Baruch College

Operations, Finance, Project Administration, Music Industry Experience--

New York, New York, United States

- Administer legal obligations in Label Artist’s Recording Agreements•	Summarize artist contracts, track artist, label and joint venture options dates.•	Manage Artist’s recording budgets.•	Process all recording related payments.•	Handle all payment inquiries with vendors and accounting.•	Liaise with recording studios; engineers and producers.•	Manage Artist’s marketing budgets.•	Process all marketing related payments.•	Prepare bi-weekly detail cost reports for management.•	Prepare profitability & sales analyses on artists projects.•	Process all Copyright Registrations.•	Handle set up and coding of royalty obligations.•	Handle semi-annual review and preparation of artist and producer royalty statements.•	Handle semi-annual preparation of artist distribution & profit split statements.•	Draft work for hire agreements; certificates of employments; remix agreements; producer declarations.•	Submit music for sample clearances.•	Work with production to insure timely delivery of all assets to meet release deadlines.•	Liaise with Sound Exchange and Neighboring rights.

Roc Nation - Music

Senior Director

Business Affairs Project & Budget Administration, Prepared and approved recording budgets. Tracked and projected all recording costs.Processed all recording related and contractual payments.Prepared profitability & sales analyses on artist projects.Organized annual talent budget. Drafted producer declarations. remixer and demo agreements.Prepared all union contracts for musicians and vocalists to insure that proper payment requirements and filing deadlines were met.Researched and resolved union claims.Attended union wages and health benefits labor negotiations.Summarized artist contracts, tracked artist, label and joint venture options dates.	Handled semi– annual review of artist and producer royalty statements.Assisted in the ongoing development of the system to track budgets and recording costs.

Karen Console

Karen Console