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Flyn Cooley

Flyn Cooley

Los Angeles, CA, US

 

About 

Specialties
Metal Work, Grinding, Finishing, Cutting, Painting, Set Construction & Deconstruction, Sail Boat Rigging, Powershell, Filemaker, Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, Bridge, Illustrator, Apple Automator, Applescript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, FTP, Excel, Powerpoint, Wordpress, Windows 7, Mac OS X, FTP, Basic Final Cut, After Effects, Premiere, DVD Studio, Apple Logic, Play-back & Digitizing, Photo & Video Cameras + Hardware, Lights, Sound Recording & Playing Devices, Directing, Acting, Creative Direction, Coordination, Mediation

 
Experience

January 2007 - December 2011 (5 years)
Performed basic carpentry and painting off and on movie, television, and print sets. Transported set materials. I worked here between Jan. 2007- Nov. 2008 and again from October 2011-December 2011 

Metals Fabricator & Artists Assistant at Guy Dill Studios
June 2006 - December 2010 (4 years 7 months)
Implemented image capture and archiving workflow. Prepared visual aids, rendered installed works on site. Communicated with galleries & suppliers. Fabricated & installed sculptures, maintained studio.

Sail Boat Rigger at Rose Rigging
January 2005 - July 2008 (3 years 7 months)
Maintained, repaired, and installed sail boat rigging and hardware. Designed new features for race boats. 

Owner at Square Studios
2011 - Present (1 year)
360° Product Photography
Simple 30-45 minute headshot sessions
Focused 60-90 minute headshot variety session
Complex 2-3 hour portrait sessions
Elaborate half day shoots for bands & musicians
VIP Full day shoots for any reason
On location event photography
Creative direction, photo processing & editing

Traffic Coordinator / Production Artist at Netflix
December 2011 - June 2012 (7 months)
Responsible for daily processing and trafficking of assets received for display on Netflix.com and Netflix Ready Devices. Retouching, painting, re-sizing, cropping, re-composing as needed. Created pipeline for processing of large quantities of artwork. Responsible for editing, quality assurance, and online research for U.S. and international markets. Requested and tracked design jobs. Facilitated internal and external communications regarding approvals and and other requests. 

Post Media Librarian at Product Partners dba Beachbody
December 2010 - April 2011 (5 months)
Conducted 10,000+ tape audit, updated catalogue of tapes. Implemented relational databases for labeling and tracking assets. Executed and delegated video transcription, text logging & quality control amongst a team of 5. Streamlined and created new forms, reports and logs for an emerging post workflow. Tracked progress of editing jobs.

 

Recommendations:

"Looking for a portrait / headshot and not used to being in front of the camera ! Flyn Cooley is a creative artist that opens both sides of the camera so you can relax and enjoy the experience."
— Frank Dangelo, was Flyn's client

 

Flyn combines an artistic sensibility with a technical understanding of digital media management, and he is great with excel, photoshop, and powershell. He did QA and traffic for large quantities of digital artwork on a regular basis for PR and for use on the Netflix service, with impressive speed. Flyn can very effectively analyze large amounts of data. He is very professional and extremely knowledgeable about his field. Flyn showed personal direction and a strong desire to innovate when he developed a method for quickly searching our large server of hundreds of thousands of assets. He is smart, focused, responsive, delivers exceptional work, and provides great feedback. Flyn does a wonderful job of juggling many projects. Flyn has a proactive attitude, and a persistent dedication to detail.

- Patrick Mcgowan  (310) 734-2900  Content Marketing Manager


"During my short time working with Flyn, I came to know a creative, dedicated and intelligent individual that was helping the NetFlix Content Marketing and Creative Services team grow in support of the company. In addition to efficiently acquiring and processing promotional assets from studio vendors to support the product offerings and distribution of NetFlix’s web streaming service, Flyn was tasked to use his computer scripting skills to re-organize and build the foundation of a digital asset management structure within the department’s network server. As a fellow contractor, I recognized his talents in supporting NetFlix’s efforts during his contracted time and was honored to assist him in his endeavors during this period."
— Kerry Reis, Content Marketing/Creative Services Freelance Coordinator, Netflix, worked directly with Flyn at Netflix


"Flyn is a meticulously detailed orientated individual. He takes direction extremely well, and will add finesse to all projects assigned. He is self-motivated with a yearning to make it better, faster and more efficient. Flyn is an asset to any company that is lucky to hire him."
— David Friedman, was Flyn's client 

Elsewhere:

Employment 

Tractor Vision, Los Angeles, CA, US, Set Builder & Driver

Performed basic carpentry and painting off and on movie, television, and print sets. Transported set materials. I worked here between Jan. 2007- Nov. 2008 and again from October 2011-December 2011

Jan 2012 - current
 

Netflix, Beverly Hills, CA, US, Creative Services Coordinator

Responsible for daily processing and trafficking of assets received for display on Netflix.com and Netflix Ready Devices. Retouching, painting, re-sizing, cropping, re-composing as needed. Created pipeline for processing of large quantities of artwork. Responsible for editing, quality assurance, and online research for U.S. and international markets. Requested and tracked design jobs. Facilitated internal and external communications regarding approvals and and other requests.

Dec 2011 - Jun 2012
 

Beachbody, Santa Monica, CA, US, Media Librarian and Post Production Assistant

Conducted 10,000+ tape audit, updated catalogue of tapes. Implemented relational databases for labeling and tracking assets. Executed and delegated video transcription, text logging & quality control amongst a team of 5. Streamlined and created new forms, reports and logs for an emerging post workflow. Tracked progress of editing jobs.

Dec 2010 - Apr 2011
 

Guy DIll Studios, Venice, CA, US, Metals Fabricator & Artist Assistant

Implemented image capture and archiving workflow. Prepared visual aids, rendered installed works on site. Communicated with galleries & suppliers. Fabricated & installed sculptures, maintained studio.

Jan 2006 - Dec 2010
 

Rose Rigging, Marina del Rey, CA, US, Sail Boat Rigger

Maintained, repaired, and installed sail boat rigging and hardware. Designed new features for race boats.

Jan 2005 - Jul 2008
 

Education 

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Westwood, CA, US, Bachelors, Design Media Art

Completed degree at UCLA after 2 years of education at Santa Monica College. Focus on Media Art creation as well as project coordination. Secondary focus on the role of written communication in the creation process.

Aug 2007 - Jun 2009
 

Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, US, Liberal Arts

Prepared for transfer to UCLA. Focused on art history, art, and design classes in addition to general education.

Aug 2004 - Jun 2006
 

Areas of Specialization 

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