Summary

Looking for long term position with a busy production company. I have experience in all aspects of production from soup to nuts.

Credits

1/19 – Current

Post Production Supervisor

Staff Position — Painless Television
1/19 – Current
5/13 – 1/19

Post Production Coordinator

Staff Position — Painless Television Details
5/13 – 1/19

Deliver in-house and network deliverables Check out, receive and maintain media and communicate with production team regarding delivery and media needs Acquire and track costs of archival media Oversee transcription work flow including corresponding and negotiating with vendors Create and upload production stills caption logs for network deliverables/promos

10/10 – 4/11

Associate Producer Vanished With Beth Holloway

Lifetime — TV — Jupiter Entertainment Details
10/10 – 4/11

Coordinated schedules, media work flow and materials for an Interview/recreation/archive driven show Worked closely with editors, writers & field producers acquiring materials and coordinating recreations Researched, acquired and cleared archive materials

2/09 – 11/09

Segment Producer Call 911 (Season 2)

Discovery — TV — Tom Jennings Productions Details
2/09 – 11/09

Set up and produced interview/b-roll shoots with local crews in multiple locations Researched 911 calls using Internet and Emergency Department contacts Worked with various emergency agencies and departments involved with 911 calls

9/08 – 10/08

Associate Producer Women Behind Bars (Season 2)

WE tv — TV — Burrud Productions Details
9/08 – 10/08

Scheduled interviews with prisons, district attorneys, detectives, reporters, family and friends of victims and inmates Nexis/Lexis searches for newspaper articles and people searches Requested court documents and police files Researched subjects for future episodes

5/08 – 9/08

Production Manager Explosions Gone Wrong

Discovery — TV — KAOS Entertainment Details
5/08 – 9/08

Researched and cleared all footage for 1-hour clip show Acquired master footage Scheduled interviews with experts, witnesses, and first response rescue workers Created schedules and travel itineraries for multiple location shoots Created all legal deliverable binders including clearance and 3rd party contracts

3/05 – 2/08

Production Manager

Staff Position — Vantage Point Productions
3/05 – 2/08
1/04 – 12/05

Associate Producer Warm Weather White Christmas

HGTV — TV — Vantage Point Productions
1/04 – 12/05

Recos

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Education

University of California, San Diego

BA, History