Zoe Pressman Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Direct report for all Mailroom Clerks.
• Oversee all Mailroom Training through comprehensive hands-on sessions, preparing Mailroom Clerks to become proficient floaters and assistants. This includes conducting desk, phone, and scheduling drills, writing.
• Provide on-going support and re-training for Assistants and floaters, as needed.
• Act as the bridge between the Mailroom, HR, Operations, Accounting, and assistant desk opportunities.
• Standardize and continuously improve Mailroom processes, seeking innovate ways to optimize efficiency and provide leadership opportunities to Clerks.
• Work closely with HR Training, Operations, IT, Accounting, and the Partnership on miscellaneous long term projects. This includes compiling and managing policy guidelines for Verve's intranet site; training.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Design all decks and pitch packets in Adobe Photoshop, working directly with writers and creators to build compelling visual documents.
• Work one-on-one with writers to develop series pitches, such as an unannounced project by Kevin Murphy based on a Margaret Atwood novel in development at CBC.
• Act as liaison with guilds (Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of Canada).
• Create development budgets and schedules for all projects; assemble applications and deliverables for funding from such organizations as Canada Media Fund and Telefilm.
• Read and review all writer submissions, as well as track and discover new writing and directing talent.

• Executive Assistant to Noreen Halpern, CEO
• Overhauled system and grids to track project status, submissions, and ongoing negotiations, with a focus on facilitating internal communication.
• Managed office maintenance, supply orders, and executive travel for ongoing series, such as Another Life Season 2.
• Researched, read, and pitched new intellectual property with an attention to current creative needs.
• Coordinate and maintain relationships with rights holders to confirm status of available IP.

• Created and maintained organizational systems tracking the status of all television projects (such as Deadly Class for SyFy, upcoming Citadel project for Amazon), allowing the team to see a snapshot of upcoming.
• Managed administrative duties including expense processing, notetaking, and scheduling.
• Contributed to a task force that integrated a new database and communication system for the company.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assisted two television covering agents as well as one of the Partners in the television department.
• Created and led a new system to track all episodic director bookings, which directly led to over a hundred thousand dollars in recouped commission monies.
• Conducted detailed research on open projects to strategize packaging potential with Verve clients and gave written creative notes on client projects and pitches.
• Trained new employees on systems and procedures, such as company procedures and internal databases.
• Provided script coverage and pitched projects directly to agents and leadership on a weekly basis.

Los Angeles

• Continuously update and maintain client list on IMDb Pro, Variety Insight, Studio System, and OASIS
• Read and write coverage for client scripts and potential open director assignments
• Cover the front desk and float on assistants' desks

Los Angeles

• Created company database to track competitive cable and network show development
• Wrote coverage of pilots and novels in development, prep, and production
• Viewed and analyzed international formats as potential American remakes

Los Angeles

• Efficiently wrote extensive coverage of screenplays and novels for development consideration
• Created new coverage templates used company-wide to track submissions
• Took charge in updating and collating office bible, including financiers, distributors, and foreign sales agents
• Covered the front desk, rolled calls to various departments, and served as a temp assistant

Chicago, IL

• Assembled all deliverables for "The Believers" (2012) and liaised with Gravitas, distribution company, directly
• Managed internal team to research film fundraising platforms, which led to a partnership with Indiegogo for the upcoming documentary "We Believe In Dinosaurs"

Evanston, IL

• Head Computer Lab Monitor (Sep 2015 - June 2016)
• Led staff meetings and managed work schedules for a staff of five employeesComputer Lab Monitor (Sep 2014 - Sep 2015)
• Kept inventory and safeguarded over $75,000 worth of equipment
• Troubleshot computer issues and trained students in film editing software (AVID, Premiere, ProTools, etc)

Evanston, IL

• Served as mentor and advisor for program’s 79 high school student participants
• Constructed curriculum and taught two master classes: Editing Genre and AVID Editing Basics
• Led group of 6 students in writing and producing a 3 episode web series in a Web Series Elective Course