Sherece (Shari) Lamke Email & Phone Number

Granite Falls, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Develop and execute narrative and nonfiction stories with purpose for broadcast and digital platforms.
• Program Manager for End in Mind Project, a nonprofit founded by MPR’s Cathy Wurzer to ignite transformative conversations in communities about intentional & purposeful living, now and through the end of life.
• Project Lead for Women in Focus, a collaborative partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport to develop material for a website for educators and decision makers.
• Producer and Production Manager for livestream of event “Why Cultural Heritage Matters Globally and Locally” and edit into a half hour broadcast program for Twin Cities PBS, a partnership with the Hill Museum &.
• Producer of animated short “Minnesota War: Personal Stories” done in collaboration with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design student animators. Aired by Twin Cities PBS' Almanac series in 2012 and posted online.
• Producer of digital shorts for numerous local and global musicians.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Saint Paul, Minnesota

• Efficient and creative media production and asset management for a trusted mission-based organization.
• Led a team of technical and creative production and budget managers to achieve high levels of efficiency, integrity, and quality, inspiring the growth of all personnel.
• Guide the direction for the Production Services department to serve all content areas of the station in concert with station strategic plan.
• Own the administrative control over resources and expenditures on a department budget of over $2.5 million and reporting on revenue of project budgets rolled up into over $5 million in revenue for content.
• Keep all production and funding compliant with station, partner, grant, contract as well as state and federal guidelines and station editorial guidelines, related practices and policies.
• Executive Produced EMMY winning “The People’s Protectors”, College Christmas concerts delivered nationally and EMMY nominated “Game On: Women Can Coach”, including social media extras and a version with new material.

• Motivate a creative storytelling staff in partnership with area non-profits, educational institutions and government agencies with integrity.
• Accomplished the launch of the Statewide Minnesota Channel and create new business model workflow.
• Developed staff from production assistants to associate producers and producers who worked as a team with other production personnel to optimally deliver content to the diverse community served.
• Created thousands of project bids from $5,000-$1,000,000, executed hundreds of contracts and project managed through to distribution on the Minnesota Channel, PBS stations and/or TPT or partner websites.
• Grew from $200,000 annual goals to over $2,000,000.
• Achieved nearly 1,000 television shows, and 2,500 digital stories with over 300 unique partners.