Dale Becker

Experience

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  Freelance Film Production

  Oct 1997 - Sept 1999

  Assistant Production Coordinator

  * Project Management: Facilitated and accommodated the needs of more than 20 departments and set-up production offices, including phone systems, furniture, and office equipment.* Project Coordination: Created and maintained extensive production files. Managed all hotel accommodations for cast and crew members on location.* Scheduling Management: Typed and distributed memos, cast and crew lists, travel movements, production reports, calendars, schedules, and daily call sheets.Film and TV Projects: "Deuce Bigalow" - Disney, "Inspector Gadget" Reshoots - Disney, "Beyond Belief" - Fox TV and Dick Clark Productions, "Out Of Sight" Reshoots - Universal, "The Horse Whisperer" Reshoots - Disney, and "Out Of Sight" - Universal. Show less

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  20th Century Studios

  Jan 2000 - Oct 2004

  Coordinator, Theatrical Legal Affairs Administration

  • Legal Compliance: Coordinated legal clearance approval of domestic and international marketing, publicity, stills, promotions, sweepstakes, and websites for all theatrical film releases.• Script Clearance: Coordinated script clearance memos and reports for in-house productions.• Executive Support: Assisted the Senior Vice President with the management of five departments and nineteen employees including schedules, phones, and daily calendar.

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  Forrest Solutions Group

  Jan 2005 - May 2006

  Administrative Assistant

  FSS is the oldest and most successful enterprise-wide talent solutions company in New York; Providing talent & staffing solutions in the areas of Accounting & Finance, Administrative & Office, Counsel & Legal, Information Technology, and Sales & Marketing. More information can be found at FSS-Staffing.com• Administrative Support: Assisted fast-paced administrative environments with clerical support, research projects and database management. Major clients included TV Guide Channel and Scott-Macon, Ltd. Investments. Result: Provided exceptional support to managers and co-workers, which increased overall efficiency and productivity. Show less

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  20th Century Studios

  Sept 2006 - Jul 2017

  Manager, Theatrical Legal Affairs Administration

  • Film Credit Project Management: Prepare theatrical screen credits and paid advertising statements for multiple in-house productions. Result: Successfully managed dozens screen credit projects from ideation through production and into distribution. • Marketing Compliance: Review print advertising, trailers, TV spots, and internet materials for legal and guild approvals. Result: Directly influencing marketing projects can move towards production without legal, scheduling, or compliance issues. • Compliance Management: Survey and approve screen credits and paid advertising statements for acquisition pictures. Result: Ensured legal/copyright compliance that has reduced the risk of potential lawsuits and fines during employment. • Legal Compliance: Manage legal clearance approval of MPAA film titles, domestic and international advertising, marketing, publicity, stills, promotions, sweepstakes, and websites for all theatrical film releases. Result: Implemented effective legal compliance that lowered the risk of potential lawsuits and fines during employment. • Research: Research industry screen credit standards and precedents to support future negotiations. Result: Helped identify deficiencies in pending agreements prior to final resolution. Focused on reducing risk to employer. • Database Management (Labor Savings): Spearheaded continual upgrades and enhancements to title management database system. Result: Drastically reduced time to clear title registrations. • Project Management: Draft and distribute MPAA title reports, screen credits, memos and correspondence for projects. Maintain and organize extensive volumes of title and screen credit files. Result: Improved data retention and organization to decrease time spent with distribution of information. Show less

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  University of Washington

  Apr 2018 - Mar 2024

  * Analysis and Issuance: Receiving and analyzing individual requests for new UW outgoing subaward agreements and modifications. Responsible for analyzing the requests to ensure all necessary compliance requirements are met, appropriate risk assessment is performed, and associated documentation is evaluated, completed and that prime sponsor terms and conditions are included.*Negotiation and Execution: Negotiate with Subrecipient entities on the terms and conditions, as required.*Tracking and Communication: Record all pertinent information into appropriate databases and electronic systems. Assist in triaging and responding to communications received via the Department email inbox.*Process Improvement: Participate in process improvement activities such as development of subaward templates, workflow processes, resources for campus outreach and education/transition to new systems to support the overall subaward process. Show less • Process post award changes in the grant life cycle through the University’s sponsored projects administration and electronic research compliance database system. • Provide a timely response to all grant closeout requests from funding agencies, principal investigators, and department administrators to insure that sponsor deadlines are met.• Advise the research community on grant post award requirements and closeout compliance procedures.• Generate reports on grant closing dates to initiate closeout procedures and reduce delinquencies.• Receive, process, distribute and maintain files of partially completed or fully executed grant documents. Show less

  • Subaward Administrator, Office of Sponsored Programs

    Aug 2021 - Mar 2024

  • Program Coordinator, Central Operations in the Office of Sponsored Programs

    Apr 2018 - Aug 2021