to integrate and configure vacation packaging reservations capabilities.
• Responsible for researching and developing requirements for the IT infrastructure needs and assembling a budget and plan to implement the required infrastructure. This included e-mail and intranet solutions, and all desktop and communications solutions.

• Responsible for product development initiatives for all data & revenue products including Hotelligence, RateVIEW & ChannelManager, a combined annual revenue source of over $35 million.
• Led the product development and project management for Hotelligence FuturePACE, a new data report that provides hoteliers the ability to analyze future booking trends. Project completed on schedule with successful release date in April 2005 and over $1.7 million in sales by year's end.
• Completed a project to migrate electronic advertising support, a $12 million/year source of revenue, from legacy partner systems to the DoubleClick DART Enterprise platform without interruption to production.
• Led product development and project management efforts for the implementation of electronic advertising functionality, a $10 million/year source of revenue, using DoubleClick's Dart Enterprise and ZEDO's "3rd Generation Ad Serving" software,
  • into multiple high transaction volume mainframe environments known as Global Distribution Systems (GDS) including Worldspan, Galileo and Sabre.
  • into multiple on-line travel web sites including StarCite.com and Hotwire.com
• Managed major enhancements to existing advertising products and operational processes.
  • Successful enhancements include implementation of additional ad inventory resulting in a $50,000 reduction of spoilage risk and creation of process documentation and diagrams for the Internet Media operations group where such documentation did not previously exist.
• Developed and introduced numerous management reports for ad campaign analysis. Use of these reports enabled the company to avoid a potential annual loss of $500,000 in revenue.

• Developed, documented and maintained technical specifications for ad serving integration and implementation into eight national web sites including Cars.com, Apartments.com and 140 Affiliates.
• Responsible for hiring, training and management of the daily operations of on-line ad serving for leading web sites in the transportation and real estate on-line classifieds industry.
• Promoted three times within two years, thus allowing the opportunity to function in full capacity within each role in the Ad Serving team.
• Acted as technical and functional business lead in a project to research, document, and recommend alternative ad serving solutions.
• Interacted with sales, marketing and product development to ensure robust ad targeting capabilities within the ad serving products.

EDUCATION

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Expert user of multiple software solutions for Mac and Windows commonly used in the production of multimedia presentations, including Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Pro, Apple Logic Studio, Digidesign Pro Tools, among others, as well as business software solutions for project management and product development.