Alison Schmalberger Email & Phone Number

Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States

• Lead the Project Management Office in building and optimizing our project management processes and process improvement initiatives.
• Responsible for defining and implementing best practices, standards and governance for project management across our agency.

Bristol, CT

• Optimization 2020-present
• Launched team to lead large scale cross-functional optimization projects across ESPN and divisions of Disney.
• Serve as an internal consultant for change leadership, business optimization and organizational development.
• Leverage Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies and evolve to fit the organization’s culture to drive process improvement, business alignment and role clarity.
• Create and lead training courses, offer custom coaching and immersive learning to cultivate a continuous improvement mentality and empower others to lead their own change efforts.
• Projects led by CBO resulted in double digit % reduction in time, systems and handoffs. As well as, hundreds of thousands of financial savings identified and recommended to Executives. Content Business Operations.

Bristol, CT

• Led day-to-day editorial direction, strategy, and development of multimedia in-content sponsorships and marketing for NFL, MLB, NBA, UFC, WNBA, FIFA World Cup, MLS, College Hoops, Tennis, Little League, and Motorsports.
• Led sponsorship and marketing driven activations in Streaming (i.e. ESPN+ and WatchESPN) in collaboration with Sales and Marketing departments. Led direction and execution of linear in-content executions during launch.
• Initiated and led monthly communication and alignment meeting across all Streaming stakeholders: Product, Production, Editorial, Sales, Marketing, Affiliate, Programming, Ad Operations and Ad Product.
• Launched and led MSI Tracking Coordinator team (tracked over 44,000 Sales & Marketing features each year).
• Initiated and led project with Technology to build a new tracking system for centralization of records and automated reporting. Executive monthly report went from 4 days worth of manual work to 2 hours with new workflow.
• Promoted from Manager to Associate Director to Director while on the team.

Bristol, CT

• Property Assigned: Men’s & Women’s College Basketball
• Assisted in building the Men’s & Women’s College basketball schedule for ESPN Networks (over 1,600 games)
• Managed ESPN3 and ESPN Full Court Schedule
• Managed schedule information in NCS (internal scheduling program)
• Assisted in managing all 31 conference relationships
• Managed Sales & Client Supplied process across departments

Bristol, CT

• Properties Assigned:
• 2010 Monday Night Football
• 2010 FIFA World Cup
• Men's and Women's College Basketball (2008, 2009 & 2010)
• English Premier League Soccer (2009 & 2010)
• 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup

Bristol, CT

Production Assistant for College World Series, Horse Racing & WNBA.

Atlanta, GA

Assisted in producing promotional spots for high profile programming.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Supported evening news crew. Created graphics and ran camera for remote interviews.