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Irvine, CA

Costa Mesa, California

• Developed a team of five from Associate Project Manager through Senior Project Manager for growth and promotion.
• Created and maintained communication flow to ensure process efficiencies while working a product launch cross-regionally.
• Executed project and staffing plans, forecasting and creative resourcing.
• Mitigated risks of projects and created executable plans.
• Collaborated with senior management to make operational decisions.
• Nurtured cross-functional relationships by advocating for other departments during project planning.

Huntington Beach, California

• Collaborated with client for production needs within the marketing and sales departments.
• Communicated expectations with the client for a clear understanding of the request through project plans, status reports and timelines.
• Managed entire procurement process through delivery while maintaining tight deadlines and executing to budgets.

Lake Forest, CA

• Managed content for over 200 deliverables across 41 vehicle trims to support multi-platform app rewrite while working with multiple client vendors.
• Developed monthly and quarterly analytics derived from the app and portal performance for client presentation.
• Executed and managed budgets of nearly $900k.

Foothill Ranch, CA

• Cultivated a team of five Project Managers and developed overall project management methodologies while collaborating with department leads and project teams to execute on-time and on-budget project delivery.
• Guided and mentored staff that drove cross-functional projects throughout all departments maintaining proper protocols for briefs, timelines and budgets.
• Directed Go-To-Market collateral, catalogs and packaging.
• Assessed changes in project scopes, identified potential risks and devised contingency plans within print environments.
• Developed and managed project plans, status and traffic reports.

Costa Mesa, CA

• Managed daily project workflows on various accounts within print and digital from brief through production while maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Trafficked multi-scale projects while working closely with all disciplines to assess risk and address any scope changes.
• Established and enforced timelines, projected internal estimates and regulated budgets.
• Maintained daily status reports and conducted weekly traffic meetings.

Greater San Diego Area, CA

• Implemented a company-wide workflow process for marketing requests and approvals along with managing and maintaining status reports, schedules and timelines, creating efficiencies for the team.
• Scheduled, organized and coordinated all workflow within creative department including all website and marketing photo assets.
• Negotiated print bids and handled color, catalog printing and press checks.
• Maintained, tracked and handled PO’s and budgets for photography and print.

Santa Ana, CA

• Directed and assigned all projects and trafficked workflow through artists, designers, freelancers and prototype builders establishing succinct communication.
• Managed projects through entire lifecycle – ideation, rendering, prototyping, game play, graphics, video production and build of presentation.
• Prepared and maintained all budgets, status reports, schedules and timelines.

Foothill Ranch, CA

• Managed 85% of global and regional point-of-purchase, ad and graphic requests, usually exceeding 75 concurrent projects at one time.
• Developed, implemented and maintained a structured traffic and workflow process that improved communication between global departments.
• Administered weekly status meetings to promote communication on projects.
• Worked with multiple stakeholders to interpret and implement graphic needs.

Ba, Communications

Activities and Societies: Ad Club Board Member, AAF Team - American Red CrossAd Club Board Member

Aa, General

Activities and Societies: College newspaperJournalist on school paper