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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

• As the Team Integrations role matured, so did its objective: to maintain the agency's competitiveness in a constantly-evolving marketplace. Areas of focus include:
• Leading the agency’s integration of Generative AI into operational and executional workflows
• “Future-proofing” scenario planning and resolution roadmapping
• Product ideation and implementation planning for enterprise-scale operational tools
• Serving as the tactical liaison between parent company initiatives and the interests of the agency
• Continued buildout of proprietary agency tools/applications (both operational and production-oriented) to yield enhanced outputs and/or operational efficiencies

Austin, Texas, United States

• Serving in a first-of-its-kind, cross-discipline role responsible for driving continuous process improvements, evolving executional workflows, and implementing innovative technology to radically enhance our teams’.
• Building inter-agency resource models to maintain client production requirements while meeting unexpected budget cuts
• Defining and deploying (first-ever) in-agency hybrid resources (myself being one of them, serving as a hybrid Producer/Program Manager on a few “road-test” engagements)
• Constructing numerous custom tools for automating operational reporting needs, including utilization dashboards and resource/financial forecast modeling
• Guiding large-scale agency technology shifts (meeting complex requirements while mitigating operational impact)
• Modernizing legacy executional workflows and processes (for example, implementing our agency's dynamic display workflow to drive significant time and resource efficiencies)

Austin, Texas Area

• Serving as the sole account Producer on a leading client within R/GA's Austin office, while also leveraging multiple opportunities to increase my experience/exposure to content production functions and responsibilities
• Managing simultaneous large-scale creative campaigns from brief development to asset delivery and fulfillment
• Serving as the primary liaison between the agency and third-party media vendors to develop integrated project plans (and institute change management procedures, as needed)
• Responsible for developing the financial strategy, associated scope and resulting documentation for an annual multimillion-dollar engagement
• Developed and implemented account-wide and project-specific communications plans to keep team members connected and projects in motion during the COVID-19 health crisis (and the resulting long-term work from home.
• Worked closely with team members to gain an understanding of their strengths, interests and technical proficiencies in order to provide tailored resourcing recommendations based on project needs

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed a high-profile agency account while also working directly with the head of Project Management to create and deploy process improvements throughout the agency.
• Developed and implemented a proposal to restructure project roles and responsibilities for both agency and client stakeholders, including launching the first client/agency PM-to-PM project communication plan on the.
• Allocated time outside of the demanding day-to-day account needs to develop numerous web-based agency and account tools such as automated budget trackers, resource forecasting tools, and estimating worksheets.
• Served as a leading stakeholder in the rollout and ongoing maintenance/optimization of an agency-wide digital workflow tool.
• Continuously recorded areas for improvement on the client account and presented detailed solutions to the agency’s executive leadership team.
• Developed and lead a workshop with a client’s newly-developed Project Management team to provide 101-level education and the fundamental techniques related to Project Management and Change Management disciplines.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for ensuring simultaneous project successes across multiple accounts from start to finish.
• Serving as the intermediary between client, account, and creative teams to oversee and guide project execution and delivery.
• Functioning as the day-to-day client contact in order to address any concerns and ensure alignment between client and agency expectations.
• Working directly with resource management and agency discipline Leads to accurately scope and staff all incoming work.
• Acting as the liaison between the agency and third-party vendors including video, animation and photography production companies, commercial printing vendors, event coordination companies and stock photography vendors.

Greater Chicago Area

• Worked within VSA Partners' Project Management discipline to ensure that all projects and internal initiatives are delivered on-time and under budget.
• Providing support in the planning and organizing of activities within other disciplines, such as User Experience, Development, Strategy, and Design, in order to ensure the on-time, on-budget delivery of projects.
• Reviewing all Client SOWs for financial accuracy and ensuring that proper client considerations/assumptions are in place.
• Working with Client Engagement and Project Management team to produce accurate financial reporting.
• Documenting the project team’s approach, deliverables, schedule and tools to deliver the project within established constraints.
• Helping to coordinate and maintain project documentation, including status reports, invoices, change orders, project schedules, budgets, and post mortem reviews. Ensure that all project documentation is produced in the.

Chicago, IL

• Engaged in a multidisciplinary internship with VSA Partners’ project management team and communications department. Project Management Overview – Assisting numerous members of VSA's project management team to ensure.
• Tracking budgets to identify and communicate any issues/risks that could cause potential margin changes
• Managing project financial lifecycle, including billing, invoicing and budget tracking
• Working with Resource Management to ensure that projects are appropriately staffed
• Helping to ensure that all deliverables are timely, up-to-date, and aligned with stakeholder expectationsCommunications Overview – Worked directly under the Director of Communications in the ongoing management of all.
• Responsible for all ongoing updates to the company's social media channels- ensuring that all content is delivered on-time and is aligned with the company’s image

Chicago, IL

• Responsible for activating the agency’s marketing and communications plan.
• Strategized techniques to drive brand awareness, improve social engagement and direct online traffic to company website.
• Responsible for planning, managing and executing social media initiatives (spanning owned, earned and paid social channels).
• Spearheaded a six-week effort to promote the agency’s upcoming appearance on a national television show (AMC’s “The Pitch”).
• Prepared monthly reports to communicate progress and goals to all employees.