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Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Led the effort to implement a ground-up redesign of the base application, resulting in improved engineering efficiency, a reduction in tech debt, and shorter load times. The redesigned application was later proliferated across all deployments organization-wide.• Created a unique and successful beta launch strategy to satisfy diverse stakeholder priorities while exceeding internal KPIs and adapting to evolving customer concerns.• Prepared and led a Design Thinking Workshop to facilitate project kickoff and opportunity discovery, and built internal and external stakeholder alignment on the roadmap, feature prioritization, and launch strategies.• Maintained and prioritized backlog, developed a user research plan, and conducted user interviews.• Achieved the highest-engagement workforce development solution in organization history, exceeding previous user counts by 70% by leading partner outreach to encourage state-wide adoption of the product by Career Counselors.• Met the customer’s accelerated 6-week launch timeline by leveraging existing deployments to build efficiently while leading the engineering team in sprint planning, standups, sprint review, and retros.• Increased user engagement by 600% in the first two months of product ownership by implementing an SMS chatbot and “nudge” communications strategy that highlighted the benefits of completing bite-sized, meaningful tasks to motivate students on their college preparation journey.• Managed data science and engineering teams to build a homegrown college search feature that offered personalized recommendations based on students’ grades, interests, and financial information. • • Created and implemented a future earnings potential metric for this feature that led to a 50% increase in user engagement over baseline.• Collaborated closely with the Program Manager to overhaul programmatic strategies and design monthly lesson plans that met students at their current level of understanding and need.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Created and ran the micro-business during the COVID lockdown to gain business experience, pursue a personal passion, and practice community engagement while exploring a career transition into product management.• Increased sales revenue by 220% within a 2-month period by conducting user research and outreach to better understand the tastes and preferences of the customer base.• Fed 100+ unhoused neighbors along delivery routes by developing a mutual aid model that encouraged customers during the ordering process to purchase extra meals at cost for donation.

Burbank, Ca

Pitched, developed, wrote, and produced episodes for the popular daily talk show.• Grew the show’s subscriber count by 5 million viewers by researching evolving YouTube content trends to write and produce episodes totaling hundreds of millions of views while also successfully retaining the show’s existing loyal fanbase.• Unlocked new revenue sources from branded projects by managing internal and external stakeholders to write, produce, and deliver episodes that met brand requirements while aligning with the voice and vision of the show.• Collaborated across teams to lead production of episodes, ensuring all elements were built and prepped for taping.

• Collaborated cross-functionally with Showrunners, Post Team, and Stakeholders.• Edited and delivered hundreds of pieces of content for daily publishing using Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Wiredrive, and Wipster.• Pitched and wrote sketches.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Glendale, Ca

• Collaborated with Showrunners to develop and pitch show from conception.• Designed and successfully implemented workflow and framework for writersroom and post-production team to meet tight deadlines.• Wrote and produced segments.• Supervised the editing and delivery of episodes.

Glendale, Ca

• Grew my role from Editor to Contributing Writer and Producer.• Designed visual style of the show "Daily Rehash".• Edited and delivered daily videos.• Created new segments to showcase a new creative direction.

Write blog articles covering movie news, op-ed, and reviews of film and television for Moviefanatic.com and Thehollywoodgossip.com, with an eye toward SEO. Run social media for Moviefanatic.com.

Los Angeles, Ca

Contribute sketches to a weekly current events-based sketch show.

Adapt novels into film treatments and feature screenplays.

Burbank, Ca

Provide transcription and continuity writing for feature films.

Research and write web copy for various websites including eHow.com, Livestrong.com, and Whitefence.com

Transcribe television and film while meeting sensitive deadlines; construct creative letters for each show including character & voice descriptions, and series & episode synopses; wrote a new style guide to unify the style within the department and simplify training for new hires

Research history and function of various architectural accessories; write copy for use on Pacific Columns website as well as various third-party websites

Create custom lesson plans for children of middle school & high school age; choose novels that cater to each child's interests; weekly one-on-one tutoring sessions

Write screenplay coverage; perform various office duties

Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Screenwriting

Activities and Societies: College Radio

Improv

Sketch Comedy Writing

French, Civics, Literature, Art History

Film Production, Screenwriting, Film Editing