Digital Asset Management Conference Speakers-UC

Joseph Bachana, DPCI
President/Founder

Mr. Bachana began his career in the late 1980's at the New York Times in its Production Technology Group. He furthered his career at the Associated Press as technical services manager for AP AdSend, the digital delivery system from advertisers to AP member newspapers. Mr. Bachana went on to be senior Project Manager at I.M.A.G.E. Inc, then Senior Account Manager at Inacom, before founding DPCI in April, 1999.

A native of New York, Mr. Bachana is a graduate of both Brown (BA) and Columbia (GS) Universities and holds PMP certification from the Project Management Institute. Mr. Bachana serves on the editorial board of Palgrave-Macmillan's Journal for DAM, is a guest speaker on Multi-Channel Publishing, Content Management and Digital Asset Management at The O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference, The Gilbane Conference on Content Management, Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference, Henry Stewart Symposium, AIIM, Publishing Business, DMA and other industry conferences.

Peggy Dau, Founder and Managing Partner, MAD Perspectives LLC
Peggy Dau is the founder and managing partner of MAD Perspectives LLC, a consultancy focused on customer challenges in defining complex strategies for the use, management, and distribution of digital media solutions by and for the enterprise. MAD Perspectives provides workshops, roadmap and strategy planning, and solution assessment services for companies seeking to optimize these varied solutions.

Peggy enjoyed a diverse career at Hewlett-Packard from 1985 – 2009, where for the last 8 years she held global responsibility for HP’s strategy, GTM model, and partner relationships for digital content management and distribution solutions in the telecommunications and media & entertainment markets.

Peggy’s previous roles in sales and financing provided her with a broad view of enterprise communications, business planning, and emerging technologies.

Also see:  http://www.madperspectives.com/about/Who-We-Are

www.linkedin.com/in/peggydau

David Diamond, Canto

David Diamond is a digital asset management veteran, having first started with Canto more than 10 years ago. In addition to directing Canto's global marketing, Diamond is known throughout the DAM community as the author of Canto's "Exploring Cumulus" and "Cumulus Power Tips" document series. As a digital asset management expert and relentless user advocate, Diamond regularly presents webinars and speaks on topics of interest to DAM users and prospects.  Prior to Canto, Diamond held senior management positions at Apple, Sony and the University of Southern California.

John Dougherty, Hearst Corporation

John Dougherty is Director of Content Management at Hearst Corporation. He has overseen diverse technology efforts in cooperation with editorial and production teams for publications such as Elle, Woman’s Day and Car and Driver. That has included implementation of editorial workflow systems for print and tablet publications, issue planning, digital asset management, XML schemas, taxonomy management, prepress production, color management, ad and image portals, and creative software.

John has been part of a number of industry-wide initiatives, especially those pertaining to metadata, such as nextPub and PRISM. He has led or served on a number of working groups pertaining to multi-platform publishing, photo management, and usage rights.

Charlie Gray,  Motorola

George Grippo, General Manager, CET Universe

George Grippo is General Manager for CET Universe focusing on the growth of CETs Eastern Operations and its core products including the industry leading Archive, Storage and Media Management platform, Constellation VCM™, which is used by leading media facilities and fortune 500 companies, among others.

Previously, George served as Vice President of Media Asset Management for North Plains, where he oversaw global deployments of the company’s product suite. Prior to this, he was the President and CEO of Venaca, where he helped define the company’s overall vision, which included a strategic merger. George has held leadership positions as CIO with several broadcast and media technology firms including  Sesame Workshop and Digital Network Television.

Mark Hill is director of photography for the Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) image management group. Hill oversees the image management photography team and is responsible for creating photography and video for TBS, Inc. networks including CNN, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, and truTV. He is based in Atlanta and reports to Barbara Griffin, senior vice president of image management for TBS, Inc.

Hill joined TBS, Inc. in 1994 after several years as a freelance photographer shooting for magazine and book publishers such as The New York Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle, Alfred Knopf and Harper Collins. While at Turner Broadcasting, he has photographed an array of personalities, including Cher, Ernest Bornine, Danny Devito, Bill Hader, Betty White, Julie Andrews, Soledad O’Brien, and Andre 3000. He has also been responsible for creating photography, key art and video on a number of high profile productions that include TNT’s Ricochet, Innocent and the series Memphis Beat; CNN’s Black in America, Terror in the Dust and the 2011 Republican Debates; and TruTV’s Black Gold, Hardcore Pawn and Operation Repo.

Hill’s work has appeared in numerous publications, such as The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Variety and USA Today and he was nominated in 2010 and 2011 for Emmy awards for his photography and video work for CNN. Stewart, Tabori and Chang recently published 100 Years of Oz featuring 70 of Hill’s photographs.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news; entertainment; animation and young adult; and sports media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.

Michael Hollitscher

Michael Hollitscher is Manager, Digital Asset Management for the New York region of Digitas, a global digital marketing agency. Michael has worked in the Digital Asset Management field since 2003, is co-organizer of the NYC Digital Asset Managers Meetup, and is a Masters candidate in Library and Information Sciences at Pratt Institute.

Sally Hubbard, Director, Media Management and Taxonomy, HBO

Sally Hubbard is Director, Media Management and Taxonomy at HBO, focusing on metadata strategy and media asset management.  She has previously worked at the Getty Research Institute on digital asset management and standards development and at the UCLA Film & Television Archive on encoding and repurposing archival collections.

Alex Karinsky

Alex has been a Publishing and Digital Graphics Technology expert for over two decades. Designing and building Digital Asset Management systems for Fortune 100 / 500 companies, strategizing and establishing key workflows with the latest innovative technologies and solutions for multi-channel distribution. In most of his positions, such as Director of Strategic Technology at Splashlight, Alex has held key responsibilities in developing the logic and process for various backup routines and recovery.

When not heavily involved in troubleshooting systems and the like, Alex surfs the swells that hit Rockaway Beach with his two sons Sandon (8) and Parker (6).

James Lockman, Adobe Systems, Inc.

James Lockman is a Solutions Consultant at Adobe Systems, focusing on Enterprise solutions for Creative businesses. Prior to joining Adobe, he was an Adobe Certified Instructor and Adobe Community Professional. James also owned his own variable data marketing company, which included campaign design, data analytics, printing and mailing. In addition, he has been a consultant to Adobe Systems for many years, speaking at conferences and providing on-site customer training and support. James is an author at Total Training and Lynda.com, with several courses available on Creative Suite.

Andrew Mannone, Workflow and Asset Manager, America’s Test Kitchen

Andrew Mannone is the Workflow and Asset Manager for America’s Test Kitchen. He has spent the last five years as lead workflow designer for the in-house production department, overhauling every aspect of the imaging process. The result is a dynamic set of workflows that integrate Photoshop scripting and a Cumulus Enterprise DAM backend. The systems Andrew developed support America’s Test Kitchen’s complex imaging requirements for the more than 40 magazine and book titles published yearly, including the company’s five web properties.

When not tinkering with a script or new workflow, Andrew can be found on the Cumulus User Forum where he’s one of the top contributors, helping users all over the web.

Sam Merrell

Sam Merrell is a digital photo workflow and metadata consultant in New York City. He provides technical and business solutions for clients with larger collections of images. A photographer, Sam also serves on the board of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) as Technology Co-Chair. From 1999 to 2004 Sam was CTO for Solus Images, a high-end boutique stock photography agency; in 2005 he was one of several authors of the first edition of the PLUS Image Licensing Terms glossary and a co-founder of the UPDIG Coalition. Previously Sam taught advanced digital photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York city and was an Associate Editor at Photo District News magazine.

Photo courtsey of: Robert Herman, Copyright 2010.

Ivan Mironchuk, Director of Integration Services, DPCI

As Director of Integration Services at DPCI, Mr. Mironchuk manages enterprise digital asset management, web content management, and workflow management implementations on behalf of DPCI's customers. Mr. Mironchuk holds a Masters in Printing Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology and is the author of "Hand of a Master: Achievements in the Graphic Arts" (RIT Press, 2002).

George Mulholland, Director of Media Services, TruTV

George Mulholland is director of Media Services for truTV, formerly Court TV, a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. His duties include management of quality control, international distribution, digital archiving, the tape library, and dubbing center.  Based at truTV’s New York headquarters, Mulholland reports to Rob Pumo, senior vice president of Broadcast and Technical Operations for truTV.

Mulholland joined the company in 1999 as manager of Media Services and was promoted to his current title of director in 2004. In this role, he oversees and maintains all digital media on both online servers and offline digital tape archive and supervises ingesting and purging of all media off digital servers. Additionally, he is responsible for on-air quality control, overseas content distribution, and closed captioning for all prime time programming.

Mulholland began his television career as a Library Services Assistant at Viacom Networks Group in 1987.  He holds a bachelors degree in Broadcasting from Hofstra University.

Ryan Nowak, Green Bay Packers

Ryan Nowak is a Computer Systems Analyst for the reigning Super Bowl Champions, the Green Bay Packers. His role at the Packers requires him to be skilled in a variety of areas. Over the past 8 years, Ryan has been involved with committees and projects within the Packers that included social media, mobile applications, digital signage, digital asset management, secure intranet and extranet, and security surveillance.

Nowak maintains the Packers’ digital asset management system, which houses thousands of photos from games dating back to 1919. He is tasked with software maintenance, interface customization, user security, and maintaining data integrity.

Richard A. Nulman, Pace Advertising Agency

Richard A. Nulman is a leading marketing, branding and advertising expert with 37 years of experience, all at the same company, Pace Advertising Agency.  Founded in 1949, Pace is a full-service marketing-advertising-public relations firm with a staff of over 35 professionals and offices in New York City, Orlando and Boca Raton.

Pace has been part of WPP Group Worldwide since 1987.  The company specializes in the real estate, hospitality/resort, healthcare and luxury goods verticals.

Recognized throughout the industries he serves as a dynamic leader, Nulman is a canny strategist with an extensive depth of knowledge in the areas of branding,  new product development, corporate communications, marketing strategy, advertising, direct response, merchandising, sales promotion and organizational management.

A frequent lecturer and essayist on myriad marketing topics, Nulman has crafted the marketing and advertising campaigns for some of America’s largest homebuilders, hoteliers and resort operators.

Rick Nulman’s current clients include Ryan Homes,  K. Hovnanian Homes, the Durst Organization, the Silverstein Organization, the Trump Organization, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Calder Casino & Racetrack, among numerous others.

Mr. Nulman is a graduate of Rutgers University and is a Henry Rutgers Scholar in English.  He has served on numerous charitable and corporate boards.  He and his wife, Victoria, live in New York City and Scottsdale, Arizona.

John Price is a forward-thinking product marketing manager for OpenText, with a primary focus on Digital Asset Management. His background includes working with major companies, including Ascent Media as well as founder of a company developing software for broadcast automation and media management. With more than 25 years working in digital media and broadcasting – from producing and editing programs to design and build of media facilities, he sees today as the most exhilarating time to work in the DAM and marketing arenas.

David Riecks, ControlledVocabulary.com

David Riecks founded ControlledVocabulary.com as a resource to help others learn how best to build controlled vocabulary lists, thesauri, and keyword hierarchies for describing images in databases. He has been involved in many recent digital image standards initiatives as well as being a featured speaker at industry events such as PhotoPlus Expo, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, and the first and second International PhotoMetadata Conferences.

Riecks currently chairs the SAA Imaging Technology Standards committee that urges industry adoption of photo metadata standards. He also serves as the Chief Technical Advisor for the PLUS Coalition, which developed the Picture Licensing Universal Standards. Riecks formerly chaired the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) Digital Photography Standards & Practices committee, where he was involved in the founding of the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines coalition.

In 2004, Riecks was asked to participate in a working group to revise the decade old IPTC standard for use with Adobe's new XMP format. That IPTC4XMP group released the IPTC Core in 2005 along with a first ever " Custom Panels User Guide to the IPTC Core Schema for XMP" for which he served as the primary author. He has remained involved with the IPTC and has contributed to the IPTC Photo Metadata working group which released the update to the IPTC Core (v 1.1) in 2008, along with the IPTC Extension 1.0 schema.

Riecks has recently assumed project leadership for the Stock Artists Alliance, Photo Metadata Education project, using an award from the US Library of Congress as part of their "Preserving Creative America" Initiative. In recognition of his years of work to further photo metadata standards, he was named as a "Pioneer of Digital Preservation" by the Library of Congress in 2009.

Daniel Sieberg

Daniel Sieberg is an Emmy®-nominated reporter and author covering science, technology, space and the environment. He currently hosts and writes a weekly program called Tech This Out! for ABC News, routinely anchors World News Now, and contributes technology stories to other ABC News broadcasts including Nightline and Good Morning America. He also regularly appears on MSNBC, CBS Sunday Morning, BBC World News America, PBS, CNN, HLN, Details magazine, The Daily and a variety of other outlets. He also writes and produces his own radio segment, maintains a blog, and has appeared as a featured guest on The Dr. Oz Show and The Nate Berkus Show.

Sieberg’s first book about his “digital diet” approach to technology was published on May 3, 2011 (Random House/Crown/Three Rivers).

Sieberg was the CBS News science and technology correspondent from December 2006 to February 2010 reporting for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Radio and CBSNews.com. While at CBS News, Sieberg reported on a wide variety of subjects from the Arctic to Africa, from South America to southeast Asia, from Seattle to South Beach; from swimming with sharks to a live demonstration of the latest gadgets to reporting in zero gravity. In 2008, Sieberg also co-hosted 40, one-hour episodes of an environmental lifestyle show called G Word during the inaugural season of Discovery Channel’s Planet Green network.

From 2000-2006 Sieberg was the technology correspondent for CNN, CNN International, and CNN Headline News (now HLN). During that time, he also anchored Next@CNN, a weekly broadcast about science, technology, space and environment and appeared often on shows like American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360 and NewsNight with Aaron Brown. Sieberg also anchored a daily technology segment for two years on Morning Express with Robin Meade.

Sieberg has served as an analyst for PBS’ Frontline, BusinessWeek, NPR, BBC Radio, BBC News, Discovery Channel, Fuse.tv, CourtTV and Animal Planet. Between 1998-2000 Sieberg was a daily reporter for western Canada's largest newspaper, the Vancouver Sun, covering technology, business and civic issues. While at CTV News, he worked as a video game reviewer and as an associate producer for a news panel show from 1998-1999.

Sieberg has been nominated for five News and Documentary Emmyâ Awards and won accolades from the likes of the Society of Environmental Journalism and the World Technology Awards. In 2007, he was named a Portfolio magazine “Business Broadcasting All-Star” and he is a recipient of Canada's Rafe Mair Award for public service journalism. His written work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Details, Oprah.com, Salon.com, Time magazine, the Vancouver Sun, the Toronto Star, and many other publications.

Sieberg has a bachelor’s degree in writing (UVic, ’98) and master's degree in journalism with a focus in technology (UBC, '00). He and his wife live in New York City with their delightful daughter and irascible beagle.

Barbara Taranto, New York Public Library, Managing Director NYPL Labs

Ms. Taranto is the Managing Director of NYPL Labs – the Research and Development arm of the Office of Strategic Planning at New York Public Library.

In her capacity she is responsible for the development and implementation of the Preservation and Access Digital Repository, the Digital Rights Management System, the GeoSpatial Open Layers services and the A/V Technical data repository.

Prior to her current position she held the office of Director of the Digital Library Program. During her tenure she architected and managed NYPL Digital Gallery, In Motion: The African American Migration Experience, The National Digital Newspaper Program and the creation of the Digital Object Workfow System.

Ms. Taranto holds degrees in Philosophy, Computer Science and Digital Information Science.

Carol is the VP, Director of Digital Asset & Workflow Systems at LLNS. With over 20 years of software, design, production, and prepress experience, she excels at integrating creative technology with creative work. At LLNS, she manages the DAM system and creates client- and vendor-facing web portals, while incorporating project management and paperless workflows. To her, successful solutions create an atmosphere where people feel they are working with technology, not for or against it. She uses the taxonomy and structure benefits of the DAM as a platform; increasing productivity, efficiency, and cohesion through improved and streamlined access to files from start-up to delivery. She has experienced DAM systems (or the need for them) from many sides: as a production manager for several magazines, as an art director and graphic designer, and as a senior production specialist at several New York advertising agencies. She contributes to asset management and creative technology journals, blogs, and conferences and delights in testing new solutions against real-world workflow challenges. She also keeps the creative side of her brain fueled as a singer/songwriter and guitarist, occasionally playing a few gigs around NYC.

Skiff Wager, SEW Consulting
Skiff Wager has over 32 years experience in the Print & Publishing, Music, and Broadcast & Cable markets for corporations like Xerox, MCA Records, Universal and Scripps Networks. Skiff has been a pioneer in setting the practice standards for global DAM initiatives since the early 1990’s. He guides both technology and investment companies as an industry expert and has guided the launch of over a dozen digital initiatives. His Practice Group provides support for strategic business planning, investments and resource management for both corporate business units and start-up operations.

Kathleen Wagner, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Kathleen Wagner is the Assistant Director of the Medical Graphics & Photography department at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.  Kathleen assists with the day-to-day operations of the department, which include, graphic design, photography, medical illustration, animation, visualization and wed based interface design. She initiated and continues to manage the DAM system for her department, which currently, contains approximately 2 million assets. The system, containing primarily patient images, is used in conjunction with the electronic medical record as part of patient assessment and diagnosis.

Kathleen has been with MD Anderson since 1991. She holds a master’s degree in medical and biological illustration and began her career at MD Anderson as a staff medical illustrator. She has served in many roles in Medical Graphics & Photography from managing computer systems to implementing copyright policies.