David Grant

Commercial clients include: Toyota, Ram Trucks, Ameriprise Financial, Novant Health, Puma, and Food Lion. ● Lead remote planning, scheduling, contract coordination, and multi vendor communication prior to on site execution to ensure seamless handoff between preparation and production teams. ● Coordinate permitting, safety, compliance, and multi location operations while keeping communication aligned across all departments. ● Negotiate property access with hesitant private property owners and businesses and secure all contracts needed for execution. ● Create schedules, maps, and layout plans, manage vendor movement, and supervise teams remotely and on site to keep production and location activity on time. ● Work with city officials, police, and vendors to ensure safe and compliant execution for each project. ● Develop and manage logistics budgets, cost breakdowns, and vendor estimates to maintain financial control across each project.

● Lead Assistant locations manager responsible for planning and overseeing on site operations for The Hunting Wives Seasons One and Two for Netflix and Lionsgate, including permitting, contract negotiation, neighborhood outreach, budgeting, and daily logistical planning. ● Coordinate logistics for crews ranging from 100 to 1,500 people across multiple episodes and locations while maintaining alignment with production leadership and executive stakeholders.. ● Oversee permitting, vendor contracts, and multi location coordination for The Righteous Gemstones, Halloween, Hightown and additional studio productions. ● Lead direct outreach with municipalities, property owners, and community stakeholders to secure sensitive and high traffic locations while protecting schedules and production timelines. ● Manage multi city logistics, vendor contracting, police coordination, safety plans, and multi day schedules across more than one hundred active locations ● Supported productions with budgets ranging from six to nine figures through location planning, permitting, and execution. ● Consistently delivered projects on time by coordinating distributed teams, maintaining detailed schedules, and resolving access, permitting, and stakeholder issues before they impacted production timelines or budgets.

● Supported creative and production teams across networks including Food Network, Discovery Channel, HGTV, MTV, and Bravo. Shows included HGTV Island, Mexico & Hawaii Life, Iron Chef, Gypsy Sisters, Real World, Top Chef, Doomsday Preppers, Property Wars, and others. ● Coordinated daily field operations, secured locations with very limited lead time, and managed remote and on site teams in demanding environments. ● Handled talent coordination, location access, and budgeting all remotely before traveling to execute the project. This included major cities as well as small islands in the Caribbean. Led on the ground problem solving to keep filming on schedule.