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Accomplished Head of Production and Creative Ops, passionate about the confluence of creativity, production process, organizational workflow management, and marketing operations. Innovative, collaborative, and outcomes-driven production executive, senior project leader, and content developer. Fluent across all production and project management areas -- spanning technical, creative, operations, finance, strategy, and execution. Equally adept at maximizing shoestring budgets and managing multi-million-dollar budgets for cross-functional initiatives. Respected and award-winning leader who excels at scaling production departments from the ground up and mobilizing multi-office, cross-disciplinary teams around a unified vision. Recognized for optimizing operations, delivering efficiencies, producing high-caliber, meaningful creative across multiple formats and channels, and increasing profitability. Seasoned negotiator with production business affairs background including Union productions.…
Experience
Executive Producer
Grubhub · Chicago, Illinois
Hired to develop internal project management and enhance production capabilities for the Marketing team. Report into VP Brand. OPERATIONS • Manage multi-million-dollar production budgets across marketing, menu photography and Agency of Record. • Built production team from the ground up, in-sourcing majority of below-the-line work and delivering 20% cost savings. • Spearheaded large-scale photography project, managing 6 shoots weekly and crew of 40+ production and ancillary staff. • Developed GH Production Guidelines to standardize and streamline production workflows; created COVID-19 Guidelines. • Recognized for exceptional individual performance and team leadership via prestigious 2018 Grubhub Silver Platter Award. • Manage production for new and innovative product offerings including the Ultimate Kiosk POS Product. CREATIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT • Create staffing plans for creative team, oversee creative allocations on projects, and manage freelance staff. • Mentor and manage an agile…
Svp Integrated Production
One of select few employees retained to upstart this provisional extension of Commonground, retaining many of its original clients but with significantly leaner team. Responsibilities and capabilities similar to those listed for Commonground, with additional ownership of account management / client communications. Reported into the CEO. Oversaw multi-million-dollar production budget. Managed lean team of 7, including production staff, editor, project manager, business affairs and legal staff. CLIENTS: MillerCoors, Monster, Bacardi, Bombay, PepsiCo, Nike, Primaloft
Sr. Vice President of Integrated Production
Commonground/MGS · Chicago, NYC, Miami, Los Angeles, and Houston
Hired as Director of Production for the multicultural agency and promoted into increasingly responsible roles, culminating in the SVP position. Led and managed the Production and Project Management departments. Reported into the CEO. Served as key advocate for Creative while ensuring all timing, legal, and financial deliverables outlined by Client needs and Agency resources. OPERATIONS • Established an in-house production studio (CG-Works) from the ground up, growing in-house revenues by 45%; studio produced Video & Audio, Live Action & Still, Editorial & Animation, Front End Dev & Experiential Production. • Oversaw multi-million-dollar production budget and managed department P&L while tracking against retainer and project-based Clients. INTEGRATED • Managed high-performing team of 37 responsible for integrated production, art buying, talent payroll and residual tracking, vendor sourcing / management, production budgeting / tracking, time estimating / tracking, and profit management.…
Senior Print Production Manager
Progressed quickly through roles of increasing responsibility at the full-service creative agency, starting as a Print Production Artist > Print Production Manager > Senior Print Production Manager. Held broad range of production management responsibilities. Managed multi-six-figure production budget and a team of 3 production staff. Reported into the VP of Production. • Developed and embedded agency-wide pre- and post-production process from the ground up; developed and trained Creative, Account, and Production teams on workflow, structure, processes, as well key systems (archive, finance). • Directed production of print, retouching, keylining, and art buying; oversaw timing, finance and vendor relationships. • Managed Talent and licensed assets usage tracking and renewals. CLIENTS: MillerCoors, Absolut, Diageo, Coca-Cola, Disney, P&G, and Mirage Hotel & Casinos
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