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Responsible for the overall management and strategic execution of video content for Triskelion Productions. Specialize in creative development, organization, and working with key stakeholders to complete each film project. Please view relevant work on our website: https://www.triskelionproductions.net/• Produced “Searching for Beati Paoli” which included coordinating camera, locations, and actors in Italy. Turn around time was under 2 weeks for a 2-hour worth of content. • Creative director for pitching new projects and ideas at conferences and with networks. This includes market research to understand what businesses are looking for content. Pitch projects to clients with several being picked up and in pre-production. • Wrote/edited “Grand Confections” shorts for the company as proof of concept and sales turn to drive business.• Developed relationships in distribution and negotiated contracts with distribution partners. Several programs have reached Tubi TV, a free streaming service, where projects have reached the top 10 streaming for several weeks out of thousands of available titles.

Responsible for the overall management and assessment of adult learners by teaching them a variety of knowledge across a wide range of communication topics including interpersonal, mass media, and rhetoric. Specializing in public speaking and new media technologies.• Successfully designed several courses from in-person to online in a matter of weeks. Keeping passing rates above 87% where the average was 70% or lower.• Created new courses in Mass Media to teach students how to create videos, stream, and drive content for a variety of social media platforms. • Created a new method of instructional feedback for online courses that was adopted by the college and led to a 4.9 approval rating out of 5 from students. This is compared to the school average which is a 4.3. • Actively taught Public Speaking to adult learners with social anxiety, which has led to major speeches at conventions, town hall meetings and pitches for businesses.

Responsible for the overall management of the communication department and teaching digital literacy in the school which personally saw the teaching of over 300 students a month. • Instructional design of several new courses including Creative Presentation and Digitally literacy. Both classes were deemed not appropriate before my tenure which I recreated and was approved by the state.• Created learning resources for teachers and students including PowerPoint tutorials and websites to ensure proper facilitation and student learning. This has led to my work as head of the communication department and higher than-average performance ratings from students.

Responsible for the overall management and strategic execution of business development for a variety of insurance agents across Central Florida. Increases sales in commercial and private auto insurance. Specializing in training and development of business practices. • Developed, designed, and facilitated a variety of quality training programs for all levels of staff at agencies from senior management to new hire employees. This allowed consistent growth of the market year over year by 2%. • Acted as training subject matter expert for all business questions related to consumer sales, customer service, and customer support. Helped an agency reduce its overall claims saving the company over 100,000 a month of claims. • Assisted marketing department by co-creating/overseeing marketing content for ads, corporate websites, social media accounts, brochures, promotional CDs, commercials, and various other media for the area. This resulted in over $50,000,000 in sales in the area. • Train agents in insurance practices and techniques through LMS and classroom training to keep licensing for continuing education. • Facilitated trade shows to pitch our products to new agencies. This resulted in a 15% increase in market share in the area.

• Taught the principles of Public Speaking to underrepresented minorities and youth. • Students came in with no preparation in professional presentation skills and taught them how to present professional and effectively in a work environment setting. • Brought social media into the classroom in order to teach students new media skills and create online professional personas which included establish online persons such as a YouTube page. • Students were taught how to pitch their ideas to the future employers, family, and friends by learning the basic arts of communication which lead to a rise of increase job offerings from my students.