Vanessa Smith Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Greater Detroit Area

Advertising Accolades: Gold Pencil (The One Show), Gold (ADC), Silver Pencil (The One Show), Silver (London International Awards), Bronze (London International Awards), Bronze (New York Festivals), Bronze (Cresta), and Shortlisted (Clio)• Producer for Chevrolet national and global broadcast TV commercials, digital videos and radio production; from conception to live shoot through editorial• Liaison and relationship manager between vendors, agency creatives and clients• Go-to employee if you're ever looking for something or forgot something (thanks to organizational & memory skills)• The only other thing that's changed since my promotions is they trust me with more work!

Greater Detroit Area

Highlights include:• Produced a first-ever real-time film collaborating with The Mill and Epic Games, the company’s first partnership between the three; Film received 13 Million global views, as well as the highest completion rate ever registered by a global Chevrolet piece of content• Bidding new project budgets to $3 Million and creating project calendars in partnership with vendors• Collaborating closely with CCO’s and EVP’s toward meeting creative objectives; managing creative editorial schedules offering ideas for content development

Greater Detroit Area

Highlights include:• Production brand efforts helped propel Chevrolet moving four spots to the No. 2 most effective brand in the world in the Automotive category (Effie Effectiveness Index)• Spearheaded the transition of a multi-million-dollar budgeted retail sector to a new company partner• 2015 Employee of the Year, receiving the “Playmaker Award”

Greater Detroit Area

Highlights include:• Communications & Marketing lead for website design and copy, social media initiatives, e-newsletters, brand guidelines and marketing collateral• Helped rebrand the organization offering fresh ideas and creating a voice of consistency

Chicago, Il

- Corporate Communications- Social Media- Marketing- Full Video ProductionHighlights include:• Launched and managed a new business sector offering video production, producing the first-ever corporate and client videos from conception to live shoot through editorial• Pitched to new clients, conceptualized video content, scheduled and led shoots, performed on-set interviews, and served as post production editor• Designed and distributed biweekly Design Bureau Magazine e-newsletters, which grew the reach from 13,000 to 15,000 subscribers in six months• Social media manager for all corporate channels; developed content calendars, executed and monitored posts• Revamped and wrote full website content in a consistent brand voice• Defined and managed job postings, which led to six new hires• Built Company’s image through collaboration and networking with customers and potential event sponsors; maximizing new business development opportunities

Chicago, Il

- Marketing- Full Video Production• Conceptualized content for video production, scheduled and led shoots, on-set interviews, and oversaw post production editorial• Served as Communications & Marketing lead for monthly e-newsletters

Concord, Nc

- Marketing- Social Media- Corporate Communications- Full Video Production- Event ProductionHighlights include:• Social media manager for all corporate channels; Grew ACN's Facebook from 40,000 to 70,000 fans and Twitter from 8,000 to 13,000 followers in just one year• Spearheaded the launch of ACN TV, producing, hosting, face-to-face interviewing, pitching episodes, scripting and editing videos; Video count totals more than 100 episodes watched internationally• Produced ACN's monthly training DVD including selecting and editing content, which increased the subscription based tool annual sales revenue by $2 million• Designed marketing materials and e-newsletters reaching 130,000 subscribers• Strategically used content manipulation and tags to increase SEO, which brought ACN from the second page of a Google search to the top of the first• Produced, marketed and managed World Headquarter tours to more than 12,000 guests during company events

(2008-2012) Host of ACN TV covering international company news for a global telecommunications and home service provider(2012) Host of Today’s News on the Web featuring topics of finance, military, politics and religion(2010-2011) On-camera talent for three 30-second commercials promoting Carolina Cars and Kustom Karts. Commercials currently airing on a variety of networks in North Carolina and South Carolina(2010) On-camera talent for a 30-second commercial promoting Ben Satcher Ford for On Demand users in South Carolina