Email: [email protected]
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Phone: (813) 408-4871
Website: www.kevdisalvo.com
<aside> <img src="/icons/bookmark_gray.svg" alt="/icons/bookmark_gray.svg" width="40px" /> I’ve spent 15 years running multiplatform production, creative ops, and making things happen around the world. My background covers the gamut of production, from documenting human rights campaigns in East Africa to crafting hundreds of hours of award-winning children's television in the US. I thrive where mission, collaboration, and workflows are deeply intertwined. I live for Gantt charts and birds.
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PRODUCER - OPERATIONS & DIGITAL MEDIA - The WNET Group | New York, NY (July 2019 to Present)
- Lead all stages of production for award-winning media PBS KIDS and other nationally distributed programs—from high-level content strategy and scripting to editorial review, post-production supervision, budget management, and distribution. Delivered over 120 hours of original programming with reach to over 95% households, 5 interactive games, and 3 new digital accounts.
- Drive audience engagement and brand growth for PBS KIDS' Emmy-nominated series Cyberchase through strategic branding, programmatic, social and content campaigns. Recent efforts have resulted in over 29% growth in annual streaming from baseline, with over 49M streams at peak. Led digital transformation, including launching a dedicated YouTube channel with 4 million streams in the first year and growing cross-platform reach to 800,000 monthly users.
- Oversee team of 5+ specialists and producers, managing production schedules, coordinating with vendors and freelancers, and ensuring editorial quality and brand consistency across all deliverables.
- Act as technical lead for the Kids' Media team, and represent the department on multi-departmental working groups focused on media supply chains, strategic planning to foster strong partnerships.
- Manage production budgets, negotiate contracts, and coordinate rights and clearances to ensure compliance and on-time delivery of complex projects across multiple platforms.
- Mentor junior production staff, building a supportive and growth-oriented team culture.
VIDEO PROJECT MANAGER, Springer Nature | New York, NY (September 2018 to June 2019)
- Spearheaded the establishment of production workflows for international publishing units, resulting in the successful rollout of a new video subscription product including its first 500 "video book" assets.
- Developed and monitored KPIs for coordinating editors, product, and production teams.
- Acted as video expert across imprints, training editorial teams and academic contributors on production techniques, optimizing video quality and ensuring consistency across diverse content streams.
CREATOR & MEDIA PROJECT MANAGER - Self-Employed | Uganda, Africa (January 2017 to September 2018)
- Provided full-scale media production services to nonprofits, NGOs, social enterprises, and aid agencies in East Africa, specializing in editorial, documentary, and promotional storytelling.
- Individually designed and managed production plans, content development, timetables, budgets, and contracts based on clients' capacities. Provided deliverables as iterations to clients to promote collaborative work plans.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER - EDUCATION - The WNET Group | New York, NY (November 2015 to January 2017)
- Edited and produced over 100 videos and interactive resources for PBS’ free-to-use educational website. Managed CMS uploads for the department, and generated reports in Google Analytics on resource use.
- Developed various post-production and archiving workflows for the department, and ran multiple trainings with producers and senior staff to ensure future implementation.
- Served as project lead on national station outreach initiative for special news program, Chasing the Dream. Tasks included overseeing $100k in station grants, drafting RFPs, creating production graphics kits and best practices documentation, administering contracts and payments, etc.
Additional Experience
- PRODUCTION COORDINATOR, KIDS' MEDIA, The WNET Group | New York, NY (April to November 2015)
- MUSEUM EDUCATOR, Museum of the Moving Image | Astoria, NY (January 2013 to Sep 2014)
- TEACHER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE FLUENCY, US Peace Corps | Philippines, Asia (August 2010 to October 2012)
- PRODUCTION COORDINATOR, KIDS' MEDIA, The WNET Group | New York, NY (April to November 2015)
- MEDIA COORDINATOR - WORLDWIDE LEARNING, BBC Studios | New York, NY (May 2014 to April 2015)
- MUSEUM EDUCATOR, Museum of the Moving Image | Astoria, NY (January 2013 to Sep 2014)
- TEACHER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE FLUENCY, US Peace Corps | Philippines, Asia (August 2010 to October 2012)
<aside> <img src="/icons/graduate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/graduate_gray.svg" width="40px" /> BA, Literary & Cultural Studies, The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA | Concentration in Film Studies
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