Please feel free to also see my LinkedIn profile.
** Caveat** This is a general resume. If you are interested in bringing me into a project, I will supply a formal physical or PDF version, and am happy to interview to discuss the applicability of my skills to that project.
** Caveat deux ** I am currently engaged full time with the wonderful company Rovi, so am only considering a very limited range of consulting offers at the moment. If you an interesting project, get in touch, and we’ll determine if it is best suited to my skills or if I should refer you to one of my many talented colleagues.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ERICH LUDWIG CREATIVE CONSULTING (Various Projects) 2001 – PRESENT
Digital & New Media consulting serving organizations, festivals, labels, artists, and companies
- Music Licensing & Supervision for independent films, including work on Nora (a Movement (R)evolution Africa project), Traces of the Trade, and other upcoming releases
- Concert Production, Recording Production & Supervision
- Manage, book & tour West African artists throughout the USA
- Placement of releases with labels in the USA and Europe
- Artist Coaching (including coaching through Derek Sivers’ Music Career Coaching program)
Sounds of the Mushroom
- License music from Sounds of the Mushroom catalog for various film, multi-media projects
- Advise & consult on strategy, marketing, new products
- Seek out business development opportunities, licensing, shows, and all other manner of minutiae as needed by a talented and overworked producer. . .
Organic Music
- Artist management for domestic and international artists
- Handle variety of contract negotiations, from artist management to license deals with other labels, management companies, and booking agents
- Production and supervision of original recording and remix projects
- Booking of artists throughout United States and Europe, as well as for shows in other territories
- Global talent scout for new artists
- Create strategy for US-based internationally focused music label
Nomadic Wax
- Artistic and Strategic Consultant for various Nomadic Wax projects, including collaborations with The Red Hot Organization (upcoming release) and Modiba/OkayPlayer (Dry Yai Project)
- Co-Producer, Global Underground Hip Hop Tour 2007 and other live shows
- Designed and directed digital branding & placement efforts for project African Underground: Democracy in Dakar, an episodic documentary shot during the 2007 Senegalese presidential elections. Placement includes “real world” (2007 Urbanworld Vibe Film Festival, 2007 Bronx Film Festival) and online (CurrentTV user voted winner, OurStage Viewers Choice, Brightcove, YouTube, Revver, etc).
OffBeatNola.mobi
- Solely responsible for all non-coding (implementation) aspects of a mobile phone based schedule platform for OffBeat Magazine and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, including integration of text message show reminders and promotions for festival attendees
- Hired and managed technical staff to do all implementation aspects of project
One Giant Leap, “Fixer” (In-Country Talent Scout/Guide/Cultural Consultant)
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“Fixer” in Mali, West Africa for the 2nd “1 Giant Leap” project, produced by 19 Entertainment
- Identified artists to participate in the project, Explained project to artists, Obtained legal and verbal consent from artists, handled payments to artists for sessions
- Worked with Oumou Sangare, Rokia Traore, Ramata Diakite, and other leading artists in Mali
- Translated footage and songs from Bambara to English
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Alliance Manager, Rovi Corporation 2010 – Present
I work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to expand the content offerings of TotalGuide, Rovi’s advanced electronic programming guide that combines over-the-top Internet video, recommendations, VOD, traditional TV listings, and more.
Senior Director, Operations, MediaUnbound 2007 – 2010
B2B Custom Personalization and Recommendation Software: http://mediaunbound.com/
- Handle Internal Operations
- Manage projects with clients (including Global 100 companies)
- Conduct market research for MediaUnbound and customers
- Direct sales strategy & efforts
- Prepare internal reporting on customer implementations
COO, ARTIST/LABEL RELATIONS, CALABASH MUSIC 2004 – 2007
International independent music portal: http://www.calabashmusic.com
- Manage day-to-day affairs of fast growing start-up company
- Initiate and manage relationships with over 400 vendors
- Handle and direct customer service & oversee staff of associates and interns
- Designed experience and flow for customers & support staff within ticket based customer service system
- Manage and create content for e-commerce driven website, blog and affiliated e-stores, as well as managing ad placement on site from ad aggregation services
- Brainstorm & design new content areas/features for the website using information gleaned from web analytics programs and other analysis of customer behavior
- Participate in strategic decision making and planning for the company
- Work with technical staff and designers to update the calabashmusic.com site
- Budget, schedule, and write technical specifications for internal development projects
- Seek out new partnerships, handle negotiations and contract changes, create specifications for new partner relationships, including such partners as National Geographic and Lycos
- Manage the design and implementation of cutting edge web technologies including RSS feeds, mobile phone messaging, XML data formatting & storage, as well as continued development of LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) based server environment
- Invited Guest Speaker at various music & media conferences (2006 Moshito Music Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006 SMT Conference at Harvard University, 2005 UN-Habitat Global Hip Hop Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa)
ORGANIZER, SEIU (SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION) 2002 – 2004
- Participate & direct union organizing campaigns for workforces ranging from 50 – 5000 workers in seven different states, with focus on workers in health-care settings, from nursing homes to hospitals.
- Produce communications pieces for all union organizing and contract campaigns, create and sustain community alliances
- Create and manage databases of workers and community partners
- Design strategy for negotiations, and handle negotiations with management of facilities
- Manage team of organizers on campaigns, participate in daily/weekly feedback sessions
INFO CENTER HOSTING COORDINATOR, AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS 1999
International student exchange organization
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Supervise and train professional staff in the national (USA) information and call center
- Manage data (family & student information) for national hosting recruitment efforts and coordinate work with national staff in five regional offices
EDUCATION
Brown University
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Bachelor of Science in Biology, May 1998
ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES
- Extensive computer skills, Mac and PC platforms. Program knowledge includes full Microsoft Office (and OpenOffice) Suite, Lotus Notes, Pagemaker, Filemaker, Adobe Photoshop, web browsers (including compatibility & cross-browser issues), E-mail programs, file management systems, workflow management systems (TRAC, BaseCamp, other Wiki based systems), blogs and Bulletin Boards. Limited HTML. 80+ WPM Typing speed.
- Language skills; German (written and spoken fluency), French (spoken competency) and Bambara (spoken competency)
- Avid soccer fan and player
- Teacher/Performer of West African Dance and Drumming
