Denesha Williams

• Oversees the production of animated, educational videos used as a supplemental learning tool for children in grades K-8 • Effectively improved the current creative production pipeline by adding deadlines from pitch to publication, creating a production calendar, and standardizing document formatting to reduce confusion • Responsible for distributing assignments to animators and monitoring their progress to help the Editorial team anticipate when a new script will need to be ready for animation • Work as a liaison between the Creative team and other departments, including Product and Marketing, informing them when a new video is ready for publication • Help improve the relationship between the Editorial and the Learning Design teams by establishing a better process with distinctive checkpoints as points for communication • Monitored Learning Design team’s features (aka Learning Activities) production pipeline to make sure it coincides with Creative team’s production pipeline • Work as a point of contact between various contractors (voice actors, advisors, transcribers, animators) and BrainPOP’s finance and legal teams. Additionally, processed their invoices • Updating the team’s project management system, Monday.com, by improving automations, creating and organizing boards

• Completing script and storyboard breakdowns for characters, props and background designs. Distribute those assets to the design team in a timely manner • Assigning files to freelance designers and storyboard artists and monitoring their progress, especially for musical sequences and 2-minute shorts • Coordinating the preparation of pre-production materials for shipping; completing lead sheets, shipping logs and organizing and labeling files • Confirming shipments to our overseas animation studio, Titmouse Canada and state-side studio, Exit 73. Responding to any lingering questions they may have • Setting up design and storyboard files, logging start/completion dates of production progress, ensuring departmental productivity goals and deadlines are consistently met • Tracking the progress of assigned episodes and shorts using FileMaker and Google Docs while flagging potential problems and delays for the Production Manager and the Line Producer • Coordinate weekly internal check-in meetings between animation, storyboard and design departments • Ensures production pipeline procedures are followed, and workflow is as seamless as possible from one department to the next • Assist with the on-boarding of new artists • Assist in the interview process for potential production positions and provide training to those new hires

• Coordinate and assemble episodes to be physically shipped to animation studio Digital eMation, Inc. in Korea. Followed up by scheduling monthly video conferences with the studio and each episode’s Director • Upload and organize assets (audio, meeting notes, storyboard pro files, etc.) to our production server daily. Also constantly cleared any unnecessary assets to add server space • Upload all episode assets to FTP for Digital eMation, Inc. • Manage the placement of artists during the season as well as rolling them off at the end of the season with the help of Production Manager • Notify supervising directors and writers when storyboards need review • Coordinate storyboard launches and animatic lock meetings with writers, directors, artists and production teams • Report any missing new lines during the animatic locking process • Liaise with design and timing departments on when an episode will be locked and conform storyboards into PDFs for them • Track the status of episodes using Excel and provide progress reports to Producers twice a week

Assisted with the production for the 25th season of The Amazing Race

• Assist reporters with filming and interviews for live shoots • Research pitches and enter them into ENPS to help journalists prepare their story packages • Screen phone calls for editors • Maintain social media sites