Taryn Stafford

• Falling part of executive producer team at TPG, assigned to various client projects as Producer and/ or Line Producer offering senior support to the production team
• Development producer offering mentorship to partners to ensure they are pitch ready and assist with distribution strategies, budgets and high level schedules for potential investors
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to streamline company process

Within an assigned project environment:

• Responsible to Partners and Investors for ensuring delivery of the project and supervising progress of the production as a whole. This position provides strategy, oversight, support and direction to production managers, consulting in the
  planning, scheduling and budgeting processes on the project.
• Sign off broadscale production schedules created by production managers.
• Focus on broad overview of schedule, constantly looking ahead to ensure timely starts to departments and ensuring that deadlines and milestones are met.
• Liaise with production managers when resources need to shift across departments
• Integral to decision making when problems arise and assist with troubleshooting to
  determine plan of action and requirements
• Sign off broadscale schedule changes
• Keep track of expenses and projected costs based on cost reports provided by production accountant.
• Reporting and Tracking to clients in form of tracking graphs, including projections, based on information from production managers. Also includes any concerns that may have resource or deadline implications.
• Negotiate with directors and clients when requests have broadscale schedule and resource implications

• Manage short-form projects, ensuring projects deliver on time and to agreed margin
• Work with Executive Producer in keeping client up-to-date with scope changes and bids
• Plan and schedule resources with CG Supervisor and HOD’s to create an effective approach within existing pipeline. Participate in pipeline new developments where necessary
• Track costs and progress of projects, reporting and sending weekly updates to Head of Production & Executive Management team
• Supervise assigned production staff
• Streamlining production processes and workflow
• Ensure progression of work to the client’s satisfaction
• Ensure all facility departments are aware of the production’s requirements
• Working with EP on bids and pitch decks for new business

• Organising and administering up to 150 staff. Oversee team of Production Managers, Production Coordinators and Supervisors
• Crew and hiring, working closely with HR to assess and meet crewing needs for the project. This includes interviewing, onboarding and contract extensions of all departments from production to creative and technical crew
• Establish and administer master schedules, budgets and plans, while overseeing department-specific schedules and plans. Sign off broadscale schedule changes
• Managing and determining the balance between creative direction and resource availability
• Create and distribute project crew schedule. Adjust based on crew requirements determined by PM schedules, consulting with Co-Producer when there are budgetary implications
• Manage director /supervisor requests that have an impact on the overall production schedule and budget
• Reporting to Co-Producer in the form of tracking graphs, including projections, based on information (in the form of reports) from PMs, including any concerns that may have resource or deadline implications
• Ensure there are adequate plans of action in place for production "hotspots", focusing on broad overview of schedule, constantly looking ahead to ensure timely starts to departments and ensuring that deadlines and milestones are met
• Ensuring all departments have relevant licenses (includes planning and ordering) and hardware specifications needed
• Meet regularly with Co-Producer and Financial teams to monitor budgets and cost projections to ensure that they are working within given targets
• To act as local ambassador for Triggerfish and promote a professional, creative and vibrant environment to the local animation and creative community

• Responsible for the pre-production schedules - concept art, storyboard and edit - to ensure they realistically reflect the resources available in terms of man hours and complexity, feeding into global schedules for delivery to the production house
• Work closely with the Film Directors and Art Director to ensure the creative vision for the film is met
• Work with Line Producer, leads and supervisors in establishing best practices and consistency for optimal operation for the duration of the film
• Work out briefing/ review/ approval processes with leads based on interdepartmental workflow laid out by LP and Supervisors. Elaborate on and adjust processes based on departmental requirements
• Manage project relationship and expectations with Line Producer and director/s closely. Ensure milestones and quotas are met and provide course correction to the schedule as needed
• Support, mentorship and training of Coordinators as needed
• Appraisal of departmental leads and artists
• Troubleshoot wherever necessary to ensure timely delivery of departments
• Weekly tracking and reporting to Line Producer on broad scale departmental progress based on information from production coordinators and leads. This should also include department specific projections based on current progress and factoring in ramp up
• Ensure that all production data and metrics are tracked via Shotgrid and can be easily summarized on a daily basis in order to flag problem areas
• Ensure Line Producer is aware of all departmental license and hardware requirements and supervision of the coordinators in ensuring that everything is set up for new starts/ crew changes

• Working in collaboration with editors, account managers, the creative studio, third-party suppliers/ production houses and clients to manage the smooth flow of work in the agency.
• Interpret briefs received from the account manager and brief all teams on deliverables.
• Effectively draw up concise production schedules across multiple channels.
• Track budget spent throughout each project and flag with the account manager where there is scope creep and/ or potential to overspend.
• Report back on project and task status within weekly internal and client status sessions.

• Responsible for departmental schedules, workflows and decisions around the planning of departments and functioning of the studio, whilst overseeing of the production coordinators, deciding on the delegation of tasks and assisting with troubleshooting.
• Work with leads to ensure schedule realistically reflects resources available in terms of man hours, bid splits and complexity ratings.
• Liaise with line producer when additional resources are needed.
• Create weekly targets and milestones based on broadscale schedule.
• Ensure milestones and quotas are met and provide course correction to the schedule as needed.
• Weekly tracking and reporting to line producer and directors on departmental progress.
• Down reporting to leads and supervisors based on departments overall status and upcoming milestones.
• Ensure communication among department leaders via weekly production meetings and any other meetings deemed necessary.
• Scrumming with leads and directors every morning to get a sense of what is required for the day, what they are waiting for and any other important news.

• End to end integrated ad campaign management across radio, print, TV and digital.
• Creation and management of project timelines and budgets.
• Receive and interpret client briefs and, intern, briefing internal teams on creative requirements.
• Monitor and escalate project risk to Project Director.
• Ensure all work has been through correct QC process and that output meets client requirements.
• Have a thorough understanding of the client brand identity, ensuring it is always been adhered to by creative teams.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationship with the client's, studio and account management team alike.
• Daily report back with client and account management team on campaign status.

• Manage the end-to-end process, including planning and cost estimation via Chase to ensure the successful and profitable completion of integrated projects.
• Central point of contact for all departments - copywriter, design studio, client service and management - across digital, print, radio and TV campaigns, ensuring efficiency and continuity across all projects.
• Report on status of project in daily stand-up meetings. These meetings include budget and project timeline review, managing project risk, with an overall goal of protecting the financial health of the company.
• Develop timing plans and project proposals with client service team.
• Liaise with external teams and suppliers. For example, voice over artists for campaign AV’s or web development companies for new client website builds.

• Overseeing individual teams, specifically project management team, to ensure all WAM projects run smoothly and within budget.
• Identify shortage of resources and recruit for position, where necessary.
• Identify and implement employee benefits, worker compensation, and training techniques.
• Crisis management, working directly with client and CEO, in the event a project, client or team experiences difficulties.
• Conducting team status meetings and touch base on their overall personal and professional
  development.
• Run project status meetings and all relevant business discussions, within and outside of the company, where necessary.
• Review and sign off project timing plans, cost estimates, TI's and PO's before these are sent to accounts or client, in the absence of CEO.
• Develop and improve WAM processes to ensure business runs smoothly.

• Managing our largest projects for our Unilever client, through all phases of project: UX, creative, design, technology and QA.
• Taking responsibility for all client communications, conflict resolution and compliance on deliverable.
• Ensuring all processes and procedures are completed, quality standards are met and that projects are profitable.
• Working closely with the account managers and resources to ensure the full team has accurate knowledge of project status to identify potential issues and/ or opportunities within or related to the project.
• Reviewing all major deliverables against strategic brief, functional spec and tech spec to ensure quality standards and that client expectations are met.
• Reporting to managing director, providing regular input on all project activities, including status and contact reports on a bi-weekly basis.
• Assist account management teams in scoping, costing and timing out project budget.

• Schedule and manage the production of digital studio projects for Distell and Unilever brands, using MS Projects and Active Collab.
• Create, manage and report against project schedule/ status report.
• Resolve project, design or development challengers before they impact delivery timeline or budget.
• Ensure work is reviewed and signed off at key milestones and before presentation to client.
• Traffic jobs in production, ensuring jobs do not conflict with other producers within the team, continually reviewing work for accuracy and good functionality.
• Create daily production schedule for all resources in the company, who are working on assigned projects.
• Run briefing sessions and kick starts prior to project commencing to ensure all resources – designer, developer, copywriter – are clear on project objectives and receiving timings from these resources to create timing plans issued to Account teams.

• Leading media campaigns; consulting the client, devising plans for digital outreach - together with our social media team and alongside the traditional PR campaign - overseeing campaign execution and leading on reporting back to the client on weekly calls and monthly meetings.
• Supporting new business outreach with research and campaign ideas for the digital aspects of new proposals.
• Ensuring the team's skills remain ahead of the game, leading 'Digital Champions' and sharing insight into the latest social media trends, advising the senior team on their relevance to client communications strategies.
• Leading internal and client meetings, reporting back on current project status and next steps.
• Conceptualize campaigns and brief internal teams on digital campaigns, once client sign off is received.
• Liaise with production, internal resources and clients to ensure campaign is on time and within budget.
• Run media campaigns which include PPC, CPC and display advertising and optimize where necessary providing a full report back to client once campaign has expired.
• Put together digital presentations for client, selling new and innovative digital campaigns