Chris Varela, Pmp Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Pleasanton, California, United States

Pleasanton, California

How I spent a lot of my time:Working with our creative teams to help things run smoothly and efficiently by establishing and optimizing scalable processes. I had the unique opportunity to foster a cross-functional partnership with our creative directors, designers, copywriters, and PMO. This includes a heavy dose of Workfront System administration, data analysis and report building as well.How else I spent my time:Managing projects—all aspects of projects involving our print/digital design, copywriting, and web production teams, in partnership with marketing managers across the globe.Tools I used daily:Workfront (system administrator), AEM DAM, Lucidchart, Google Workspace, MS excel (nested IF statements, anyone?), InDesign (for the occasional emergency collateral piece edit that a designer is unavailable to work on…)Specializations: Setting creative teams up to scale, building reports/metric dashboards, managing account based marketing tactic production, increasing efficiency and establishing methods to the madness Org: Marketing PMO

Pleasanton, Ca

Managing scope, schedule, communication, and creative resources for web, digital, and print marketing projects involving our creative team.

San Francisco Bay Area

Occasionally moonlighting as a DJ and MC for weddings and special events.

San Francisco Bay Area

Accomplishments:• Created and managed project processes for all marketing and creative campaigns.• Introduced and led daily creative team production meetings.• Instituted naming conventions and file folder structure for all digital assets produced by creative services department.• Curated and administrated Digital Asset Management system containing 20,000+ digital assets marketing materials for entire organization• Worked with vendors and internal partners to drive and manage email marketing campaign production and approvals process (4-5 emails sent per week, 650k subscribers).

San Ramon, Ca

Planned and managed project deliverables, timelines, and budgets for client projects while maintaining positive, value-added relationships with clients as well as internal teams made up of designers and marketing strategists.

San Ramon, Ca

Led a team of interns, staff and volunteers to implement programs for youth.Defined and implemented vision, mission, and values of events and programs.Developed and implemented communication strategies to ensure program stakeholders were informed at all levels.Recruited, trained, acted as mentor and led a core team of adult volunteer leaders.Managed and maintained program website. Managed the creation of digital, web and print content for events and programs.Prepared marketing and promotional materials to support programs.Led project teams in identifying scope, deliverables, schedules and success criteria.Managed all aspects of projects including assignment and completions of tasks.Acted as a liaison for students and community events.Managed multiple program budgets.

Santa Cruz, California

Managed all project-related communication with clients, streamlined internal conversations between the design and development team, organized meetings, drove conference calls, wrote sales proposals, scoped out potential projects, "curated" Trello (web-based project management tool), followed up on sales leads, maintained and cultivated good relationships with our current clients.

Mount Hermon, Ca

Manage, facilitate, and prioritize all graphic design/marketing projects. Also completed credit card reconciliations, processed invoices for payment, and tracked and managed department expenses.

Supervised the male counseling staff. Provided leadership, guidance and growth through verbal encouragement, assisting in meeting their goals, and challenging them to take risks, while also holding them to a standard of excellence. Led and organized daily meetings with counselors and other staff members to plan for the events of the day and to update counselors on rest of day’s schedule, mentored and met needs of counselors by providing curriculum resources, advice on counseling, and trusting in their decisions. Assisted counselors with handling and resolving challenging camper issues and situations. Collected, mailed, and assured quality of 100+ reports filled out by counselors each week.

Mount Hermon, Ca

Environmental education teacher teaching about plants, animals, and ecosystems.

Summer Internship,Responsible for obtaining signed documents from buyer and seller in real estate transactionCreated and organized real estate transaction files and documentsActed as a mediator between buyer and seller of real estate transactionActed as a liaison between buyer, seller, and Escrow Company. Collaborated with buyer, buyer's agent, and title company to complete transaction

Responsible for a groups of campers ranging from 3rd to 8th grade, for a week in a cabin. Led experiential and motivational activities. Planned and prepared daily religious studies. Established rapport and trust with parents

Business Administration, Finance, Financial Management

Activities and Societies: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Club Ultimate Frisbee Team

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