Montana Sommese Email & Phone Number

Burbank, CA, US

• I help brands and creators bring their audacious stories, games, and products to life.
• Consulting for TV animation, games, and emerging technology (UGC Gaming, Social Gaming, VR, Digital Platforms).
• Building a slate of viable animated television comedy and genre IP.
• Sourcing talent, stories, and IP and building relationships with buyers and production companies.

Santa Fe, NM, US

Van Nuys, CA, US

• Head of production and operations.
• Directly managed a production and QA team responsible for shipping games.
• Managing multiple development pipelines: HTML5, Mobile F2P, Roblox, VR, and AR.
• Working to guide, inspire, and continuously improve the quality of development.
• Designing processes to ensure efficiency, communication, and high-quality, timely deliverables.
• Collaborating with creative, art, and technical leads to ensure proper scope and mitigate risk.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Led teams across the full production cycle from concept to creation to launch and live operations for The Masked Singer and The WWE Web 3 games and NFT marketplaces.
• Led remote teams of engineers, designers, and artists to create industry-leading NFT products.
• Collaborated with creative, product, and technical leads to ensure proper scope.
• Designed processes to ensure efficiency, communication, and high-quality deliverables.
• Schedules and budgeted short-term and long-term deliverables.
• Managed relationships. The key point of contact for external developers, partners, and vendors.

US

• Lead Producer for 3 VR games. Managed multiple concurrent gaming, animation, and R&D prototypes. Supported development at Cartoon Network Studios’ VR Lab.
• Led teams of A-list talent to produce award-winning digital and interactive content, including 3 VR products.
• Headed rapid prototyping efforts to explore games concepts across various platforms and emergency technology, such as mobile AR, VR, AI, volumetric capture, and Web XR.
• Managed external developers and created development plans (milestone schedules, budgets, etc.).
• Envisioned, proposed, and managed production for dozens of concurrent, gaming and creative emerging technology prototypes.
• Expanded the studio’s talent pool by hiring new, diverse talent from the games and interactive space.

US

• Collaborated with executive leadership and talent to build creative strategy and execute planning. Served as a Project Manager responsible for designing processes and products to enhance communication and increase.
• Headed cross-functional teams to achieve success in launching multi-platform series and digital games and products (We Bare Bears, Ben 10, Powerpuff Girls, Mighty Magiswords, and OKKO Let's Be Heroes).
• Designed toy launch plans and schedules for franchise series (Ben 10 and The Powerpuff Girls).
• Managed ancillary projects with series creators and current series executives, such as DVD releases.
• Leveraged technology to radically increase studio and network efficiencies by creating a digital product for executives to securely input and share programming and production information across the company.
• Provided training, documentation, and onboarding for various teams to the new product and workflow.

US

• Led asset management for the studio to support creative development, current series, production, and general content operation needs.
• Dramatically increased studio efficiency by centralizing assets and simplifying the distribution process.
• Led planning and scheduling meetings with production and network executives.
• Sourced and cataloged digital media assets across all CN series.
• Managed extensive user lists and permissions for an internal asset distribution portal.
• Created and maintained asset delivery schedules for all original series in production.

US

• Supported the development of comedy series and transmedia development.
• Promoted to a full-time assistant after a successful 4-month internship
• Wrote coverage for writer script samples, books, and pitch submissions
• Maintained a dense writer and talent database
• Coordinated with agents and talent to organize meetings and pitches
• Managed schedules and coordinated travel for senior executives

US

• Designed and organized the films post-production workflow
• Avid Media Composer (NLE)
• ARRIRAW Media
• Managed and ingested over 100 Visual effects shots
• Worked with post house to deliver materials for final color and creation of the finished DCP