Kelly Addessa

• Day to day administration and personal support to President.
• Manage executive calendars, scheduling meetings and prepare meeting materials.
• Coordinate travel and travel logistics, as well as processing expense reports.
• Plan screenings in collaboration with production companies to showcase upcoming P+ music programming releases.
• Provide guidance and support to high level music and celebrity talent and talent teams during various MTV award shows. Monitor movements to rehearsals and performances. Liaise with social and digital teams to capture content. Provide support on red carpets during step and repeats, as well as live carpet ‘hits' and press opportunities.
• Serve as a primary contact for ticket allocation and distribution for VIP level guests across labels and management companies, as well as guests of main show performers during international shows. This includes main show and ancillary events such as MTV EMA World Stage and Official MTV After Parties.
• Co-plan and execute after-show party for main show music and celebrity talent, MTV Talent and Music Teams, and label and management executives in midst of pandemic. (2021 MTV EMAs).
• Coordinate large creative calls between MTV creative and production teams, labels, management, and artists as well as acting as a liaison between talent camps and various MTV award show team members.
• Curate post show gifts, as well as holiday gifts to high level talent and executives.
• Organized COVID testing for MTV Music and Celebrity Talent teams (2020 MTV VMAs) prior to official COVID protocol decisions within Paramount,

Media Relations and Marketing

• Collaborated with Public Relations Team for creation of Kean News articles.
• Monitored and input news using Cision and Google Sheets.
• Content creation and social media coverage of university events.
• Created copy for various university marketing/public relations materials, such as Kean Culture newsletters, press releases, and academic brochures.
• Conducted interviews with students and faculty members to be used in Kean News and other marketing material.
• Organized and updated various databases relating to university news.
• Acted as liaison between university departments and graphic designers on creative projects using ZenDesk.
• Regularly updated featured events on university calendar.
• Monitored invoices and create requisitions using Ellucian and Datatel systems.
• Tracked staff and student worker time for payroll using Kronos Workforce Central.
• Daily reception tasks, phone calls, mail, receiving packages, assisting guests, etc.
• Organization of business cards requests.
• Oversaw print center requests from entire university.

• Responsible for compiling current entertainment news for use within daily “Hot Topics” segment.
• Scheduled arrival and departure times of talent. Addressed all talent requests in a timely manner, ensuring their visit to the show was a productive and seamless experience.
• Produced audience members in anticipation of live television appearances on “Ask Wendy”.
• Production management tasks: reset greenrooms, went on run for various requests, and updated talent photo boards in executives' offices.

• Responsible for composing and releasing press releases and pitches.
• Maintained media contact lists and related information in excel spreadsheets.
• Utilized websites such as Cision, H.A.R.O, Linked In, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on behalf of clients to garner increased publicity.