Dru Zipkin

Disciplined and agile, I turn creative briefs into strategic action items. With a diverse production background, I identify challenges and anticipate needs, offering outstanding leadership, expertise, and professionalism to deliver assets on time and on budget, ensuring client satisfaction.

Proactively pursued safety training in parallel with emerging technologies to ensure the welfare of our employees. I advised teams nationwide on mitigation planning and safety concerns requiring timely, practical resolution. located and vetted vendors in over 25 cities and 6 international destinations, I fostered relationships, spearheaded contract negotiations, and triaged all related issues.

Ran projects for multiple campaigns simultaneously, providing financial and logistical guidance during creative development, identified risks and optimized workflows throughout pre-production, and oversaw vendor relationships and cross-functional teams during physical and post-production. Created, managed, and reconciled over 70 budgets, ranging from $5K to $2.5M and oversaw 3rd party vendors

Created detailed schedules and managed daily crew movements, routinely multitasking on-set responsibilities with problem-solving for new action plans. As a supervisor, I ensured my subordinates learned industry best practices and fluid communication, resulting in frictionless and precise time management. Routinely mentored teams between 4 and 10 employees, coaching real-world production processes.

Bachelor of Arts in Telecommunications from Indiana University.