Matthew Despagni Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, New York, United States

• Prepare service and data reports for management to present to customers on maintenance projects and service calls.
• Monitor and maintain record of inventory to ensure availability of necessary replacement parts.
• Assist with installing, maintaining, and removing Heating & Air Conditioning Systems.

New York, New York, United States

• In collaboration with two other partners, designing and executing an e-commerce business with a focus on sports illustrations.
• Commissioned by private individuals to produce oil/acrylic artwork.
• Selected to participate in an art exhibition displaying original landscape paintings.

New York, NY

• Supported the Sales Teams with effective research findings in executing deals worth over $400 million in annual revenue from both out of home video (cinema) & digital/mobile advertising sales. Key clients included.
• Provided training for new analysts in their understanding of media business, terms, concepts, methodologies, and various data resources.
• Collaborated with the Senior Vice President, Director & Senior Manager on all research proposals and special projects for on-screen & digital platforms.
• Worked closely with Sales, Planning & Marketing Teams in developing insightful recommendations and identified competitive advantages & selling strategies in order to position sales pitches.
• Crafted compelling sales presentations based on a particular client, pitch, and target demographic for the Sales, Marketing and Business Development teams.
• Executed incoming research requests allocated by the Sales offices and issued weekly status reports to the SIA team & National Sales Management.

New York, NY

• Supplied cutting edge business intelligence to Sales and Strategy Research and Marketing teams.
• Tracked and forecasted video consumption across multiple platforms, utilized to prepare monthly Syndicated Online Video reports. Collect data for ABC Competitive Traffic reports, analyzing ABC trends against competitor.
• Utilized comScore media metrics and Nielsen databases to compile monthly reports, analyzing site and video data and delivering insights on trends.
• Prepared and analyzed mobile affiliate trend reporting for sales team, detailing effectiveness of mobile video streaming.
• Released Nielsen Online Campaign Reports looking at ad campaign deliveries in specific target audiences.
• Analyzed consumer behavior for smartphone and tabloid ownership, cloud computing and social media utilizing secondary research databases (ie: Forrester; EMarketer).

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• CoxReps, a television station representative, is the largest and most successful in the country. Provided analytics for up to 12 stations and supervised 3 associates on selected special projects. Additional duties:
• Analyzed overnight projection reports issued by Nielsen ratings.
• Provided program estimates based on audience delivery, growth trends, decline in competitive programs, and program changes and revisions.
• Maintained accurate listings of program inventory.
• Created PowerPoint presentations for station clients detailing the strengths of the client programs.

Greater New York City Area

• Collaborated with the head Municipal Bond Trader for leading national underwriter of municipal bonds.
• Acted as a liaison in secondary municipal bond market as part of a 9 person team.

Master Of Arts (M.A), Communication Arts: Concentration In Media Management & Business, 4.0

Relevant Coursework: Business of TV Programming, Media Management, TV Research and Sales

Bachelor, Fine Art/ Business