Santosh Kumar

Experience

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  Ad Agency Q

  Jan 2008 - Mar 2010

  Creative Designer
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  Symbiosys Technologies

  Mar 2010 - Feb 2017

  • Budget target & level of quality.Identify vendors most suitable to bid & work on specific projects.• Work with Producer, Leads & Supervisors to create, implement & run schedule, track & manage the workflow through the department, meeting internal & external deadlines.• Oversee coordinators & ensure good organization of Dailies, rounds & meetings, the taking of notes & follow up on the information as necessary.• Ensure production database is kept updated daily with notes & critical information before departing for the day.• Communicating information quickly & succinctly to crew & other departments in person, not just via mail.• Communicate (directly or through coordinators) client sessions & dailies/meetings changes.Keeps communication flowing from supervisor to Leads & crew to all other department.• Anticipate & communicate issues to Producer & Supervisors to resolve problems quickly.Maintain accurate summary of progress from previous day’s work by artists.• Take responsibility for knowing details of schedule & advising production coordinators accordingly.• Manage resources & communicate coherently with other support departments.• Helping to maintain a positive, upbeat & professional production office, being pro-active & solution-oriented for all members of the team. Show less • Working with the team and client in all phases of project management• Planing the daily task.• Coordinating with various departments and clients.• Attending to client calls and communicating with them.• Preparing , updating and distributing crew lists, daily progress reports.• Tracking daily work progress and record and clients.• Manages day-to-day project related client uploads and downloads• Providing inventory to the artist.• Solving internal production issues.• Taking notes at production meeting and conveying it to the team.• Identify conflicts and follow up on the issues until resolved.• Managing artists, assigning, scheduling and tracking progress of shots with respect to the priorities and deadlines.• Follow up the artist on a daily basis to ensure the tasks assigned to be on schedule.• Communicates any schedule changes to the concerned artists and the Supervisor.• Communicate effectively with artist regarding timelines.• Scheduling and executing dailies for internal shot reviews and reviewing them.• Works with supervisor to maintain the department schedule.• Assists production supervisor with maintaining quotas, deadlines & inventory, ensuring departmental productivity goals are consistently met. Show less

  • Production Manager - VFX

    Mar 2015 - Feb 2017

  • Production Coordinator - VFX

    Mar 2011 - Mar 2015

  • Roto Artist - VFX

    Mar 2010 - Mar 2011
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  VECTOR VISUAL MAGIC PVT LTD

  Mar 2017 - Sept 2018

  Head Of Department - VFX

  • Managing artist assignments and production requirements from beginning to end of production• Accurately breaking down shots and VFX requirements• Organizing dailies, rounds and meetings and tasks• keeping to the planned schedules and milestones and communicating any changes• overseeing client deliveries and postings of all temps and finals• managing submission sheet information and updates• anticipating special project requirements (software, hardware, space, resources) and ensuring information is communicated to Systems and Executive Producer / President as early as possible• taking clear, concise and accurate notes in all meetings and dailies sessions, ensuring teams have required information as quickly as possible• ensuring internal notes are approved• ensuring client notes are reviewed with the team and updated in excel• providing project status reports to the Executive Producer, Head of Production and President as required and during weekly production meetings• maintaining weekly client status reports• collaborating effectively and fostering a positive and united working environment• working with VFX Coordinators to ensure all administrative tasks are up to date Show less

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  Symbiosys Technologies

  Oct 2018 - now

  Production Manager - VFX