Melissa Ayers Email and Phone Number

DRIVING TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY WITH TODAY’S OPTIMUM TALENT.Optomi is a market-leading tech staffing firm with a unique approach. By developing industry leading recruitment processes and utilizing innovative technologies, we are able to deploy the best project managers, business analysts and technologists in the ever-evolving spaces of mobile technology, network/system engineering, information security, data warehousing, cloud and application development...making us a leader in the IT staffing world.

Helped recruit talent for a series on Netflix.

Development

Development

Development

Cast Season 2 of Lucky Bastards

Development

Development

Cast Singles Project for Bravo

Development

Casting producer for Fox's new hit show, Utopia.

Cast a development project for a major cable network that had me in search of singles who are attending multiple weddings in 2014. FAST PACE show with rolling submissions to network.

Casting a development project for a major cable network.

Researched, outreached, and recruited potential cast members for Playboy's hit series, Swing (season 4). Compiled large casting submission for network. The casting was very high volume and fast pace. We had to find couples who are in the lifestyle and couples who were interested in joining.

Cast a development project for a major cable network which had me in search of couples who were having marital problems. The show was conflict based, we had to find couples who were in the 7th year of marriage and on the verge of divorcing.

Recruited affluent engaged couples for the show. Interviewed, and prepared large casting submissions for network pitch. (Rolling submissions, high volume AND high quality).

I have built many relationships with high profile contacts. For the "Million Dollar Collection" I was a liaison between the production company and my contacts bringing them to the table for the show.

Recruited and interviewed potential cast members for Real Housewives of New Jersey. Compiled large casting submissions for network.

Casting Associate Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Outreach/Researched potential cast members, Recruited and interviewed cast members, compiled casting submission for network, lots of networking...etc.

Casting Executive Chefs and restaurants for Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell Season 2. Work under strict deadlines where chefs and restaurants have to be locked for production (13 Episodes). Research and outreach.

Worked in the casting department on various projects: Real Housewives of Orange County Season 8, Hawaii Elite (development project), and Stay At Home Dads (development project).

Casting producer for Fox Take Me Out. Research and outreach. Conducted large open casting calls, interviewed potential cast members, implemented a system for the entire casting department to follow. (Short term gig)

Associate Producer for The Bill Cunningham Show.

Left/Right creates unscripted television and film projects that illuminate the drama and comedy of real life: we tell stories that are both honest, surprising, revealing, and entertaining, dramatic, and cinematic. We do so by blending the conversations of documentary filmmaking with the look and feel of scripted television. In short: You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll Watch.

Casting recruiter for Style Network's "How Do I Look" (season 11).

Casting Recruiter for Fox's "Masterchef" (season 1).

Recruited potential cast members for Animal Planet's "It's Me Or The Dog," ran large casting calls, and interviewed potential cast members (field work).

Casting recruiter for ABC's "Supernanny."

Intern for major radio station, AllTheHitsQ100.Intern for Jezebel Magazine.

Recruited potential cast members for NBC's "Momma's Boys" (seasons 1 & 2).