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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Spearheaded the establishment and growth of a thriving digital media company, specializing in creative collaboration and original content production with diverse brands such as the NFL, Halo, Microsoft Studios, Billboard, Kayak, Boost Mobile, NBA, The Big3, and more.• Managed a team of 30 full-time and freelance producers, production managers, and coordinators, fostering their career growth, training, and development.• Maintained a pipeline of emerging and best-in-class talent across production roles, including vendors, production partners, and producers, resulting in a 25% reduction in production costs through strategic vendor partnerships and negotiating favorable contracts.• Collaborated directly with clients to conceptualize, produce, direct, shoot, and edit over 500 pieces of original content, ensuring the delivery of captivating and engaging campaigns that aligned with the agency's and client's vision, budget, and timeline, resulting in an average client satisfaction rating of 9 out of 10 and a 15% increase in client retention.• Architected the company's brand style guide, media management workflow, and asset library, providing a cohesive and consistent visual identity across all projects and platforms.• Developed and managed budgets and schedules, collaborating with the SVP, Head of Production, and Corporate Finance to ensure financial targets were met consistently delivering projects within budget, resulting in cost savings of 15% and an improved profit margin of 10%.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Oversaw, developed, wrote, and executed all original and branded content across FaZe Clan owned and operated channels, ensuring compelling and engaging content that resonated with the target audience.• Partnered with the Social and Marketing teams to produce and realize campaigns, pop-ups, installations, social content, branded content, events, and experiential activations driving a 25% increase in social media engagement and a 15% boost in brand reach.• Led and executed the planning and production approaches, agencies, and workflows to maximize efficiency and quality of events and content captures, resulting in a 10% reduction in production costs and a 20% decrease in production timelines.• Successfully produced, directed and led digital campaigns with marquee partners such as Porsche, Nike, McDonald's, GHOST Energy, NFL, Hulu, Draftings, and more, generating over 100 million combined views and impressions across multiple campaigns.• Managed internal production teams and hired external producers and staff, assembling and leading highly effective production teams to execute creative projects from script to screen.• Implemented effective project management strategies to ensure timely delivery and adherence to budgetary constraints, maintaining a high level of efficiency and quality throughout the production process.• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including creative, marketing, and brand partnerships, to ensure seamless execution of projects and alignment with strategic goals.• Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing relevant technologies and tools to enhance the production process, optimize workflows, and deliver high-quality content that met industry standards.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed end-to-end production of video and digital media content for brands, ensuring seamless execution from concept development to final delivery. • Oversaw client and talent relations, serving as the go-to problem solver and providing creative strategy and execution to maximize viewership and link clicks.• Conceptualized and produced official marketing and social media ad assets for artists and brands, including music videos, brand voice, and web series, supporting new product campaigns.• Led a production team of over 50 crew members and provided guidance and direction throughout the production process, ensuring adherence to timelines and delivering high-quality results.• Implemented an innovative rapid video editing turnaround process, streamlining post-production workflows and enhancing efficiency.• Demonstrated expertise in developing accurate and thorough project plans, schedules, statements of work (SOWs), documentation, and specifications, resulting in a 97% on-time delivery rate and a 20% decrease in miscommunication-related issues.• Maintained effective communication with internal team members, external partners, and clients, ensuring clear alignment on timelines, budgets, deliverables, goals, and expectations.• Proactively sought innovative creative and production methods, constantly exploring new ideas and solutions to technical challenges.• Utilized comprehensive knowledge of video and stills production, as well as social, web, mobile, experiential, and emerging technologies, to deliver cutting-edge content that resonated with audiences, resulting in a 25% increase in audience engagement and a 20% growth in brand awareness for clients

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Developed and served as Creative Director of "SKEE Live," an original television series providing behind-the-scenes access to top celebrities, musicians, athletes, and cultural tastemakers through short-form documentaries, live interviews, and performances. Broadcasted on Marc Cuban's AXS TV.• Worked in all phases of digital production, including development, pre-production, production, and post-production, on 60+ mini-series episodes. • Implemented and managed production workflows and schedules, multitasking between several simultaneous series.• Led the creative vision of the program, including logos, fonts, color palette, graphic design, series intros and promos, set design, lighting, and filming style.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Read 20+ feature film scripts weekly; create pitch decks including cast, talent and story revisions.• Write & record voice-over monologue, research & pull archive footage to edit trailers of select scripts.• Meet and present pitch decks & video promos to head studio executives.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Created one of the first popular lifestyle YouTube channels called SkeeTV, collaborating with DJ Skee. Wrote, produced, shot, and edited original lifestyle, music videos and behind-the-scenes content, generating millions of views.• Led the transition of SkeeTV from a YouTube channel to a full-scale production, marketing, and content distribution company, specializing in creative visual productions and new media marketing.• Pioneered social media marketing agency services, leveraging analytics such as viewership, subscribers, demographics, gender, age, ethnicity, and location to pitch marketing campaigns to popular brands.• Orchestrated successful marketing campaigns and promotions for notable clients such as T-Mobile Sidekick, Daimler-Chrysler (including the launch of the Chrysler 300 & Dodge Magnum), Google's Android Platform, NIKE, Halo 4, Microsoft Xbox 360, Mountain Dew, and numerous major record labels.• Oversaw day-to-day operations, including creative development, project management, production, scheduling, budgeting, and post-production timelines.• Collaborated with brand executives to develop and produce original content and mini-series tailored for major social media platforms.• Produced, directed, and edited over 1,000+ original videos, encompassing music videos, social media videos, behind-the-scenes footage, live events and concerts, documentaries, and commercials.