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Employment
History:
SECRETARY III
Walt Disney Company – Enterprise
IT 820 S. Flower St. #104A
Burbank, CA 91502 (818) 238-4661 16 July 2007 – present
Supervisors:
Debra DelMar, Director, EAS Portfolio Mgmt.
Office & Supplier Mgmt. Current wage: $50k/yr
Fernando Avila, VP, IT
Initiatives
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Comprehensive support for VP, Director, plus team of 75 of their direct
reports and staff.
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Maintain executive
calendars: create meetings, coordinate scheduling with executives and their
assistants using Outlook, track invitation accept/decline responses, reschedule
in case of emergency.
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Procurement: Cater breakfast/lunch
meetings, order office supplies for department through eSource, stock kitchen,
track pending orders, establish new department accounts with vendors as
necessary, coordinate conference calls, coordinate video teleconferences
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Accounts payable: Maintain file of all
invoices paid, pay invoices in a timely manner through document upload in SAP,
do service entries on contractor invoices, liaise with new vendors & setup
new accounts
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Onboarding new
personnel: Create shopping cart for new contractor P.O. in SAP, arrange workspace
cubicle and phone installation, track creation of Personnel number / LAN login
info / Hub login info, meet & greet new hires, arrange security details /
building badge / parking badge, order computer hardware & software
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Travel: Make executive travel
arrangements, including booking flights/car rentals/lodging; do emergency
flight changes due to unexpected delays
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Expenses: Track all items in
cache of executive corporate Visa account, identify and categorize all
expenses; gather all business meal receipts and identify subjects of meetings
and names of all attendees; itemize hotel folios, airfare, cellular phone
bills; process and submit expense reports through SAP, maintain chronological
T&E history file
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Phone reception: Screen callers for
executives; track incoming messages; monitor voicemail.
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General office
administration: File documents in existing filing systems; design new filing systems
as necessary; package old files for archiving with Records Management;
create/design/maintain memos, spreadsheets, slide shows in Word/Excel/PowerPoint,
sort office mail.
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT
Aquent
Supervisor:
Natalie Sanderson. Last wage: $37,500/yr
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Full administrative assistant duties, serving Walt Disney Studios on a
temporary contractor basis.
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Maintain executive
calendars: created/adjusted meeting schedule in Outlook
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Phone reception: Screened callers;
tracked incoming messages; monitored voicemail; rolled calls.
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General office
administration: Maintained / adapted / created filing systems; sent old files to Records
Management
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Transcription: Transcribe phone
interviews using cassette transcriber; check all personal names/placenames
through internet research [note: I still
continue these duties as a Disney vendor]
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Publicity Coordinator: Assisted Buena Vista
Pictures Publicity with cast & crew screenings, press screenings, and movie
premieres; maintained RSVP voicemail boxes; tracked all RSVP data in database;
kept running tally of attendance numbers to house capacity cutoff point;
distributed RSVP list to all in department prior to screening; assisted in
setup / takedown / guest check-in / misc. problem-solving at screenings.
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Fan Mail: Created database of
fan mail recipients, with forwarding addresses (including agency addresses,
home addresses, or interdepartmental forwarding contacts as necessary); sorted
incoming mail; forward to proper destination.
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Buena Vista Pictures
Press Notes: Coordinated publishing of press kits for all Disney Feature Animation
product from 2002-2006; proofed various drafts of production notes as created
by publicist; solicited bios of filmmakers/actors, proofed and edited for
content as necessary; created bios for talent for whom bios did not exist;
tracked notes/revisions from other publicity executives; submitted final
proofed document to printer.
CLIENTS INCLUDED:
Howard
Green VP Studio
Communications,
Elaine
LaZelle Senior Publicist, Buena
Vista Pictures Marketing, 500 S. Buena Vista St. ROD #234, Burbank, CA 91521
818-560-1747 (Apr – July 2006)
Peter
Seymour Senior VP Media
Networks Strategy,
John
Sabel Senior VP Creative Print Services, 500 S.
Buena Vista St. ROD #326, Burbank, CA 91521 818-560-4708 (Aug – Sept 2004)
PRODUCER / ARCHIVIST
The Firesign Theatre Jan.
2005 – present (and ongoing)
(Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David
Ossman, Philip Proctor; multiple Grammy Award-nominated comedy recording
artists with Columbia Records, Rhino, Artemis and other labels, 1968-present;
Inductee, Library of Congress National Recording Registry, 2006 for Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers)
Last Wage: $36,000/yr, est. (freelance)
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Co-Producer, Box of Danger box set: Did research/coordination/production
for Box of Danger, four-disc box set with
five hours of live & studio performances, 1968-2008 (released on the Shout!
Factory label, Sept. 30 2008). Did exhaustive surveys of member’s archives,
other private archives, and internet tape traders to track down all known studio/live
performances relating to “Nick Danger” over past 40 years; graded each
performance for sound quality / performance quality; transferred open reel
elements to hard drive; restored sound elements in Adobe Audition; created
chronological rundown for four-disc box set; identified any sampled records
used as background music in performances; compiled comprehensive information
packet for delivery to Shout! Factory; negotiated with fans for honorariums;
wrote liner note copy; created pre-release publicity including soliciting &
arranging press interviews.
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Tour coordinator: Coordinated “Radio’s a
Heartbreak” tour (
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Archivist: Ongoing archivist
duties for the group. Created user-input form at Firesign’s home page at www.firesigntheatre.com where fans
could write in to describe rare Firesign artifacts in their own collections
to help complete Firesign’s library;
negotiate with fans for rights to recordings (ongoing); completed comprehensive
inventory of Firesign Theatre storage unit in North Hollywood;
identified/screened/logged 100 hours of videotapes; identified cans of 8mm film
not previously transferred to video; sourced local film-to-tape transfer
production house and supervised transfers; logged silent home movies of 1970
radio broadcasts and used context clues/mouth sync to identify corresponding
sound sources, then sync home movies with archived radio broadcasts.
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT
AppleOne 325 W. Broadway,
Supervisor:
Lori Mandel. Last wage: $37,500/yr
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Full administrative assistant duties, serving Walt Disney Studios on a
temporary contractor basis.
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT
The Right Connections
Supervisor:
Harriet Kay. Last wage: $29,120/yr
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Full administrative assistant duties, serving Walt Disney Studios, HBO,
Miramax, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, USA Networks, ICM, others on a temporary
contractor basis.
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION RESEARCHER
Triage Entertainment, Inc.
Supervisor: Kristi
Burns (Clearance Supervisor). Last wage:
$23,400/yr
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Researched video footage / still images for use in documentary
television programs.
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Performed internet research; queried stock footage libraries; found most
appropriate footage/stills through keyword searches; ordered footage screeners;
liaised between segment producers and clearance department; prepared license
forms for owners of stills/footage, submitted to licensees, delivered signed
forms to clearance department; performed frame count on Edit Decision Lists to
determine minutes/seconds of footage used for each licensee; prepared/assembled
show bibles.
CREDITED SHOWS:
Exploring
the Unknown (FOX Family Channel series, 1999, 30 min. per episode)
History’s
Mysteries—Getting High: A History of LSD (History Channel, 1999, 60 min.)
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
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Production assistant for documentary production company.
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Tape Vault Librarian: Organized tape
library of 2500 Beta SP / VHS / MiniDV tapes, including interviews, B-roll, and
stock footage; created system of library maintenance and check in/check out
system; logged incoming B-roll tapes; processed incoming stock footage
requests, made & shipped stock footage screeners
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Motion Control Session
Supervisor: Liaised with segment producers to determine what still images were
needed for shows; helped choose motion-control moves; supervised motion control
sessions at outside production house.
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Transcription Supervisor: Sourced/priced
transcription houses to transcribe show interviews; delivered tapes &
picked up finished jobs
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Script Supervisor: Proofed final show
scripts prior to submission for closed-captioning.
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Camera Operator: Shot additional
interviews/B-roll/inserts/pickups on MiniDV and Super 8 as needed.
CREDITED SHOWS: 23 original hours, including:
Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness (Nippon TV, 1999, 120
min.)
As It Happened—
Time Machine—Robots (History Channel,
1998, 120 min.)
In Search of History—Mercury 13: The Secret
Astronauts (History Channel, 1998, 60 min.)
Suicide Missions: Ball Turret Gunner / Combat Medic
/ Sniper / Wild Weasels (History Channel, 1998, 240 min.)
EDUCATION:
B.S. Visual Communication (incorporating radio/TV production), with Music
Minor:
OTHER INTERESTS: Writing
about animation (including article “Final Cut-Out: The Making of Twice Upon a Time” for Animation Blast magazine, July 2006). Freelance
writer for Animation World magazine,
2003-2007.
REFERENCES: Howard Green (Senior VP
Publicity, Disney), James Cross (independent producer), David Ossman (founding
member, Firesign Theatre). Contact information available on request.