aaron bear
Director & Executive Producer at Yes I Am - The Ric Weiland Story
executive producer & director bear
'm award- winning director & producer split time seattle & los angeles . produced & directed abundant amount commercial work ( microsoft , amazon , starbucks etc ) , make 50k look like 500 million . recently , directed produced award-winning feature-length documentary released 2016 called finding kim revealed uncommon passion beautifully rendered deeply empathetic storytelling . finding kim regarded one truest telling transgender person ’ life . forthcoming documentary , yes - ric weiland story shine light life legacy microsoft founder & queer pioneer , mr. ric weiland ( google ! ) influence filmmaker varied interest person range oft-maligned universally lauded . unconventional , offbeat one hand . calculated , iconic , downright classical . think , john water , david lynch , free bloody mary ’ first class . anything else , value humor , honesty , authenticity , experience . loyalty craft , colleague , subject , peer core creative process filmmaker .
Yes I Am - The Ric Weiland Story
Narrated by Zachary Quinto, Exec Produced by Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato (World Of Wonder) and starring Bill Gates, Yes I Am - The Ric Weiland Story chronicles a queer pioneer and one of the first employees at Microsoft. Ric helped focus and organize their early successes. It made him wealthy and influential at an early age. He never felt overly comfortable with his wealth - he didn’t feel that he deserved it. Other people had worked harder for what they had, he thought. So to quiet the nagging doubt, he turned to philanthropy. Out and proud since the 70’s, Ric was a champion of gay rights. During his life, he donated more than 200 million dollars to fund more than 60 non-profit organizations. His efforts to establish representation and resources for the LGBT community still have a profound impact today. He also lived through the AIDS epidemic. Painful losses tempered his social life and focused his resolve to give back to his community during a time when they desperately needed hope. Like so many of his friends, he was diagnosed with HIV. It seemed he wouldn’t emerge from the crisis unscathed emotionally, or physically. As his wealth and influence grew, Ric seemed to slip further into self-doubt, depression, and a kind of impostor-syndrome that seemingly no one could talk him out of. It was clear to see from the outside looking in that he was a brilliant, impactful, and beloved person. Where was the disconnect in his own heart and mind? 

It’s difficult to overestimate the impact that Ric had. Technology, gay rights, HIV/AIDS research funding… and the list goes on. He was one of the greatest philanthropists in American history. Google him.

Near the end of his life, he wrote, “I’ve lost interest in fighting my depression and other emotions. I can’t see how it would end given my circumstances.” 

It’s a chilling reminder that no matter how much success one finds - everybody needs help… geniuses included.
United States
Director & Executive Producer
Bear Collective
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bear-collective
Executive Producer and Creative Director at a collective of filmmakers, designers, & artists.
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Executive Producer
Finding Kim
Feature Documentary Film. Just finished sold out runs at The 2016 Seattle International Film Festival.

Synopsis:
When Kim was younger, he never really felt comfortable in his own skin. Being assigned as female at birth and raised a girl, his childhood was full of bullying and traumatic experiences. The other kids would tease him mercilessly about looking and acting "like a boy," sometimes even preventing him from using the restrooms at school. Kim didn't have the words to describe what was happening or how he felt to anyone—he just knew he was different. Later on in life, he came to the realization that maybe he was gay, but the lesbian community didn't feel right to him either. After diving headfirst into all sorts of queer and transgender reading material, Kim came to the ultimate decision that he was meant to be a man, and began the female-to-male transformation process almost immediately. Kim's story is entwined with insightful interviews with members and activists in the LGBTQ community: Carmen Carrera ("RuPaul's Drag Race," season 3), Buck Angel (a famous female-to-male adult entertainer), Dr. Tony Mangubat (a surgeon specializing in transgender procedures), and Seattle's own Dan Savage. Finding Kim follows our titular character through his day-to-day life to his eventual life-changing surgery as he becomes who he always felt he was under the surface.
Greater Seattle Area
Director & Executive Producer
Starbucks
https://www.linkedin.com/company/starbucks
•	Oversee the digital video/photography production process from concept to launch for all Global Digital Marketing needs.
•	Prioritize multiple shoots and clients and ensure that projects meet specified timelines and deliver expected results.
•	Ensures proactive communication of plans, timelines and budgets.
•	Manages and monitors schedules, progress, and costs to ensure that expected results are delivered on time and within budget.  Maintains, adjusts and updates project plans as needed.
•	Work to ensure creative direction from Global Digital Marketing and business needs from are incorporated into shoots.
•	Partners and collaborates with creative team, ecom, and production teams to ensure delivery against goals and objectives and meet/exceed standards.
•	Understands the essential dynamics, strategies and drivers of ecom in order to provide value-add and strategic counsel on execution.
•	Communicates opportunities for improving business planning, cross functional communications, work integration and teamwork between partners from cross-functional departments.
•	Manages relationship with internal and external groups to obtain products and execute shoots.
Greater Seattle Area
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Executive Producer
Starbucks
https://www.linkedin.com/company/starbucks
- Accountable for the production execution, management and quality control of multiple complex projects from concept to completion, ensuring team/stakeholder satisfaction, meeting all timeline milestones and delivering within the approved budgets
- Serve as a main interface on projects, clarify strategic requirements, explain complex ideas clearly, and manage expectations
- Develop and document project parameters including scope, schedule, budgets, specifications; create, update and monitor project plans for all projects
- Closely monitor budgets, establish project plans and processes to avoid and/or resolve scope creep, budget overages, or efficiency issues
- Create detailed project (creative, multimedia, technology, etc.) requirements through discussions and meetings with internal project team members across all departments; including functional specifications, creative briefs, and wireframes
- Conduct and lead kick-off and status meetings regularly with vendors and the internal team, ensure thorough communication with all stakeholders at all stages of every project
- Proactively communicate with business partners about production recommendations, risks, challenges and solutions
- Actively own and be accountable for vendor relationships, with special attention to tracking and managing resource consumption
- Contribute to ongoing improvement of internal processes to allow for smooth execution of projects and improved efficiency across departments and project team members
- Cultivate and demonstrate an interest and awareness of trends and best practices as related to digital marketing
Greater Seattle Area
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Producer - Global Digital Marketing
Mediamind
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- Lead a team and work collaboratively with clients from concept through final production ensuring flawless execution and timely delivery of all assigned projects.
-Plan, develop and produce top-notch creative productions for our top consumer clients including but not limited to: ABC, Ford, Netflix and A&E.
-Interface daily with Sales and Strategic brand clients to drive the end-to-end execution of premier ad products.
-Directly responsible for campaigns totaling over $10 million dollars in revenue & over 1 billion impressions.
-Partner with analytics to deliver reporting that clients can utilize for future campaigns. 
-Design & manage Ad Support business intelligence strategy leveraging business analyst resources
-Help define and influence the proces roadmap; define and establish the vision, goals, supporting business metrics, and success indicators 
-Main point of accountability for several differing rich media products
 -Driving analysis on operational feasibility and editorial approval with internal partners
-Play a key role in evaluating and suggesting changes to creative concepts, and also facilitating pre-sales storyboard requests.
-Work cross-functionally with designers, software development engineers, quality assurance, sales people, other product managers, operations, finance, customer service, and executive teams to guarantee a smooth and efficient product delivery.
-Drive product improvements to completion by coordinating with project managers, web developers, buyers, designers, and other stakeholders.
-Ensure clear communication and coordination across the business, design and development team
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Lead PSM with Microsoft Advertising - YARN
Waggener Edstrom
https://www.linkedin.com/company/we-comms
-Manage & produce top-notch creative for agency clients
-Advise agency clients and account teams on how to utilize digital media in with a campaign.
-work closely with multiple development and account teams to deliver high quality, scalable products on new strategic platforms and services
-Contribute to new business with new and existing accounts by working with account managers and new business cross-discipline teams to create winning proposals and RFP responses.
-Research and stay current on the latest digital media trends and techniques and 
regularly knowledge-share with agency teams as appropriate.  
-Develop creative online campaigns and lead a virtual team in their execution 
-Gauge Microsoft account staff and client satisfaction on a regular basis and provide 
analysis on how to improve efficiencies for future projects. 
-Devising strategy for video placement and promotion as well as how best to integrate video projects into broader, long-term campaigns and efforts. 
-Improving our service levels and ability to scale to support the growing list of video requests
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Experience Senior Producer
Waggener Edstrom
https://www.linkedin.com/company/we-comms
-Produce top-notch creative video and audio for global clients.
- Advise agency clients and account teams on how to utilize digital media in a campaign. 
-Develop creative online campaigns and lead a virtual team in their execution 
-Gauge Microsoft account staff and client satisfaction on a regular basis and provide 
analysis on how to improve efficiencies for future projects. 
-Manage and create new technologies and communications methods 
-Conceptualizing, producing and editing video. 
-Devising strategy for video placement and promotion as well as how best to integrate video projects into broader, long-term campaigns and efforts. 
-Improving our service levels and ability to scale to support the growing list of video requests
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Digital Experience Producer
Microsoft-Xbox
https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft
-Plans, develops and produces media productions and programs by translating 
management's objectives into production ideas  
-Perform rough and final cuts by working with script and department representatives 
to achieve desired product  
- Manage multiple project activities and organize cross-functional production efforts  
-Prepare and maintain project documentation, such as project schedules, budget estimates, status reports, statements of work, and change orders.
-Conduct project system setup, ongoing project financial analysis, time and expense approval, internal and external weekly status reports, project resourcing, project extranets, and client invoicing approval.
-Work directly with the Director of Program Management to help manage group and agency processes.
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Senior Producer
The Cutting Room
-Proactively manage all aspects of the project: scope, risks, schedule, budget, profitability, 
communication, and client relationships. 
-Manage and deliver large web projects on-time and on-budget and at expected   
quality.
-Work with account managers to build relationships with clients through solid execution, 
key project information, and day-to-day project management
-Oversee the development of all project deliverables and ensure they meet internal and 
client expectations prior to delivery.
Senior Producer
New Media/Film
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Academy of Art University
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BFA
Digital Media Production
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The Art Institutes
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Arts and Culture
Northwest Film Forum
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Supported the NWFF by volunteering to usher/coordinate and assist the festival where needed.
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Volunteer Coordinator - Translations Film Fest/Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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Hebron, KY
David Brooks
Senior Data Analyst at pep, LLC.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenparkerscott
Portsmouth, RI
Steven P. Scott
Account Supervisor/Innovation Lead P&G at pep LLC
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Warsaw
Jakub Sajak
Senior Manager in Procter & Gamble
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hectorserrano1
United States
Hector Serrano
Sr. Manager, User Experience Research at Best Buy
https://ch.linkedin.com/in/sabrina-assaraf-09578b154
Geneva Metropolitan Area
Sabrina Assaraf
Global Marketing & POSM Team Leader at Wella Company
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fara-pejman-06679967
Redondo Beach, CA
Fara Pejman
Vice President, Global Supply Chain
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chere-garcia-6288154
Issaquah, WA
Chere Garcia
Creative Collaborator • Operations Optimist • Dot Connector • Problem Solver • Curious Leader
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracytmng
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Tracy Trang Nguyen, MBA
Brand Marketing Manager - OPI North America
https://www.linkedin.com/in/javier-aste-70594034
United States
Javier Aste
VP of Sales at PharmaCare Laboratories
https://mx.linkedin.com/in/b2bprojectmanager
Naucalpan de Juárez, MEX
Alejandra Díaz Romero
B2B Project Manager en SISIME
https://www.linkedin.com/in/serenity-zhang
New York City Metropolitan Area
Serenity Zhang
Digital Marketing Manager, Influencers, Amazon Ads
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-payne-444630162
Charlotte, NC
Scott Payne
Amazon Best-Selling PMP Author and Creator of World's Only Case Story Focused PMP Training
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellykugler
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Kelly Kugler
Global Talent Acquisition. Executive Recruitment. Leadership Team Builder. Founder @ Allora Collective
https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-murray-03870266
Bothell, WA
Teresa Murray
Sr. Producer, Customer Experience Engineering
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigogalavis
Burbank, CA
Rodrigo Galavis
Sr A/V Producer at PETROL Advertising
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-karsen-4b94074b
Los Angeles, CA
Isaac Karsen
Senior Creative Producer at Freelance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-paar-5aab356
Minneapolis, MN
Jack Paar
Executive Producer/Director
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelstern222
New York, NY
Michael D. Stern
Emmy Award Winning Writer/Director
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankjrichards
Miami Beach, FL
Frank Javier Richards
Executive Producer at Parranda Productions
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        I worked with Aaron for a little over two years. He was one of the first hires within Waggener Edstrom Studio D and helped build the video and motion graphics departments at Waggener.

I was recently speaking to one of his former clients, an executive with Microsoft, who told me "I could always depend on Aaron, he could read me and he got what we needed done." 

As his manager, I found him to be a great problem solver who could bring new ideas to the table. 

With today's video environment changing, Aaron always knew what level of investment and production quality the client would digest. He has a good eye for humor and instintively knows what will work and what won't. Ksenia Anske
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aaron is a perfect "creative" jack of all trades - from video to digital media to web marketing to project management - he can balance it all - with grace and utter professionalism. Working with Aaron was a pleasure. Given an opportunity, I would work with Aaron on any project in a heartbeat.
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Vancouver, WA
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NW Regional Product Manager  at Safway Group
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Stockbridge, MI
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Electrical Technician at Enbridge
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ThoseinMedia
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Digital Video Distribution & Licensing Forum
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American Film Institute
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ProductionHUB
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Career Essentials
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