Ashima Arora

Dreamworks Dedicated Unit, Bangalore (2012 – 2016) Production Coordinator - Successfully completed productions with budgets between $6-$80 million covering the whole production pipeline of DWA, producing animated movies. - Supervised numerous departments and scheduled workflows for 50+ artists in terms of manpower, machines, software requirement and other support functions. - Worked closely with the Creative Heads and Senior Management of the movies. Managed cross-schedule with cross-location Supervisor and set deadlines across all departments. - Managed time delivery by setting people with tasks to aid the development of productions resulting in the turnaround time of work being reduced by 20%. - Tracked all shot assignments and assets; contributed to scheduling strategy; documented client approval process. - Coordinated the daily activity of artists at various stages of pipeline making sure they were inline with the ashimatarora@gmail.com 602-545-7045 43847 W Cahill Dr Maricopa AZ - 85138 schedule and communicated changes in priorities. - Coordinated across various departments in the pipeline to ensure smooth flow. - Communicated and contributed to scheduling strategy; took notes during meetings; prioritized processing of all deliveries. - Documented decisions and requests, and ensuring items are tracked and managed appropriately. - Oversaw and prioritized Production Assistant’s responsibilities, mainly maintenance of database integrity and set-up dailies reviews. - Provide training program for new employees.

- Collaborated with department heads to develop schedules, logs and status reports to track the budget for Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kuala Lumpur locations. - Monitored and oversaw project deployment through to successful completion. - Coordinated with project coordinators for technical support requirements for smooth project deliveries. - Supervised new staffs by conducting training sessions, improving the quality of work the artists produced and made sure they follow the studio standards. - Managed in-house computer networks, data communication and telecommunications resulting in all computerbased work kept running smoothly.

- Sourced and allocated hardware and personnel for productions to ensure departments were equipped and staffed. - Created financial presentations and reports to keep finances accounted for and accurate. - Scheduled deadlines for productions and generated man-days report so projects ran on time and staff hours were correctly allocated. - Hired and interviewed candidates for department and corporate positions ensuring the best candidate were hired. - Took all the minutes of the meeting, documented and kept the wiki page up-to date. - Schedule activities to build team bonding.