Janell Karimoto
Current virtual and hybrid event producer, engineer, video editor, and on-air moderator with a history of pharmaceutical, liquor, and digital media sales.
- Role
- Senior Manager & Lead Events Engineer at Violex Digital
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Janell Karimoto
Strong aptitude for technical products, having effectively led teams in digital and hybrid event settings, ensuring operational excellence and impactful customer engagement. Expertise across high-profile client management, strategic account growth, and the execution of complex sales cycles within competitive territories.
Experience
Senior Manager & Lead Events Engineer
Sep 2020 — Present
Directed technical onboarding for high-profile speakers, managing pre-event checks and live execution to guarantee seamless event experiences. Co-led cross-functional teams to pre-emptively reduce and swiftly resolve technical issues for speakers, sponsors, and attendees, applying advanced problem-solving skills to maintain continuity and minimize disruptions.Mastered webcast production and engineering for standalone webinars, online conferences, and hybrid events using SaaS platforms such as Brandlive, Notified/Intrado, ON24, webinar.net, Bizzabo, Swapcard, and Zoom.Contributed to platform transition planning, working with vendor partners to ensure requirements are met across all Violex clients & sponsors.Designed and implemented comprehensive training programs for engineering and customer teams, enhancing technical skills and expediting the onboarding process, while using tools like Adobe Premiere for video editing and content refinement.Engineered over ~300 annual Questex strategic webinars and Fierce-branded virtual events, including notable industry-leading events like StreamTV, LDI, Fierce Telecom, and Fierce Pharma.Expanded and enhanced since 2010, increasing annual sessions from under 100 to over 450 by 2024 and introducing hybrid formats in 2023 to maximize investor engagement and company exposure through strategic webcasts and one-on-one virtual interactions.Oversaw a team of 20 webcast engineers and live day support to present The Remote Summit, an independent conference hosted by Arizona State University, coordinating over 200 speakers across 76 sessions over 7 concurrent tracks, designed to connect educators and share best practices in remote teaching and learning.
Education
University of Southern California
BA, Communication
1999 — 2003
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