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New York, New York, United States

New York, United States

• Onboarded sales and royalty data for Firebird Clients into the company’s Curve royalties system in order to facilitate statement generation and payment, as well as improving internal documentation and reporting processes• Acquired mechanical licenses for domestic artist releases through both The Harry Fox Agency and direct publisher relationships, as well as file and organize the licenses within Firebird’s internal systems.

New York, New York, United States

• Onboarded clients into Stem’s royalty system. This included digitizing each contract and payee data, ingesting sales and costs files from each of our clients (DSP) Digital Service Provider. In order to ensure efficient analysis and reporting, I provided quality control to ensure clean data migration between royalty systems. • Provided recommendations for improvement in order to guide the engineering and product design teams towards an efficient and transparent royalty system. This was done by creating models, prototypes and presentations to demonstrate industry norms and ways myself and my department believed they can be improved.

• Facilitated the licensing and payment of the entire label’s mechanical royalties, as well as updated the company’s technical approach to the licensing process• Regulated the ingestion of sales and royalty data in order to approve the delivery of statements to artists, producers and other third parties• Analyzed and processed artist and producer contracts in order to quantify them into metrics that can be used to track royalty payments• Utilized Excel’s advanced functions to create interactive and user-friendly royalty databases for mechanical royalties, producer agreements, licensing statuses and payment schedules

Remote

• Engaged with local and national brands in order to create partnership campaigns with the Las Vegas esports team to help them grow within the local and online audience. This included larger scope marketing and brand strategy decisions made with the rest of the senior staff• Secured sponsorships for the individual teams and players in order to increase their brand visibility and ensure our players and streamers were compensated by the organization

New York, New York, United States

• Quantified and researched song data from creators within Spotify’s ecosystem in order to engineer a new tool for Spotify artists and listeners• Collaborated with other departments to ensure my work would integrate seamlessly into the project at large. These collaborations included UI design, PR strategies and database management

Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Collaborated with rights-holders, sponsors and independent performers to organize and market theme events, such as Comic-Con and Star Wars weekends, as a promotion for the Bruins • Organized the intermission performances during Bruins games which included; programming events, coordinating schedules and representative on game day for business relations

Providence

• Heavily researched potential clients based on available and internal consumer data while developing customer accounts

Greater Boston Area

• Worked with Northeastern University Athletics to create giveaways, promotions, budgets and digital content for men’s and women’s ice hockey, as well as the University’s official accounts• Co-engineered and promoted the release of the #howlinhuskies rebranding, including designing new physical signage for Historic Matthews Arena

Greater New York City Area

• Processed, managed and solved database issues involving works registered in HFA’s database• Researched and resolved writer and publisher disputes for the company’s partners and clients• Managed the shipment and issuance of Notices of Intent (NOI’s) on behalf of licensees and the Library of Congress

New York City

• Created in depth reports for the executives at Island Records using streaming and sales data along with extensive research and analysis of unsigned and on-roster acts• As executive assistant to the CEO, managed schedules, booked travel, and tracked label expenses

• Leveraged revenue, app data and performance metrics in order to sell advertisement partner packages to local businesses• Recorded, analyzed and interpreted the stations’ listener and web-traffic data to build and implement strategies for long-term growth

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Music Industry

-Music with concentration in Music Industry, BS -Business Administration, Minor

High School