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Content Operations & Media Coordination
I work at the intersection of content operations, media coordination, and mission-driven work, bringing production discipline and a genuine investment in the communities I serve. CMU Master of Entertainment Industry Management · Delaware State B.S. Information Technology, Summa Cum Laude.
Areas of Practice
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End-to-end production management, catalog coordination, metadata, digital asset workflows, and content distribution across platforms.
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Primary qualitative research, executive stakeholder interviews, industry analysis, and data-informed recommendations.
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Podcast production, sync licensing coordination, cue sheet documentation, and music rights administration.
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Arts Management & Technology Laboratory · CMU · 2023–2024
Managed end-to-end production for 16 podcast episodes at CMU's AMT Lab, covering the intersection of arts, technology, and media innovation. Handled every stage of the production pipeline, including recording, editing, transcript creation, and multi-platform distribution, while running monthly analytical reports to inform operational decisions. Identified a structural gap in the content model and redesigned the release strategy from standalone episodes into two serialized series (Art & Code and Art & Climate), improving discoverability, listener consistency, and long-term retention.
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Delaware State University · Honors Thesis & Capstone · 2022
Built a multilingual speech emotion recognition model using deep learning and convolutional neural networks, designed to classify emotional states from audio input across five languages. The model achieved 85% accuracy, a 39% improvement over comparable research, because it was trained on linguistically diverse data rather than the English-only datasets that dominate the field. The research has direct implications for audio metadata classification, accessibility technology, and AI-driven content analysis in media contexts.
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Carnegie Mellon University · Graduate Capstone · 2024–2025
Conducted original primary research into how independent record labels are adapting their strategies in response to DSPs, social media, and direct-to-fan models, developed in partnership with Shaboom Records. To ground the analysis in real industry practice, conducted executive interviews with leaders at Position Music, Beatport, and Rostrum Records. Those conversations informed a cross-company analysis of revenue diversification, catalog strategy, audience development, and platform dependency, surfacing three core structural tensions defining where independent labels stand today.
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Carnegie Mellon University · Music Supervision Course · 2024
Applied professional music supervision methodology to two film sequences, selecting and licensing music based on scene tone, emotional arc, pacing, and rights parameters. Produced full spotting notes, the industry-standard documentation used to coordinate between directors, composers, and licensing teams, for each assignment. Work included a re-score of a key scene from Waiting to Exhale and a 30-minute supervised edit of The Truth About Cats and Dogs. This work sits at the intersection of rights administration, content metadata, and editorial coordination.
Content & Media Operations
Audio Production
Research & Analysis
Project & Production Coordination
Content Strategy & Creation
Education
I'm Jabreneé Hussie, a content operations and media coordination professional based in the DMV, with a background that runs from sync licensing and catalog management to machine learning research and podcast production. I hold a Master of Entertainment Industry Management from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College and a B.S. in Information Technology from Delaware State University, where I graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Honors Program.
At Position Music, I managed catalog curation in DISCO, handled cue sheet documentation for NBC Sports placements, and coordinated across 200+ sync placements. At Shades Collective, I worked on production coordination and brand partnerships. At CMU's Arts Management & Technology Lab, I ran end-to-end podcast production and content strategy for an entire academic year. Throughout, I've treated operations as a craft. The cleaner the workflow, the better the work that moves through it. I thrive in environments with clear timelines, defined workflows, and operational structure — and I bring that same clarity to every team I work with.
My undergraduate honors thesis built a multilingual speech emotion recognition model in Python using convolutional neural networks, and that work now informs how I think about audio metadata, content classification, and AI-adjacent media roles. I'm drawn to organizations where cultural programming, content systems, and community impact intersect: nonprofits, universities, associations, and public-sector institutions doing meaningful work in the DMV region.