Taylor Zann

Taylor Zann

Creative Producer | Creative Operations Management

2023–2025

Associate Director, Media Production, ArtCenter College of Design

  • Co-developed a school-wide production strategy spanning marketing, events, and digital learning. With a three-person

    team, grew annual output from 6 to 80+ projects and cut delivery from months to 3–4 weeks.

  • Turned briefs into scopes, schedules, and production plans, leading projects through production, post, reviews, approvals,

    and delivery.

  • Managed eight concurrent productions across 21 degree programs, aligning academic chairs, executives, admissions, and

    marketing on priorities, timelines, and resources.

  • Built production, review, naming, and DAM workflows across Frame.io, YuJa, servers, and cloud storage, improving

    consistency, search, and asset reuse.

  • Used production data and AI to improve studio operations and speed up pre-production, editing, reviews, and tracking.

2025–2026

Founder/Product Builder, PetCheck

  • Defined brand and UX guidelines and built a responsive Figma design system using reusable components, variables, and

    spacing rules.

  • Turned the Figma mockups into a working FlutterFlow front end, connected Firebase/Firestore and APIs, and launched the

    AI-powered app on the Apple App Store.

2019–2023

Director/Producer/Cinematographer, Freelance

  • Produced, directed, and shot branded documentaries, commercials, live events, and video podcasts for Microsoft, Amazon

    Alexa, Airbnb, Red Bull, Adidas, Toyota, DoorDash, and Zebra Technologies.

  • Scoped productions with crews of up to 30 and budgets up to $100K, building schedules, staffing plans, vendor teams, and

    deliverables.

  • Managed contracts, releases, permits, COIs, licensing, travel, locations, and shoot logistics, including intl. productions.

  • Led creative, crew, vendor, and post teams through changing needs, reviews, approvals, and delivery, balancing creative

    quality, timing, and budget.

2018–2019

Producer/Director, "Adaptive"

  • Produced and directed a 35-minute documentary following two adaptive athletes on a 2,000-foot climb in remote Canada,

    raising $50K in sponsorships and managing the month-long off-grid production.

  • Coordinated aircraft, permits, travel, lodging, and climbing safety; retained ownership, licensed footage to National

    Geographic and HBO Max, and secured 100+ screenings.

2012–2018

Editor, Multiple Production Houses
(Sender Films, Envision Response, B47 Studios)

  • Managed commercial and nonfiction projects from media ingest, proxies, and selects through editing, reviews, color,

    sound, version control, and final delivery.

  • Migrated a company-wide asset library from individual RAID storage to centralized server and cloud proxy workflows,

    standardizing naming and metadata while improving search, remote access, reuse, and licensing.

2014

Intern, Creative Services, Bob Industries

  • Developed pitch decks for commercial directors to help win bids, including multiple Super Bowl commercials.

Education

Loyola Marymount University

B.A. in Film Production

Magna cum Laude, grad. 2015

ArtCenter College of Design

Coursework: Interaction Design;

Creative Direction, 2024

Google UX Design Professional

Certificate, grad. 2023

Skills

Creative Operations

Project Management • Workflow Design • Intake & Prioritization • Resource Planning • Stakeholder Management • Process Improvement • Digital Asset Management

Production

Pre-Production Planning • Production Management • Budgeting & Scheduling • Pitch Decks & Treatments • Mood Boards & Shot Lists • Call Sheets & Crew Coordination • Post-Production Oversight

Tools + Software

Adobe Creative Cloud • Premiere Pro • DaVinci Resolve • Frame.io • Asana • Airtable • Google Workspace • Slack • Dropbox • DAM/CMS Platforms • Cloud & RAID Storage