Event Planning and Management: Oversee the planning, development, and logistics for various events including conventions, premieres, collaborations and screenings. Coordinate with multiple teams to produce marketing and merchandising booths, create and host panels, manage creative design, technology coordination and venue management. Project budgets range from $1K - $1M+. Strategic Collaboration and Financial Oversight: Collaborate across various departments to align event strategies with individual IP objectives and overall brand goals. Manage event budgets, including tracking expenditures, preparing financial reports, and overseeing purchase orders.Vendor Relations and Project Execution: Work closely with vendors to create innovative exhibits and experiences, ensuring brand objectives are met. Manage project timelines, coordinate staff travel and accommodations, facilitate advertising and sponsorship opportunities, and conduct research and negotiations for new vendor partnerships.

- Primary contact and coordinator for events, premieres and conventions with an audience of from a few hundred to thousands of people- Host of industry panels at various conventions and events (in-person and streaming)- Develop marketing strategies for our titles and supervise the production or implementation of marketing materials such as direct mail, email broadcast campaigns, outbound calls, marketing trade shows and events, public relations, customer communications, media advertisements, promotions, and other marketing plans- Track campaigns and prepare performance analysis reports of post campaigns- Develop and deliver standardized presentations, sales scripts, proposals- Coordinate activities with advertising agencies and the media- Assist in writing, tracking and delivery of press releases- Provide product positioning materials as well as training for customer service and sales- Project Management including vendor and guest relations, invoice processing, creating, tracking and maintaining budgets, reviewing contracts and agreements- Serve as a liaison and communicate between Japanese entities in Japanese

- Process student immigration.- Coordinate and promote daily activities; produce and implement activities schedule.- Project management: contact vendors, budget and organize events for up to 100 participants, manage a team of Student Ambassadors, Corporate Social Responsibility.- Promotion and marketing + Social Media/Blog coordinator: create digital and print promotional materials.- Administrative (bookkeeping, troubleshooting, supporting the Center Director, managing Japanese student body).- DSO

Internship: edit copy; social media branding; influencer outreach; organizing a gallery art opening; facilitating promotion of clients overseas; assisting in development of a website to promote tourism to Japan, and a website to sell Japanese art.

My duties included facilitating English conversation with Japanese students, development of I-Chat original language games, share-chairing, planning and preparing special cultural events, translation and interpretation, as well as outreach/PR marketing of I-Chat.

Assisted in the analysis of questionnaire data and compilation of said data into presentations; market research; assisted in making language class materials; librarian duties; reception and event help; program assistant for the J-LEAP workshop held at UCLA

Read scripts and wrote coverage; event help, receptionist duties, observed first hand experience of producing a movie.

I worked in the Strategy, Accounts and Media departments as well as filling in for receptionist duties. My work included drafting transcriptions, compiling competitives, client and competitor research and presentation of information. Some of my work also included creative, where I helped to make slogans for projects as well as work on filming a commercial.