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I pitch, produce, and execute weekly videos to complement opinion columns featured on the Bloomberg Opinion website and terminal. Within the first three months in the position, several of my videos were among the top three most watched videos on the entire Bloomberg News website. Additionally, I've led the strategy for our Opinion YouTube channel, increasing our subscriber growth by over 30% and watch time by over 620% in six months.My role encompasses end-to-end video production. I take pride in my ability to adapt written content into engaging scripts, ensuring that our videos resonate with our target audience. With a strong background in video editing and a keen eye for detail, I'm dedicated to delivering high-quality content that aligns with Bloomberg's standards for accuracy and professionalism.

I played a pivotal role in ensuring the success of Politico's Snapchat show, preventing its discontinuation due to low watch times and engagement. Collaborating closely with the show's senior producer, we worked to elevate the show's structure and visual aesthetic, making it better suited for a Snapchat audience. Through strategic post-production enhancements, I successfully doubled the show's average watch time within the first two weeks of my efforts.

- Edited videos for digital platforms, including a successful Snapchat show, a long-form political explainer YouTube series, video content for podcasts, and vertical videos for Instagram and Tik Tok. - Created original motion graphics.- Manage the production and post-production teams, overseeing art direction of the original content, hiring, and training junior editors on best practices. - Lead editor for the Snapchat show WTF America twice a week, helped grow the engagement by elevating the art direction. - Spearheaded a new company-wide workflow, setting up a local server and parallel cloud server, leading to a more efficient remote-first model.- Oversaw the art direction and helped launch several video series native to Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. - Worked with the social strategy team to adapt content for its specific publishing platform.

- Played a large role in expanding Politico's digital video content focusing on original video journalism. - My operational activities include video editing, directing, shooting, and animating over 200 political video explainers and field pieces.ACCOMPLISHMENTS: - Produced, shot, and edited Politico's top-performing original content video, which received over 1 million views on YouTube within one week of publishing, and over 800K views on Politico's website.- Spearheaded an overhaul of our YouTube content, leading to a 740% increase in subscribers. - Produced and oversaw the art direction of Politico’s digital content during the 4th DNC Democratic debate hosted by Politico and PBS NewsHour, seen by millions of viewers.- Produced and oversaw the art direction of Politico's 2020 RNC and DNC Conventions digital content and oversaw the rollout during the Livestream of both events.- Collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker and Politico Playbook authors to create five successful weekly digital video series. - Produced on-camera talent and handled Instagram live streams from the field during several primary debates throughout the 2020 election cycle.

- Created motion graphics and was the lead camera operator for all original content.- Edited and produced dozens of explainer videos on Muller’s Investigation and the 2018 midterms. - Directed and edited a long-form profile of Rep. Ilhan Omar during her 2018 campaign and winning election into Congress featured during Politico's Women Rule Summit. - Researched and pitched political news stories for Politico and Politico Magazine.- Created a more efficient workflow amongst the video team by reorganizing the video team server, instituting a consistent naming convention, and training team members on best practices for Adobe Premiere Pro.

Assisted production on the Oscar-nominated documentary in Washington, D.C., for the California-based production team.My responsibilities included:-Worked with the California-based production team to source personal archival photographs and documents from disabilities rights activist Judy Heumann.- I sourced over 100 assets and instituted an archiving system so the post-production team could keep track of the images we found. - Scanned and retouched dozens of final images showcased in the film. - Produced re-taping sessions in Judy's home to capture better audio for several sections of her interview, working directly with the head sound designer, James Lebrecht

Played a crucial role in optimizing Baker's studio post-production and archiving systems. My responsibilities included:- Retouching images under quick deadlines for photo editors at The New York Times, Fortune, Parade Magazine, POLITICO, TIME magazine, and more.- Retouched portraits of Former Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George Bush seen by millions of people in over a dozen publications or advertisements.- Archived his entire 20-year body of work by organizing servers and cataloging images on his agent's FTP server.- I assisted on set and managed the post-production of thousands of images for ten photoshoots on a month-long assignment for Popular Mechanics.

As a writer and photojournalist, my work was published in all five of their weekly newspapers.Responsibilities included: - Writing dozens of stories focused on Manhattan borough politics and community news. - As a project manager, I produced three 15-page special features with written profiles and portraits of over 50 union workers being recognized for their hard work and contribution to their communities. - My investigative story on the stalled production of The Tavern on the Green’s renovations was featured on NY1 for uncovering the mismanagement of the multi-million dollar project.