Travis Gates Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Independently create or accompany writing teams in creating high-quality, engaging content that resonates with target audiences and provides proven results.Craft one-off and campaign-centric content across multiple mediums.Collaborate with design, marketing, and client teams to ensure brand consistency and messaging alignment along with SEO optimization. Research demographics, industry trends, and competitors to inform written strategies. Edit and proofread to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency in all written material.

The Numbers at a Glance> Produced and delivered more than 350 episodes of TV, 1,200 minutes of animation, and countless hours of branded, cross-platform content.> Managed creative teams between 2 and 200+ people with budgets ranging from $2K to $20M within timelines between 1 day and 16 months.> Executed and managed dozens of vendor contracts along with hundreds of legal clearances.RESPONSIBILITIESCREATIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Oversee end-to-end creative project execution, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and achieving high-quality creative vision. COLLABORATION: Liaise between Creative, Production, Post, Studio, Network, and PR/Marketing teams to facilitate effective communication and seamless workflows. Align resources, project goals, and output with overall strategy and delivery objectives. Facilitate and maintain local, national, and global vendor relationships. TEAM ONBOARDING & BUILDING: Hire and onboard team members while building a dynamic team culture that values communication, creative innovation, and solutions-oriented outcomes. PROJECT BRIEFS & CREATIVE DIRECTION: Create and present creative briefs for implementation by various stakeholders to ensure alignment on vision, goals, and timelines. WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION: Implement, and optimize workflows including processes, templates, and tools across workstreams and between various stakeholders.RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Manage asset allocation and schedules for various teams and pipelines while balancing workload and resources effectively. PROCESS TRACKING & MEASUREMENT: Define, monitor, and communicate progress and outcomes to identify bottlenecks and allocate resources within workflows across various teams.RISK MANAGEMENT: Proactively identify risks and mitigate potential issues that could impact timelines, budget, and/or delivery.QC & DELIVERY: Ensure consistent, high-quality output across various formats within tight deadlines and stringent quality control standards.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Aided Team Leader in producing TV shows Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 (FOX/ABC), A Million Little Things (ABC/ABC), Galavant (ABC/ABC) and various pilot projects.- Assisted Post Production team leader in overseeing daily and overall schedules as well as episodic budgets.- Coordinated talent, audio stages, and personnel for dialogue (ADR & VO) recording sessions.- Produced and proofread all on-screen copy, official correspondence with Studio & Network executives, and helped to execute final on-screen credits through Legal and Business Affairs.

Santa Monica, Ca

- Helped to organize, proofread, and copy edit multiple scripts across various phases of completion at any one time.- Distributed scripts to cast and crew.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Assisted Executive Producers and Line Producer in producing such programs as Dinosaur Train (Jim Henson/PBS) and Sid the Science Kid (Jim Henson/PBS).- Aided Line Producer in overseeing daily and overall production schedules as well as episodic budgets. - Coordinated motion capture and animated elements from various local and global teams.- Developed global asset tracking management systems in conjunction with various animation studios around the world.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Santa Monica, California, United States

Primarily focused on content management within rollout of revamped Activision.com site.

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Conceptualized, wrote, produced, and directed B2B, branded, and nonprofit content for agency, direct, regional, and national clients.- Produced and directed video projects with budget ranges up to $250K from conceptualization through delivery.- Wrote and co-wrote long and short format scripts for branded, broadcast, and non-broadcast projects.- Managed budgets, crews, talent, and production elements.- Oversaw all Creative Department casting direction and talent management. - 2006 Creative Department Peer Award Winner

- Produced and directed video projects with budgets up to $35K- Wrote and co-wrote scripts for industrial, broadcast and non-broadcast projects- Acquired basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro and Avid Adrenaline- Collaborated with various producers from pre-production through post production as an AD/AP- Responsible for all casting direction and talent management within Creative Department

- Produced low-budget productions with budgets up to $15K- Coordinated crews, talent and production elements- Functioned as Production Assistant on video shoots- Developed and maintained client relationships – mainly in advertising and Marketing fields- Provided billing and account support to Account Management

- Managed the client kitchen and front desk areas and resources- Operated and oversaw main phone system for a staff of over 100 employees- Supported live events and film/video shoots as a Production Assistant- 2001, 2002, 2003 Support Services Employee of the Year