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Virginia, United States

Washington, DC

Maintain and manage the workload of the Director and ensure all tasks and projects are completed. Work with the Director, trustees, and staff leaders to shape annual institutional planning/priorities and communicate these strategies to internal/external stakeholders.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Responsible for creating and maintaining processes, workflow, and helping facilitate daily communication and collaboration across the Editorial team, specifically for the Editor in Chief and editorial priority initiatives. Responsibilities include managing project schedules, team communication and prioritization; organizing and helping lead key task force.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Manage executive calendar in fast-paced environment.Coordinate meetings, calls and events to include all logistics (scheduling, catering, preparation of meeting materials, etc.)Handle complex worldwide travel arrangements and process related expense reports.Serve as ambassador of the Office of the CEO and NGP, handling incoming calls, visitors and all.

Fairfax, VA

•Provide confidential executive support to the Vice Presidents and his/her management teams.Coordinate the complex and shifting schedules of senior executive staff to facilitate meetings and travel arrangements.Maintain all administrative procedures, including travel arrangements, expense reports, time reporting, authorizations, etc. Maintain electronic.

Mclean, VA

• Provide support for six Vice Presidents including – VP/National Education and Hotel Sales, VP/Distribution and Single Copy Sales, VP/Consumer Insight Revenue & Analysis, VP/Consumer Sales, and VP/ National.
• Ensure that all administrative needs of the executives are met including travel, calendars, appointments, and expense reports.
• Planning and executing executive/client meetings -- space, equipment, catering, calendars and logistics.
• Gather information and compose routine correspondence and reports including monthly and quarterly circulation and financial reports, weekly Customer Distribution reports and reports to support Gannett Board of.
• Confirm contracts are signed, sent and archived for distribution agreements between Gannett Company and other newspaper/periodical providers.
• On-boarding new employees and working with HR and IT to secure all pieces necessary for a welcoming transition to our company from offer letter to office.

• Work directly with Gannett Company’s CEO, CFO and CMO and staff for creation of presentations for Board of Directors meetings, companywide town halls and rebranding efforts.
• Provide superior communication services to top executives for multi-billion dollar companies, including presentation creation, project management, video production and photography. Respected leader of creative teams.

Supervised the day-to-day activities and progress of Post Admin Coordinators including hiring, and yearly reviews.Collaborated with business operations to ensure timely closings and work reconciliation for Discovery Production Group’s 54 edit suite post production facility. Resulting in a more efficient, productive and accountable post production.

Provided coordination of the entire post-production process from start to timely completion for client creation of broadcast quality film and video projects.Lead supervision of all operational tasks as necessary, including High Definition On-Line Video Post Production, Linear/ non-linear video post production, DVD creation, Telecine, duplication, graphics.

Other; Certificate In Management Essentials, Complete

Management Essentials is an 8-week, 35-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Management Essentials takes a.

Alternative & Experimental Media

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Media Arts

Activities and Societies: Honors Program, Cum Laude