Susan Adams
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SUMMARY:
Award winning, creative producer with 15+ years of experience managing complex production projects for film, tv, events, social, and the entertainment industries. Supporting multiple departments in researching, creating, writing, managing, and delivering high profile, content that creates buzz with players and social media. Excellent project manager, highly organized and able to prioritize and focus on the smallest detail while keeping deadlines, scope, and the big picture in sight. Ability to calmly pivot and anticipate roadblocks, problem solve and manage expectations for everyone involved. I am exceedingly optimistic, resourceful, collaborative, have a sharp eye for detail and a passion for learning and growing.
EXPERIENCE
Mocean Los Angeles, CA
Senior Producer / Contract January 2022 – April 2023
Created video and social content, marketing materials, budgets, schedules, production, 3D content, animation, motion graphics, and postproduction. Sourced, vet, and manage external vendors for assigned projects.
Clients include Netflix, Amazon, CNN, Facebook, Riot, Bungie, The Pokémon Co, 2K Games, Niantic, and Electronic Arts
Ayzenberg Pasadena, CA
Senior Producer / Contract Jul 2021 – January 2022
Supporting marketing teams with creative, budgets, schedules, production, capture, 3D, animation, motion graphics, and postproduction.
Sourced, vetted, and managed external vendors for assigned projects.
Clients included: Amazon, Netflix, Walmart, Microsoft, Xbox, Psyonix, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, Pokémon Co., NetEase, and Sega.
Blizzard Entertainment Irvine, CA
Creative Producer June 2014 – June 2021
Event production for Blizzard Entertainment. Produced and project managed internal and external events including corporate functions, special occasions, and big shows. Created and delivered innovative concepts and marketing strategies; produced and delivered a wide variety of digital, print, live and post-produced content throughout the year.
Created and produced, narrative, unscripted, and scripted content for all six Blizzard games, Corp comms, HR, consumer products. Developed and researched best in class content for social channels, consumer products, esports, documentaries, web series, or expansion activation and community content.
●An internal liaison, engaging with stakeholders to identify project scope, challenges, objectives and generate innovative and creative solutions to roadblocks, creative changes, or scheduling conflicts.
●Communicate and manage multiple creatives through the life of a project, including accurately managing and scheduling the post, legal, clearances, editorial, resizing, versioning, localization, and deliverables.
●Lead and manage cross-departmental kickoff meetings, establish next-steps, action items, deadlines, and video reviews with internal departments, game teams and leadership.
●Research creative projects, track content performance and work with stakeholders to optimize ROI.
●Developed a clear vision for each project; established workflows and budgets and effectively collaborated with editors, game capture directors, and animators through discovery, development, production, and postproduction.
●Led pitch meetings with confidence and clarity to achieve buy-in internally and externally for creative projects in development.
●Sourced, bid, set up and supervised a roster of best-in-class external agencies, vendors, and freelance partners.
MOJO Creative Los Angeles, CA
Creative Director June 2007 – April 2014
Led a cross-functional creative team delivering award-winning content for Hollywood’s premier agency producing high-end promotional content across motion picture, television, print, social, and streaming platforms. Key clients included Warner Brothers and the Harry Potter franchise, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Miramax, Blizzard Entertainment, EA Games, and Ubisoft.
Managed end-to-end production and delivered outstanding content in multiple digital and print formats, including commercials, on-air promos, BTS reels, serials, trailers, and sizzle reels.
Led successful business development initiatives; developed and delivered compelling pitches to win new commitments and expand existing scopes of work.
Efficiently led localization workflows and rollouts for global campaigns.
Consistently delivered and drove innovation and excellence from team members and external vendors in copywriting, editing, sound design, graphics, and post.
Developed and managed extensive budgets and spend, carefully managing P&L and keeping projects on-time and on-budget.
Education
San Francisco State, San Francisco, CA / Broadcast Communications
Tools and Awards
Photoshop, Illustrator, Google Suite, Final Cut, Pro Tools, Mac iOS, Slack, Wrike, Microsoft Teams, Asana, Slack and SharePoint
Over 30 Industry Awards: Including Promax, Key Art, Golden Trailer and a Webby.