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.
• 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.
• 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

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

(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.