Shane Bierley
Summary
Senior Manager with 15+ years of experience at Paramount Pictures. Efficient, adaptable, organized, and results-oriented leadership style. Consistently recognized for delivering projects on time and within budget. Proven ability in streamlining tasks critical to success of company goals and developing/implementing innovative solutions for future business growth. Successfully realigned Catalog Localization Team responsibilities resulting in workflow optimization. Seeking opportunity to expand experience/skills as a valuable team player with a forward-focused organization.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Paramount Pictures
Hollywood, USA
01.2010 - Current
Started as Project Coordinator, was promoted to Project Manager in 2015, and was promoted to Senior Project Manager (Team Leader) in 2020. Primary responsibilities include:
- Supervise the Catalog Localization/Mastering Team, which is responsible for the creation, maintenance/upgrading, conformance, and archival of foreign language localization and accessibility assets for all catalog (post home-media release) feature and television releases. Assets include:
- Dubbed and VO audio tracks
- Foreign language subtitles/forced narratives
- Closed captions
- Localized title inserts
- Dub cards
- Audio descriptive tracks
- QC Reports
- HDR color documents and metadata
Assist with original version catalog re-transfer/re-mastering work; proficient with Dolby Vision and HDR-10 video formats, as well as Dolby Atmos audio formats
Intern
Panavision
Woodland Hills, USA
01.2009 - 05.2009
- Interned with Technical Marketing department.
- Aided in editing proprietary materials, shooting comparative camera tests and digital intermediate workflows, as well as equipment prepping and inventory.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Film and Digital Media
Baylor University
Waco, TXSkills
- Windows and Mac OS
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Adobe Creative Suite
- SAP / Ariba
- Xytech / Media Pulse
- Asana Project Management
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Aspera Faspex
- Digital Inventory Management
- Pro Video and Audio Formats
Accomplishments
- Published co-author of the Digital Entertainment Group's 2024 "Content Globalization 101" peer-reviewed white paper. Topics covered provide industry standard insights into the complex processes that constitute the production of localization and accessibility assets, the nuances that pertain to each individual process, the steps necessary to achieve quality results, and the challenges that can arise throughout the process.
- 2023 Barry Award Winner (American Council of the Blind) for work relating to AD track creation.
Professional References
- Al Rives, Paramount Pictures, al@alrives.com, 323.821.4390
- Eric Lane, Paramount Pictures, ericmichaellane@gmail.com, 646.734.2135
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Paramount Pictures
01.2010 - Current
Intern
Panavision
01.2009 - 05.2009
Bachelor of Arts - Film and Digital Media
Baylor University
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