Brown University

Westtown School

Principal at Backup Design

Interior design, styling, and home goods
www.backup-design.com

Backup Design

Principal

Apartment Therapy Media

Freelance Home Tour Contributor

- Work closely with the principal, clients, contractors, and vendors on residential interior design projects
- Research and source products and materials
- Develop business operations and redesign website (www.aliewaldman.com)

Alie Waldman Home

Project Manager

- Managed new business, creative development, and various operational areas at a new and cutting-edge content consultancy and production company that creates, produces, and distributes premium content positioned to drive measureable business results
- Analyzed current-state online channels and developed innovative content and distribution strategies for clients and partners, providing recommendations that fit their business objectives and audience needs
- Engaged in rebranding and renaming efforts for clients and strategic partners
- Explored new business and investment opportunities; acted as a conduit between new business items transitioning to active projects
- Brainstormed, wrote, and edited creative concepts and materials
- Managed development slate of projects independent from association with a brand
- Recruited, screened, and interviewed candidates for open positions (company grew from 8 to 35 employees over the course of 8 months); oversaw summer intern program; created new hire handbook
- Exercised strong writing skills, creative abilities, PowerPoint and deck building skills, analytical thinking, networking finesse, and planning abilities

Contend

Manager, Content & Business Development

Engage in partnership development, business strategy, product ideation, and database curation for an early-stage social calendaring and event discovery application

GladFly, LLC

Consultant

Fake Empire

Creative Executive

Television Coordinator

Assistant to the Co-President

WME Entertainment

Assistant, Alternative Television and Televison Literary Departments

Endeavor Agency

Assistant, Alternative Television Department

Collaborated with various organizations to revitalize Brown’s previously defunct television station

Brown Television

Station Co-Manager

Rotated for nine weeks throughout Equities and Fixed Income desks in the Sales & Trading division of Citi

Citi

Summer Analyst

Served as a Teaching Assistant for Economics 0710 (formerly Economics 71): Financial Accounting

Economics Department Teaching Assistant

Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions

SAT Prep Instructor

Worked as a team member of a business venture that aims to provide film studios and other interested parties with information on viewer responses to film trailers; spearheaded writing of the business plan

Fantribution

Manager & Founding Member

- Completed advertising sales internship program as seventh in the country in sales performance out of over 250 interns, with approximately $35,000 in advertising revenue from over sixty accounts
- Received offer to serve as a manager for the summer of 2006

College Directory Publishing

Account Representative

- Held position of Associate Director of the 2008 Ivy Film Festival (May 2007 – May 2008) 
- Served as Alumni Relations Coordinator (2006 – 2007), Audience Choice Award Coordinator (2006), and Judge of screenplay submissions (2005, 2006) and film submissions (2006 – Present) 
- Secured guest speakers, financial support, and festival sponsorship; served as a liaison for guests; planned events; managed approximately forty-five year-long staff members and 100 festival volunteers; assisted with annual judging of over 400 film submissions and 150 screenplay submissions

Elizabeth Backup