Education
University of Southern California
B.A., Communications & Cinema
2003Podcasts
44:59252: What It’s Like to Work in Operations & Post-Production at IMAX Movies w/ Arbi Derzakharian, IMAX [Main T4C episode]
Arbi Derzakharian was the senior director of operations and post-production at IMAX, where he oversaw the supply chain and process involved in getting films, some produced by IMAX and others produced at different entertainment studios, into IMAX theatres. Before he quit in June 2019, Arbi spent over four years at..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“I would really rely heavily on my managers to bring me in at a point of escalation so that I didn’t have to worry about the regular day to day. I would only want to deal with the irregularities.”
Best Career Advice
“We should do things that make us happy. And since it makes us happy, we’ll end up perfecting that thing that we’re doing, and it should equal commerce, meaning you should get some kind of salary from it.”
Career Challenge
“I had to leave a company and it wasn’t a decision that I made and it was a really low point in my career. I had worked there a long time and it was time to move on, but I wasn’t confident about the situation. So I rebooted my career, maybe not in a great way, but it ended up working out.”
Skills
Post Production, Operations Management, Team Leadership, Entertainment, Digital Media, Strategy, Troubleshooting, Data Analysis, Customer Satisfaction, Software Development, Client Engagement, Organization Skills, Team Building, Management
Professional Interests
Rose Marcario, WarnerMedia, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Armenian Entertainment, Media and Tech Industry Professionals, Armenian Professionals, Entertainment Industry, University of Southern California
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