Work history
Associate Producer
tags:
editing
• producing
• new media
• creating
• writing
• developing
How would you describe your time at A&E TELEVISION NETWORKS (AETN)?
As an Associate Producer for A&E's new music and film show Private Sessions, I have been able to learn about every aspect of television production and grow as a writer, story teller, format editor and online marketing guru. Private Sessions has allowed me to be creative and has given me many opportunities to work with different departments and people from different stages in their professional career. Tasks include overseeing editing and formatting each week to assure quality programming and timely delivery, producing a weekly roll-in segment in which friends/colleagues of A-List guests ask a surprise question, conceptualizing the design of and writing a weekly newsletter and trivia quiz for our website, supervising a grassroots marketing team and handling promoting our program on video/fan websites and blogs and acting as a liaison between our Public Relations and Interactive departments for all promotional efforts.... 
Associate Producer
tags:
reliability
• production
• selecting
• editing
• creating
• responability
How would you describe your time at A&E TELEVISION NETWORKS (AETN)?
In June 2007, I was asked to contribute to a Criss Angel Mind Freak Live event in Times Square to promote his season premiere - it was an unforgettable experience! I supported the producers will all pre-production tasks including cutting down episodes and creating packages to broadcast live on the internet as well as on our jumbo screen at the event and creating a 26 hour minute-by-minute rundown of the jumbo screen content and being responsible to revise it on site. In addition to episode content, we had promos, ads and special guest appearances that were broadcast on the jumbo screen and the timing of when each piece of footage aired was imperative. During 3 hours of the live event, the footage I was selecting for the jumbo screen was fed live to the NASDAQ and Reuters screens in Times Square. My dedication and committment to this event led to a company wide acknowledgement called a ???High Five???....
Production Assistant
tags:
scouting locations
• collaborating with colleagues
• scheduling interviews
How would you describe your time at The Fine Living Network?
As a Production Assistant for the Toronto-based show "The Shopping Bags", I selected New York City landmarks and prepared all logistics and scheduling involved in shooting host wraps and interviews at each location, recruited Wall Street Executives to test various men???s shoes and discuss their qualities on camera and addressed high profile chefs and scheduled interviews/demonstrations testing a pasta making product....
Associate Producer
tags:
acquire materials
• rights and clearances
• edit
• writing & communication
• produce
How would you describe your time at A&E TELEVISION NETWORKS (AETN)?
I climbed up the ladder at A&E Television and made it to Associate Producer after interning for a Sunday morning arts program called Breakfast with the Arts. I pitched, booked and produced segments on Japanese Pop-Star Hiromitsu Agatsuma, NY Times best-selling Author Frank McCourt, Goya???s Last Works Exhibition at The Frick Collection, Arthur author/illustrator Marc Brown, Composer Danny Elfman and Singer/Actress Donna McKechnie. I also was responsible for writing and acquiring footage and images for our weekly ???Monitoring the Arts??? segment and facilitating communication between crew and production management during live-to-tape studio and remote shoots....
Production Assistant
tags:
on location education
• permits
• collaborating with publicists
• contributing ideas
• supporting a team
How would you describe your time at A&E TELEVISION NETWORKS (AETN)?
As a Production Assistant on A&E's weekly arts program Breakfast with the Arts, I handled rights bibles, assisting on shoots, supporting the producers with research, transcribing and contributing my ideas and suggestions during on-line format sessions. Working on site at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival taught me about shooting on the go, what goes into interviewing celebrity talent, location permits and insurance restrictions and managing budgets....
RAI
June 2004 to August 2004
News Intern
tags:
translate
• acquire
• research
• shoot/edit news
• communicate
How would you describe your time at RAI?
My bilingual skills allowed me to participate as a News Intern at RAI Corporation which handles American news packages for their networks in Italy. I shot man on the street interviews and added subtitles to the footage using Avid DV 3.5, researched b-roll footage and selected pertinent shots for coverage of the Republican National Convention....
Education
Television/Video Production
How would you describe your time at Hofstra University?
Double Minored in Italian and Philosophy, was on the Dean's List every semester
