Production Management for Digital Assets

I have 15+ years of production experience in production for live action film & television, digital media, and 2D & 3D video game assets.

My passion lies in orchestrating complex projects that deliver compelling experiences, and aligning creative aspirations within the realities of scheduling, budgeting, and production logistics.

Experience

Game Asset Producer
& Director of Physical Production

Ubisoft Film & Television

  • Game Asset Producer managing a complex multimedia pipeline of digital, art, gameplay, and cinematic assets

  • Partner with creative leads, narrative teams, and stakeholders to bring storytelling vision to life through bespoke game assets for a TV show, managing various types of cinematic and game content from concept to final delivery

  • Manage ongoing budgets for game asset production, including staff headcount and development costs, while providing regular cost reporting and schedule updates to stakeholders

  • Create executive summaries that communicate high-level production status and budget information to leadership and cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and informed decision-making

  • Collaborate closely with creative leads and establish trust through proactive communication of production processes, serving as a strategic partner during feedback, iteration, and approval cycles

  • Work with technical teams to optimize cinematics tools and build efficient production systems that support streamlined content creation workflows

  • Create and execute budgets and production plans, and partner with the head of Physical Production for Film & TV to support the entire slate of Ubisoft film and television projects, both in development and production.

Head of Production

Watcher Entertainment  

  • Manage production for a full slate of small-scale digital videos and longer-form series (40+ episodes), oversee multiple, simultaneous productions (both in studio and on location) with overlapping timelines 

  • Plan and coordinate branded content deliverables, estimate resources, and ensure delivery deadlines are met

  • Create and manage all show budgets, filming schedules, hire and manage freelance production crew, editors, animators, and motion designers 

  • Schedule, manage, and optimize the post-production editor schedule, delivery process, and archive workflow

  • Organize system for tracking project assets and high volume of footage and project data 

  • Manage direct reports, developing professional goals and structured plans for learning & growth 

Senior Manager, Physical Production

Paramount Pictures  

  • Serve as liaison between filmmakers and internal business stakeholders to ensure production information is disseminated and studio policies are adhered to across productions 

  • Seek out industry best practices and amend existing practices that pose a liability to the studio

  • Review all crew hiring paperwork, oversee the drafting of department head long-form contracts

  • Retain & update production templates, policies, manual + crew start paperwork 

  • Budget, schedule, and supervise the storage and strike of assets from productions, and oversee and manage warehouse foreman and freelance strike crews, including coordinating, processing, approving, and coding all payroll paperwork

  • Develop new programs to connect and support the filmmakers on location, including diversity initiatives and strategies to streamline the filmmaking process

  • Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)
    Coming 2 America (2021)
    Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
    Playing with Fire (2019)
    Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
    Rocketman (2019)
    Eli (2019)
    Bumblebee (2018)
    Instant Family (2018)
    Overlord (2018)

Coordinator, Physical Production

Paramount Pictures  

  • Assist EVP of Physical Production on slate of projects in development, pre-production, and production

  • Prepare budget “critical assumptions” (a condensed report showing priority issues for the film budget with high level breakdown of key line items for ATL/BTL/Post/VFX, accompanied by assumptions for production and post schedule, second unit, key builds, and travel) for each feature on the greenlight pipeline

  • Assist with the physical production components of greenlighting films, including creating multiple iterations of schedules for overall prep/production/post/delivery/release  

  • Interact with below-the-line agents and representatives in checking key crew availability and follow-through on deal points and negotiations

  • Execute all long form contracts for department heads deals (Director of Photography, Production Designer, Costume Designer, 2nd Unit Director)

  • Perform critical review of daily production paperwork, Maintain production documents and corporate records, Coordinate archiving of departmental files and feature production files

  • Arrange complex travel plans and itineraries, compile documents for travel-related meetings

  • Annihilation (2018)
    Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
    Downsizing (2017)
    Rings (2017)
    Fences (2016)
    Allied (2016)
    Zoolander 2 (2016)
    The Big Short (2015)

Producer & Freelance Film Production

  • Set up Production Office, including sourcing office space and engaging vendors 

  • Create cash flow in tandem with Line Producer 

  • Break down production budget to allocate resources across multiple shoots 

  • Create schedule for entire production, multiple domestic and international shoots

  • Work directly with Accounting and Payroll to gross out crew timecards and process invoices

  • Organize freelance film crew for local and location shoots, including hiring and processing paperwork

  • Become signatory to SAG, WGA, and IATSE unions

  • Coordinate travel for Above the Line talent and crewmembers 

  • Prepare and distribute daily production paperwork (call sheets, production reports, wrap reports, prep schedules)

  • Research crew and vendor availability 

  • Prepare and vet cast and crew visa applications

  • Issue certificates of insurance

  • Research copyright info and availability of IMAX footage, license footage for use in feature films

  • Use Final Cut Pro to organize and edit footage 

  • Managed office schedule and calendars

  • Asstistant Production Office Coordinator
    Love & Air Sex (2013)

    Production Secretary
    Weird Loners (2015) - TV Mini Series

    Production Assistant
    Killer Women (2014) - TV Series
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) - Los Angeles
    Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
    Texas Car Wars (2012) - TV Series
    Nova ScienceNow (2012) - TV Series
    The Secret Lives of Wives (2011) - TV Movie
    History Detectives (2011) - TV Series
    Meat & Potatoes (2010) - TV Series
    Bernie (2011)
    The Tree of Life (2011)

  • Producer
    Sorry About the Demon (2022), Co-Producer
    Hold To Your Best Self (2018), Producer
    Grow Up, Tony Phillips (2013), Line Producer

    Production Supervisor
    More Than Robots (2022)

    Production Coordinator
    Something Bit Me (2022)

Project Highlights

Mythic Quest Game Assets ▶︎

A fictional MMO. A rising popularity of UGC content. Children making "condo" games. Simulating motherhood via a first-person shooter and repurposed cooking game. Mythic Quest explored all of these storylines, and more!

Side Quest: "The Last Raid" ►

A very unique episode of the show Side Quest (a spinoff of Mythic Quest) that takes place almost entirely in the fictional game Mythic Quest.

The Summer I Turned Pretty Game Assets ▶︎

Video games are having a moment and showing up in storylines many shows. Based on our experience with Mythic Quest, we were approached to make two levels of a mobile game for The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Software & Skills

Project Management Software: Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) • Miro • Figma • Adobe Creative Suite • MovieMagic Scheduling & Budgeting • Google Workspace • Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Planner) with high proficiency in Excel

Production Accounting & Payroll Software: Familiarity with film industry payroll processes and systems (EP, Greenslate, C&C, Wrapbook) • Experience working with income tax withholdings and union payroll contributions in the film & entertainment industry

Certifications: EP Smart Accounting 201 • Production Accounting 201

Courses: MovieMagic Budgeting (UCLA) • Game Mechanics & Systems Design (University of Washington)

Recommendations

“She truly feels on-top-of-things at all times, which is such a trust-inspiring feature for someone in her role. It feels like when anything goes wrong, if we don't know how to address it, she always does. This allows the talent on the team to focus entirely on their arts with comfort, knowing that they're well taken care of.”

— Garrett Reid, Production Coordinator at Ubisoft Red Storm

"Nicole achieves at a very high level with any task or project that she leads. The thoroughness and attentiveness to detail that Nicole possesses always means that her projects are completed promptly and at a high level. She owns projects from beginning to end."

- Genevieve Jones, VP of Physical Production at Ubisoft Film and TV

"Nicole has worked incredibly hard to catch up to speed at a startup that has been changing rapidly over the last few months. She has demonstrated exceptionally high proficiency in numerous areas, in which I will highlight three: production technical expertise, management, and her ability to will tasks to completion.

- Steven Lim, Co-Founder of Watcher Entertainment