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Beverly Hills, California, United States

Assistant to Zac Frognowski

• Process influx of all customer and stock merchandise repairs, as well as parcel outflow to international and domestic warehouses.• Maintain daily correspondence with wholesale accounts regarding customer demand, in order to update product and client databases.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Updated weekly production summaries and schedules for all Universal Content Productions and Universal Television active projects with greenlight statuses, subpoena requests, cast lists, cost reports, budgets, and payroll.• Managed calendar and tasks on behalf of the Senior Vice President of Production Finance including department meeting coordination, COVID operations transcription, and Payroll Accountant and Production Finance Executive role designation via APAR system.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Tracked vendor and licensee invoices to report on music catalog content, branding and franchising, office revenue, and AFM licensing.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Assisted digital photographers by inputting content metadata, distributing images across NBCU networks, and handling desk coverage.• Conducted photo edits for shows such as Ordinary Joe, The Voice, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Family Game Fight, and Weakest Link.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Processed and distributed script submissions by accrediting text to internal readers and logging records into Focus database.• Enhanced creative writing capabilities by drafting extensive coverage and treatments for external screenplays and prospective films.• Researched daily industry reports to create project priorities and wrap memos for SXSW, Tribeca, and Cannes Film Festival.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Supported leadership training programs by tracking digital engagement, NBCU new hire attendance, and Talent lab logistics.• Applied interpersonal skill set to moderate and engage new hires within the Talent labs, through tech support and interactive surveys.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Establish self-sufficient videography, photography, and editing services, while cultivating an extensive customer base through social media platforms, on-campus organizations, local commercial venues, and publication recognition.• Compose feature length scripts, treatments and script analysis, while coordinating set-designs, budgeting, sound mixing, and post-production for all original content.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Advised and assisted patrons with daily, comprehensive I.T. support for camera and camera accessories, in-depth software training, poster printing, and digital artistic medium tutorials in over twenty different applications.• Lowered paper waste by developing digital alternative to rental equipment service, thus saving on average $1,350 per year.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Utilized photojournalism techniques with various lenses and equipment to provide high quality candid photos— of the President and other government elected officials— which were used by Getty Images and published internationally in Newsweek (US), El Telégrafo (Ecuador), GEO (France), Sciences et Avenir (France), NewsBeezer (Belgium), and Ekspress Media (Estonia).

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Lead social media team for digital marketing agency, specializing in artist promotion, video production, and art curation.• Edited videos and produced graphic designs to create an original marketing campaign promoting Philadelphia artists, which increased company’s social media following among 18 to 24-year-olds by 23%.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Conducted photoshoots, created transcripts, and facilitated interviews for a four-volume publication which examined body image, internal perceptions, and subsequent external behaviors.• Developed communication and editorial skills by transcribing interview projects for DC Housing Authority that focus on the personal narratives of residents in Barry Farms, located in Ward 8, DC.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Activities and Societies: Kinoki Senior Society (Alumni Relations Chair), Robeson Cooper Scholar, Black Wharton Undergraduate Assembly.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Varsity Basketball, Varsity Debate Team, CSBGL Youth Participatory Action Research Team, NAIS Student Diversity.