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TRAFFIC DIRECTOR
Summary

Traffic Director with 15+ years of Creative Agency, TV and Radio experience. Expert in supervising teams while handling numerous client accounts and maintaining professionalism and efficiency in stressful situations. Proven history of increasing savings and productivity.

Self-motivated professional offering many years of Trafficking experience. Effective at controlling delivery of all on-air materials. Proficient in operational enhancements, quality improvements and team leadership based on TV Logs strategies. Cross-functional collaborator well-versed in developing successful teams and motivating employees to meet individual and team objectives.

Skills
  • Supervision
  • MS Office
  • Planning and coordination
  • Organization
  • Problem resolution
  • Operational improvement
  • Relationship development
  • Communications
  • Coaching and mentorship
  • Data gathering
  • Production updates
  • Order processing
  • Strong lead development skills
  • Policy implementation
  • Schedule coordination
  • Invoice generation
  • File Maker Pro
  • Mac and PC proficient
  • Data Tech
  • Excel
  • Outlook
  • Gabriel Traffic System
  • Enterprise
  • Entourage
  • Donovan
  • VCI/Orion/Wide Orbit
  • Sims
  • Grip-It
  • Audi Traffic Manager-In house traffic system
Experience
06/2012 - CurrentTraffic DirectorVenables Bell & Partners | San Francisco, CA
  • Clients: Audi, 3M, Blue Moon, Marriott/Westin, Celebrity Cruise, Reeboks, PSVue, Playstation Store, Trulia and Leinenkugel.
  • Remained composed, polished and highly effective at all times, even during moments of extreme stress, to achieve optimal results.
  • Adhered to strict budgets, controlling costs during all phases of production to meet financial and scheduling demands.
  • Improved profit margins by streamlining operations and workflow and negotiating competitive vendor contracts.
  • Demonstrated self-reliance by meeting and exceeding workflow needs.·
  • Responsible for trafficking all commercial copy and billboard materials to the major networks, national cable, spot television, spot radio, and syndication

· Establish and issue creative shipping deadlines at the start of each campaign

· Supervise staff of 4

· Code invoices to the appropriate accounts

· Assist vendors with reconciliation of our open payables to their open receivables

· Assign ISCI Code for all spots

· Review over 350 spots at the start of each campaign

· Interact daily with the Business Affairs & Account Management team regarding network scheduling and revising creative rotations

· Handle broadcast clearance of rough cuts & final spots to air on broadcast networks

· Work closely with the producers, creative team, media buyers and sales staff

· Interpreting lease sheets from Audi Field and Retail team to make Offer Cards

· Work with project management and retail team to schedule tagging and traffic for Audi

· Facilitate Offer Card creation in Studio, managing rotation charts from Field Team to create

Commercials in Traffic System and oversee tagging of commercials with offer cards and dealer tags

· Create and generate reports for all new spots

· Maintained budget of $650,000 for dubbing & shipping for each quarter

07/2009 - 09/2011Senior Creative/Programming CoordinatorOvation TV | Los Angeles, CA
  • Proposed and developed new programming ideas and special features to drive audience engagement.
  • Created comprehensive progress reports on all programs to show progress.
  • Kept programming on tight schedules, maintaining optimal quality standards to keep audiences informed or entertained.
  • Verified accuracy of programming logs and conformance with FCC rules and regulations.
  • Planned and conducted staff meetings to brainstorm new ideas and deliver program and milestone updates.
  • Collaborated with various parties involved in program to evaluate successes and failures as well as develop new partnerships and make proactive changes.
  • Responsible for creating and ingesting all formats for original and acquired content
  • Ensure all switcher commands are placed on formats and logs
  • Create orders into traffic system for promos and interstitials
  • Assign copies to all promos, interstitials, and billboard orders
  • QC and schedule all on air promos, snipes, squeeze-back, interstitial and net id's to logs
  • Handled all clearance of scripts, rough cuts & final spots for on air
  • Cast formats to program titles in traffic system
  • Create and distribute lower thirds clearance
  • Create and distribute squeeze-back and snipe documents
  • Work closely with the NY ad-sales office to resolve any discrepancies
08/2002 - 07/2008Traffic DirectorChiat Day | Los Angeles, CA

Clients: Nissan & Infiniti National, Shell Chemical, Adidas, Play Station, FOX Sports, Focus Features.

· Responsible for trafficking all commercial copy and billboard materials to the major networks, national cable, spot television, spot radio, and syndication

· Handled broadcast clearance of rough cuts & final spots to air on broadcast networks

· Established and issued creative shipping deadlines at the start of each campaign

· Supervised staff of five

· Assigned ISCI Codes to promos & spots

· Coded invoices to the appropriate accounts

· Worked closely with team members to deliver project requirements, develop solutions and meet deadlines.

· Interacted daily with the Business Affairs & Account Management team regarding network scheduling and revising creative rotations

· Worked closely with the New York and Los Angeles media buyers in resolving discrepancies

· Maintained invoices for all traffic and talent residual spending during each broadcast quarter

· Maintained budget of $250,000 for dubbing & shipping for each quarter

· Worked closely with the producers & creative team

· Assisted vendors with reconciliation of our open payables to their receivables

Education
05/1998Associate of Science: Business Administration And Management
Borough of Manhattan Community College of The City University of New York | New York, NY
06/1991Accounting And Business Management
Montego Bay Community College | Jamaica West Indies
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Venables Bell & Partners
  • Ovation TV
  • Chiat Day

School Attended

  • Borough of Manhattan Community College of The City University of New York
  • Montego Bay Community College

Job Titles Held:

  • Traffic Director
  • Senior Creative/Programming Coordinator

Degrees

  • 05/1998 Associate of Science : Business Administration And Management
    06/1991 Accounting And Business Management

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