Mercer Advisors is a total wealth management firm dedicated to providing clients with financial clarity, investment insight, and long-term collaborative partnerships. The comprehensive suite of services includes financial planning, investment management, asset protection and risk management, estate, tax, and legacy planning, retirement plan design and administration, and family wealth office services. These services are delivered holistically, rooted in the latest academic and industry findings, customized to the specific needs of each client, and delivered with a fiduciary standard of care.

Voralik Family Trust, a portfolio of family-owned assets including commercial and residential real estate located in Northern California. As Co-Trustee, I execute strategic planning and interface with on-site property management company on all business issues.Direct the strategy, business management, and financial planning of the Trust by developing growth strategies, negotiating contracts, executing relationship management, and analyzing new business development opportunities, financial reports, and investments.

D.A. Davidson provides straight forward financial services with $65 billion assets under administration and offers clear strategies with smart, personalized solutions that match individual goals and show clients the path to achieve them while leveraging nationally recognized research, capital market, and investment banking expertise.

ETT New Media, an $11M Italian company, creates digital virtual reality, augmented reality, and beacon technology exhibits and displays to tell stories to museum visitors throughout Europe. ETT wanted a market entry strategy for the US museum industry and to evaluate first-year revenue potential.Became the primary contact with the client and managed video conferences, meetings and presentations and a collaborative team manager through the UCLA Anderson Global Access Program on seven-month project.Traveled to Italy to assess financial, operational, and management capabilities of the company, customers, vendors, and competitors. Wrote +40% of actionable, 49-page 5-year strategic market entry business plan and managed team finances which came in 25% under budget.

Hired as the network was transforming to compete directly with MTV and rebranding for an 18-34 male and female demographic. Executed strategic planning, analyzed network revenue, ratings, publicity, consumer insights, financial data, and social media. Used data analytics and market trends to inform direction and support formulation of growth and profitability strategies. Conducted P&L analysis of all TV shows in production, performed financial and ratings analysis for licensed content, maintained complex financial models, deal analysis, and forecasts with $25K to $100M budgets. Analyzed performance data and interpreted potential implications of OTT, SVOD, AVOD, and digital distribution channels for new business development opportunities. Established specific ROI and KPIs for each series to assess performance, inform strategic decisions, and deal analysis. Aggregated performance data including ratings, eyeballs, clicks, followers, ad sales, production budgets, expenses, etc. for senior management.Served as primary communicator for the network while reporting key financial forecasts and performance updates, analyzing and summarizing information into internal presentations to senior management and concise weekly top-line emails for Bob Iger, President of The Walt Disney Company, and Ben Sherwood, President of the Disney ABC Television Group.

Fox Searchlight Pictures distributes (and sometimes finances) independent art, and foreign films. Implemented financial planning and strategic initiatives, which involved managing finance and operations for all films in production and distribution, including the Oscar campaigns of "12 Years a Slave" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel." Conducted data and financial analysis for marketing, publicity, distribution, production, development, strategic initiatives, accounting, budget forecasting and business planning. Saved more than $1.5M in seven months by analyzing overhead accounts and B&R reports for variances, while reclaiming budgets allotted for incorrect amounts and to the wrong accounts. Analyzed film budgets and P&Ls for company-wide fiscal planning.

Moving into scripted content production, I worked on contracts lasting up to nine months on ABC Family series, "The Lying Game" and "Make It or Break It," Sony Pictures’ "Sundays at Tiffany’s," and Warner Bros. Television series "Supernatural." Edited scenes, episode recaps, music, dialogue, sound effects, and visual effects as an Assistant Editor in collaboration with celebrity Producers, Directors, Sound, Music, Visual Effects and Post Production team members. Managed all technical aspects including editing systems, projects, media, footage preparation, technical operations, delivery of show cuts to sound, music, visual effects and online editing, and archival of the final show which decreased production costs by an average of 21% and increased revenue by over $5M.

After discovering a love of editing, I pivoted into Reality Television freelancing as an Assistant Editor with 20th Century Fox, Comedy Central, MTV, Mark Burnett Productions, Parallel Entertainment, and FreMantle. Managed productions for network and digital broadcasts such as "American Idol," "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?," and "Comedy Central’s Last Laugh" that drove network ratings to all-time series highs.Executed business analysis and relationship management with the ability to implement strategic solutions to problems faced by executives, directors, key stakeholders, and general business users into functional and technical requirements.

A one day temp job resulted in a job offer as a post-production assistant and grew through several promotions and ownership changes. When I left, I was managing all technical operations for production of television and feature animation projects of properties such as Looney Tunes, Hanna Barbara, DC Comics, and Warner Bros. animation originals including "Justice League," 'Batman," "Animaniacs" and "Pinky and the Brain."Performed business analysis and data analytics to maximize a multi-billion-dollar empire of franchises, characters, brands, and intellectual property.Conducted quantitative data analysis of technical aspects of digital media for accuracy, as well as qualitative analysis of animation output that ensured all shows met Warner Bros. mandates and were delivered to the network on time and under budget.