Nate Pennington Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles Office

• Successfully assisted with full LA office technology move in 2012 from 5830 Wilshire Blvd to new office on the 8th floor of SBE Building. Included working with vendor schedules, network fiber runs, server rack & electrical code compliance with building managers, QA for workstations, network, and electrical home runs.• Managed new office space resource & meeting rooms technical needs to accommodate 4 video conference systems, 2 screening rooms, content creation edit bay. (3x capacity of previous office)• Planned and created relational database to track, manage, and monitor IT projects and inventory. • Improved current film tracking database by scripting automated submission reports saving 40 hours of manual analysis every quarter.• Transferred from Park City to LA in September 2008 and remotely performed previous years’ responsibilities as Festival Logistics IT Manager in addition to new roll overseeing IT needs for Los Angeles office. • Successfully supported the integration of Google Apps for Business within the Sundance Institute technology stack. Ongoing efforts include insuring a cohesive and secure workflow between staff and artists digital assets.• Contributed to Sundance’s Meet the Artist YouTube campaign. Worked with our digital content creator team before and during the festival to promote our contributing artists, directors, and advisors as well as YouTube live streaming of our Sundance Film Festival award ceremony.• Successful planning & implementation of Film Festival’s IT infrastructure. (22 venues in total) Worked with HP for 400 in-kind workstation donations with 100% equipment receipt & return success.• Worked with each artist’s custom technical needs to ensure their art installations were successful at Sundance New Frontier Venue (computer specs, imaging, security, software licenses)• Improved artist production workflow with connectivity between temporary production recording pods to the Sundance Resort’s onsite screening room.

Cannes, France

On site IT Manager at the Cannes Film Festival working with the Palais to facilitate live streaming of red carpet events in the American Pavilion. Other duties include setting up network infrastructure within the Palais and the American Pavilion within the International Village.Worked with New York Times News to make sure all digital deliverables were available for panel discussions at the American Pavilion. Panelists included Salma Hayek for her film "The Prophet" as well as Pixar's animation team for "Inside Out"Time frame of my contract work is in May for both 2015 and 2016

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Technical assistant performed administrative and technical services as needed on 6 valley-wide projects. Client billing and vendor account reconciliation as needed. Software license and equipment inventory tracking.

Phoenix, Arizona

Lead Project Manager overseeing all phases of more than 100 model home furnishing project timelines located in multiple states. (Arizona, California, and Oregon). Clients include: Centex Homes, Shea Homes, Tri-Mark Pacific Homes. Managed these client contract payment schedules (A/R), vendor account reconciliations (A/P), off-site warehouse storage procurement and insurance coverage. Liaison with client’s on-site project manager to ensure construction schedule shifts were adjusted accordingly with our vendor and subcontractor deliverables.• Kept pace with exponential growth in industry successfully managing 3 concurrent project timelines: ordering, receiving, and installation of custom furnishings for “turn key” final delivery of goods.• Oversaw 50+ vendor accounts and 20+ subcontractor accounts and contracts. Negotiated terms as needed.• Responsible for all account reconciliations and annual tax reporting.• Created and integrated FileMaker backend database solutions to better manage customer orders and vendor product updates. (Including purchase order and invoice forms tailored to unique home furnishing product line)• Responsible for Database administration and small office IT infrastructure.