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Managed projects at all stages—from conception to completion. Improved pipeline of work, engage partners, coordinate with external talent, and create opportunities for cohesion within the team. Developed project plans and timelines, including scoping, kickoffs, schedules, milestones, risk, budget, team member communications and delivery. Facilitated relationships between teams, finding resources, raising concerns to appropriate owners early, and resolving open issues that prevent progress.

Managed timelines, deliverables, and teams producing integrated campaigns and marketing content including social posts, email campaigns, paid acquisition, product launches, media production, research reports, & live events.Served as the lynch pin between the creative team — including designers, copywriters, editors, animators, art directors and creative directors — and key project stakeholders across the marketing division.Owned and drove the creative project lifecycle including scoping/planning, scheduling, resourcing, requirements gathering, design reviews, and delivery.Efficiently communicated with team to ensure project goals and expectations are clear and realistic.Participated in and facilitated design reviews and project reflections.Met multiple deadlines, prioritized work, and kept projects moving forward.Scheduled, managed, and addressed cross-functional feedback and stakeholder approvals with a completely remote and distributed team across the globe.Built, shared and trained exhaustive documentation for new processes, as well as current ones in need of better adoption, ensuring smoother and more effective team collaboration.Predicted and/or identified roadblocks and obstacles, and proactively established meetings or integration points between teams to address and resolve them.

Produced a variety of short and long term projects with budgets ranging from $250k to $800k, for clients including Google, Data Robot, Verizon, The Schultz Family Foundation, and Fermata Energy. These cross disciplinary projects ranged from full website builds to branding and Go to Market strategy initiatives to the design, fabrication, and installation of large scale convention booth activations.I crafted schedules, created and monitored budgets and a margins, and led multi-disciplinary teams of 15-20 people, including UX designers, creative strategists, copywriters, art directors and digital designers, motion & 3D designers, tech leads, developers, and QA analysts from both a strategic high level, as well as day-to-day tasks.In addition to my project work, I also lead an initiate to research, test, and implement new project management processes and tools, culminating in a company wide roll-out of Asana for the planning, management, and reporting of both active projects as well as the sales pipeline.Should you ask my colleagues, they would resoundingly report that my projects succeeded not only due to my PM best practices, organization, and attention to detail, but also the kindness and care with which I interacted both with my agency team, as well as our clients.

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Managed a full time staff of 9 production managers and 30+ technicians across 9 US offices, and oversaw the production of upwards of 6000 photo and video activations ranging from wedding photo booths to custom multi-day installations at music festivals and conventions.- Personally coordinated and produced over 3000 activations in the Western US with a total revenue of $12.9M, including an average of 5 projects/yr of $20k or above.- Recruited, trained, and managed a local team of on-site event technicians and ensured their proficiency in technical, troubleshooting, and client management skills, leading to an average client satisfaction rating of over 90%.- Leveraged internal technologies and 3rd party software to craft custom experiences for brands including CocaCola, American Airlines, Google, Oculus, Twitter, Target, and the NBA. - Assisted sales team with designing experiences that met unique client needs and requests, while also pushing our development team to innovate according to activation requirements.- Designed and wire-framed several new app builds and directed their creation by our development team.Created and implemented integrated systems built on Slack, Salesforce, and Dropbox to ensure seamless collaboration, troubleshooting, and oversight among managers, designers, technicians and ownership.

Field Trip is a creative retreat held annually in Southern California. Each spring, 500+ attendees, teachers, & sponsors gather for 5 days of education, collaboration, & vacation.

Fullerton, Ca

Oversee the daily operations process, assisting 5 in-office employees and 10-15 independent contractors.Develop, plan, and implement new programs and procedures to improve productivity, profitability, and overall success.Manage all marketing efforts and communications (email campaigns, social media, and sponsorships).

Fullerton, Ca

Overseeing the image editing workflow from order submission & scheduling to quality control & delivery. Managing all communications with past, present, & future clients. Assisting with technical support, issue resolution, invoicing and customer relations.

-Manage over 40 students in 8 different project groups.-Stimulate and corral creative thinking into achievable strategic initiatives.-Lead projects to assist, teach, and mentor those in our community and abroad in the areas of entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, success skills, financial literacy, and market economics.-Assemble and lead 10 member presentation team in hopes of winning regional competition and attending nationals for the fourth consecutive year.

-Oversaw the creation of a 24-minute 6-person popcorn style presentation script.-Edited and modified script to be concise but impactful.-Scheduled and organized practice sessions with 10-person team.-Assisted in creation of support media for presentation.

ShootDotEdit is a professional post-production editing house for wedding and portrait photographers.-Edited photographs with speed and precision.-Worked with expert ability in both broad spectrum (Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Lightroom) and pixel-specific editing (Adobe Photoshop) programs.-Detected and corrected slight differences in color, contrast, and saturation.-Met deadlines at a fast paced, growing company

-Created Residential Neighborhood Marketing Strategy now being used by most of the five franchises in San Diego.-Increased New Customer leads by 169% from the previous summer (May to July).-Incorporated the use of technology to create a readily available plotted map of jobs from the previous three years.

Bachelors Of Science, Marketing, Minor In Sociology

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