Catarina Smith Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Drive the development and implementation of overarching production strategies and day-to-day operations throughout our print operations team. This includes:• Owning and optimizing the overarching operations schedules for products and print innovations, ensuring that all production phases flow efficiently between teams. • Driving iteration on those schedules and scenarios with the print operations team and other studio producers, in collaboration with resource managers. • Designing, building, and maintaining operations Smartsheet reports and dashboards across all of Operations. • Leading and supporting a diverse group of production professionals across several areas of focus (production management, packaging engineering, quality engineering, localization, prepress) to be leaders in their craft. • Coordinating high-level strategy with partners to align overall print innovation needs. • Representing the needs of print operations with all production partners, positively driving the relationships involved in development with minimal direction. • Surfacing issues, roadblocks, and concerns between development teams and vendors. • Crafting clear and proactive communication to the print operations team, vendors, and leadership. • Championing change and leading the implementation of new ideas for improvement.

Greater Seattle Area

- Developed and implemented custom Smartsheet project plans, reports, and dashboards for Wizards operations. - Championed data-driven decision making by developing KPIs for the team and our suppliers.- Coordinated print testing efforts across eight global print vendors, developing standard process and timelines to ensure on-time completion (improved by 90%) and passing tests (improved by 65%). - Standardized and improved communication between operations and partners (internal and external), resulting in greater trust between all parties.

United States

- Drove early conceptual, creative, and physical development of new Star Wars segments- Drove creative solutions to improve speed to market despite international economic headwinds.- Delivered 120 Star Wars SKUs to market annually: facilitated cross-functional collaboration, mitigated risk, and drove on-time delivery.- Created efficiencies by mapping development processes, identified time-saving strategies.- Developed WeBI reports, including weekly task forward planning, resource analysis reports, and on-time delivery metrics.- Mentored and trained new hires on a consistent basis on project management skills, best practices, and data analytics.

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States

• Delivered 80 Star Wars and Ghostbusters SKUs to market annually through facilitating cross-functional collaboration, mitigating risk, and driving on-time delivery.• Negotiated time-saving strategies with international vendors to maintain <85% on-time delivery in 2020 despite production headwinds.• Forecasted with 80% accuracy factory workload by developing predictive models• Developed and executed strategies for maintaining data integrity across the action brands portfolio•

177 Huntington Ave, Boston, Ma

1027 Newport Ave, Pawtucket, Ri 02862

Masters Of Science (M.S.), Engineering/Industrial Management

Activities and Societies: Galante Engineering Business Program Fellow

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Scholars Program, Honors Program, Dean's List