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Entering my 7th year in the Television Industry.

Started in Post Production as a production coordinator, working with various Advertising Agencies and Commercial Directors on television campaigns for Unilever, SAB, Nando's, BMW, Toyota, First for Women, KFC, to name but a few. Skills attained here:

1. Quoting & Scheduling Jobs, this includes analyzing briefs
2. Creating Job Bags for various projects
3. Overseeing Post Production process
4. Client Liaising
5. Budget Control
6. Cost Reports
7. Issuing of PO's and Invoices
8. Office Administration

Moved on to become a Production Manager for Urban Brew Studios where I'm currently still employed. Worked on establishing a TV channel for Southern Sudan called SSTV where I assisted in training people in all aspects of TV making from writing scripts, to producing inserts, basic camera work, presenting & voice overs. Also worked on various shows mainly for SABC, ETV & KykNet.

Other roles and responsibilities I've fulfilled at UBS:
1. Operations & Logistics Planner (but also acted as Client Liaison): assisted in establishing a bigger external client base for the studios and post production facilities. Most of these jobs I project managed myself. This included jobs for MK Channel, Outsurance, SAB, DraftFCB and Javelin Productions who produces Nedbank's It's My Biz on ETV.
2. Production Controller: Assisting in the control of internal productions that UBS produces for SABC, DSTV & ETV. These duties include:
1. Overseeing & Monitoring production schedules, plans and budgets
2. Analyzing staffing requirements needed for various productions
3. Cost Breakdowns including internal cost reports like staff, overheads and internal facilities costs.
4. Compiling reports on various problems and assisting senior management with solutions.

Specialties: Crisis management, Project / Scope planning, Budgeting & Reporting, scheduling & organizing, post production supervision, line producing.
Experience
TV Producer / Project Manager / Client Liaison
Urban Brew Studios
July 2008 - Present (5 years 7 months)Randburg, Johannesburg
- In depth experience in all elements of creating content for TV in various formats from Game shows to Short Formats, Documentaries, TV Commercials, to name but a few.

- New Business Development & Corporate Strategy Planning for Departmental Development

- Excellent interpersonal skills and building sustainable client relationships.

- Determining & Allocating resources to different projects as needed within the given budget

- Organized with a professional approach to deliver work of the highest standard

- Go-getter & self starter and believer of self-growth

- Work well under pressure and have the ability to work towards tough deadlines

- Receiving briefs from clients, cost management, briefing resources and scheduling of various projects (sometimes running simultaneously, overseeing the project and making sure that delivery of final product happens.

- Procurement management

- Working in a close team, liaising with each other and constantly checking that the project meets deadline.

- Financial Reporting during and after Projects.

- Managing of a project team in order to deliver what the client wanted.

- New Business Development and aligning company strategy within the department.

-Project & Traffic Management via Chase (first time being used within a TV Production company)