Keeping Projects on Track

The Producers Group serves many vital functions at vivid: handling projects, from proposal to launch; lending a guiding hand to the Experience and Engineering groups; providing administrative support and dealing with the nitty-gritty details of making sure everyone attends the right meetings, gets all the email, meets all their deadlines, and comes away feeling good about their work. It's kind of like having the parents you always wished you had...

Team roles:

Director, Producers Group (Debbie Lefkowitz)
Focuses on skill development and career advancement within the group. She also provides clients and project teams with producers whose technical acumen, management skills, and leadership are equal to the tasks at hand. She also helps to develop strategic and business relationships, recruit talent, set budgets, and act as a company representative, conveying a vision within and without the company.

Executive Producer (Susan Grady)
Senior Producers (Arlo Corwin, David De Andreis)
Producers (Chris Tung, Kristen Bottrell, Luke Moody, Michelle Kensinger)
Responsible for researching and developing proposals, communicating with client, facilitating client and team meetings, and managing the project team. Unless the project has an Executive Producer, the Producer is ultimately accountable for completing the p roject on time and budget. Senior Producers manage projects of greater size and/or complexity, occasionally orchestrating a team of producers who are individually responsible for specific stages or phases of the project.

Associate Producers (Brian Biggs, Kerry Kelley)
Responsible for writing, editing, and estimating resources for projects.

Production Assistants
Carry out the evil plans of the producers (e.g., assist producers in scheduling, coordination, communications, and traffic management).

Who they are: Amanda Kelso Associate Producer Arlo Corwin Senior Producer Brian Biggs Producer Chris Tung Producer David DeAndreis Senior Producer Debbie Lefkowitz Director, Production Joanne Bealey Manager of Professional Services Keith Vidal Producer Kerry Kelley Associate Producer Kristen Bottrell Producer Luke Moody Producer Machiko Harashima Associate Producer Michelle Kensinger Producer Susan Grady Executive Producer   Where they go: Home, once every 3 weeks, for a few hours. Business Strategy Group Engineering Group Experience Group Management Group Operations Group Producers Group Clients