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Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed DVD and Blu-Ray projects from inception through delivery to client, ensuring quality expectations were met, and due dates were achieved.
• Maintained a high level of communication with client, reporting milestones and informing them of any issues that could potentially effect on-time delivery.
• Tracked projects in a number of systems, ensuring that the client and internal departments are sharing the same metrics.
• Created billing projects, added new billable items per client contracts, and closed out projects to ensure proper invoicing.
• Managed customer change orders by negotiating deliverable due dates between customers and internal departments, balancing internal capacity with external demands and expectations.Initiated corrective action process as.

• Managed the team that protects full-program, visual effects (VFX), and distribution files from major Feature and Television titles.
• Tasked with organizing all digital assets in a time and cost-efficient manner.
• Audited metadata on all archived assets via an online software tool or by analyzing spreadsheet data.
• Designed a workflow setting out a common structure for the organization of data from hard drives company-wide. This allows for searchable metadata to be available immediately upon ingest into the archive.
• Managed the Still Image Vault scan room technicians and market-driven workflow.
• Worked on multiple metadata rule-establishing committees.

• Managed the day-to-day functions within the Still Image Vault and the Metadata Quality Control group.
• Managed the Still Image Vault scan room technicians and market-driven workflow.
• Defined performance metrics for the scan room and reported weekly data.
• Improved workflows to be quicker, less burdensome, and more accurate.
• Worked across various software systems to maintain a high standard of metadata.
• Worked on multiple metadata rule-establishing committees.

• Quickly promoted from entry level to supervisory and then to management.
• Served as a liaison between multiple WB divisions, brokering deals to transfer images across business units in a seamless way, with minimal workflow disruption.
• Administered the Digital Asset Management system hosted on North Plains Telescope software. This included user administration, training, and order approval.
• Ensured all representatives adhered to policies, procedures, and quality standards in regards to scanning and metadata work.
• Prepared photography from older movies and TV shows for scanning.
• Scanned items and applied metadata to the images.

• Buena Vista Pictures Marketing, Publicity Stills (Photo) Department
• Researched all legal approval requirements and obtained approvals from talent or talent representatives for Feature Animated Movies.
• Prepared, mailed, and followed up on legal correspondence regarding photo approvals on all feature film releases.
• Answered telephones and maintained relationships between Disney executives and talent and their representatives.
• Maintained department and executive calendars.
• Acted as a talent handler at a number of high profile events, including movie premieres and after-parties, providing personalized service to talent and their families.

40 hour per week temp working at Walt Disney Company for MacTemps (Aquent Staffing)

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