James L. Talamini Talamini Media Solutions
James L. Talamini President, Talamini Media Solutions
Address 6 Foreston Circle Manorville, New York 11949EXPERIENCE: New York Protection Detail, Wading River, New York.... Personal Security Agent June 2011 – Present.... Personal Protection Detail for mostly high-end clientele. Specialize in personal security for celebrities, corporate employee security and high profile event security. Proficient in all non-physical aspects of security as well as the physical. Various studies in verbal judo, jiu-jitsu, boxing, jeet kune do and krav maga.... LA Boxing/Commack, Commack, New York.... General Manager, June 2010 – May 2012.... Responsible for the day to day operations of a national franchise health and fitness gym. Duties include member relations, developing programs for teens to provide a safe and positive environment so they can learn self-discipline and self-respect, mentoring several teens in resolving bullying problems in their school and personal life, securing contracts, dealing with vendors, ensuring that all classes are scheduled and staffed accordingly, reporting to the majority owner and franchisee on a daily basis to make sure that the gym is running according to LA Boxing guidelines, handling media relations, running the LA Boxing fight teams, teaching classes and scheduling personal training clients.... CNBC, New York, New York.... Project Manager/Quality Control, Technical Operations, December 2005 – April 2010.... In charge of organizing all technical aspects of four live television shows airing daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Responsible for coordinating team members in efficiently executing an array of tasks in order to air shows from downtown Manhattan while being controlled remotely in Englewood Cliffs New Jersey. Proactively identify risks that might occur during a live television broadcast and provide a solution should they arise. Serve as a troubleshooter should an unforeseen problem suddenly occur. Also responsible for the day-to-day duties of a ten person technical staff, two hair and makeup persons and five anchors.... CourtTV, New York, New York.... Manager, Video Services, June 1999 – December 2005.... Responsible for overseeing all technical and managerial aspects of CourtTV’s Dubbing Center, Prep area and Quality Control. Duties include supervising the post-production of Air Protection, Air Master, International Master and Dub Master copies of all programming and working in conjunction with the tape library in organizing and maintaining all copies. Managing the entire video library that resides on their computer servers that they air programming from. Working in conjunction with major captioning institutions to make sure all of their programming is Closed Captioned. Coordinating work schedules with other departments to ensure programming gets QC’d, prepped and loaded onto air servers before shows are aired.... Lucasfilm/THX, New York, New York.... Freelance Quality Control, January 1999.... Evaluated movie theaters and specific films. Reported directly to Lucasfilm/THX management with a complete evaluation to determine if the quality of a certain theatre would be accepted according to Lucasfilm movie standards in order to show their movies. Evaluations were generally geared toward finding an acceptable theatre in preparation for the release of Star Wars, The Phantom Menace in May 1999.... Lifetime Television, Queens, New York.... Freelance Quality Control, Utility, and Chyron, June 1998 – April 1999.... Depending on the needs of the company, various responsibilities included quality control, utility dub work, or chyron in edit sessions.... CNNfn, New York, New York.... Manager, Quality Control, September 1996 – March 1998.... Headed a 15-person work crew. Responsible for overseeing all technical and managerial aspects of the workday. Duties included scheduling union authorized breaks and lunches, and also a direct liaison between the director and producer of live shows and camera operators, audio technicians, video shaders, floor persons, and incoming and outgoing tape feeds.... TCI/TKR Cable of Westchester and Rockland, Westchester/Rockland, New York.... Anchor/Reporter, April 1995 – June 1997.... News/Sports anchor for local cable news channel (currently News12 of Westchester/Rockland). Covered major breaking news and reported on local news and sporting events. Covered local teams as well as major league teams like the Rangers, Knicks, Yankees and Giants. Live play-by-play announcer for high school football and basketball and also hosted a live, two hour call-in talk show on Monday nights.... Hobbies/Activities.... Nationally certified boxing coach through U.S.A. Boxing, participated in several USA Boxing sanctioned amateur bouts including one on April 8, 2010. Fought 3 round amateur boxing match at B.B. King Blues Club, located in Times Square, in front of 700 people. I have been boxing and helping other fighters for about 20 years. I have also coached 6 years of 6th grade boy’s basketball between 1990 and 1996.... Licenses.... New York State Security Guard License. CPR/AED Certified. Class E NYS Drivers License.... References Upon Request