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Five Star Media (Pty) LtdCEO & Executive Producer
Jul. 2013Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Five Star MediaOwner/Producer
Jul. 2013Johannesburg Area, South AfricaFive Star Media is a full service digital communications consultancy and production company. After many years of working together informally on various projects through their companies, General Post & Vaxo, partners Kirsty Galliard and Alan Roberts decided to start Five Star Media as a vehicle to create engaging content for clients. In the short time Five Star has been operating, the company has done work for iconic brands such as Standard Bank, MTN, AECI, Bayer Crop Sciences, Sentech, ABSA Barclays, Imperial, AVI Group, MacDonalds, Amstel, Didata, Resolve, Nokia, Microsoft, Altech, Aon, Nestle, Sun International, SA Tourism, Cliffe Decker Hofmeyer Attorneys and The Walt Disney Company.
Five Star MediaExecutive Producer
Jan. 2013Johannesburg
DSPMProject Manager, Communications Consultant
Jun. 2009 - Jan. 2012Bryanston, JohannesburgDSPM develops process improvement strategies and multi-platform media products for large, mostly international companies. I work on a project basis and contribute to strategy, writing of training material and project management. Projects I have worked on include:
•Project Cornerstone for MTS Allstream, one of Canada’s leading communications solutions companies.
•American Express International Call Centre Process Improvement programme.
•Various Opentext ECM Communication Projects.
•Project Imbumba for Transalloys Silicomanganese producer.
Kirsty GalliardFreelance copywriter specializing in tenders and proposals
Jan. 2009 - Jan. 2013Writing mainly executive summaries for tender proposals as well as company profiles and any other bits of communication required
General Post, SAManaging Director / Owner
Jun. 2008 - Feb. 2019Bryanston, Johannesburg•Planning and strategy for business growth and functioning on a quarterly basis
•Marketing and PR (print, web and social media)
•Maintaining business relationships and creating strategic partnerships
•Screening and interviewing of all crew wanting to join our books.
•Consulting with clients on post-production workflow and putting together appropriate teams.
•General bookkeeping,forecasting, invoicing and financial projections using Quickbooks.
•Liasing with our sister companies in the UK and Canada on international work.
•Planning and running our annual South Africa’s Next Top Filmmaker Competition in partnership with industry leaders.
Adrian Galliard MusicManager, Adrian Galliard
Jul. 2006 - Jan. 2013JohannesburgManaging bookings and live gigs for Adrian Galliard. Scheduling and administration of album recording.
Mann Made MediaProducer / Production manager
Jan. 2003 - Jan. 2008•Project management of all work coming through the company, taking client briefs, coming up with solutions for the clients needs, putting together teams to execute the process and seeing it through to the delivery stage. *Client relationship management, keeping clients happy, liasing with them regarding the status of their jobs.
•Creating budgets and schedules and allocating resources to each project.
•Trouble-shooting and problem solving.
•Setting up and maintaining post-production facilities and administrative systems such as job management, media management, archives etc. •Supervising 26 staff members. I was responsible for all HR functions such as contracting staff, tracking leave, holding disciplinary hearings, hiring and firing.
Envisage Multimediaeditor / general jack-of-all trades
Jan. 1999 - Jan. 2002*Sitting in on client briefs, writing proposals, scripts and treatments.
*Writing, Directing and editing the smaller projects.
*Working in Adobe Premire and After Effects to create AV's and presentations.
*Doing continuity and editing the larger projects.
*Production co-ordinator and manager on larger projects.
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