Barry Snyder

Responsible for Operations, Sales and Marketing, Customer Service and Maintenance of Private Aviation company based in Van Nuys, California.

Founded company to help content owners, business executives, and managers in the academic, museum, corporate, and government to identify, manage, migrate and monetize their physical and digital media collections and archives.

In order to increase the overall valuation of a client’s media library, MediaMine works with clients to:

Address needs of content owners through archive management solutions.
Identify avenues for organizing, distributing, and utilizing current sales… Show more

Founded company to help content owners, business executives, and managers in the academic, museum, corporate, and government to identify, manage, migrate and monetize their physical and digital media collections and archives.

In order to increase the overall valuation of a client’s media library, MediaMine works with clients to:

Address needs of content owners through archive management solutions.
Identify avenues for organizing, distributing, and utilizing current sales, marketing, training, and presentation tools.
Alleviate concerns regarding longevity, safety and security of the elements in business archives.

Wrote request-for-pricing (RFP) client proposals for digitization and metadata creation. Clients include:

Worldwide Pants, Inc. (Letterman);
Hollywood Walk of Fame;
Norman Seeff video and photography;
Before They Were Pros sports (Kobe Bryant, Lebron James);
Johnny Carson Foundation

Identify and implement creative revenue generating opportunities for a company’s media assets utilizing mobile, streaming, OTT, web, broadcast, cable, and satellite platforms. Show less

Indiana University Media School. Guest Professor in residence. Wrote curriculum for seminar for Graduating Seniors dealing with positioning themselves for employment in the entertainment and technology marketplace. Media School Program in Los Angeles Adjunct Professor.

University of Southern, California, Los Angeles (1994-2002). Adjunct Professor. Classes include Introduction to Post Production, Post Production Audio, and Studio Business Management.

Regular On Speaker and… Show more

Indiana University Media School. Guest Professor in residence. Wrote curriculum for seminar for Graduating Seniors dealing with positioning themselves for employment in the entertainment and technology marketplace. Media School Program in Los Angeles Adjunct Professor.

University of Southern, California, Los Angeles (1994-2002). Adjunct Professor. Classes include Introduction to Post Production, Post Production Audio, and Studio Business Management.

Regular On Speaker and Panel Circuit (1993-2015). Recent engagements include Digital Hollywood (2015), Henry Stewart Conferences (2014-2015), Los Angeles Social Venture Partners (2012-2015), and Createsphere (2013). Show less

WorkingNation is a national, media organization whose goal is to raise awareness of the looming unemployment crisis by creating documentary films and hosting town hall panels to educate companies, industry leaders, teachers, workers and communities.

Leverage over twenty-five years of entertainment, media, sports, music and technology contacts to support the cause.

Collaborate with the WorkingNation media content team to create proposals to present to strategic partners, sponsors… Show more

WorkingNation is a national, media organization whose goal is to raise awareness of the looming unemployment crisis by creating documentary films and hosting town hall panels to educate companies, industry leaders, teachers, workers and communities.

Leverage over twenty-five years of entertainment, media, sports, music and technology contacts to support the cause.

Collaborate with the WorkingNation media content team to create proposals to present to strategic partners, sponsors and identify public, private and family foundations interested in engaging with the WorkingNation programs and services.
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Prime Focus (formally Post Logic Studios) is a global Visual Entertainment Services group. We provide creative and technical services to the Film, Broadcast, Commercials, Gaming, Internet and Media industries. Visual Entertainment Services is a new definition for an industry where technology, visual delivery platforms and content are converging and evolving.

Repurposed and refocused existing full-service post production facility. Company stagnated and faltered in the 1990’s. New… Show more

Prime Focus (formally Post Logic Studios) is a global Visual Entertainment Services group. We provide creative and technical services to the Film, Broadcast, Commercials, Gaming, Internet and Media industries. Visual Entertainment Services is a new definition for an industry where technology, visual delivery platforms and content are converging and evolving.

Repurposed and refocused existing full-service post production facility. Company stagnated and faltered in the 1990’s. New President brought in to stabilize company and position organization for growth and sale.

Hired new management team and retooled overall company culture and vision.

Implemented cost containment and cash management processes.

Negotiated preferred vendor deals with major studios and independent clientele.

Expanded facilities from main location in Hollywood to a multi-location company including Santa Monica and New York satellites.

Implemented strategic plan that changed core business of the company from waning commercial business to an aggressively positioned, industry-leading digital intermediate and mastering facility.

Oversaw 135 employees in all divisions up from 40 employees in 2000.

Responsible for administering special project capital expenditure budget of over $12 Million with an annual cap/ex budget of $2 Million. The special projects capital includes design, construction and implementation of digital intermediate theaters that perform digital color correction and data integration for the domestic release of first run feature films and trailers.

Grew revenues of company from $9 Million annually in 2000 to $27 Million in 2004

Positioned Company for sale to Prime Focus, an Indian Company based in Mumbai, which successfully closed in January 2006. Show less

Restructured division’s business model, management structure, physical and technological resources, operational, billing and scheduling processes and sales, marketing and publicity outreach.

Conceptualized, designed, and constructed new, innovative, streamlined facility.

Designed and implemented new technologies for use in production and post-production.

Oversaw 150 employees and managed human resources, labor relations and union issues.

Worked with producers and… Show more

Restructured division’s business model, management structure, physical and technological resources, operational, billing and scheduling processes and sales, marketing and publicity outreach.

Conceptualized, designed, and constructed new, innovative, streamlined facility.

Designed and implemented new technologies for use in production and post-production.

Oversaw 150 employees and managed human resources, labor relations and union issues.

Worked with producers and directors on overall budgets of feature film, television, animation and advertising projects.

Responsible for annual operating budget of $100 million and capital expenditure budget of $10 million.

Created double-digit EBITDA growth (average 12%) for each of my seven years at WBSF.
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Published articles in the Los Angeles Business Journal, Mix Magazine, and Post Magazine