Luke's Answer

I learned how to manage a high-performance team of full-time assistant editors, freelancers, writers, and temps spread across the U.S. while developing and delivering content across multiple platforms. Every week my L.A. office and N.Y. office create create print-editions (the weekly Back Stage West and Back Stage East newspapers), digital-magazine editions, and email-editions of our content while maintaining an extensive casting/production database that's updated hourly, serving over 300,000 actors, models, performers, directors, casting directors, and producers every month.

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Via this job and various freelance projects, I also learned many aspects of web development; database management; people management; daily online publishing; weekly newspaper publishing; marketing; business expansion; partnership negotiation; writing; editing; and more.

The position requires extensive knowledge of the entertainment industry, the performing-arts unions (SAG, Equity, AFTRA, etc.), and the online casting/job-seeker marketplace and all related technology and information resources available to actors, performers, directors, producers, agents, and casting directors.

I'm also now highly experienced with Quark, Word, Excel, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Microsoft Visual Basic (including advanced Word Macro creation/programming), and various customized database systems and photo-editing programs. Also knowledgeable in regards to multimedia editing (sound, video, etc., including Avid, FinalCut, and ProTools), various blogging platforms, HTML, SEO, etc. Some knowledge of C++, XML, and other programming languages/platforms.