Resume
Bart Cheever
415-971-2346
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SUMMARY
An accomplished interactive project management executive, senior producer and web and mobile startup entrepreneur with 16 years experience creating work across multiple platforms including interactive, web, mobile, tablet, television, videogames and market research for worldwide brands including Nike, VH1, MTV, Old Navy, IBM, Yahoo!, Sony, GM and Calvin Klein.
•A proven producer and project manager including development of interactive campaigns, television, websites and videogames.
•Successful entrepreneur who founded mobile and online startup: closed first round funding from Disney, oversaw product development and rollout of flagship product throughout Europe.
•A highly effective market researcher focusing on next generation technology for top brands like General Motors.
•A relationship and business developer creating organizations and events from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to the Cannes Film Festival.
•Leading edge adapter of technology, creating one of the first ever websites to show videos online in 1994. Chosen by Wired Magazine as “one of 25 people reinventing entertainment.”
EXPERIENCE
Associate Director of Project Management (freelance)
Draftfcb New York, NYDecember 2009 to March 2010
Led team overseeing Pfizer brands, the interactive division’s largest account, and totaling $14m in annual billings.
•Led team of 4 PM’s and 2 APM’s
•Created work for mobile, tablet, web and email.
Vice President of Production
Millions of Us Sausalito, CA2007 to 2008
Led production, engineering and creative departments (38 employees) for Omnicom backed interactive agency specializing in new ideas in advertising - social media, online communities and videogames. Millions of Us clients included fully one-third of Forbes’ Top 50 Brands including Sony Playstation, Nike, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Fox, WWE, DreamWorks, Toyota, National Geographic, Cisco and more.
•Executive Produced online and viral campaign for FOX’s Terminator: Sarah Connors Chronicles, which was nominated for a Webby. One of the campaign’s viral videos received 1.2 million views.
•Oversaw development of Sony Playstation’s HOME virtual world including projects for Nike and Activision (Guitar Hero)
•Introduced key processes and practices. Increased revenue per headcount and revenue recognized.
•Executive Produced a viral FaceBook application for SceneCaster.
•Executive Produced a virtual environment for National Geographic in Google’s Lively virtual world.
•Managed international and local third party developers.
Executive Director, Conferences
Mayor’s Digital Media Advisory Council San Francisco, California2005 to 2007
Chosen by Mayor Gavin Newsom to help organize his council promoting interactive media industries across Bay Area.
•Created council business plan, worked on proposal to create a digital media “hub” at China Basin.
•Worked on Digital Sister Cities Initiative. Represented City of San Francisco on delegations to Toronto and Dublin.
•Led grant process through city to secure funding.
MTV Networks Los Angeles, California 2003 to 2004
•Coordinated with executives at MTV in New York.
CEO/Chairman
DFILM Interactive. Los Angeles, California and Amsterdam, The Netherlands1999-2003
Led and bootstrapped this Disney-backed interactive agency/software developer which created online applications for web and mobile interactive campaigns. Also created a standalone mobile messaging application for the youth market.
•Created applications and campaigns for Hyundai/Maritz Interactive, IBM/Ogilvy & Mather, Calvin Klein/Unilever, Snapple, Yahoo!, MTV and others.
•Established and oversaw relationships with VC community. Secured first investment round from Disney.
•Oversaw launch of flagship product on European IMODE mobile network overseeing teams in both Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Consistently ranked in top ten trafficked IMODE mobile applications in The Netherlands.
•Led Board of Directors, built executive and management teams from scratch.
Interactive Producer2003-2007
OK Obrigado Consulting (Freelance Work) Los Angeles, California
Founded this niche boutique consulting and production agency to well-known Fortune 500 and startup companies.
Selected engagements:
Old Navy (Deutsch Ad Campaign)
•Packaged, pitched and sold concept and managed ongoing relationship with both Old Navy and Deutsch.
Sony – Kinoma (Mobile Devices)
•Produced television commercial for Sony Walkman mobile video device.
General Motors (Goodby, Silverstein & Partners)
•Hired by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners to create a 30 minute film for General Motors.
•Pioneering marketing study used the power of film to let consumers speak directly to client in their own words, from their own kitchens and living rooms.
Major athletic shoe manufacturer
•Created marketing study on how surfers are using new kinds of technology to track waves on remote beaches in Baja California. NDA prohibits name mention.
Mobile Voter
•Co-founded non-profit startup that lets users register to vote in state and local elections from their mobile phones.
•3-month campaign resulted in 70,000 registration requests.
•Wrote business plan and marketing strategy and helped Mobile Voter later close grants from Pew Charitable Trusts, the George Washington Graduate School of Political Management, Young Voter Strategies, and Working Assets.
Microsoft
•Traveled to Cuba for Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia) to photo-document Afro Cuban religions.
Founder and Director
Low Res Film Festival/DFILM Digital Film Festival San Francisco, California1994-1999
Founded two pioneering festivals showcasing work by up and coming digital filmmakers.
•Created one of the first websites to show videos on the web.
•First festival to show films by Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola.
•Produced two 30 city sold-out international tours. Media coverage in CNN, NBC, Newsweek, Le Monde, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the NY Times.
•Invited by the Cannes Film Festival to organize its first-ever all digital film showcase in 1999 – one of the first digitally projected screenings.
Rocket Science Games (closed doors 1996), San Francisco/Boston1995-1996
•Ensured delivery of final product under budget and on schedule.
Associate Producer/Project Manager
Digital Pictures (closed doors 1995), San Francisco, California1994-1995
AP’d “Quarterback Attack with Mike Ditka” videogame. One of last 7 employees remaining when company shut down.
•Oversaw production from initial concept and design through production and testing.
•Ensured that all four platforms (Sega, 3DO, PC and Mac) were completed on time and under budget.
Special Assistant to Vice President, Legal
Paramount Pictures Corporation New York, New York 1992-1994
Hired as member of four-person team reporting to VP Legal that executed international film financing deals.
Assistant to Network Vice President, ABC News/ABC Multimedia
ABC News, New York, New York1990-1992
Assisted VP in day-to-day operation of Network including News and Multimedia Departments.
EDUCATION
CONNECT Entrepreneurial Program
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Arts
San Diego State University, California
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Telecommunications and Film department “Excellence In Broadcasting” award
General Manager, KCR Radio – Chosen as one of the top 4 college radios stations in US by MTV during my tenure
PRESENTATIONS
•“What is Digital Cinema?” M.I.T.
• “The Future of Digital Media”, Stanford, School of Visual Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, UC San Diego, Norwegian Film Institute, Sao Paolo Museo de Arte, Cal Poly, International Technical University/San Juan Puerto Rico
• “Seminar – The Internet As A New Video Distribution Platform” Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen
•“The Future of Film Exhibition” and “The Electronic Cinema” Flanders International Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
•“Media In Transition” ZKM Media Museum - Karlsruhe, Germany,
•”Cannes Film Festival Digital Film Showcase” Cannes Film Festival
•“DFILM – Digital Cinema Presentation” Expoloding Cinema/Rotterdam Film Festival, DV Expo (1ST year), Los Angeles Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Wisconsin Film Festival,
•“In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous For 15 Megabytes” Transmediale Berlin
•“Digital Silverlake. From Geoff McFettridge to The Beastie Boys – Digital Filmmaking on LA’s East Side” 2001 Silverlake Film Festival
•“Case Study: Satellite Broadcasting Films to the Cannes Film Festival” DV Expo – 2nd year
• “Digital Filmmaking Intensive” Learning Annex tour to Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, New York - one of the largest series in Learning Annex’s history