Provide online business solutions for small business owners. Systems, strategy, operations, marketing, project management, rights and clearances with focus on efficiency, team leadership and process that is scalable for growth.Operations - Provide top notch processes and procedures for company and team to position for growth and scalability.Management - Effectively implement systems to manage team with focus on accountability, measureables, effective communication instruction and training.Strategy & Growth - Work as member of team to develop, implement and carry thru execution a strategy that provides growth to meet revenue and development goals.Systems - Tech savvy with a mind of how to implement for those that might not be. Will train and customize for optimization on any team.

Business development, strategic planning, content acquisition, development, & optimization. With a focus on creating innovative content and social media initiatives for clients in music, video and lifestyle media. Work with various partners to create music and entertainment initiatives that cross-promote and enhance both entities. Evaluate existing media properties for merger or acquisition.

Responsible for acquiring content from international and domestic partners which included editorial, news, metadata, audio, video, exclusives and strategic partnerships for the ad-supported music and video download website. Also negotiated terms for relevant deals with major record labels, independent record labels, publishers, performing rights societies, and individual artists. And ultimately managed phases of partner relationships from acquisition to ongoing account management; integrated partners into systems for ingestion, product merchandising and reporting; coordinated delivery of content to ingestion team; and tracked weekly marketing statistics, content usage and updates from partners.

Managed licensing department of 20 people responsible for publishing clearances for physical, digital, and new media releases (ringtones, ringback tones, digital video, games, video ringers, and voice ringers); handle all staffing and personnel development.Established new procedures to accommodate New Media deals with mobile providers, user-generated sites, and digital video with companies like YouTube, Amazon, Yahoo and others.Presented to staff and related departments terms of new media deals once negotiated and finalized.Worked closely with business affairs, finance, production, new media and marketing departments as well as corporate business affairs, distribution affiliates, IT, and foreign affiliates to represent licensing department.Member of team to develop and implement new royalty and licensing system; responsible for ensuring migration of current data was completed efficiently and accurately.

Negotiated deal terms and agreements for talent on and off-camera.Drafted, negotiated and finalized short-form agreements for Spike TV original programming.Analyzed existing contracts for provisions relevant to licensing, promotion, and new media possibilities.Oversaw and performed research for all wireless and broadband clearance issues.Handled all talent deals for all programming, special events including tentpoles and press junkets.

Oversaw team project to reduce multi-million dollar pending backlog; manage research, negotiation and clearing processes; reported results to senior-level executives.Handled licensing for Strategic Marketing Group; worked with legal and finance departments to establish P&L criteria, researched and confirmed ownership splits, negotiated rates and terms of mechanical licenses with copyright owner, and calculated royalties paid to publisher. Analyzed artist and producer contracts; identified mechanical and synchronization provisions and clauses; negotiated rates on behalf of major profit centers. Recruited and managed interns for department; interacted with universities to find qualified candidates; conducted interviews; assessed department needs; submitted documentation to HR to ensure compliance for interns; established schedules and assign projects.Handled licensing and supervised all licensing to digital services including iTunes, Napster, etc. Selected as department representative to analyze artist and publisher royalty system, mapped entire accrual and payment processes and made recommendations to senior management for improvement. Received and maintained industry-wide music catalog ownership sales and transfers.