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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles

• Recruited to build Spotify’s video content initiative, creating an internal content agency, and overseeing and producing 1000+ shoots worldwide with key musical artists and partners including, Paul McCartney, Green.
• Professionalize video production, hiring FTE team members and crew, setting up company with entertainment insurance, payroll, production accounting and cash flow vendor, and ensuring Spotify adheres to industry best.
• Oversee production of owned and operated podcasts, hiring engineers and sound mixers, prepping remote kits, and designing workflows for over 200 shoots and 100 podcast recordings
• Spearhead fluid COVID-19 response moving all production remote, assembling custom remote kits, pioneering cutting-edge production and post workflow, and media management allowing production to continue uninterrupted.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Produced 7 international documentary films highlighting superfans of League of Legends, the world’s most popular competitive video game
• Oversaw all aspects of live-action production from collaborating with creative team to budgeting, hiring key crew, sourcing specialized equipment, overseeing international legal, payroll and logistics, and executing.
• Sourced, vetted, negotiated with, and hired local crews in 7 countries, aligning creative vision and technical specifications, ensuring optimal resource allocation and supervising shoots on location
• Worked together with Riot’s creative leads, hiring the director, supervising casting, managing a story research and development team, and advocating for the best version on set
• Architected new production and post production protocols, liaising with Riot’s in-house post producer, auditing Riot’s existing gear and supervising equipment purchasing, streamlining the workflow and elevating the.

• Hired to launch Buzzfeed’s Branded Content production department, building a team from the ground up, leveling up the creative and production value and architecting a scalable studio resulting in billions of video.
• Owned all content operations for Buzzfeed’s growing branded content business, spearheading initial organizational design, assessing production needs, presenting budgets to leadership, and developing an ops and.
• Promoted to assume responsibility for Buzzfeed’s editorial productions, the crown jewel of the company, with 25+ team members reporting including heads of editorial and branded production management, head of studio.
• Led buildout of new video stages and internal equipment rental house, crafted project management, production and post production workflows streamlining resource allocation and empowering 50+ shoots a week with budgets.
• Created the Buzzfeed Intern Program which over 3 years trained 50+ video producers, with many advancing to full-time roles as producers, editors and creators

• Planned and hired department keys and production companies for feature length films and animated projects
• Supervised field production crew, ensuring they followed company protocol, and stayed on time and on budget
• Production coordinated 1 animated feature film and 30+ VFX projects
• Oversaw tax intensive responsibilities, researching and securing tax rebates for on-location production

Masters Coursework: Library & Information Science (Mlis), Library And Information Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism

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