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Trabuco Canyon, California, United States

Responsible for the success, oversight, guidance, direction, management, and project processes and financials for my Project and Program Management staff on accounts like Target, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Gap, Sony PlayStation, F5, AAA Washington and Shipt. As is the culture of our company, I also project manage some of my own accounts to stay fresh on the day-to-day project processes, needs, cross-functional team dynamics and innovations to help keep pushing our overall Program Management department IQ forward. I'm also responsible for most project estimations and scope/contract writing for any project-type we offer, from 360 marketing campaigns, to print materials (in-home or out-of-home), to digital banner ads, to email campaigns, to full-scale websites, to apps/progressive web apps, to brand/style guide work.Selected to serve on the Director Leadership team, which is responsible for keeping the alignment between employees and the Agency Leadership Team (ALT; C-suite). Also, part of the Director Leadership team's charge is to discuss company-wide needs and recommend solutions to the ALT.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Responsible for the resourcing, success, oversight, guidance, direction and processes for all the Project Management and Proofreading staff (including Print Production PMs, Interactive/Digital PMs, Data PMs, Cost Analysts, Team Leaders and Project Directors) for the AT&T account (the largest account in the agency). Manage up to 17 direct reports at once (typically 10-13 at once) and have a Project Management staff of 24 people under me. Again, selected to serve on the Leadership team, who is responsible for keeping the alignment between employees and the Officer team (VP's and CEO). Also, part of the Leadership team's charge is to discuss company needs and recommend solutions to the Officer team. I was a leader in bringing big-change ideas to the Officer team like: restructuring/refocusing our issue resolution meetings, recommending the hire of a CIO/CTO and putting a culture document in place.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for the resourcing, success, oversight, guidance, direction and processes for all the Project Management and Proofreading staff (including Print Production PMs, Interactive/Digital PMs, Data PMs, Cost Analysts, Team Leaders and Project Directors) for the AT&T account (the largest account in the agency). Managed up to 16 direct reports at once (typically 12-14 at once) and had a Project Management staff of 27 people under me.Selected to serve on the Leadership team, who is responsible for keeping the alignment between employees and the Officer team (VP's and CEO). Also, part of the Leadership team's charge is to discuss company needs and recommend solutions to the Officer team.

Greater Seattle Area

In addition to project managing complex print and digital direct marketing campaigns (as shown below), I also managed employees. I was responsible/accountable for the effective management of up to 6 direct reports consisting of Print Production Project Managers, Interactive/Digital Project Managers and Data Project Managers.

Greater Seattle Area

Project managed complex direct marketing (print and digital) campaigns for major brands like: Netflix, Expedia, Hyatt and AT&T. Campaigns included complex direct mail, emails, web sites, response capture/splash/landing pages and desktop/mobile display ad campaigns. Was responsible for all aspects of Project Management: budget management, schedule management, production management, vendor management and writing semi-technical data processing instructions.

Greater Seattle Area

Assisted the whole Project Management staff with tasks like writing purchase orders, change orders, proofreading marketing communications, routing marketing communications to other departments, managing daily tasks/schedules, communicating/giving direction to vendors and project managing my own small jobs.