Resume

Vanessa Davis

Adventurous, accomplished, creative, solutions-oriented project manager with extensive experience contributing materially in a fast-paced, high-stress environment. Leveraging nine years’ experience in production project management, coordination and scheduling.

Professional Experience

Technicolor Sound Services – Project Manager

March 2009 – Present

Manage post-production audio accounts that include Paramount, Universal, DreamWorks, Disney, HBO, Weinstein, Sony and Marvel.

Develops and implements workflow schedules and personnel assignments of up to 20 people in dynamic relationship to changing projects scope dictates to satisfy customer requirements.
Creates daily status reports to keep corporate managers and studio executives abreast of progress, quality control and cost accounting of a budget ranging up to $5 million annual.
Orchestrates the collaboration between production team, creative artists and account executives regarding planning, scheduling and logistics to complete projects on time and within budget.
Client liaison regarding all matters pertaining to production, coordination, intellectual property transfer, delivery of completed products, job pricing, and invoicing for services.
Final authority to oversee product completion and delivery to 3^rd party vendors and clients.

Jetty – MBA Consultant

Marcy 2016 – May 2016

Created a go-market strategy for expansion to the United States from Sweden.

Built up the current business model and identified additional new revenue streams.
Created workflows for using the product in the newly identified revenue streams.
Researched and created Jetty’s potential target, U.S. Market.
Customer mapping for potential future Jetty products.
Identified customer personas and created branding, marketing, and social media strategies to appeal to each of these personas.
Identified and created a strategy to address Jetty’s customer voice and relationship.

Tripchamp – Director of Media Intern

April 2015 – June 2016

Assisted the CPO with daily product tasks as well as assisted the UI/UX, Supplier and development team as needed.

Helped to create workflows and dashboards for different aspects of production.
Researched, tested and created product reports.
Created media to be used in FAQs, Social Media campains and promotional materials.

Technicolor Sound Services – Coordinator

April 2007 – March 2009

Scheduled audio creation team members and produced invoices for billable services.

Coordinated all elements for concurrent projects with varying scope and timelines.
Worked with a specialized group of team members to complete orders on time and within budget.
Created project status reports for senior management.

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – Intern

Summer 2006

Emmy Scholarship winner and assigned to Technicolor Sound Services.

Education

St. Edwards University – MBA, Digital Media Management

August 2014 – May 2016
Digital Media Management M.B.A. Candidate.
MBA Student Association member.

Chapman University – BA, Film Studies

August 2004 – Dec 2006
Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies with an emphasis in sound editorial and sound mixing.
Chapman Women in Film Member.

Skills & Software

Advanced Planning
Scheduling
Leadership Management
Decision Making
ProTools (advanced)
Surround Sound Mixing
AVID (working)
DTS & Dolby (encoder tools)
SharePoint
Photoshop (working)
Illustrator (working)
InDesign (working)
Adobe Acrobat
HTML (basic)
WordPress (basic)
Mac Proficient
Windows Proficient
Microsoft Office Suite
Google Docs

Memberships

MPEG – IATSE Local 700
Net Impact
Forté Foundation
Edwards MBA Student Association
Austin Film Society

Creative Work (selected)

“Veronica Mars: The Movie”, Foley Editor, January 2014
“Enter The Jungle”, re-recoding mixer, supervising sound mixer, July/Aug 2013
“The Etiquette Show” (selected episodes), ADR engineer and re-recording mixer, Sept/Aug 2013
“Barmy” , re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, July/Aug 2012
“Safety On Set”, sound designer, re-recording mixer, Aug/Sept/Oct 2006