Profile

James Shuster

James Shuster

Owner, Visionary Productions

Greater Los Angeles Area

Current
  • Owner Visionary Productions - Los Angeles (Self-employed)
Past
  • Video Consultant, Scrum Master, Tech Writer, Registrar AdminatOversee.net
  • President No. Hollywood Experience Unlimited ClubatEDD State of California
  • Outside Producer DVDatAdvanced Media Post
Education
  • City University

This user has 12 recommendations 12 people have recommended James

109 connections

Industry

Media Production

Websites
  • James' Company Visionary Productions
Public Profile
http://www.linkedin.com/in/visproduction

Summary

DVD, HD, Video and Film Production, Online video chief contributor to Livedigital (5th largest Social network (2006- 2007), Production Budgeting, Direction, Feature DVD Production, Script development.

Specialties:

DVD Authoring, HTML, CSS Web development, Project Management, Script Development, Business Plans, Financials, Video ecoding, Film budgeting, HD production, video editing and colorist, Sound engineering

Recommendations For James

Owner

Visionary Productions - Los Angeles (Self-employed)

"As owner and director of a translation and localization firm, James worked for us providing computer networking and technical support. James was always very personable, professional and a real get-the-job-done guy. I highly recommend James and his work to others. -Jason Wood INTRANSOL.COM"January 31, 2006

Jason Wood
was James's client

Video Consultant, Scrum Master, Tech Writer, Registrar Admin

Oversee.net

"James is a rare combination of valuable talents in the computer world: responsible, and insightful. He followed through on his obligations, while always contributing excellent suggestions on how to improve our processes, or noticing areas that others might have neglected. James is a pleasure to work with, and best of all, he is the master of documentation. All of these attributes, combined with his vast experience in a wide variety of fields, make James a valuable part of any team. I highly recommend James, and would gladly hire him should the opportunity arise."April 20, 2008

Christopher Paulicka, Software Engineering Manager, Oversee.net
worked directly with James at Oversee.net

"One of James best attributes is that you can mention an issue once and if he takes it on, you know it will get done and finished correctly. It's not a guessing game with James. If there is something blocking a project, he will give you a straight and honest report and then go about unblocking it. His professional consulting approach is refreshing and makes any project a lot easier."January 22, 2008

Henri Duong, (henri@ipevo.net), New Media Production Manager, LiveDigital.com, an Oversee Net Property
worked with James at Oversee.net

"James has a vast knowledge of video technology, standards, and technical possess... He also is a talented writer with skills ranging from creative and screen-play to more technical and sci-fi. Highly intelligent, articulate optimistic and professional James would be a great fit to almost any group. Communication, concepting, and articulating complicated ideas are child's play for James. I very highly recommend him personally and professionally."January 18, 2008

James Garland, Rich Media Lead, Oversee.net
worked with James at Oversee.net

"James is a very highly detail-oriented technical writer. He is a pleasure to work with, very professional. His precision and his follow-up made his colleagues' jobs easier."January 14, 2008

Scott Beber, Principal Analyst, Oversee.net
worked with James at Oversee.net

"James served as Scrum Master (project manager for an Agile software development methodology). He was always very organized and helpful, going far beyond the minimum with status summaries, progress graphs, etc. He continually sought out constructive criticism. I saw his dedication to do what is right, as we closed our LiveDigital site After the announcement of the closing, he worked tirelessly to help the site's members retreive their data (at which time I was surprised to learn that he could write and debug perl scripts)."January 14, 2008

Brian Lau, Technical Lead, Oversee.net
worked with James at Oversee.net

"I worked with James on several documentation and training projects. He is a great self-starter and was able to synthesize and deliver an excellent presentation on Software Estimate to a technical audience. I highly recommend his work."January 13, 2008

Chris Welton, Senior Product Manager, Oversee.net
worked with James at Oversee.net

"James is self-motivated, organized and very responsive to allocate tasks and share ideas and recommendations. His ability to recognize and address obstacles were James' great contributions to the team. His experience in Film and TV production industry had added great values to our production team."January 13, 2008

George Shemtov, Product Manager - Sr. Lead Designer, Oversee.net
worked directly with James at Oversee.net

"James prepared several technical documents for my group which were promtly on time and well written."January 12, 2008

Veronica Vicente, Sr. SEM Specialist, oversee.net
worked with James at Oversee.net

"I worked with James at Oversee.net for over a year and a half. He is sharp and quick to respond with solutions and processes. James is a master of documenting complex processes and has an eye for seeing details and extremely good with numbers, checks and balances. He is also very personable, friendly and approachable always willing to extend a helpful hand for his colleagues. James is very competent and a good teacher to those who ask him questions about his areas of responsibility. I enjoyed working with James and the company that has him on their team will benefit greatly."January 12, 2008

Matthew Domanski, Controller, Oversee.net
worked with James at Oversee.net

President No. Hollywood Experience Unlimited Club

EDD State of California

"James is a very personable and highly intellegent individual who can be counted on to take the reins of a project and run with it. I worked with him for approx 6 months during which time he was a continual source of good ideas and quality work."January 20, 2008

Scott Holmes, Owner, Scott Holmes Co
worked directly with James at Glapros

Computer Consultant

Sun Microsystems - Millenium Pharmaceuticals

"James is an excellent guy to work with. I spent a year working with him in Cambridge,MA, where we both consulted for Sun on the Millenium Pharmaceuticals Genome project (supporting their network). He has a good engineering approach to solving problems, very thorough in his work and ensures that a job is driven to completion. A good person to have on your team."January 22, 2008

Fintan Plower, Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems
worked directly with James at Sun Microsystems - Millenium Pharmaceuticals

Experience

Video Consultant, Scrum Master, Tech Writer, Registrar Admin

Oversee.net

(Privately Held ; 201-500 employees ; Internet industry)

May 2005 - January 2008 (2 years 9 months)

Technical writer, Internet Consultant, CSS Web and on-line video developer, Q&A for Internet production, admin, registrar consultant, domains, teacher for MySQL, Scrum Master.

James has 9 recommendations (9 co-workers) including:

  • Christopher Paulicka, Software Engineering Manager, Oversee.net
  • Henri Duong, (henri@ipevo.net), New Media Production Manager, LiveDigital.com, an Oversee Net Property
  • James Garland, Rich Media Lead, Oversee.net
  • Scott Beber, Principal Analyst, Oversee.net
  • Brian Lau, Technical Lead, Oversee.net

President No. Hollywood Experience Unlimited Club

EDD State of California

(Government Agency ; 501-1000 employees ; Human Resources industry)

January 2004 - May 2005 (1 year 5 months)

President elected to the EDD Experience Unlimited California State sponsored Professional Job seeking club in North Hollywood

James has 1 recommendation (1 co-worker) including:

  • Scott Holmes, Owner, Scott Holmes Co

Integration Consultant

Akamai Technologies

(Public Company ; 201-500 employees ; Computer Networking industry)

January 1999 - December 2000 (2 years)

Integration for clients using the Akamai Global Network which is a wide distributed network for rich media / images, video delivery via the Internet. - Also did freelance consulting for Computer Networks, security and graphics / video support prior to Akamai.

Education

City University

BSc Music, Sound Eng. Composition, 1975 -1978

Additional Information

Websites:

  • Visionary Productions

Groups and Associations:

Past President of EDD Experience Unlimited Job Club - North Hollywood for 1 year