Christopher Locke Email & Phone Number

Torrance, CA, US

Manhattan Beach, California, United States

• IBPA’s Director of Membership & Member Services is an experienced association professional responsible for overseeing the development, planning, and management of IBPA’s membership initiatives, including membership.
• Orchestrate the efforts of the IBPA Member Benefits Committee to ensure the delivery of pertinent and high-quality member benefits
• Design and implement member recruitment, renewal, and retention processes
• Develop sufficient mastery of data collection and management tools to generate reports to inform the member recruitment, renewal, and retention processes
• Draft and deploy annual IBPA Member Demographics & Needs Survey
• Manage the IBPA NetGalley Program

• Wrote, published and marketed "Persimmon Takes On Humanity"—the first book in the young adult adventure series, "The Enlightenment Adventures," intended to inspire social change for animal issues, released March 2015..
• Coordinated full-scale marketing campaign, including posting to social media sites and writing press releases, propelling book to #1 bestseller in “Animal Rights” category on Amazon.com, garnering rave reviews.
• Conducted extensive research, including interviewing undercover investigators and experts such as a veterinarian, and studying court documents and online articles

Greater Los Angeles Area

• I specialize in pitching and creating compelling and highly-clickable articles and videos
• I am a prolific idea generator with a talent for using SEO best practices
• I have over 6 years of experience working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven digital newsroom where I gained expertise in content management systems (CMS).
• I have a knack for taking on serious—even controversial—subject matter and turning it into an enjoyable and insightful read

Burbank, CA

• Pitched, wrote and produced clickable articles and videos under tight deadlines in fast-paced digital newsroom Sample Articles: ➢ “Whale Wars:” Reality TV That Saves The Planet: tinyurl.com/4efq5rd ➢ Best/Worst Vampire.
• Created and hosted original, comedic movie review web series, “Film Fan Forum,” consisting of two dozen videos so far, including “Iron Man 2,” “Inception,” “Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never,” “The Social Network,” “Sex.
• Field produced and shot celebrity interviews at movie premieres, junkets, and special events ➢ The Simpsons: tinyurl.com/o9akja2 ➢ Amanda Seyfried: tinyurl.com/6n7zcus
• Wrote compelling video headlines with keywords to boost SEO, posted content to social media sites
• Edited videos using Avid editing software and populated videos onto site
• Managed syndication of videos to digital partners (Hulu, Yahoo! omg!, NBCNews) using various content-management systems and collaborated with partners to maximize unique visitors

Wrote / produced six half-hour episodes, two 2-hour specials and daily promos that aired on TBN.Managed post-production team of three editors.

• Wrote/produced informational television shows that aired on the TBN network
• Wrote/produced six half-hour episodes and daily promos for Gifted TV series

Associate produced stand-up comedy show during production and then managed post-production team to finalize the project.

Collaborated with writers on comedic sketches and show segments. Traveled throughout the U.S. to write / direct / guest star in sketches.

• Assisted writers in picking comedic video clips, coordinated newsworthy images for air and assisted graphic designer

• Coordinated temporary project handling the filing and organization of celebrity research library