Jacob McDonald

Senior Video Editor, HouseLens

February 2023 – current

• Reduced daily hours spent on editing tasks by 40% after training 6 new editors to meet quality expectations when building 3D real estate tours and reviewing each other’s work.
• Mediated an argument between management when it appeared a critical error had occurred by discovering the source of the issue and explaining no one in the company was at fault, leading to the error being fixed there.
• Reimagined the company’s social media video strategy to align with current trends and generate a new source of revenue through graphic templates.
• Featured in the Nashville news with a short documentary on an affordable housing opening event attended by Mayor Freddie O’Connell.
• Produced and edited 20-25 weekly videos in Adobe Premiere and After Effects for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, generating $15,000-$22,000 per month.
• Maintained a delivery schedule between 3D tours and real estate videos - often 10 projects a day - through a
feedback system, communicating between field agents and customer support for any reshoots required.

​

Production Coordinator and Consultant, Self-Employed

March 2020 – January 2023

• Provided script drafts and production coordination advice with a team of 5 for the YouTube channel Faerghast, producing 5 videos for Support Science that saw viewership growth from 40k for a video to 450k for a video.
• Reviewed current pricing of 1000 pieces of medical equipment provided to SOS International and adjusted prices in the organization’s database while maintaining weekly updates, providing accuracy for the organization’s marketing material and tax files.

​

Operations and Production Assistant, WABE

January 2019 – March 2020

• Co-produced Science Behind, collaborating with a 4-person team on creating projects, communicating and
scheduling with clients, handled filming logistics, scripting the episode, reviewing deliverables, and coordinating content and promotion planning.
• Implemented a pre-built graphic and audio workflow for weekly videos that accelerated delivery by 4 weeks and earned an IMPACT award nomination for creativity and experimentation that significantly contributed to our team.
• Overhauled WABE’s entire promotional soundbite library by scheduling 4 recording sessions with voice actors and adding 168 daily soundbites for commercials.
• Represented WABE at local conventions (MomoCon, DragonCon), developing future partnerships with 3 comic artists, 4 cosplayers, and 1 spaceship manufacturing company for our ongoing series, Making It.
• Prevented a 10 TB video catalog crash by alerting the team to multiple file duplications, saving video archives up to 10 years old and taking on the task for file management thereafter.

​

Production Assistant. P3K Production Group.

July 2018

• Handled production for a 24-person crew, managing on-set challenges to successfully complete filming two hours ahead of schedule.