Meredith Arruda

Oversaw production companies in commissioned and acquired productions. Responsible for production management on original productions.

VP Marketing Manager: Line Producer, Head of Production Management August 2014 through January 2020 • Create, negotiate, and manage department budget of $3.5MM annually across offices in London, NY LA and San Francisco • Manage team of four production management direct report/full-time employees and eight full-time creative consultants across multiple office locations • Manage department schedule for field production, post-production, and animation, including daily assignments to production managers, producers, editors, assistant editors and animators, against high annual volume of projects • Maintenance, authorship of Controls procedure process for department • Key collaborator on internal firm audits • Organize and track all new project intake for both video and animation both video and animation departments (1000+ executed projects & 3000+ requests/yr) • Vendor management, on boarding and negotiations • Individual project management for both video and animation, featuring internal and external talent including A-list brand ambassadors; budget creation (from $0 to over $1MM), resourcing, project scheduling, logistics, and production accounting, with heavy client facing for highly iterative pieces requiring finishing and versioning for different TRTs ( lengths ), foreign language, ADA compliance and file conforms and delivery for broadcast, websites and social media • Frequent and in-depth client negotiation and management • Liaison between Marketing Organization and all LOBs in the Firm • Accounts payable invoice processing • Deep knowledge of releases and licensing for appearances, locations, and 3rd party materials including popular music from major recording artists • Key contributor in RFP and vetting process for video team ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) vendor of record. Deep knowledge of ADA video compliance needs and execution for banking, advertising and broadcast • Deep knowledge of different varieties/scales of production, events, offline post-production & final finishing and animation Small Sampling of direct management projects: Employees Around the World, JPMorgan (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF74MZ0yELA Detroit & JPMorgan (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAaI54soqg Love Your Melon, JPMorgan (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzRTUyuV7PE 100 Years Since WWI, JPMorgan (video, archival, motion graphics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF5NmNMKfb0 Anatomy of a HELOC (illustrated 2D animation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY-O7Bs3H50 Helpful Tips, Chase (UX animation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5o1f-kxV08

Managed field production and studio production for all Hearst magazine brands in digital production • Created budgets, tracked costs and actualized multiple short and long form projects simultaneously, managed department budget, quarterly reports, billing and reconciliation against company general ledger and payroll • Client facing internal brands and external sponsors

• Managed field production and studio production on assets for MSLO brands to digital and broadcast featuring A List Talent – long and short form projects simultaneously • Created budgets, tracked costs and actualized multiple short and long form projects simultaneously • Studio and location food production, how to’s and field shoots

Managed 6 simultaneous working edit rooms, AE’s, and junior editors, created post ingest and file naming convention workflow, created internal and network schedule for episodes and promos as well as oversaw deliverables for 6 hour long episodes of massive multicam/mixed format reality competition food show

• Managed field production and post-production of reformatted long-running PBS series (four 60-minute episodes) travel show with high volume of permitting and crew resourcing across U.S.

Rebuilding the World Trade Center 62 min & 39 min (Chanel4 UK, History and Theatrical Release) September 2012 through August 2013 Awards: BAFTA 2014 Television Craft Photography-Factual Royal Television Society Real Screen • Managed field production and post-production of hour-long documentary about World Trade Center site rebuild in multiple formats from supplementary shooting and six years of legacy footage and original filming (HDV, 5D time lapse, C300, 35mm, Super 16 mm) • Show budgeting • Project required the negotiation and coordination of many large scale government agencies and real estate entities Trailer https://vimeo.com/229939918

BAFTA Kids award (nominated) September 2012 through December 2012 • Managed field production in U.S. of international children’s series covering events qualifying for the Guinness Book of World Records; travel show with high volume of permitting and crew resourcing across the U.S. • Risk assessments for insurance and special permitting relating to extreme activities