CHARLETTE NAILAH ADAMS

68 Astor Street, Apartment #2C

Newark, New Jersey 07114
Cell: (323) 392-7192
Email: ca9c6dca@westpost.net
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Detail-oriented individual with over 5 years of progressive Traffic experience.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
02/2009 - 07/2010 Pasadena, CA
KPCC Radio 89.3FM/SCPR
Traffic Manager
Maintain and produce weekly logs; export and distribute daily logs, implement fo
rms; data entry into VT Traffic system to ensure correct airing of funders, prog
rams, station IDs; EAS and station promos, maintain integrity by working closely
with various depts. (i.e. membership, sales, marketing, show production etc.);
provide daily and weekly budgetary reports to Underwriting Sales Director; maint
ain records of broadcast orders; maintain records of broadcast confirmations; ma
intain records of production orders; reconcile logs; resolve discrepancies; main
tain underwriting Traffic billboards, special features and promo avail spreadshe
ets; manages NPR funding credits and monthly affidavit; train and manage Traffic
staff, direct contact with show producers/distributors, attain rundowns for Fun
draising programs and specials; create and provide engineers and on-air staff wi
th rundowns of special shows, oversee ticket giveaway process.
01/2008 - 02/2009 Pasadena, CA
KPCC Radio 89.3FM/SCPR
Interim Traffic Manager
Maintain and produce weekly logs; export and distribute daily logs, implement fo
rms; data entry into VT Traffic system to ensure correct airing of funders, prog
rams, station IDs; EAS and station promos, maintain integrity by working closely
with various depts. (i.e. membership, sales, marketing, show production etc.);
provide daily and weekly reports to Underwriting Sales Director; maintain record
s of broadcast orders; maintain records of broadcast confirmations; maintain rec
ords of production orders; reconcile logs; resolve discrepancies; maintain under
writing Traffic billboards, special features and promo avail spreadsheets; manag
es NPR funding credits and monthly affidavit; assist in training Traffic Associa
te, direct contact with show producers/distributors, attain rundowns for Fundrai
sing programs and specials; create and provide engineers and on-air staff with r
undowns of special shows, oversee ticket giveaway process.
08/2005 - 01/2008 Pasadena, CA
KPCC Radio 89.3FM/SCPR
Traffic Associate
In the event the Traffic Manager was out of the office (i.e. vacation, ill etc.)
, I served as substitute Traffic Manager (duties listed above). Traffic Associa
te Duties include: Coordinate KPCC's Underwriting and News Archiving; loads and
edits weekly and special programs into Enco/Protools audio system; produce traf
fic logs for SCPR and 89.3 KPCC, including entering sales and promotional contra
cts and resolving discrepancies; manage make goods; pre-emptions; generate post
times reports and summaries; utilizing & modify the traffic daily logs, create
and distribute information for reports for sales and other departments as needed
; maintain traffic files; input contract information (copy, contract dates, etc.
), reconciles logs with contracts in Visual Traffic system; coordinate "in-hous
e" dubbing requests; maintain master copy folder; update weekly NPR news and fun
ding credits; work with the Traffic Manager to assure station continuity informa
tion with programming, sales, marketing, membership and development departments
is up to date; in conjunction with the Traffic Manager assures compliance with
FCC rules and regulations and SCPR guidelines; inputs into the traffic system th
e underwriting, promotional and event information, alerting others of scheduling
conflicts and of other more subjective scheduling concerns; process marketing
requests; other duties as assigned.

05/2005-05/2007
FAMLI, Inc.
Senior Manager
Managed a staff of 1-10 employees, mentors and event staff for 'See A Man, Be A
Man', mentoring program and the annual arts, culture and education festival. Po
sted, recruited, hired and trained administrative staff within the organization
and assisted in recruiting board members; trained administrative staff on compan
y policies and procedures including timesheets, invoices and general administrat
ive duties; handled grievances. Many other duties as assigned.
05/2005 - 5/2006 Glendale, CA
Salem Communications, Los Angeles
Studio Engineer/Production Assistant
Run audio board/main console for KXMX/KTIE/KKLA; recording shows and audio; digi
tal editing, mixing various projects before, during, and after shows; Nexgen ope
rating system; digital editing skills in Vegas 4.0 and Profit Editors; setting u
p and executing remote broadcasts via Satellite, ISDN (Zephyr, Telos); record an
d playback of satellite feeds; transmitter reading and documentation; FCC rules/
regulations; log maintenance/traffic; programming of show schedules and continui
ty.
01/2005 - 4/2005 Culver City, CA
National Public Radio "News and Notes with Ed Gordon" show
Freelance Editorial/Production Assistant
Conducted research and assisted Editors and Producers; assisted in preparation o
f live programming; assisted in generating show and guest ideas; edited audio; w
rote news and program copy; and assisted in producing program material for the H
ost and other staff. Digitally edited audio and program continuity (i.e. same/n
ext day show promo's etc.) in Dalet digital audio editor program.
06/2004 - 02/2005 Pasadena, CA
KPCC Radio 89.3FM/SCPR
Operations Engineer/Production Intern
Hands on studio audio board operation included assistance in running the main co
nsole at KPCC; assisted with mixing live talk show programs (bumpers, bridges an
d breaks), inserted support audio (i.e. running clips from Enco system, station
identifications etc.) to air. Record and playback of satellite feeds (NPR, PRI,
MPR, BBC); read satellite schedules and route signals; trained on a variety of
support equipment necessary for broadcast environment (digital audiotape machine
s, mini-disks, digital hard drive units etc.); microphone use, audio mixing, dig
ital editing in Protools and SAW. Assisted in script writing for broadcast incl
uding stories, narrative and leads; assisted with program website; helped develo
p and edit program content for broadcast; assist independent producers and other
program contributors in developing and editing stories and features and respond
ed to the needs of all producers in Talk of the City program.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
* Microsoft Suite * Protools * Enco System * Microsoft Excel
* ISDN Connections for broadcast * ENPS * Audio Mixing * Vegas 4.0
* Dalet * NextGen Profit System * Research Oriented
* Visual Traffic Traffic System * SAW Plus * SCPR Access Contract Softwa
re
EDUCATION:
Certified Radio Operator with the Society of Broadcast Engineers
B.S. Business Administration
A.A. Liberal Arts/English minor - Editor-in-Chief of "Tradewinds" Newspaper