Melissa Queen (Patson)

Scout locations, cast extras, hire crew, create and distribute production schedule, settle petty cash, shop for props and wardrobe

Sky Caddie grips commercial, featuring Natalie Gulbis.

Book crew, settle petty cash, create and distribute production schedule, scout for locations, permits

Scout and secure locations, cast extras, hire crew, create and distribute production schedule, settle petty cash, shop for props and wardrobe

Recruited and coordinated studio audience (300) - 5 tapings a day utilizing both theme park guests and outside reservations. Managed audience pages during tapings.

Manage on and offsite productions for all branches of the Creative Services department including all logistics, scheduling, budgets, and crews. Manage crew scheduling, air travel, rental cars, hotel accommodations and other details for locations. Maintain master above-the-line spreadsheet of project budgets, including preparing estimates, overseeing budgets throughout production process, and actualizing all final costs. Prepare, code, and process invoices, P.O.s and expense reports. Book crews and vendor equipment, including negotiating rates and securing location sites. Serve as main contact/liaison for all information related to production planning and execution. Manage all crew and crew tasks on shoots. Arrange shipping and courier services when needed. Maintain paperwork on all department freelancers. Process equipment requests, order supplies, and mantain premiums inventory. Music licensing management - acquisition of popular music licensing and maintaining in house music library. Casting.

GOLF CHANNEL. B-roll shoot featuring the courses of the Open. Scotland, England, Wales. I managed all logistics, scheduling, budgets, and crews. Managed crew scheduling, air travel, rental cars, hotel accommodations and other details for locations. Maintained master above-the-line spreadsheet of project budgets, including preparing estimates, overseeing budgets throughout production process, and actualizing all final costs. Prepared, coded, and processed invoices, P.O.s and expense reports. Booked crews and vendor equipment, including negotiating rates and securing location sites. Served as main contact/liaison for all information related to production planning and execution. Managed all crew and crew tasks on shoots. Arranged shipping and courier services when needed. Maintained paperwork on all freelancers.

Ireland research. I managed all logistics, scheduling, budgets, and crews. Managed crew scheduling, air travel, rental cars, hotel accommodations and other details for locations. Maintained master above-the-line spreadsheet of project budgets, including preparing estimates, overseeing budgets throughout production process, and actualizing all final costs. Prepared, coded, and processed invoices, P.O.s and expense reports. Booked crews and vendor equipment, including negotiating rates and securing location sites. Served as main contact/liaison for all information related to production planning and execution. Managed all crew and crew tasks on shoots. Arranged shipping and courier services when needed. Maintained paperwork on all freelancers.

Create budget, hire crew, location scout, cast extras, production schedule - all steps from concept to delivery.

Scout and secure locations, cast extras, hire crew, create and distribute production schedule, settle petty cash, shop for props and wardrobe

Create budget, crew travel, hire crew and negotiate rates, process invoices, production schedule - manage all steps from concept to delivery.

Create Budget, process invoices, hire crew, location scout, production schedule, cast extras - all steps from concept to wrap.

Create budget, hire crew, location scout, negotiate rates, cast principal and background extras, invoices, all steps from concept to wrap.

Location Scout, Extras Casting, Hire Crew, Negotiate Rates, Create Budget, Production Schedule

Crew Catering, Executive Travel, Local Travel,Supervise Load-In/Load-Out, Breakout room coordinator, general support

Promo for FedEx Cup, featuring Emmit Smith. Production location: Lake Tahoe

Crew Catering, Executive Travel, Local Travel,Supervise Load-In/Load-Out, Breakout room coordinator

Crew Catering, Executive Travel, Local Travel,Supervise Load-In/Load-Out, Breakout room coordinator, general support

Joe Torre featured in promo for 2008 FedEx Cup. Location: Phoenix, AZ

Audience Coordinator for various events taped at Universal Studios, Florida. WCW: Saturday Night AND WCW: Worldwide.

Network special - game show/reality competition. Casting "real" kids ages 11-14.

Cast 1000 volunteer extras to appear in the half-time show, as audience, for Bon Jovi.

5 Seasons. Audience Coordinator for annual Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade Specials. Coordinated (10,000) volunteers to stand along parade route over the course of a 3 day taping.

Street casting for NFL Network print campaign - "real fans".

Morgan Spurlock, produced. Drove across country interviewing experts and conducting spontaneous MOS interviews. Topic: Commercialism and Christmas

Audience Coordinator during specials, shot at Walt Disney World, Florida.

Scout "real men" for Oxygen series

Set-Up Interactive Breakout Room with interactive keypads and supporting tech/software. Act as technical trouble shooter during interactive sessions. Hire crew. Produce and distribute production schedule.

Florida

Contestant Producer (Department Head)

Florida

Set-Up Interactive Breakout Room with interactive keypads and supporting tech/software. Act as technical trouble shooter during interactive sessions.

Set-Up Interactive Breakout Room with interactive keypads and supporting tech/software. Act as technical trouble shooter during interactive sessions.

Contestant Producer (Department Head) - Cast (50) college competitors

LIVE Broadcast Television

Audience Coordinator/Volunteer Extra coordinator. (100) Kids ages 14-17,

Contestant Producer (Department Head)

Advertise/Market to targeted demographic, in effort to gain audience members. Manage all aspects of ticketing process and operations day of show.

Advertise/Market to targeted demographic, in effort to gain audience members. Manage all aspects of ticketing process and operations day of show.

Supervise Load-In/Break down of gameshow style booth - multiple locations. Stage Manager during live show for convention

Contestant Producer (Department Head)

Audience Coordinator for traveling, weekly talk show. (200) audience members, ages 18+

Various performances by: Shaggy, BBMak, Mark McGrath

(500) audience members, ages 13-18.

Assist Casting Director in all of their duties required for Casting, principals and extras. Research how people looked during the 1930s/1949s era, to be able to do era appropriate casting. Write and submit casting notices. Organize casting sessions. Travel with Casting Director, for casting purposes.

1000 audience members, for concert for television. Ages 13-18.

Provided audience and featured audience for various performances by: Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Destiny's Child

Audience Coordinator

Audience and Featured Audience Casting for multiple performances by: N'Sync, 98 Degrees, Tyrese, Brittney Spears

State Lottery game show

Associate Producer for LIVE M-F, 1 hour, medical talk show.

(1000) Audience Members for LIVE network special. Ages 18 and up.

Audience size (300) Partner with local schools and community groups (ages 13-17). Hire/manage all audience staff. Grass roots marketing/cyber marketing/print/radio.

MY FIRST TV GIG :-) Assisted Audience Coordinator by: making audience reservations, coordinating school field trips, street recruiting, offering aid to studio audience during taping, clap and laughing cues, load/unload