Michele Slater Email & Phone Number

Chamblee, Georgia, United States

• Ownership Mentality -I run the business and care for it as if it were my own.• Created systems to make data-driven decisions regarding inventory, purchasing and sales.• Reorganized entire business, maximizing flow of wholesale operations and use of retail and merchandising space resulting in increased efficiency and sales.• Produced and implemented regional marketing campaigns resulting in obtaining new wholesale clients.• Photographed, edited, wrote copy, product specs, and posted retail items for sale on websites.• Audited and updated retail and wholesale pricing.

Procured entertainment asset content for linear and non-linear (OTT/VOD/SVOD) platforms from clients, vendors, acquisitions and co-productions, managing series deliveries from green lighting to premiere of final episode.• Created robust and detailed tracking system for managing delivery of all content and ancillary assets which optimized workflow and ability to strategically set priorities at departmental and intracompany levels.• Chosen by Director of Content Operations to manage delivery of outstanding problematic assets for Boomerang.com, our OTT subscription VOD service that launched April 11th, 2017. • Managed platform vendor, Warner Bros. Digital Labs (WBDL), to ensure missing and problematic assets were received with proper files and specs, ingested, passed QC and were ready for premiere on the service prior to launch date.• Worked closely with Boomerang.com Programming Planning department on ongoing basis, to ensure new assets would be procured from Warner Bros., processed through Network Operations and delivered to WBDL for processing in time for premieres.

On-site domestic liaison between Turner US and International for TNT, TBS, TruTV and TCM Networks, procuring promotional, marketing and public relations assets, vetting them for legal rights and distribution readiness and distributing to our international network counterparts via Digital Asset Management (DAM/MAM) practices, for seamless global launches.• Communicated international needs and domestic initiatives resulting in minimized requests and streamlined communications.• Created, maintained and refined content management database (CatDV) and MediaShare site, growing from 0 to 6,300 Assets & 0 to 375 Users in 2 years.• Vetted all materials for international clearance, created naming conventions, entered and maintained accuracy of metadata and published assets to the database.• Managed expiry dates on rights-managed assets to maintain legal compliance; upon expiration notified end-users globally and pulled from DAM.• Worked with Development Team to obtain fixes and add customized features and upgrades to platforms. Assisted in sprint planning to help establish goals/prioritization of needs for upcoming sprint rollouts. • Worked with cross-functional teams to refine processes and build relationships to ensure expedient, cost-efficient, and consistent brand and network communications globally. • Managed user access to MediaShare (end-user) site. • Created and distributed training manual for end-user clients. Conducted global webinar training sessions to onboard new end-users worldwide, to their elation. Provided troubleshooting/tech support and submitted help desk tickets when necessary. • Created robust CatDV user manual for training sessions and as a reference guide for onboarding new departmental asset manager hires. • Created strategic reporting tools and analyzed data of end-user behavior and asset usage, and to generate reports for presentations to upper management on international asset sharing and effectiveness of file sharing systems.

Award winning producer who managed all aspects of the production of on-air elements by collaborating and working closely and proactively with writer/producers, talent, vendors and other network departments to ensure the smoothest possible workflow and that projects were turned in within budget, on time or early whenever possible.• Produced as many as 20-30 projects (live shoots & animation) simultaneously, varying in scope and ranging in budget from $5K to $550K for on-air content & promotions. • Produced live shoots in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Columbia, Venezuela and the U.S. (including those with high-profile talent & stakes and with numerous shoots occurring in as many as 5 countries within days of each other).• Assisted in Beta testing and refining Mesmo (custom, in-house, web-based, project management software) functions and features, before, during and after application launch.• Had a strong contributing role in the management of the departmental budget.

• Saved the company more than my annual earnings my first year on the job by finding and reconciling billing errors with a vendor. • Initiated departmental processes and procedures to prevent this from happening again in the future.• Managed large budget, live shoot and animation projects (from bidding to final product -booked post-production sessions with internal, local & national production studios and talent and uploaded to web based scheduling calendar). Coded and processed production invoices for multiple departments for payment and maintained accounting database.