Austen Williams Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Atlanta, GA, US

• Manage, lead, assign, oversee and direct all productions for Chick-fil-A’s in-house agency (IHA).
• Manage multi-day or multi-week productions every month both on-site at CFA’s corporate HQ and off-site locations around the country.
• Partner with Creative Production leader to continue to build IHA production vision for the next 3-5 years (capabilities, roles, space, equipment, resources, etc.)
• Lead and participate in larger and immediate team responsibilities ranging from Chick-fil-A staff meetings to Brand Advertising & Media team (BAM) to In-house Agency team (IHA). Responsibilities include team meetings.
• Oversee weekly and monthly productions (often 1-3 per month) – assigning producers, managing production space and establishing and reinforcing processes as needed.
• Manage production budget, simultaneous daily shoots and constant growth of production crew and resources.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Take Care is a production company, but with a little twist. We believe that being a modern-day production house is about being clever, about approaching things with a different perspective. Production has changed and.
• Lead Take Care's Agency Producer Services arm by resourcing and managing Take Care's freelance agency producer roster.
• Lead collaboration with agencies to source, vet, negotiate and set up freelance agency producers for agency producer work on behalf of Take Care.

• CLIENTS:
• Chemistry | Lids (2022)
• The Martin Agency | DoorDash, UPS (2022)
• Camp+King | Papa Johns (2022)
• Moss Moss Studio | Nike (2022)

New York, New York, US

• CLIENTS: LEGO, Coca-Cola, Verizon, American Express, Subway
• Manage and oversee multiple content projects with quick turn-around time from pre-production and bidding through post-production and delivery
• Draft production estimates, sign off on deliverables and vet fee hours and OOP budgetswith Business Affairs and Client Service Partners for content production projects
• Vendor engagement and bidding, managing budgets and timelines, evaluating talent needs/projects, maintaining client and vendor relationships, wrap and reconciliation of jobs
• Serve as client-facing content expert across projects
• Collaborate with agency team, clients and vendors to create optimal conditions forsuccessful content activations

Chicago, IL, US

• CLIENTS: Cars.com, Illinois Lottery, Illinois Office of Tourism, Chervon, Home Chef, Nike, Gildan
• Lead producer overseeing production across all channels for Illinois Lottery for an average of 5-6 productions a year and a budget of $500K - $1M+ per production.
• Oversee producers and associate producers.
• Work with Head of Production & Managing Director to manage resourcing for the productiondepartment, new business pitches, and other departmental and agency managerial duties.
• Produced 4 remote shoots for Illinois Lottery and OKRP’s first major in-person production during Covid-19 for Illinois Office of Tourism.

Chicago, IL, US

• CLIENTS: RJ Reynolds, Mike’s Hard Lemonade, K-Mart, Ragu
• Lead producer overseeing production across all channels for RJ Reynolds. Coordinated quarterly productions that included an average of 3 weeks of travel to 10 cities across the U.S. and Canada per quarter to film and.
• Oversaw and mentored producers and associate producers.
• Organized and lead events for the Annex, an experience company within the Havas Network.

Brooklyn, New York, US

• The VICE Digital Agency, now Virtue**CLIENTS: Suave, Lancome, Chipotle, Breyers, Good Humor, Jagermeister, Derek Lam, Shinola, PBS, Warner Bros., YouTube
• Lead producer overseeing production across all channels for Suave ranging from $50K - $3M in budget, including UI/UX, web development and design for the Suave.com re-launch.
• Oversaw and mentored two Producers and one Associate Producer across two accounts totaling $4M+ in revenue.
• One of the lead intern mentors for the 2016 Summer Internship Program, working with Executives and Team Directors to help evolve agency process.
• Cross-functional team-lead across several accounts; coordinated and oversaw budgets, timelines, resourcing, development and production of project-based work and retainer work across departments (Account, Analytics.

Brooklyn, New York, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• CLIENTS: The MacArthur Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Alliance for Excellent Education, Operation Lifesaver, JPMorgan Chase & Co., American Cancer Society, USPS, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Association.
• Acted as lead producer, project manager and account director for Alliance for Excellent Education. Oversaw UI/UX, design and development of All4Ed.org, coordinated all video productions and managed client relationships.
• Produced broadcast, interactive and multimedia projects for a wide variety of corporate and non-profit clients. This included coordinating satellite media tours for broadcast clients, overseeing UI/UX, design and.
• Created 21 films in less than 2 weeks for the 2014 MacArthur Fellow awards.
• Collaborated with teams from Politico and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to create a 12-month multimedia series called "What Works", focusing on innovative jobs across America.
• Major web projects include a year-long website build for the Alliance for Excellent Education and an interactive timeline with multimedia elements built under a month, highlighting 50 Years of the Surgeon General's.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

New York, NY, US

• Wrote and produced financial and political news for the DC bureau reporters for the morning and afternoon shows in DC and NYC.
• Researched, booked and interviewed high-profile financial and political guests for on-air appearances.
• Coordinated production and coverage of press pool events for financial networks, including ABC, CNBC and Fox Business.
• Produced and filmed “In The Hunt”, a weekly digital video blog featuring Washington Editor Al Hunt.
• Played leading role in the network’s 2012 Presidential Election coverage for the Republican and Democratic National Convention events, field produced the New Hampshire Primary show and prepared extensive briefing book.

US

• Performed extensive research, logging and transcription of C-SPAN video archives and live U.S. House and Senate proceedings, hearings and political events.
• Prepared and edited video content for air, created on-air graphics, booked and prepared high-profile political guests for TV interviews and oversaw post production of video content for C-SPAN’s Distance Learning Class.

Bloomington, IN, US

• Produced news packages and reported local live news from the field.

Indianapolis, IN, US

• Assisted in production of the daily noon to 5 PM newscasts, coordinated shoots from the field, booked camera crews and satellite trucks.

Atlanta, US

• Produced The Situation Room podcast and wrote news stories covering the 2008 Presidential Election that were published on the CNN Political ticker and website.
• Assisted CNN’s political correspondents in production of news packages and live TV spots.
• Assisted CNN’s Political Analyst Bill Schneider on coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election.

• Segment Producer for "Hoosierized"- a student-created and student-run television station for the IU campus that focuses on issues around campus as well as state and national issues by putting a satirical spin on the.

Columbia, MO, US

• Created and assigned stories and articles for the Opinions Section of Mizzou's student newspaper, and wrote a bi-weekly column.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Journalism

Education record

Ba, Journalism