Experience

• Davidson College

  Producer/Lecturer

  My position existed to support the Theatre Department primarily through supervision of the department’s co-curricular theatrical program, providing leadership in balancing artistic excellence, available resources, and student learning outcomes.
  
  I was responsible for production project oversight, including personnel, budgeting and finances, and all planning and communications. This position served as the driving force behind programming decisions, assessing feasibility of potential productions and special projects. I also served as a key advocate for cultural and ethnic diversity in the voice, casting, and settings of the department’s productions.
  
  I was deeply involved in mentoring and supervising students both inside and outside the classroom, advising students pursuing arts administration, teaching independent studies, supervising multiple laboratories for the Introduction to Theatre course, and training all stage managers throughout the season. In addition, I taught one course per semester, chaired the Play Selection Committee, and served as a department spokesperson to maintain and build relationships and organizational partnerships across campus and the external community, raising the department’s profile in both spheres.

• Online Rewards

  Project Manager

  I served as technical project manager and eventually Scrum Master to engineering. We built employee engagement, health and wellness, and customer loyalty SaaS platforms for Fortune 500 and international companies such as Macy’s, Volkswagen, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Neteller, State Farm and Wellpoint. In this role, I managed three software teams implementing from five to 15 concurrent projects ranging from platform implementation, custom program development, internal tools, infrastructure, IT and data processing.
  
  I also faced customers as a guide to implementations and use of their new products, from the initial gathering of assets through user and admin trainings. I loved this work not just because it allowed me to ensure that our clients loved and adopted the programs, but because I had the autonomy to design new trainings and documentation that led to greater standardization and visibility internally for engineering and externally for our users.

• Whitepages

  Senior Program Manager

  As the company's only program manager, I coordinate cross-team projects with special attention to the Infrastructure, Security, and IT teams. I lead Infrastructure and IT scrum ceremonies and serve on the Engineering Steering Committee-- an oversight arm of our Engineering department.
  
  I filled in as the interim IT Manager for a quarter, bringing additional project management structure and reducing administrative bloat for leaner operations in the long-term. Key projects include an overhaul of our conferencing systems and restructuring of our VPC relationships in AWS. I use Smartsheets and Jira for project planning, tasking, and reporting.
  
  I love this role in that it requires me to serve as a process and tool evangelist. Whitepages' rapid growth necessitates regular discussion of our workflows and how those interact with our larger business goals in Engineering and Security. I also think of myself as an Ambiguity Specialist-- each day brings new challenges to help others engage with project ambiguities without falling victim to the emotional hurdles of such work.

• Tyode Productions

  Project Manager/Producer

  I acted as the primary liaison between clients and the creative production team, responsible for budgeting, managing resources and delivering against a schedule. As producer, I crystallized each project's creative vision and saw that through to our finished projects.
  
  I led discovery meetings to gather project requirements and determine video needs to align with clients’ strategic direction; conceive, produce, and edit ready video for production or presentations. I also led pre-production efforts, including preparing requests for proposal, contracts and change orders, sourcing and organizing visual assets such as shots, artwork, logos, text treatments, supers and animations, and planning and scheduling production work.
  
  As an implementation manager of sorts, I shepherded clients through the production process, including supervising shoots, posting files for review, conducting stakeholder presentations, and collecting, distilling and distributing client feedback.

• Ekata (formerly Whitepages Pro)

  Senior Program Manager

  Annie worked at Ekata (formerly Whitepages Pro) as a Senior Program Manager