Cudjo Collins
Pasadena
Summary
Visionary Post-Production Director with 20 years of experience leading high-performing teams and executing compelling digital storytelling. Expertise in designing efficient workflows and managing distributed teams to produce high-volume content while maintaining quality. Committed to leveraging emerging technologies to enhance storytelling and audience engagement.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Creative Director
Raven Post
01.2022 - Current
- Lead creative direction and editorial across commercial and digital campaigns from concept through delivery
- Oversaw multiple concurrent projects while maintaining quality standards and meeting tight deadlines
- Developed workflows that enhanced turnaround time and ensured consistent output across projects
- Built and managed freelance teams aligned with project scope to ensure optimal resource allocation
Director of Editorial NY/LA
Buck Design
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Built and led national post-production team across NY and LA, enhancing collaboration and production quality
- Designed scalable workflows for remote collaboration and high-volume production
- Collaborated with leadership to align departmental strategies with growth objectives, improving overall efficiency
- Managed hiring, developed team structure, and established long-term strategy to support organizational goals
- Coordinated cross-functional teams and external vendors
Education
Associate of Arts - Media Arts
Queensborough Community College
Oakland Gardens, NY06-2004
Skills
- Creative strategy
- Campaign execution
- Visual storytelling
- Multimedia creation
- Concept development
- Project management
- Agile project management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Team leadership
- Media industry expertise
- Critical thinking
Creative Pov
The biggest shift AI introduces to storytelling is not just speed or scale-it's a fundamental change in who can create and how ideas are developed. For most of my career, storytelling at a high level required infrastructure: teams, budgets, time, and access. AI begins to collapse those barriers. What used to take weeks can now take days, and what required a full team can increasingly start with one person and a strong point of view. But that doesn't make creativity less valuable-it makes taste, judgment, and clarity more important than ever. When production becomes easier, the bottleneck shifts to decision-making: what to make, why it matters, and how it connects with people. The role of creative leadership becomes less about execution and more about shaping direction, building systems, and maintaining a consistent point of view across a much faster pipeline. My background has been in exactly that environment-high-pressure, fast-turn storytelling where quality still has to hold. I've spent years building teams and workflows that allow creative work to scale without breaking. AI feels like the next extension of that, not a replacement for it. What excites me most is the opportunity to help define how these tools are actually used in practice-not just what they can do, but how they shape culture, communication, and creative standards going forward.
Timeline
Creative Director
Raven Post
01.2022 - Current
Director of Editorial NY/LA
Buck Design
01.2020 - 01.2022
Associate of Arts - Media Arts
Queensborough Community College