Aaron Christopher Cohen

I am a technologist and film producer based in New York City with over a decade of experience designing and implementing technical projects in a vareity of industries including digital media startups, risk management and print media.

Steeped in technology since birth, I rode my bike to school past the HP garage every day in the birthplace of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto. I built my first website when I was 11 years old.

With my broad experience, technical acumen and intense passion for digital media I hope to continue to change how people find, experience and share content that both excites and informs.

Experience

40 Years In The Desert
Producer of Marketing & Distribution
June 2011 to Present
New York, NY

Current project: The Aaron Cohens.

AnyClip
Director of Content Operations & IT
March 2009 to September 2010
New York, NY

AnyClip is a movie search engine dedicated to helping you find, relive and share your favorite movie moments. Now based in Jerusalem, AnyClip was founded in New York City with the goal of leveraging the 50+ billion movie-specific searches made each year into a compelling yet *legal* consumer experience.

At AnyClip, I was hire #2. I worked to develop a proprietary metadata creation system and corresponding "tagging ontology" in order to make films searchable not only by dialog but by what is actually on the screen. Want to see every red Ford Mustang ever driven on screen? Every glass of orange juice? Every instance of someone saying "I love you"? AnyClip can show you.

I also negotiated with independent and Big Six movie studios to explain the benefits of making their content libraries searchable. After we secured content deals, I was responsible for the intake and tagging of licensed content as well as the management of the American tagging staff.

Big Chief Entertainment
Assistant Editor
September 2008 to March 2009
New York, NY 

Big Chief Entertainment is a boutique production company specializing in original and commissioned network specials, short-form content, series television and motion pictures.

DigiStream Investigations, Inc.
Copy Chief
September 2006 to March 2008
Davis, CA

DigiStream is a nationwide chain of private investigators specializing in workers' compensation fraud. At DigiStream, I coordinated the receipt of investigative materials from dozens of investigators and standardized work products across seven offices across the country.

I authored the company's first style guide and later developed a proprietary .NET system for the automatic creation and delivery of investigative reports, reducing average turn around time from two weeks to two days.

Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning
Assistant Internship
January 2006 to September 2006
Stanford University

At SCiL I worked for Artist-In-Residence Pamela Davis-Kivelson and colloborated in the development of touchscreen educational software Draw the Feeling(Not the Face). I assisted in the promotion, management and documentation of exhibitions and technological demonstrations and personally developed the web presence for Ms. Kivelson's poster campaign featuring women in science.