Lizzy Dolce

-Leverage various staffing resources, including internal talent database, Greenhouse ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, social media, and local talent organizations, to cast freelance and staff artists for commercial projects -Lead bi-weekly resourcing meetings for Stakeholders to proactively anticipate staffing needs and ensure creative teams have access to the best talent -Streamline recruitment by pulling selects from Greenhouse ATS into a digestible shortlist for Leadership to review- bringing transparency to where in the talent pipeline our candidates are and making sure we're responsive throughout the hiring process -Onboard and off-board talent by working cross functionally with the IT and HR departments

-Identified local and international talent for high-end commercial projects. Successfully placed hundreds of candidates on productions with 2-day to 2-week turnarounds from job notification to initiation -Conducted weekly staffing meetings by providing Leadership with a detailed overview of staff and freelance allocations; noting all capacity and identifying alternative staffing solutions when conflicts arose -Facilitated the migration of creative resource database from Google Sheets to Airtable and developed a robust tagging system to efficiently pull short lists from a talent pool of 3,000+ -Organized retrospectives to gather feedback on talent post-project completion. Ensured proper documentation of talent strengths and interests, enabling the team to make more intentional staffing decisions for future projects -Oversaw in-person school visits to Hornet, collaborating with Leadership to determine the format and itinerary of each visit and delivering engaging presentations to students

-Cultivated relationships with artists and agents while confirming and communicating crew holds, bookings and challenges in a high volume environment -Maintained the creative resource database and conducted daily updates in our internal production database, CETA, to guarantee precise data management of bookings and staff outages -Directed the Hornet Internship program, overseeing promotional strategies and the full life-cycle recruitment process. Achieved 1-2 full-time hires per internship and fostered lasting freelance relationships with program graduates -Represented Hornet at a diverse range of local and national design schools. Doubled internship applicant submissions and expanded the studio’s influence by hosting informational presentations and portfolio review sessions for emerging professionals

-Partnered with the Scheduling Team to source new talent for commercial projects and provided organization and maintenance of the creative resource database

-Prepared office for client visits, events, and internal team building activities -Managed all administrative responsibilities including upkeep of the office, responding to phone inquiries, desk assignment, errands for Leadership and supporting the Scheduling Team with data entry

-Background designer on an unreleased Cartuna Original miniseries. Responsible for creating the background style of the show and worked off of animatics to design and paint all backgrounds for the series

-Collaborated with directors to design color palettes for the Pencilmation web series on Youtube

-Promoted from intern to summer hire. Worked off establishing shots to design backgrounds from multiple angles for "The Jellies" - Season 2

-Cleaned up background sketches with final line and color in Flash for "The Jellies" - Season 1

-Animated effects, lip sync and designed backgrounds in Flash for the "OK KO! Let's Play Heroes" video game

-Assisted lead animator with inbetweens and color in Flash for the “Magical Girl Friendship Squad” concept pilot