Talent Agent & Manager. 13+ years of experience in online media, gaming and content creation. Day to day consultancy and management of some of Brazil's top gaming creators. Names include: BRKsEDU, Hayashii, FunkyBlackCat and others. Brand deals, PR and content consultant.Branding campaigns with: Coca-Cola, Marvel, Monster Energy, McDonald's, HBO Max, LG, Hasbro, Pringles, Burger King, Volkswagen, Guaraná, Amazon Prime, Samsung, DC Comics, Heineken, Clear, Nissan, Uber Eats, Paramount+, Mr. Beast/Duolingo and more.More info: vandep.agCreator and on screen member of 'DeByte', a B2B weekly show focusing on content creation and consumption, gaming industry and overall state of media in today's times.

Content Acquisition, Partner Management & Business Development for Microsoft's streaming platform, Mixer. Also involved in Partnerships and overall brand growth for the Brazilian market. Day to day management of talent on platform, ranging from top partners to smaller streamers.Partner Account Manager for Spanish speaking countries as well starting August 2019.

Project Manager at Brazil's biggest talent/influencer agency. Working day to day with Microsoft on their streaming platform Mixer. Management of some of Brazil's top influencers and streamersRecruitment of new talent to stream at Mixer to help reach goal set by Microsoft Implementation of local strategy in order to be competitive with other streaming platforms

Working for the streaming platform Azubu. Overseeing the Latin America/Brazil eSports team, consisting of four employees.Evaluate tendencies within the local eSports market and plan next steps to further grow the company in Brazil. Brazil is responsible for roughly 70% of the viewers on the site, was 6% before.Management of 35+ accounts, including the top 3 eSports teams in Brazil (INTZ, paiN, KeyD) and several high profile streamers such as BRKsEDU, Hayashii, FunkyBlackCat and othersPart of the team that managed to get 12.5 Million Unique Monthly Viewers (UMVs) on the platform.Direct contact with the eSports and YouTube Gaming community, which accepted Azubu after careful planning and executing with streamers.Working directly with talent and helping them grow: In order for the community to embrace the brand, I had to work closely with streamers to maximize their potential and make sure they also embraced the project. Some went from getting 500-600 CCU (Concurrent Users) to 8000+ in a matter of a couple of months. Help streamers with other affairs outside company matters, such as how much they should charge for an event or promotion they participate in; provide guidance regarding other business areas. - Contact and management of Azubu's relationship with Publishers, tournament organizers and others. Including Riot, Ubisoft, UOL, Razer. Oversee Social Media Manager and the growth of @AzubuBR account. Very important with promotion of streamers, big events and relationship with the community.

Management of some of Brazil's top League of Legends (CBLoL) teams, players and casters who have exclusive streaming contracts with the company.Day to day contact with team managers and players. Helping promote their own brand and maximize streaming numbers.Plan and execute short and long term strategic initiatives for the local market. Work on Social Media. Tweets in Portuguese to engage our growing Brazilian audience. Great response from community.

Manage all recruitment for Machinima’s partnerships in Brazil, Portugal and Latin America. Deal with 30+ people dailyRecruitment tools have included: ZenDesk, SalesForce, Formstack and daily use of Google Docs Help with developing channels for the network. Brainstorming with large channels (From 100k to 3 million subscribers) on how to capitalize on market opportunities.Handle any commercial inquiries companies or partners may have regarding Machinima in Brazil and relating marketsSocial Media Manager - Manage the @MachinimaBrasil Twitter page (182k followers) and Facebook.com/MachinimaBrasil (15.3k followers). Help with support and posting partner videos and other company interests/news. Working directly with Google to improve audience retention and generating more traffic for some of Machinima's top partners in Brazil. Attended events organized by the company in which popular YouTuber gamers, journalists and network representatives were invited to discuss the future of gaming on YouTube. Actively recruited some of Brazil’s top eSports players and casters. Attended several Call of Duty and Counter Strike events.Helped organize tournament for the FIFA 15 launch sponsored by EA & Microsoft. Added four of Machinima's partners to the event, which was a success in views on YouTube. Negotiated the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare tournament at Brasil Game Show 2014. Managed to get partners involved in the event to capture and post gameplay before the game was launched.Representing Machinima’s top partners, helping them close promotional deals while promoting their image in the mainstream Brazilian market. Day to day support in Portuguese, Spanish and EnglishYouTube Certification Program by Google (November 2014) - Online and in person course on Audience Growth, Copyright management, Monetization, Content Strategies, Google Analytics & more. Test taken and passed.

Creating videos for channel MrVanDep. 140 videos posted varying different topics and issues. Ranging from gaming tips to politicas debates with gameplay in the background. Use Sony Vegas (9-12) and Sony Vegas Movie Studio (10-12) to edit the videos. Adobe Photoshop for the thumbnails and channel art. Focus on teens and young adults. Trying to have positive influence and debate social issues that are important to Brazil.Used my social media experience from others jobs to promote and develop my channel and my online brand. Other than Twitter and Facebook, Google Analytics & SocialBlade are some of the tools I use.As of September 2016 - 23,900 subscribers on YouTube. 20,100 followers on Twitter.

- Social Media Management: Manage Facebook, Twitter and Google+ profiles. Work with Adsense, Adwords, Wordpress and Google Analytics.- Publishing of daily news of local sports via Wordpress. Results: Increased access and views on the site. Increase in Social Media followers.

Responsible for building the website marketing plan and partnerships plans.

Wrote articles in the arts, sports, life and music departments. Highlights include: Article on Spike Lee after attending one of his lectures, a piece on Brazilian music and another about an extraction of a Brazilian during the Libya turmoil.- Followed Concordia University's men's and women's basketball teams. Would write about the games.

Advertising writer for agency located in Brasília, Brazil. Involved e-mail marketing, translations, writing slogans, among other things