Laurel Vail Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Responsibilities:• Responsible for the management of all linear production at the studio as well as the team of producers• Maintain an overview of all schedules (local and global), ensuring projects are completed to highest standard achievable, on time and within budget• Meet regularly with production staff to monitor project budgets (local and combined) and ensure they are working within given targets• Oversee and liaise between various internal stakeholders and SME’s• Develop, implement, and maintain workflows and processes for internal and external pipelines.• Engage in production team mentoring, support, and training, as needed• Lead selected projects through all phases of production including creative development, pre-production, production/shooting, post-production, finishing/delivery• Effectively communicate ongoing project status with video production teamHighlights:• Created a scheduling system that allows cross departmental coordination, months in advance, as well as assists in budget planning for the entire year.• Developed a vendor management tracking system to track jobs from PO creation to invoice payment.• Designed a work-order pipeline to avoid committing the department to work without proper resources.• Reduced the budget of our quarterly roundtable show by 25%• Coordinated efforts to create new animation pipelines and bid new animation vendors.• Improved inter-departmental relationships, including better communication and expectation management, as well as establishing clear specifications for all requests.• Completed about 80% of my 30-60-90 day plan within the first 60 days.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Responsibilities• Oversee post production pipeline for a fast-paced marketing department. • Create and manage calendars, tracking documents, etc. to ensure all milestones are on time and within project scope.• Organize and revise schedule based on shifting priorities, pivoting workflow based on staff availability and individual strengths.• Build open lines of communication, meeting with stakeholders, providing status updates, and collecting feedback.• Manage POs, SOWs, and overall communication with post vendors.Highlights• Coordinated editorial, production, and vendors to help deliver over two dozen deliverables in the span of about 2 weeks.• Took on a leadership role in GVP by creating processes and workflows both up and downstream including a 30-60-90 plan.• Advocated for the post team to improve morale during a very hectic time.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Entrepreneur and filmmaker. I am currently working on the next script to hopefully shoot soon.Responsibilities:• Wrote and produced the short film, What Metal Girls Are Into.• All pre-production duties including fundraising, location scouting, budgeting, union paperwork, casting, hiring crew, delegating, script breakdowns, scheduling, and other duties.• Directed and acted on set, as well as making overall production decisions on the fly. Oversaw a crew of 25 people on location in Joshua Tree, CA. • Edited the film and hired additional post production crew. Provided festivals with all marketing assets and screener files.Highlights:• Featured in American Cinematheque's 14th Annual Focus on Female Directors.• Won 22 awards, nominated for 29 others.• Selected by over 100 festivals since October 2017.• Raised over $15K through crowdfunding.• Released What Metal Girls Are Into on Amazon, April 2019

Greater Los Angeles Area

Responsibilities:• Oversee post production pipeline for a VFX-heavy, complex interactive game-like show involving major UI and gaming components, all developed simultaneously. • Coordinate efforts of game and UI developers, the visual effects team, and the post production team to align parallel work paths and deliver a cohesive vision.• Create and manage all tracking documents, phase transitions, revision requests, etc. to ensure all project milestones are consistently on time and within project scope.• Create detailed episode flowcharts to guide game developers and video editors.• Organize and revise schedule based on shifting priorities, pivoting workflow based on staff availability and individual strengths.• Verify interactive demos are functional and correct in order to create frameworks for game and UI developers’ utilization.• Build open lines of communication, frequently meeting with all stakeholders, providing status updates to the network, and collecting feedback.Highlights:• Immediately took on the producing role after the former post producer had to leave 6 weeks into the show. • Overcame major schedule misalignment with game development team, quickly recalculating testing time and creating a new post schedule that seamlessly aligned with developer phases and still allowed for quality work output.• Ensured VFX had adequate time to acquire and produce quality shots by reorganizing episodes’ creative lock dates

Burbank, Ca

Responsibilities:• Played an integral role on team that programmed, distributed, and archived a large weekly catalog of content across several OTT platforms, reporting directly to the Director of Digital Programming and Distribution.• Collaborated with engineers on roadmap adjustments to pipeline, driving higher efficiency and accuracy through agile management.• Ensured projects consistently met clients’ specifications and were delivered on time by actively coordinating and tracking the efforts of Engineering, Distribution, Programming, and Marketing teams through daily stand up meetings and other interactions.• Onboarded and audited OTT platforms and quickly addressed any identified issues. • Maintained departmental transparency by compiling and delivering reports and metrics for multiple stakeholders. • Actively managed editorial and distribution teams, providing hands-on coaching and guidance on all tasks.• Assisted Creative Services and Marketing with the design of videos and graphics, playing a special part in company branding initiatives within OTT platforms. Highlights:• Archived +6,000 videos with searchable metadata, effectively removing a 10-year backlog of untracked content• Prevented hundreds of master video files and legal documents from being arbitrarily deleted after M&A with larger corporation. Partnered with Legal, Operations, and Tech to coordinate transfer of ownership and to back up a multitude of files• Actively co-created distribution workflow from its inception• Customized the media asset manager to seamlessly support department’s non-traditional media• Led departmental Salesforce integration, closely guiding the process to ensure immediate functionality and minimal downtime• Delivered +1,500 assets per week to 8 unique platforms at production peak

Greater Los Angeles Area

• 2015 - Supporting role in feature film Contracted: Phase II (IFC Midnight - limited theatrical release, VOD, DVD)• 2013 - Starred in feature film Delivery: The Beast Within (limited theatrical release, VOD, DVD) • 2010 - Starred in feature film Leading Ladies (VOD, DVD)• 30 acting credits on IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2931190/

Greater Los Angeles Area

Profile: Creating clean, user-friendly designs and easy to maintain websites using Wordpress, CSS, and HTML. Helping to create branding for small businesses and independent contractors.Software:* Photoshop* Illustrator* Dreamweaver* Font Creator Programming:* HTML* Wordpress* CSS3

Burbank, Ca

Profile:Expert Viz artist and Pilot template creator. Spent 11 years at one of the world's leading providers of Viz motion graphics solutions. Responsibilities:• Animation & Design: Create motion for graphics. Conceptualized designs to match other brand assets as well as match-moving real-time animation to rendered videos.• Programming: Logic/data integration and Viz Scripting for graphics. Custom Plugins (Viz script & C++). VBScript on front-end Pilot templates. Tested functionality of templates. Troubleshot bugs and performance issues.• Documentation: Scene variables for custom software. Tracked clients' settings (software versions, resolution, frame rate).Highlights:• Contributed creative assets to the launch of NFL Network and MLB Network• Guided global re-brand for key client, traveling to France to execute a new graphics package for 4 international locations.• Tackled new weather application for client desiring innovative graphics package. Conducted beta testing and partnered with software support to create an impressive, cutting-edge deliverable • Emmys: MLB Tonight (win), Intentional Talk (nomination)• Other major clients: CBS Sports, ESPN, beIN Sports (international rebrand), Univision, Sky Meteo (weather data integration)