Experience

FIXER.

• United States
• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder/Managing FIXER.

  • Mar 2010 - Present

  As Managing FIXER., Eric works closely with his clients and directors on both the practical and creative elements, resulting in repeat business built out of deeply held trust. A graduate of Boston University’s film school, Eric entered the industry straight out of college, lensing and editing documentaries before finding his stride as a commercial producer. Prior to embarking on his journey with FIXER., Eric was a founding staff member at Caviar. As Head of Production and Executive Producer, Eric contributed to Caviar’s ascent from a one-room office with three employees to perennial award-winning production company. Continuing the top-level production service work he had become known for at Caviar, in 2010 Eric started FIXER. A born-and-raised New Yorker, Eric’s roots give him a breadth of regional knowledge when it comes to understanding the city’s most inspired locations, geography, and crews. As his experiences shooting the iconic New York subway for Seagram’s and filming in Grand Central Terminal for Toshiba reveal, Eric knows how to wield and control the chaos of the city to deliver images for his clients that embody the incomparable flavor of New York. Over the course of his career, Eric has produced a wide range of commercials, branded content, experiential projects, and music videos filmed across the globe. Clients include Coca-Cola, Gillette, Jordan, Bank of America, Nike, Target, Toyota, Verizon, Gatorade, and Volkswagen, and top-tier agencies such as BBDO, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, DDB, Deutsch, JWT, Mother, Publicis, Saatchi&Saatchi, and TBWA\CHIAT\DAY. Along the way, Eric’s projects have been recognized with Emmy and MVPA nominations, while earning awards from Ciclope, Clio and Cannes Lions.



Freelance

• Line Producer

  • Mar 2010 - Present

  Working with production companies such as Bullitt, Caviar, Fixer, RSA/Black Dog, Pulse Films, and Los York, Eric has produced a wide range of commercials, branded content films experiential projects and music videos for high-end clients like Coca Cola, Gillette, Jordan, Nike, Toshiba, Toyota, Verizon and Volkswagen. Agency relationships include BBDO, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, DDB, Deutsch, JWT, Mother, Publicis, Saatchi and Saatchi, and TBWA\CHIAT\DAY to name a few. Directors such as thirtytwo, Oscar Hudson, Nabil, Jody Hill, Jorma Taccone, Keith Schofield, Patrick Sherman and Saam Farahmand have entrusted him with their vision. Working locally on diverse productions in Los Angeles and New York, the films he's produced have also lensed all across the US in cities like Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Portland and San Francisco as well as in several countries around the globe like Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic and Mexico. Projects he's produced have been recognized with Clios, Lions, Emmy Nominations, MVPA nominations and VMA nominations. In addition to overseeing physical production, Eric works closely with directors to help craft their treatments, perform well on conference calls, identify & book key crew and finally put together director's cuts for inclusion on their reels. Campaigns he's produced have yielded a steady stream of repeat business for both the directors and production companies with whom he's worked.



Caviar

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Production/Executive Producer

  • Jan 2005 - Mar 2010

  A founding employee of this global, award-winning production company with top-level directors, Eric was responsible for its inception, management and growth as well as the procurement of talent for its directorial roster. He worked with directors to craft winning pitches and grow their careers by interfacing with the independent reps as well as top advertising agencies to put them in the best positions for success. His primary duties included international sales, bidding & research, treatment development, strategy & business development, contract negotiations and overseeing overlapping projects shooting both domestically and globally. He was responsible for the hiring and management of both staff and freelance employees. http://www.caviarcontent.com



Atomik Pictures

• Executive Producer/Head of Production

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2008

  Managed all aspects of USA-based production services company, coming up with bespoke solutions for content production across a wide media spectrum in locations spanning North America and the Caribbean. With the founders' focus moved towards building Caviar, he took on the top-down management of Atomik in charge of sales, bidding, research, production and reporting. In 2006, he expanded operations to include an office in New York while increasing year-over-year billings in each of the three years he ran the company by growing the client-base to include foreign production companies from yet untapped markets like Japan, France and Poland. Client production companies were working with top brands such as Adidas, Honda and Toyota as well as advertising agencies like Dentsu, Mother and Publicis. Eventually operations were transitioned into a role in international sales for Caviar, seeking out co-productions for its directors, and refocusing production services on coordinating domestic shoots for Caviar's global offices.



Freelance

• Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor

  • Oct 2001 - Dec 2003

  Under the management of The Firm, Eric worked with grammy-winning recording artists such as Korn, Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots as a tour documentarian writing, producing, directing and editing content for their web-based fan clubs, accompanying them all over the US, Canada and Europe. The documentary he directed "Korn: Untouchables Tour 2002" documents the eponymous tour and was included as an added-value DVD with a special edition of their 2003 CD release of Take a Look in the Mirror. http://korn.com http://www.linkinpark.com http://stonetemplepilots.com



Spanky Pictures

• Assistant to Vice President of Development

  • Jun 2000 - Sep 2001

  The production company of late director Ted Demme (Blow, Beautiful Girls, The Ref) had a first look deal with New Line Cinema and offices on the historic Lot in West Hollywood. Working closely with the VP of development, Tracy Falco, as her assistant, his primary functions were setting meetings, providing internal script coverage, maintaining the script library and dispersing materials. The projects in development were spread across several major studios such as Warner Brothers, HBO and Universal. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001130/