•Developed budgets with internal stakeholders for one-hour dramas ($5M to $10M per episode) and half-hour single-camera pilots ($2M to $5M per episode).•Pursued and filed paperwork for state tax incentives resulting in $2M per episode, up to $20M overall.•Compared budgets forecasting production costs in different cities including Canada and saved $10M via tax incentives.•Completed various analyses and projections for present, future and returning projects, including writer’s room costs and potential locations.

•Supervise all production on 10 episode series “Stupid Pet Tricks” in association with Worldwide Pants and Merrill Markoe for TBS network. Oversaw this Sarah Silverman hosted, high profile, variety/comedy series from pre-production thru delivery. Show includes stage and scripted field shoots, animals, celebrity guest appearances and live music performance.•Manage presentation “Comedy Troupe Culture Check” from pre-production thru delivery. Multi location hidden camera for TruTV network assuring on budget and on time network delivery•Oversee presentation “Cringe” from pre-production thru delivery. Multi location field shoot for Discovery networks.•Budget, Schedule and financially track all projects and corporate finances. Create payment schedules based on project cash flows.•Manage and approve all production and post schedules in accordance with approved budgets and delivery deadlines.•Review and approve all production-related expenses and track and report potential breakage and savings as well as negotiate client and vendor agreements. •Consult on projects and initiatives across multiple business units.

•Audit production procedures and author reports on implementing cross-functional communication processes among Production, Creative, Legal, Finance and Post Production and propose efficiencies to maximize internal resources while raising the bar on content quality.•Generate and execute cost-effective production plans, including budgets for scripted and unscripted television pilots, series, films, documentaries, and digital projects for domestic and foreign markets, resulting in project greenlights and company savings.•Collaborate with Development teams to marry creative aspirations with budget limitations and devise solutions to network notes under intense timelines, resulting in on time deliveries of projects and budget savings.•Leverage robust network of industry contacts to fully staff productions, frequently supervising producers, editors and assistant editors from green light through wrap ensuring smooth production and delivery.

•Oversee production, studio, and business aspects, as well as growth of post production audio facility. •Supervised employees, including re-recording mixers, engineers, sound editors, and sound designers, and 12-15 freelance re-recording mixers, sound editors and sound designers.•Implemented 90-day action plan for key strategic processes, resulting in streamlining efficiencies.•Worked closely with accounting on quarterly and yearly projections, invoicing, studio budgeting and project bids, resulting in increased revenues.•Integrated project workflows for U.S. and international deliverables with networks, ensuring on time deliveries of projects.

KEY ACHIEVEMENT: Recruited by Turner Entertainment-owned digital company Super Deluxe to audit their production procedures, authoring a 25+ page report on implementing cross-functional communication processes among Production, Creative, Legal, Finance and Post Production and proposing efficiencies to maximize internal resources while raising the bar on content quality• Generate and execute cost-effective production plans for scripted and unscripted television pilots, series and digital projects for domestic and foreign markets• Collaborate daily with Development team to marry creative aspirations with budget limitations and devise solutions to network notes under intense timelines• Leverage robust network of industry contacts to fully staff productions, frequently supervising 70+ producers, editors and assistant editors from greenlight through wrap• Employ deep knowledge of tax incentives to consistently secure favorable production scenarios and rates • Operate holistically with company executives from Finance, Legal, Creative and Post Production to ensure production meets all company objectivesKEY CLIENTS: Turner Entertainment, FOX Television, Spike TV, ITV Studios, Showtime, Super Deluxe, TLC, FUSE, Celador UK, Bib and Bub Entertainment, Griffin Entertainment, Tribune Entertainment

KEY ACHIEVEMENT: Structured USA Network’s unscripted production division from scratch, authoring production manual and producer’s handbook and consistently executing shows at or under budget, including the multi-season ratings topper Chrisley Knows Best • Simultaneously oversaw all aspects of production at USA and Syfy cable networks, managing $14M+ programming and development budget to assemble diverse slate of docufollow, competition, in-studio, live special and scripted content • Supervised budgeting, scheduling, cash flows, hot costs and cost reporting on a daily basis of 25+ series, pilots and presentations• Mobilized direct reports in establishing production protocols for Syfy’s weekly production The Wil Wheaton Project and delivering three seasons of top-rated Face Off• Guided third party production companies in implementing tax incentive strategies, generating $2M+ in returned monies for USA Network• Exercised personal relationships with vendors to routinely secure discounted services and productivity-boosting technologies, including an early look at real-time playback product ShotGlass, as well as adding the Opus 1 Music library for NBCUniversal Music• Liaised daily with senior executives across Development, Programming, Ad Sales, Integrations, Marketing, Public Relations, Finance, Legal and Business Affairs to report and solve for budget and schedule challenges affecting network initiatives • Communicated frequently with Legal to define policy for third party production companies, including steering adoption of Affordable Health Care Act requirementsSELECT CREDITS: Chrisley Knows Best, Face Off, Tough Enough with WWE, Inside the FBI: New York, The Wil Wheaton Project, Donny!, Heroes of Cosplay, It Takes a Choir, Partners in Crime, Summer Camp, The Moment, Vanderbilt MDs, After Psych

KEY ACHIEVEMENT: Launched and supervised in-house visual effects department to maximize creative control and create efficiencies in post production workflow, routinely saving company $100K+ per series• Enabled company’s rapid expansion from small production house to full-service entertainment company, establishing all production and post production workflows to execute multiple projects for A&E, Discovery, History Channel, Travel Channel and Spike TV • Recruited and directed production and post production staffs of 100+ in the execution of 50+ episodes of unscripted television series and pilots• Founded, staffed and oversaw in-house accounting department, responsible for $4M+ series budgets, cash flows and cost reportingSELECT CREDITS: Deadliest Warrior, Manhunters, Secret World, Seven Signs of the Apocalypse

KEY ACHIEVEMENT: Tapped by President to guide production of new network/syndication service My Network TV as competition to the CW network, generating budgets and aligning 150+ production and post production personnel operating 24/7 to deliver 400+ scripted hours within a year • Shepherded production of 10+ series and pilots budgeted at $5M to $30M for syndicated arm of 20th Century Fox Television, including two seasons of America’s Most Wanted • Headed accounting departments for all shows, managing series cost reporting, tracking daily hot costs and presenting monthly financial analyses to SVP, Production Finance• Collaborated regularly with Production Finance and Business Affairs to ensure SOX compliance and steer union negotiations with AFTRA, DGA, WGA and IATSESELECT CREDITS: America's Most Wanted, Divorce Court, Christina's Court, Desire, American Heiress, Fashion House, Saints and Sinners, Temptation, Watch Over Me, Wicked Wicked Games

• Directed staff of 60+ in the creation and management of all production, accounting and office systems on series for Fine Living Network, Encore, History Channel and VOD network MagRack• Instituted accounting, budgeting and banking procedures yielding efficiencies in all departmentsSELECT CREDITS: Are We There Yet, Encore's Cine News, Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, Where Did It Come From?