A reliable leader with 18 years of experience, I have collaborated extensively with production, agency and post teams to produce the highest quality work possible. I firmly believe that building and nurturing relationships are just as crucial as delivering work that we can all take pride in.
June 2023 - Oct 2023
Manage all talent negotiations, contracts, and payments as well as purchasing and tracking all stock and licensing accounts and monitoring use rights expiration.
Responsible for partnering with account, creative, and producer to bid, estimate, contract, and assist in the production of all agency content productions for digital, broadcast, and print.
Head of Production | Chicago, IL
Aug 2017 - May 2023
Produced multiple high profile projects simultaneously via building schedules, bidding, actualizing, maintaining on budget work, and guiding packages through to shipping.
Connected with prospective clients building upon existing relationships to aid in bringing in new work across our world wide editorial staff.
Audited production staff across all offices to maintain unified systematic procedures.
Ran operations between tech department and office staff regarding upgrades, fixes, and new procedures, ensuring everything runs smooth and quickly.
Managed the help-desk, employee training and upgrades to Ceta Soft, our company wide software for bidding, scheduling, media management, and invoicing.
Aug 2014 - Aug 2017
Cultivated a working knowledge of unique social deliverable options as well as technical advances within the industry.
Managed multiple projects at one time prioritizing tasks and deploying creative problem solving and efficient decision making on a daily basis.
Mentored newer production staff honing their existing skill sets and teaching new qualifications.
Aug 2008 - Aug 2014
Built and monitored budgets on each project, negotiated rates on a case by cases basis ensuring schedules and negotiated rates are followed avoiding unnecessary overages. Generated purchase orders and invoices.
Scheduled editors, assistants, suites, and hiring of additional freelance resources as necessary. Booked outside sessions such as mix, color, and conform, on behalf of the agency.
Liaised with production companies to provide specs for dailies, aided in editor and director communication, and utilized post production expertise to problem solve potential issues in the transition from production to post.
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