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Greater Los Angeles Area

➤ Effectively managing complex projects from the ground up, seeing them through pre-production, production, and post-production, and then successfully bringing to the market and managing the revenue of the project thereafter.➤ Strategically organizing workflow by assigning responsibilities and preparing detailed schedules, while achieving company goals by communicating expectations, planning, monitoring, and evaluating job results.➤ Raising financing, then planning, managing, and reconciling budgets from $5K to $1MM+, and reviewing/negotiating talent rates and contracts, as well as bidding all projects within the company based on creative concepts.➤ Tracking and logging all expenses on company credit cards and issuing petty cash, compiling and presenting budget reports, while identifying efficiencies in budgets, finding an additional 10% ROI allocated from production fees in 2019.➤ Successfully managing multiple cross-functional teams, ensuring quality and completion of products across all social, digital, and TVC platforms, as well as processing all department payroll via timecards and 1099s.➤ Providing mentorship and opportunities for growth for the production staff, including delegating targeted tasks and empowering the production staff to take on additional responsibilities➤ Supervising all pre-production documents and creative materials prior to presenting to clients, as well as playing a key role in determining the need for any reshoots and overseeing domestic and international delivery requirements.

Los Angeles, Ca - California

➤ Successfully initiated and completed 90+ complex commercial and video projects, ensuring production ran efficiently and smoothly by developing processes and practices to ensure the crew was supported.➤ Effectively managed logistics, including locations, filing for permits, arranging equipment rentals and catering, and locating accommodations for cast and crew, as well as maintained positive relations with all vendors.➤ Supervised all areas of the production process to ensure timely, cost-effective delivery, including keeping office functions organized to meet deadlines, while aligning individual department schedules with the master schedule.➤ Regularly ran production meetings to ensure clear communication of objectives, dissemination of information, acknowledge accomplishments, and discuss challenges,➤ Strategically managed, actualized, and reconciled budgets, vendor payments, deal memos, and calculated and submitted payroll, as well as negotiated contracts, ensuring optimal terms for the client.➤ Leveraged an extensive knowledge of New York and California labor laws to hire then manage crews and production vendors, while also recommending and managing freelance creative talent to ensure clients' needs were met.➤ Developed thoughtful, meaningful initiatives to elevate crew morale and grow the team dynamic, as well as counseled staff on how to achieve optimal output, increasing productivity by 78%.

➤ Effectively made and maintained the weekly employee schedule, and led weekly sales meetings, as well as established, tracked, and reported on individual sales targets for the team, utilizing planning tools to calculate realistic monthly goals.➤ Drove results through effective coaching of Associates, identifying knowledge gaps within the team and developing a plan to fulfill them, while holding daily check-ins to set objectives for the day, and monitoring progress.➤ Managed P&L including sales, profit margin, and expenses to ensure profitability, as well as tracked, analyzed, and communicated key quantitative metrics and business trends.➤ Conducted monthly performance reviews and inventory, while also accurately creating and delivering bank deposits, RMAC phones and trade-in items.

Albany, Ny & Los Angeles, Ca