Shannon Kennedy

Experience

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  Chapman University Club 55

  Oct 2012 - Jan 2015

  -founding member of the club and helped grew club membership from the very beginning-developed ideas and plans for events, such as an Alien in Wonderland Birthday Party and a Disney Trivia Night-created fliers and Facebook ads for events and marketed them across campus-managed limited budgets under $30 per event and came up with creative ways to limit spending -tutored students in Math (Precalc and Calculus) and Business courses (Business Analysis and Economics)-met with over a dozen students individually and helped them with homework problems and with improving their study habits-my students continually saw an improvement in their skills and grades as they continued to work with me

  • Event Planner/Marketing Assistant

    Feb 2013 - Jan 2015

  • Student Tutor

    Oct 2012 - May 2013
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  Writer's Guild Foundation Library

  May 2013 - Jan 2014

  Research Volunteer/Intern

  -tasked with a special project to provide framework and layout for the first ever animation writing database-researched hundreds of shows to find highly relevant information about animation history-made a research plan, found outlets for research, and distinguished important information

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  Di Novi Pictures

  Feb 2014 - May 2014

  Development Intern

  -wrote daily coverage reports evaluating scripts for company executives to make decisions on whether to make films-provided notes on scripts in production

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  Viacom

  Sept 2014 - Dec 2014

  Library and Media Services Intern

  -led shipping, archival and delivery of hundreds of assets from major television shows, to store their inventory-archived and organized hundreds of lost assets from a major production, that had been lost during a recent database update

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  Disneyland Resort

  Feb 2015 - Nov 2016

  Quick Services Cashier

  -assisted hundreds of guests daily in the busiest section of the park-handled thousands of dollars and credit card receipts daily-was cross-trained to three restaurants as a cashier-as a team, my restaurant won the Disneyland efficiency contest by completing over 30 transactions per hour

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  Variety Insight

  May 2015 - Nov 2015

  Data Tracking (TV Research Department) Intern

  -prepared weekly news alerts on dozens of important television shows for hundreds of workers in film and television-performed research on new and existing television shows in order to increase information available in our service-updated hundreds of records in our database with visuals and supplemental information in order to make our system more appealing to our clients-verified heavily detail-oriented records for accuracy in order to main the company reputation of being a leader in entertainment knowledge Show less

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  The Paley Center for Media

  Apr 2016 - Sept 2016

  Receptionist/Visitor Services Volunteer

  -handled greeter and main line phone duties during some of the busiest exhibits in center history-provided excellent customer service by personally assisting guests with finding programming and explaining what the museum had to offer-managed check-in during high-profile television industry events involving major executives and entertainment companies

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  Ocean Media

  Nov 2016 - Jun 2018

  Traffic Associate/Occasional Back-up Receptionist

  -managed digital media materials and paperwork for 6 major national advertisers through Extreme Reach digital platform-used Microsoft Excel and pivot tables to analyze client advertisement data-tested and assessed a new data analysis site with our information systems rep, to ensure client advertisements ran correctly-used the Nielsen reporting site to make sure dozens of clients' advertisements run properly, without any legal issues or errors

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  Underdog Rescue California

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2018

  Social Media Assistant (Volunteer)

  -grew Twitter following by 1000% by creating both fun and informative posts about dogs and the rescue-evaluate and analyze effective posts through Twitter Analytics, to see what types of posts are most successful-raised overall brand awareness by attracting and interacting with hundreds of local followers and followers from around the world-promote the rescue's fundraisers and events by coming up with witty and creative posts

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  CTN Animation Expo

  Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

  Media and Operations Coordinator/Production Assistant

  -assisted over 400 exhibitors with their needs for the Expo-handled main line phone calls, customer service and company emails-helped with social media posting-went on runs for the company-updated several company websites -assisted with planning and execution of events

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  The Hidden Frequencies Podcast

  Jun 2018 - Jun 2018

  Writer

  -Wrote the second episode of the suspense series, "A Killer Script"https://www.facebook.com/thehiddenfrequenciespodcast/

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  FOX Sports

  Sept 2018 - Nov 2018

  Production Assistant

  -went on runs for NFL Talent and Producers for Fox NFL Sunday

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  Netflix

  Feb 2019 - Dec 2020

  Studio Data Administrator

  -updated internal databases with information about talent and projects-analyzed large amounts of data and provide insight on trends across studio products-offered input on how studio products can be improved

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  Warner Bros. Entertainment

  Dec 2020 - Jul 2021

  Digital Content Administrator (Contractor)- Warner Bros. TV Marketing

  -worked with marketing, publicity and distribution departments and Warner Bros. VIPs and executives-managed thousands of user accounts and applications for WB's PR B2B streaming platform and website-set up digital pre-air screeners for high-profile film and TV shows (such as Friends: The Reunion and Snyder Cut) for international press and client marketing campaigns-helped with user questions, troubleshooting and technical problems-worked with the product management team to make suggestions on how to improve the CMS Show less

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  Netflix

  Jul 2021 - May 2022

  Studio Data Specialist (Contractor)

  -edited JSON code on the backend and worked with APIs to make changes in the talent databases and applications-helped solve user problems and tickets-made suggestions on new internal applications

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  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  May 2022 - now

  -help with manager calendars-take notes during technical and recruitment meetings-assist with new hire onboarding process-plan department events (both in-person and virtual) and team-building activities-help with preparation on expense reports and department budgeting-help with editing and development of Confluence pages and how-to guides for the technology department

  • Production Technology Coordinator

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Production Technology Assistant (Project-Hire)

    May 2022 - Apr 2023