Dakota Corum
Smithville
Summary
Digital Asset Manager with extensive experience organizing, reviewing, and maintaining high-volume digital libraries for publishing and syndication environments. Skilled in metadata management, quality control, cross-team coordination, and ensuring accurate, on-time delivery of assets to internal teams and external partners. Known for improving workflows, maintaining consistent standards, and supporting creators, clients, and departments with reliable asset management and content operations expertise.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Digital Asset Manager
Andrews McMeel Universal
Kansas City
10.2023 - Current
- Oversee and maintain millions of digital assets across multiple properties, ensuring accuracy, organization, and long-term accessibility.
- Perform daily quality control checks on images, metadata, and file structures to ensure all content meets internal and syndicate standards.
- Manage asset ingestion, tagging, categorization, and organization in the DAM system for high-volume content pipelines.
- Work directly with syndicates, creators, and partner teams to ensure content is delivered correctly and on schedule.
- Collaborate with editorial, marketing, production, client services, and tech teams to support their asset needs and resolve workflow issues.
- Tag and prepare large batches of files for distribution, following established naming conventions, and taxonomy guidelines.
- Monitor incoming content to verify formatting, resolution, copyright details, and metadata before approving for release.
- Support creators and clients by troubleshooting delivery issues and providing guidance on content requirements.
- Manage daily website content updates, ensuring assets are published accurately and reflect current brand and editorial standards.
- Identify workflow gaps and recommend improvements to strengthen consistency, reduce errors, and speed up turnaround times.
- Assist with ongoing DAM system improvements, including metadata cleanup, folder restructuring, and asset audits.
Director of Operations
Octiive
Aliso Viejo
01.2019 - 08.2023
- Managed risk by conducting thorough due diligence and regular portfolio reviews.
- Enhanced product quality by conducting thorough analyses and implementing corrective actions.
- Improved overall production efficiency by identifying and resolving quality control issues.
- Reduced customer complaints with consistent monitoring of products for adherence to company standards.
- Streamlined processes, implementing rigorous testing protocols to ensure product reliability.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams for effective resolution of manufacturing discrepancies.
- Oversaw millions of digital assets to ensure content was being delivered correctly.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by promptly addressing concerns and providing accurate information.
- Provided best in class service to artists and label partners by ensuring products were delivered in timely fashion to hit time-sensitive release dates.
- Performance managed several departments including, but not limited to: Customer Service, Content Management, Development, Marketing & Royalty Accounting.
- Developed & implemented forward-looking business goals along with key initiatives that aligned to overall growth strategy.
- Streamlined internal processes by developing and implementing more efficient task management ticket systems.
- Developed new proposals, contracts, and procedures to increase client base and provide better quality product to end users.
- Responsible for thousands of Digital assets being delivered successfully to aggregators and DSPs on weekly and monthly basis.
- Oversaw royalty accounting and was responsible for processing high volume claims and payments to users.
Digital Content Manager
MondoTunes
11.2014 - 01.2019
- Developed new proposals, contracts, and procedures to draw in more clients and streamline work operations.
- Managed quality control and content delivery to aggregators and DSPs.
- Provided excellent customer service and daily support to users and clients.
- Worked directly with customer support team.
- Collaborated with marketing and design teams to develop and plan site content, layout, and style.
- Conducted regular content audits to identify gaps and redundancies of content.
- Approved, reviewed and edited content flowing to website.
- Approved and processed royalty payments on monthly basis.
- Managed digital assets for numerous label partners.
- Oversaw entire life cycle on multiple high caliber projects.
- Ran trend reports provide insights and analytics to label partners.
- Quality controlled all metadata and assets and deliver to DSPs.
- Worked directly with aggregators and labels on projects eligible for physical distribution.
- Collaborated with artists and partners on marketing plans for artist's projects.
- Coordinated release schedules.
- Negotiated and secure new label deals.
- Oversaw catalog and digital asset management for label.
- Worked directly with artists on upcoming releases and release strategies.
- Ran trend reports and provide insights and analytics to artists.
- Quality controlled all metadata and assets to successfully deliver to DSPs.
- Negotiated and secured branding deals for label and its artists.
Education
Saddleback College
Mission Viejo, CA01.2009
Skills
- Operational Excellence
- Digital asset management
- E-Commerce Strategy
- Microsoft Office
- Business Growth Initiatives
- Business Policies and Procedures
- Content Workflow
- Report Generation
- Quality Standards Adherence
- Content organization
- Workflow optimization
Timeline
Digital Asset Manager
Andrews McMeel Universal
10.2023 - Current
Director of Operations
Octiive
01.2019 - 08.2023
Digital Content Manager
MondoTunes
11.2014 - 01.2019
Saddleback College