Dawn Burdue Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, Ca

• Clients: Farmers Insurance, Apartments.com, Homes.com, LoopNet.com. • Managing overall integrated project load for both brands; Overarching awareness of all current and upcoming projects in order to create production efficiencies.• Creating/updating yearly production plans, individual project schedules and status reports. Leading production status meetings.• Procuring appropriate resources for all projects and ensuring they are used efficiently.• Aiding communication between team members and following up on project statuses daily to meet deadlines.• Negotiating with team members to find solutions to problems. Helping teams adapt to changing timelines and information quickly.• Managing and developing a team of project managers.• Supporting and advocating for production & creative teams.• Financial Management: Generating estimates/PO’s, processing invoices and tracking costs.• Working to improve agency processes and workflow; Facilitating team communication and project archiving.

Handling broadcast production, project management and studio management.• Clients: CVS Pharmacy, DC Shoes, Condé Nast. Small agency where it is necessary to wear several hats.• Production highlights: An animated video for launch of an iPad app called Idea Flight (in house). Also produced a web video for the introduction of DC Shoes new super-light shoe, starring Rob Dyrdek, Nick Swardson & Michael Rappaport. (Director: Evan Silver / Production Company: Tool)• Supervised all creative development and production workflow, including calendars, daily status reports and meetings.• Improved workflow by assisting creative teams in planning their days and prioritizing assignments, researching / recruiting freelance help as needed.

• Client: Lexus (national). A mountain of work for a very small team.• Managed creative development for the digital launch of the 2011 CT Hybrid, including 35 sites worth of online advertising, a micro-site integrated into Lexus.com, an iPad application and an animated experiential execution.• Maintained an over-arching awareness of all campaign platforms, guidelines, creative concepts, copy and legal disclaimers in order to ensure cohesiveness of the campaign.

• Client: Volkswagen (national). Very fast-paced with an extremely heavy workflow.• Managed creative development for digital launch of the 2011 Jetta, the print and digital launch of the 2011 Touareg, the reveal campaign for the new Passat, online videos for all VW models and managed a major redesign for the showroom at the US Volkswagen headquarters.• Coordinated with various departments to help create efficiencies between digital, experiential, and broadcast elements of campaigns.

• Worked on many big-budget commercial shoots (Sears, Farmers Insurance, Burger King, MTV, Saturn, Exxon Mobil, KFC, Cisco, M&M’s, Victoria’s Secret).Directors / Production Companies include: Bob Industries (Alan White, Chris Hooper, Peter Care), The Institute (Michael Bay), Motion Theory (Grady Hall, Mark Kudsi), @radical media (Tarsem, Dave Meyers), Pytka, Uber (Chris Hooper).

Managing Broadcast Production for the Albertsons account while also overseeing the Traffic/Project Management Department.

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