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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Manage workflow on multiple 360, print, digital and AV campaigns from conception throughdelivery including The Walking Dead and Preacher for AMC, The Path and Casual for Hulu andEasy, A Futile and Stupid Gesture and Atypical for Netflix.• Act as central cross-functional point of contact between clients, strategists, designers, producers and account managers to accurately fulfill campaign briefs.• Ideate with strategists, designers, producers and account managers to accurately fulfill campaign briefs and produce strong and engaging consumer facing marketing.• Develop timelines and scopes for all projects. Allocate resources and manage budgets while ensuring the highest possible creative outcome.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed team of full time and freelance creative directors, art directors, graphic designers, copy writers, developers and producers to create print, digital, broadcast and integrated campaigns for entertainment brands including Longmire for Netflix and Remember for Entertainment One.• Accountable for establishing strategic direction for Print and Digital departments, devisingmethods to improve business as well as internal processes.• Acted as in-house creative lead while partnering with creative directors from other departments and clients.• Set project costs, schedules and productivity benchmarks. Enabled internal teams to consistently provide contract deliverables. Lead campaigns to consistently successful completion.

• Created fully integrated entertainment and brand campaigns that included print, broadcast, interactive, social, mobile and experiential components.• Developed and fostered client relationships, secured new work, cultivated prospects.• Managed and mentored diverse department of account executives, art directors, copywriters, production artists, editors, producers and strategists.• Responsible for presentation of strategy and creative.• Responsible for new business affairs, business development and special project management.

• Developed print and integrated campaigns for broad range of brand/studio/network clients.• Instigated and fostered client relationships, secured new work, cultivated prospects.• Created broadcast department; led creative phases, hired producers, directors andproduction houses to facilitate client requests for digital and broadcast video.

Identified and opened client relationships, estimated job scopes, timelines, and budgets for multi-million dollar contracts.Trafficked workflow, managed staffing needs and trouble shot production.Oversaw In-Market account and fostered open lines of communication between the client and agency. Acted as day-to-day point of contact.Targeted new opportunities for strategic growth, segmentation, engagement and agency partnership.Led extensive redesign of In-Market campaign from strategy to production.Authored creative briefs and CARs. Pitched concepts and recommendations to the client.

• Designed and created sets working with producers, directors, and crew to create original andcamera ready interiors for a host of projects ranging from “Carter Can” on HGTV to “She’s Gotthe Look” on TV Land.• Acted in all capacities for the art department including producer, shopper, and on-set decorator.

Acted as point of contact for all vendors, subcontractors, designers and clients.Sourced, negotiated and procured all FF and E.Managed junior design and project management teams.Designed and specified full room plans, public spaces, finish schedules, custom furnishings and art selection.Created all proformas, POs and invoices for job, tracked AR/AP with accounting dept.

Responsible for concept and design of book covers and interiors, packaging, brochures, logos and various marketing print work. Imagined creative solutions that satisfy the needs and wants of authors, sales and marketing agents, editors, and publishers. Developed large roster of photographers, illustrators and other freelancers, produced shoots and negotiated rates. Purchased all stock for print and new media usage.Shepherded all pieces from early conceptual stages through the production process, working closely with production staff and printing houses.