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• Manage financial aspects of the production including processing invoices, managing budgets upwards of 5 million, declaring production insurance and generating production contracts. • Formulate strategic objectives and revised vendor agreements to ensure legal compliance and cost- effectiveness • Negotiate scale and overscale celebrity talent and evaluated which cost scenarios would improve cost efficiency for my clients • Work directly with producers, cost consultants, and account managers to prepare production estimates

• Collaborate with legal counsel to advise preliminary intellectual property and trademark searches • Process talent session and residual payments for the duration of the commercial • Track financials of TV, digital, radio, and print jobs from beginning through completion • Work with various clients: Voya, Honey Baked Ham, The Home Depot, AT&T, Georgia Lottery, Sanderson Farms, Bayer Health

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

- Experienced working with third-party signatory and third-party talent payroll company- Advised account team on talent and/or third- party rights agreements and managing rights and expiration tracking for stock, talent, and music rights.- Initiated desktop trademark searches.- Responsible for drafting purchase orders and invoices for outside vendors- Worked with various clients: Edible Arrangements, Hotels.com, OrangeTheory Fitness, Big Lots, and Zaxby’s.

Alajuela, Costa Rica

- Drafted a two-year work plan after a three-month thorough community needs assessment using both qualitative and quantitative analysis that yielded a one-hour presentation and was utilized as a guide for creating educational programs. - Completed an 11 week pre-service training focused on community-based learning, Spanish language classes, and English communicative teaching methods. - Organized and coordinated English conversational club meetings twice a week for a group of 50 intermediate to advance level high school students.- Co-planned English lessons and taught over 200 students at a technical high school for 40 hours a week. - Elected to serve as a judge in the Alajuela Regional English festival.- Promoted cultural diversity and tolerance while sharing US American culture among the Costa Rican community by collaborating with eight local English teachers and creating comprehensive inclusive lesson plans.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

- Generated financial quarterly projections for my clients AT&T, Voya, Novant Health, Sanderson Farms and Norwegian Cruise Line. - Advised account teams on how to decrease expenses by providing cost calculations with different creative scenarios to pitch to clients.- Interpreted the requirements and differences in payments between radio and television contracts for my clients AT&T Radio, Voya, Novant Health, Sanderson Farms and Norwegian Cruise Line. - Created the bi-weekly meeting schedule with account teams to provide updated project statuses and talent budgets resulting in more transparency between the talent department and account teams. - Processed all talent payments through our vendors Extreme Reach and Teams - Designed a commercial tracking sheet in collaboration with the AT&T account team that allowed for ongoing communication regarding when commercials would go on-air and payment deadlines. - Negotiated talent rates with talent agents and evaluated which cost scenarios would improve cost efficiency for my clients. - Informed with new legal requirements for advertising commercials and new talent payment rates by attending SAG-AFTRA labor union meetings.- Monitored and tracked talent and usage payments through an electronic and hardcopy archive system. - Managed the monthly budgets for the extent of the on-air commercials with a budget range from $5,000 to $480,000.

- Performed day-to-day administrative support to an office staff of 12 by overseeing orders and maintenance of office supplies, copying and distributing documents, and maintaining a contact database of production staff and frequently used vendors. - Fostered strong positive relationships as a liaison between vendors and external companies by responding to requests and answering emails in a timely manner.- Responsible for sending emails regarding confidential production related information to crew, producers, and cast. - Ensured quality table readings and production meetings by anticipating technical issues and prepped all conference rooms a day prior to the scheduled meetings.

Greater Atlanta Area

- Recorded and tracked all package orders reaching upwards of 30 packages a day and special deliveries that entered the production office. - Assisted the Production Coordinator in scheduling production meetings and booking vendors for the office. - Managed a multi-line telephone system including answering incoming calls and transferring calls as necessary to production staff members. - Created a comprehensive office supply ordering sheet utilized by all production departments to streamline supply orders.

Greater Atlanta Area

- Performed efficient and accurate procedures to help maintain production schedule and workflow by multi-tasking and prioritizing administrative tasks and being flexible with abrupt changes to the schedule. - Developed a spreadsheet to track all per diem payments and expenses made throughout the week. - Executed production protocol for printing and distributing scripts to production staff.- Organized production files through an excel file and managed the office inventory of paper, pens, print labels, folders and electronics. - Amended crew and cast contact sheet weekly that was utilized by producers, directors, and network employees.

Greater Atlanta Area

- Composed travel memos to streamline information regarding travel arrangements for cast and crew members. - Enhanced the organization of the confidential production files by implementing the use of electronic files within Dropbox in addition to the physical files. - Monitored all mail, incoming and outgoing packages by logging the tracking numbers and delivering packages personally to crew and cast members.

Athens, Georgia Area

- Oversaw the marketing and promotions for three Film Athens events. - Directed four student volunteers by delegating tasks to achieve a measurable marketing goal of 25% increase in social media following on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. - Spearheaded the social media marketing efforts for the 2015 Sprockets International Music Video Festival held annually in Athens, Georgia by writing press releases, blogs, and managing the Twitter and Facebook pages. - Tracked and organized over 50 international video submissions to the Sprockets Music Video Festival.

Athens, Ga

- Give tours of the community to prospective residents- Assist residents in signing their lease- Market the apartment community at housing fairs, sporting events, orientations, high traffic on-campus locations and other large campus events to market the apartment community- Perform administrative task - Provide support to residents

Greater Atlanta Area

- Responsible for updating Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest each week - Assist in writing copy for Oz Magazine issued every 2 months - Create 2 blogs each week to post on the website - Research film/ tv news and events going on in Georgia

Greater Atlanta Area

- Help develop communications strategies for show- and network-level social media programs for TNT- Collaborate across departments to identify specific content and opportunities to enhance engagement on social media accounts- Identify quotes, write copy and curate video- and image-based content for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube- Develop creative plans for ongoing fan cultivation-Create ongoing dialogue with fans by responding to fan questions, highlighting superfans, providing one-on-one interaction, and establishing a "voice" for the TNT brand

University Of Georgia

- Build and maintain relationships with business leaders to develop internships for talented international students- Screening and interviewing potential interns- Making sure the process of the internship in smooth and comfortable for the client and intern

Athens, Georgia Area

-Researching and reporting on new social media trends and services-Develop innovative strategies for increasing reach on social media platforms -Responsible for maintaining the Twitter account and interacting with users -Provide support for all other marketing and public relations tasks as assigned

- Responsible for the safety and security of 30- 60 students at University of Georgia - Organizing and planning events with a strict budget for the East Campus Community Village- Administrative tasks including supporting University Housing staff recruitment, selection and evaluation processes

Athens, Georgia Area

- Responsible for updating the website with current information January 2013 – present- Work on improving the companies SEO through internet marketing- Facilitate the social media networks of Bulldog Kia and Passport Magazine

Athens, Georgia Area

- CPR and First Aid Certified - Responsible for equipment checkout and purchases- Conduct opening and closing procedures, exemplify reliability and punctuality- Supervise the safety and security of 800+ patrons