Lindsey Strange
Sr. Analyst
OH
Summary
Ambitious analyst professional offering experience coordinating and performing an assortment of rights and administrative duties, well versed in creating and implementing best practices to improve business success. Adept at evaluating the results of rights efforts tracking ongoing rights windowing activities and interrupting results with the ability to create and execute successful programs. Hands-on, enthusiastic leader, with great interpersonal skills, eager to learn, flourish and gain experience with a company which offers opportunity for mutual growth.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Clearance Specialist
The Walt Disney Company / National Geographic
7 2018 - Current
- Manage future and past rights across multiple systems to support various divisions
- Create various tracking systems to maintain multiple requests and updates
- Submit legal clearance requests and rights purchased to DC-based legal team for new National Geographic commissions, co-productions, regional deals, acquisitions, and ad-sales content
- Team up with Legal Management to ensure publicity, music cue sheets, and stock materials for all titles are available for Rightsline
- Coordinate with National Geographic and International teams to maintain requests and rights updates for all divisions
- Provide accurate and timely availability of all content to various divisions upon request
- Announce new data entry to all divisions
- Send out weekly updates with up-to-date content
- Request divisions adjust their schedules based off channel US air dates
- Research, interpret, and enter older rights information for stakeholders to ensure accurate data analysis for International and Domestic markets
- Support TWDC’s Content Sales team, Business Operations and Legal in all licenses of National Geographic content to linear, FAST, AVOD and SVOD clients, both pre-sale and post-sale
- Track all current Talent options for various programs and ensure data is updated including expiration
- Manage contracts, licenses, amendments, music, and elemental deals in Rightsline; manage all post-entry workstreams until program is finalized
- Key Accomplishments: Deliver bi-monthly reports of National Geographic rights to all sales teams and supporting various teams and international divisions
- Collaborate and support with various divisions in Canada, London, Middle East, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and New York City to assemble data on all National Geographic and International titles available for various supported divisions
- Continually support D+ from launch to continued structure of rights entry of National geographic content.
- Proactively identified potential bottlenecks within the clearance process and implemented solutions, optimizing workflows and increasing department efficiency.
Coordinator
The Walt Disney Company / 20th Century Fox
04.2017 - 06.2018
- Manage future non-theatrical program rights availabilities for all FNG content
- Submit legal nontheatrical clearance requests and nontheatrical rights purchased to the DC-based legal team for new National Geographic commissions and co-productions content
- Submit nontheatrical clearance requests to FNG Content Sales for Fox Latam, Fox Turkey, 24Kitchen, Fox Life, and Voyage titles
- Team up with Enterprise Operations to ensure publicity, music cue sheets, and marketing materials for all FNG titles on the Fox Nontheatrical website are available
- Coordinate and order branded key art for licensed National Geographic titles to airline’s specs and order custom National Geographic intros for airlines with branded channel from National Geographic’s in-house creative team
- Request missing publicity and images from FNG partners Baby TV, Fox Latam, Fox Turkey, 24Kitchen, Fox Life, and Voyage titles
- Licensed content to various Non-Theatrical divisions
- Brand focused and aware of current or future events to provide suitable content
- Track all necessary marketing, promotional and legal approvals
- Key Accomplishments: Collaborate with Fox regional offices in Paris, Japan, Rome, Madrid, Hong Kong, and Abu Dhabi to assemble data on foreign language versions available for National Geographic and FNG titles while supporting the Fox Non-Theatrical team in LA
- Invited to join distribution coordinating for the Big Ten Network with fox
- Assigned creative control for 20th Century Fox non-theatrical calendar
- Design and assemble images and promos for FNG titles included in catalogues.
Specialist
The Walt Disney Company / 20th Century Fox
04.2017 - 12.2017
- Coordinated logistics internationally and communicated with stakeholders to ensure accurate data analysis
- Maintained schedule and workflow of thousands of documents for the International teams
- Provided support for development content, research and reporting for NGCUS and NGCI
- Investigated and analyzed current activities or information in the sales/marketing field and make logical conclusions and recommendations
- Developed and tracked legal deadlines and maintain workflow processes
- Evaluated several databases including WINC, Media Maestro, Jaguar, as well as internal digital files for content development
- Created and maintained systems for tracking analytics and metrics
- Optimized inventory by monitoring informational shortages and ensuring proper legal usage of content
- Key Accomplishments: Earned a promotion to the Channel Productions division after 6 months of employment
- Resolved internal conflict of 38,000 contracts and documents to verify content, confirm copyrights and licensing rights
- Supported the creation of the new operating systems which ensured document sharing was accurate.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Technology - Media Arts & Animation
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 10.2012 - 10.2024
Skills
Rights Management
Timeline
Coordinator
The Walt Disney Company / 20th Century Fox
04.2017 - 06.2018
Specialist
The Walt Disney Company / 20th Century Fox
04.2017 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Science - Technology - Media Arts & Animation
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
10.2012 - 10.2024
Clearance Specialist
The Walt Disney Company / National Geographic
7 2018 - Current
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