William G. Higgins Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Project Leadership & Coordination: Partnered with Pipeline supervisors to implement unique tracking and reporting for departmental roadmaps. This change increased transparency and communication, and therefore trust that all of our departments priorities and goals aligned with the rest of the company.Strategic & Tactical Planning: The budgets were very fluid, and almost entirely dependent on an ever changing cash flow; so in this role I created multi-year plans, and multiple contingency single-year plans for different income / investment levels.Budgeting & Forecasting: individual projects within each department’s roadmap would need additional budgeting and forecasting to ensure tools don’t go into cost overruns due to feature creep. Focused tracking of development work allowed us to capitalize the expenditure for shareholder reporting purposes.Cross-Functional Team Collaboration: Delivered strong leadership to a cross-functional team in the management and execution of day-to-day responsibilities. Developed and maintained productive internal relationships; maintained all project schedules.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Leadership: Reporting to the Vice President of Digital Studio, tasked with servicing production teams in LA, Vancouver, and Montreal regarding the sourcing, acquisition, and optimum utilization of Feature and Commercial personnel to help achieve individual goals for features, commercial, and new media projects.Operations Management: Partner with production teams, the executive team, and international management to ensure successful personnel resourcing; global operational strategy and policy implementation; and change management. HR Management: Accountable for recruitment, career development, performance evaluation, performance management, and talent retention. Partner with department supervisors to collaborate on artist career development goals and ongoing initiatives.Long-Term Planning: Participate in long-term planning with Digital Studio team, producers, and supervisors to create appropriate staffing and recruiting plans. Support the forecasting of artist labor utilization to ensure appropriate utilization levels are consistently maintained.Recruitment: Collaborate with the recruiting team to manage the recruiting process by reviewing incoming reels, facilitating supervisor and production reel reviews, lead interviews, collect feedback, and communicate action items on all candidates.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Digital Producer on Spider-Man: HomecomingProject Leadership: Entrusted with the planning, scheduling, management, and delivery of all aspects of digital production for feature film visual effects; overseeing all production work flow and partners with the VFX producer and show supervisors to deliver the contracted work on schedule.Project Planning & Coordination: Collaborated with show supervisors and VFX producer to develop a breakdown of all digital effects work for the project. Worked with internal stakeholders to revise bids, manage facility show costs, and create a schedule for all phases of production.People Management: Delivered strong, decisive leadership to a talented cross-functional team to schedule and update progress of tasks in the production tracking system and on the show board. Effective Communication: Participated in show planning meetings with supervisors and technology teams through both development and shot production phases of the project. Created the daily schedule, approved artist timecards, and ensured dailies, client meetings, and priorities were effectively planned and managed.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Disney's Beauty and the BeastScheduling & Management: Tasked with leading the scheduling and management of all aspects of digital production for feature film visual effects. In partnership with the digital producer, created a schedule for all phases of production and worked with digital artist managers to assign digital artists to the work.Operations Management: Created and maintained task assignments for the teams; tracked billed artist weeks against the bid; and anticipated potential staffing changes based on development or creative shifts through the show. Responsible for determining priorities and handling vacation requests.

London, Gb

In tandem with the VFX Producer, helps determine show crewing and scheduling. Manages day-to-day operations of the show within the facility, including IO, editorial, and coordination. In tandem with the VFX Producer, managers the overall timely information flow within the show and between the show and facility. Works closely with Pipeline as well as the CG and Comp Supervisors and department leads to maximize efficiencies within the production and the facility. Oversees render queue prioritization and management to ensure efficiencies and adherence to the schedule.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

VFX Producing Sin City 2 (as Sequence Producer)SolaceCosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey

Squamish, Bc, Ca

I'm client facing, and a good people manager. I ran a studio that usually floated between 20 and 30 people, reporting directly to the head of the company. My position was primarily production; however, due to the boutique nature, I was responsible for HR/recruitment/dismissal, as well as business development/sales. When they needed to send a representative to go to MPPIA board meetings, they sent me, when they needed to send someone to meet people in LA or Hong Kong they sent me. I developed the system used to determine the studios profit/loss, as well as the system to determine the profit/loss on specific individuals within the studio.

Squamish, Bc, Ca

New York, Us

This position was on Contract to Discovery Networks Europe from Ascent Media. I was responsible for the digitization of video material and ingest and QC of materials for broadcast. Recording tape to file to the required specifications, verifying and supplementing existing meta data, and updating QC reports.

New York, Ny, Us

The Licensing coordinators role is to coordinate the contract signing for the licensing of music-related television materials, (i.e. video documentaries, or televised concerts), for sale world-wide. A thorough and patient personality is necessary for this position, as it involves multiple readings of several iterations of a contract, and then the ability to keep track of what has been sold to whom where, and for how long.

The Creative Coordinator is part of a three person department which commissions, and occasionally directs and produces video shoots and photo shoots for all of the acts signed to the UK arm of Mercury Records, as well as those of its subsidiaries: Vertigo, Def Jam, Fontana, and Pop Tones.

B.A., History (British)

Entertainment Distribution