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Sidney Wong

Sports Media Producer
Winter Garden,Florida

Summary

Professional with strong background in production, skilled in project management, creative development, and strategic planning. Adept at leading collaborative teams and driving projects to completion under tight deadlines. Known for flexibility and adaptability in changing environments, ensuring optimal results. Expertise includes budgeting, scheduling, talent coordination, and problem-solving with focus on innovation and efficiency.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Producer/Editor

YAHOO! SPORTS
09.2023 - 03.2025
  • Completed 18-month contract.
  • Vetted, edited, and produced social media questions for the Yahoo Fantasy Football Live show, which won the FSWA Award for Best Video, Long Form Winner.
  • Field producer for the 2024 College Football Championship, 2024 Women’s Final Four, and 2024 MLB Draft Combine, where I scheduled crew and talent for video shoots and interviews and produced segments for on-platform and social media.
  • Utilized vast sports knowledge and storytelling experience to craft creative features and profiles for Yahoo Sports’ on-platform and social media channels.
  • Operated independently and fully remotely to produce compelling Yahoo Sports videos covering all sports.
  • Presented production ideas and determined creative scenarios for production and delivery.
  • Oversaw post-production processes, including video editing and sound mixing, to ensure a polished final product.

Madden Ultimate Team Project Owner

EA SPORTS
01.2023 - 09.2023
  • Partnered with the Line Producer and Lead Producer to establish product goals, then with Designers to create features.
  • Collaborated with Analytics and Brand Marketing teams on qualitative and quantitative research.
  • Oversaw major features through development and be responsible for feature quality and ensuring the feature vision is upheld.
  • Contributed with partners to vet features and prioritize the backlog to ensure work is aligned with product strategy.
  • Actively involved in mitigating risk to successful team completion of release/sprint goals.
  • Developed with project managers on feature delivery processes and proposing improved workflows.
  • Worked with team developers and QA to ensure quality is managed to the highest standards.
  • Identified dependencies and promoted the delivery of the requirements across several teams.

Creative Producer

The LEGO Group
10.2022 - 01.2023
  • Provide production-like support to Creative Studio, leading all aspects of day-to-day relationships with vendors.
  • Coordinate a high amount of different-scale, omni-channel creative productions – from OOH to digital banners to social media creative.
  • Lead and track internal and external budgets relating to creative production.
  • Support creative workshops and concept development as a team member.
  • Work with Strategy and Insights to provide copy inspiration as well as audience-facing messaging and content.
  • Help develop strong creative concepts and solutions from initial idea to final execution.
  • Actively participate in customer meetings and presentations as a representative of the Creative Studio team.
  • Deliver high-quality creative and copy in all deliverables.

Digital Media/Social Senior Producer/Manager

ESPN
02.2018 - 08.2022
  • Oversaw The College Football Show, a one-hour highlights and analysis show in 2021. Responsible for all production, content, talent, and sales obligations. In the 14-episode season, the show generated 964,000 views per show, an audience increase of six percent over last year. Also, the show made $2 million dollars in sponsorship revenue.
  • Coordinating producer for BBTN Live, Countdown to College Basketball GameDay, Hoop Streams, and the 2021 and 2020 ESPYs pre-show. All shows served as tune-in, lead-in shows for live events on ESPN and ABC.
  • Manager of a 10-person team that includes production, talent, sales, and technical production members. Mentor and scheduler for a 12-person production team.

Fantasy Sports Producer

ESPN
09.2011 - 02.2018
  • Led fantasy sports production for five years, where I produced, shot, and edited all fantasy sports videos for ESPN.com and the app. During this time, I was faced with a 109% increase in fantasy football sales sponsorship obligations and reimagined the video structure from multi-topic to single-topic videos for placement advantages. The result was a 168% increase, nearly 89 million video starts, and fulfillment of $3.5 million in sponsorship obligations.
  • Reassigned to conceptualize, produce, and edit high-end videos for all ESPN platforms to increase viewership on all high-leverage positions of placement on the ESPN app and ESPN’s social media channels.
  • Successfully guided a group of 15 production assistants during the 2017 college football season in editing and posting one-play clips for the ESPN app and website. We generated 8.5 million video starts for the season.

Highlight Producer II

ESPN
09.2005 - 09.2011
  • Expected to produce sophisticated video packages, I guided and managed production assistants to produce complex highlight packages focusing on top-tier visual elements and storytelling that routinely led SportsCenter and sport-specific shows.
  • Streamlined and conducted training classes for new production assistants that led to faster integration into the production process.
  • Part of the Production Assistant development and evaluation group, where I oversaw the work of multiple Production Assistants at any given time, provided them with direct feedback, and voted on the decision to retain or not.

Associate Producer

ESPN
09.1999 - 09.2005
  • Created features and teases for daily SportsCenter shows that won two Emmy awards.
  • Developed and established weekly Ultimate Highlight music videos that gained Gatorade sponsorship.
  • Associate Producer for Chris Berman’s 'Fastest 3 Minutes' segment for NFL Sunday Night Football. Produced at a successful level. I was requested by Chris Berman to return for a second season.

Production Assistant

ESPN
09.1996 - 09.1999
  • Starting as a six-month employee, I logged sporting events and news feeds. I produced high-level highlights for nightly SportsCenter and ESPNews shows.
  • I was promoted to full-time status and produced teases, bumps, b-roll, and graphics for multiple sports specialty shows on ESPN and ESPN2.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Journalism, Broadcast News

University of Wisconsin-Madison
05.1996

Skills

  • Two-time Emmy Award-winning sports producer
  • Excels in production storytelling, creativity, and innovation
  • Training and development experience
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills
  • Highly focused on organization, planning, and meeting deadlines
  • Results-oriented, adaptable to all situations, and a team leader
  • Content production
  • Project management
  • Field production
  • Storytelling
  • Proficient in Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Final Cut, and Microsoft applications

Personal Information

  • Willing to relocate in the USA
  • Availability: Now

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

On-SiteRemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balance

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Producer/Editor - YAHOO! SPORTS
09.2023 - 03.2025
Madden Ultimate Team Project Owner - EA SPORTS
01.2023 - 09.2023
Creative Producer - The LEGO Group
10.2022 - 01.2023
Digital Media/Social Senior Producer/Manager - ESPN
02.2018 - 08.2022
Fantasy Sports Producer - ESPN
09.2011 - 02.2018
Highlight Producer II - ESPN
09.2005 - 09.2011
Associate Producer - ESPN
09.1999 - 09.2005
Production Assistant - ESPN
09.1996 - 09.1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Broadcast News

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