Capabilities & Responsibilities: • Develop, nurture, and maintain strong relationships with agency, client and production partners leading to productive and respectful collaboration and enjoyable on-set environment.• Cultivate and institute inclusive productions utilizing diverse talent and production teams.• Execute measurable on-set sustainability (green) practices and protocol.• Detail oriented with strong organizational skills. Ability to prioritize, multi-task, meet deadlines and quickly adapt to shifting production needs.• Aggressive but fair and reasonable negotiator with strong knowledge of industry production approaches/methods and costs.• Ability to manage both large and small production budgets and terms of print usage agreements.• Develop, implement, oversee, and adhere to production schedules and timelines.• Stay current of best-in-class creative talent, industry trends, and emerging technology/innovation.• Collaborate with creatives and recommend creative vendors best suited to each project. • Establish non-union session and use fees for models and oversee casting and booking.• Work directly with third-party client marketing/production consultants when required.• Oversee and direct all elements of pre-production (casting /callbacks, location search/scouting, set building, prop & wardrobe styling, and hair & makeup selection) and shoots and coordinate and manage postproduction.• Schedule and attend all production meetings (agency/client pre-bid, creative vendor calls, pre-production).• Execute contracts – production contracts, purchase orders, model releases/SAG talent contracts, and location releases.• Consult with agency legal teams, advise on copyright and trademark laws, work for hire, and secure legal clearances when necessary.• Oversee successful integration of still shoots in conjunction with motion/film and delivery of print, film, digital and social deliverables.

• Managed video, 2D and 3D animation, and still photo production and post production for top Consumer and HCP clients like Pfizer, GSK and AbbVie.• Oversaw business affairs and talent payment processes and negotiated contracts to ensure smooth project execution.• Implemented cost-saving measures resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.

•Executive leader within the Integrated Production department. Responsible for advising all departments on still production process, recommending talent and producing integrated campaigns for print, motion, digital, social, experiential and OOH advertising.Clients: ADT, Agilent, American Airlines, Annovera, Ashley Furniture, Avaya, Avis, Bacardi, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chick-fil-A, Cigna, ExxonMobil, Gillette, Glaxo Smith Kline, Holiday Inn, Home Goods, Instax, Intel Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Kohl’s, Lilly, Lockheed Martin, L’Oreal, Lucent Technologies, Lysol, Mastercard, MGM Resorts, Mucinex, NEOM, Nespresso, New York Lottery, Nikon, Pfizer, Prudential, Qualcomm, Reckitt, Sam Adams, Smirnoff, State Street Global Advisors, Unilever, Ulta Beauty, United States Army, US Bank, United States Postal Service, Verizon, and others.

•As part of the Integrated Production department, oversaw successful collaboration between overlapping print and video shoots resulting in cost saving production benefits as well as maintaining creative continuity and excellence.•Although still photography, illustration/CG and retouching are my areas of strongest expertise, I've also enjoyed producing integrated, photographer/director led projects, with photography and video components, as well as overseeing the post in both areas, for clients such as MGM, NY Lottery, Qualcomm, and Verizon.

•Managed the 10 member McCann New York Art Production department. •Oversaw art production and produced global campaigns across all agency business including ExxonMobil, Mastercard, MGM, NY Lottery, Qualcomm, Verizon, and others.•Conceived and helped orchestrate the merger of Art Production with the Broadcast and Digital Production department, resulting in the agency's Integrated Production department.

•Established and managed the BBDO Art Buying department, hiring, training and mentoring all team members.•Changed the job title from Art Buying to Art Production to more closely align the role and responsibilities of the art buyer with that of the broadcast producer and to better reflect a more proactive, collaborative and accountable role within the creative department. •Oversaw Art Production and produced campaigns across all agency business including DuPont, Campbell Soup, FedEx, Frito-Lay, General Electric, Gillette, Hyatt Hotels, M&M Mars, United States Navy, Pepsi, Polaroid, Unilever, Visa USA, and others.