Experience

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  Move Forward Music

  • Founder / Executive Director

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  Move Forward Music

  • Brooklyn, New York, United States

  • Founder / Executive Director

    • Nov 2008 - Present
    • Brooklyn, New York, United States

    We Break Artists. We Build Brands. We Impact Culture. Move Forward Music is a Brooklyn-based music events and content production agency. We connect artists and brands with audiences by creating unique experiences based around music, art and live performance. Our reputation for breaking artists and introducing them to market via their debut concert is unmatched in the industry. In 2020, we made a strategic pivot to digital via an exclusive content streaming partnership with Twitch, launching our o&o channel with the virtual Move Forward Fest, which ultimately became a successful hybrid in-person/live-streamed music festival in 2021. Following the pandemic, Move Forward Music reemerged as a leading artist tastemaker in NYC, continuing to produce impactful events, like the debut shows of today's breakout stars such as Tems, Paris Texas, Bree Runway, and Lous and the Yakuza, while also hosting concerts at Barclays Center, and NYC's famed Central Park Summerstage, and spearheading branded events for Heineken, NFT.NYC, Red Bull, and Maison Kitsuné.

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  Webster Hall

  • 125 E 11th St, New York, NY 10003

  • Talent Buyer & Event Producer

    • Nov 2013 - Jun 2016
    • 125 E 11th St, New York, NY 10003

    Curating talent for the storied NYC music venue Webster Hall; producing, booking, and marketing Thursday night's "House Party", the largest weekly hip-hop event in the world. www.websterhall.com/houseparty. Responsibilities include producing a 2,500+ person weekly party that takes over all four floors of Webster Hall every Thursday night, booking talent, directing artistic vision of advertising materials, executing an on-going, fully integrated marketing campaign, securing brand partnerships, advancing production, keeping artists on schedule and taking care of talent needs at the venue each week.

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  S.O.B.'s

  • 204 Varick Street, NYC

  • Director of Marketing & Publicity

    • Feb 2007 - Nov 2008
    • 204 Varick Street, NYC

    Worked closely with the onwer and top management staff to build brand awarness, improve public image and attract a new, younger customer base. Responsible for strengthening the S.O.B.'s brand, upholding the company's public image and the marketing of every live music production at S.O.B.'s during my tenure there, which included - on average - six shows per week (Media successes include features, listings and concert reviews in New York Times, NY Post, NY Daily News, Time Out New York, Village Voice, El Diario, NY Metro, NPR, among others).

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  Movement Maketing

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Marketing Representative

    • Jan 2006 - May 2006
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Handled product marketing through the greater Los Angeles area for major label album releases, including poster sniping, retail promotions, nightlife and street team flyering.

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  Sony BMG

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Marketing Intern

    • Jan 2006 - May 2006
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Assisted with the preparation and distribution of promotional materials to retail stores throughout the West Coast and Midwest.

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  WERS, 88.9FM

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Host/Producer

    • Jan 2004 - Dec 2005
    • Greater Boston Area

    As one of the hosts of WERS' nightly hip-hop program, 889@Night, I held down the Friday night slot as Al Dirty, hosting on-air, mixing the shows live, programming playlists, cleaning/preparing tracks for clean radio play, even answering phones in the studio during the show.

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  WAXQ 104.3FM

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Sales Intern

    • May 2005 - Aug 2005
    • Greater New York City Area

    Assisted account executives with data research and sales calls, helped cultivate sales leads and accompanied execs to pitch meetings. Learned about the day to day tasks and inner-workings of a corporate radio sales office.