Resume — Adam Castar's Audio and Video Portfolio

ADAM CASTAR

acastar96@gmail.com|516-426- 5432|https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-castar

SUMMARY

Podcast producer with 5+ years in podcasting and radio. At Brand Revolt, served as lead producer of the agency’s flagship show, The Destination Marketing Podcast, hosted by CEO Adam Stoker, while running 3 to 5 client shows at once for destination marketing and industry clients. Owns episodes end to end, from guest research through editing, publishing and analytics.

SKILLS

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Creator’s Uncut; Calliope: A Poetry Podcast; What’s On Fire with Matty Smokes, Remote Freelance Podcast Producer & Editor (September 2025–Present)

Edit Calliope: A Poetry Podcast, weaving live poetry readings, musical transitions and interviews into finished episodes.
Edit video episodes of Creator’s Uncut, the flagship show of production company Creatorluxe, in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Selected social clip timestamps and advised on launch and equipment for What’s On Fire with Matty Smokes.

Brand Revolt, Provo, UT Podcast Producer (June 2022–April 2025) Podcast and Content Coordinator (October 2021–June 2022)

Lead producer of The Destination Marketing Podcast, the agency’s flagship show, from September 2024 to April 2025.
Ran 3 to 5 client shows at once on twice-monthly and monthly schedules, publishing up to 3 episodes a week at peak.
Delivered episodes about a week from recording to release, and in two days on one weekly show (Monday record, Wednesday release).
Researched guests and wrote interview outlines for nearly every client; wrote most episode titles and descriptions.
Took full production ownership of client shows after kickoff, using repeatable multi-show workflows.
Cut social clips in Descript for Instagram, YouTube and Facebook, and later supplied quote timestamps for clips.
Built per-show analytics reports from Megaphone, Apple and Spotify data; supported the 2024 move from Audioboom to Megaphone.
Shows included Unexpected Adventures in North Alabama, The Inner Coastal Podcast (Visit Beaufort, SC), Find Your Flow in MoCo (Decatur, AL), The Housing Advocate and Brands and Campaigns.

Audacy, New York, NY Tape Operator - WFAN/CBS Sports Radio (November 2019–October 2021)

Cut live sports highlights and monitored press conferences and breaking news for immediate on-air use on national radio.

MLB Network, Secaucus, NJ Freelance Broadcast Event Logger (April 2021– September 2021)

Logged live MLB games and indexed highlights, quotes, and key plays to accelerate post-game production workflows.

Sorrentino Media, New York, NY Freelance Podcast Editor (May 2020–October 202)

Assembled daily episodes with ad insertion for the Just the News network; edited Talking Squarely, a branded show for Square.

Fox News Radio, New York, NY College Associate (February 2019–April 2019)

Produced and edited radio soundbites for nationwide affiliate distribution.

Required Radio, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Co-Founder/President/Webmaster (September 2016–May 2019)

Founded and expanded a student podcasting organization at Hofstra University, training new members in audio editing and production.
Produced and hosted “Required Radio Fantasy Show” and “The Nerdcast”, while managing website content via WordPress.

88.7 WRHU FM, Radio Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Studio Engineer/News Writer (December 2015–May 2019)

Served as an engineer for biweekly music shows Long Ireland, Alternative Nation, Off the Charts, and Airwave.
Wrote stories for Newsline, WRHU’s primetime news-show, using AP News and ENPS; produced Business, Entertainment and Traffic and Weather reports as needed.

EDUCATION

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY | Class of 2019

Bachelor of Arts in Radio Production and Studies | Minor: Mass Media Studies

CERTIFICATIONS

LinkedIn Learning

Premiere Pro 2025 Essential Training, After Effects 2020 Essential Training: The Basics, Learning Data Analytics: 1 Foundations, Introduction to Data Science, Statistics Foundations 1: The Basics, Monetizing Podcasts, Producing Podcasts, Introduction to Video Editing, SQL for Data Analysis, Statistics Foundations 3: Using Data Sets

Adobe

Essential Skills in Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 Professional Certificate