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West Chicago, Illinois, United States

West Chicago, Illinois, United States

West Chicago, Illinois

West Chicago, Illinois

Manage the execution and routing of creative for a $60MM automotive account. Also responsible for leading and mentoring project managers as well as creating improved creative processes for the Automotive Division.

West Chicago, IL

Responsible for implementing and managing the Creative project management process for a $60MM Tier 2 and Tier 3 Automotive Group. Goals are to increase efficiency, improve quality and facilitate communications between stakeholders.

West Chicago, IL

Responsible for implementing a Creative project management process for a $60MM Tier 2 and Tier 3 Automotive Group. Goals are to increase efficiency, improve quality and facilitate communications between stakeholders.

West Chicago, IL

• Responsible for managing multiple financial services account relationships, focused on creative development and project management, SOW development and client satisfaction.Primary Responsibilities and Accomplishments:
• Manage multi-channel B2C and B2B marketing creative development, including direct mail, digital, event marketing, video and trade show initiatives. Developed creative briefs and proofread copy and art proofs for over.
• Manage multiple financial services accounts and agency projects, involving corporate payments, fleet transportation, credit cards and payables verticals.
• Help establish the account team as a trusted strategic partner, developing positioning statements, recommending marketing channel execution, and communication strategies.
• Maintain and execute account functions such as billing, invoicing, reconciliation, process documentation, and communication management.

Naperville, IL

• A key player in the acquisition of new business, engaged in professional sales proposal development.Primary Responsibilities and Accomplishments:
• Manage proposal and sales support activities.
• Lead the development of client proposals, large statements of work, and responses to RFIs.
• Develop solution strategies for sales opportunities.
• Created solution diagrams, client requirements, and solution overviews used in RFP, RFI, and SOW responses.
• Proposals included the retail, cable, energy, pharmaceutical, insurance, and third party marketing industries, and consisted of marketing databases, analytic solutions, strategic consulting, data services, and software.

Naperville, IL

• Responsible for all bank marketing campaign activities of a large national insurance client.Key Responsibilities and Accomplishments:
• Ensured client satisfaction across the entire spectrum of services, including process improvement, campaign execution, system changes, and testing.
• Managed client system changes, providing project coordination, requirement gathering, and testing reviews.
• Translated client business needs into actionable campaign requirements.
• Created and facilitated over 60 ad hoc Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Assisted client with segmentation and audience selection decisions.

Downers Grove, IL

• Responsible for the client satisfaction of all marketing activities of a large financial services client.Key Accomplishments:
• Created business rules, functional requirements, and process maps for over 50 client processes.
• Used SQL to research database issues in a UNIX environment.
• Facilitated successful mainframe-to-server migration projects, reducing IT overhead by $6 million via the sun setting of mainframe resources and support.
• Facilitated model score to deciles conversions and streamlined timelines.
• Created SOW’s for IT enhancement projects.

Downers Grove, IL

• Responsible for the delivery of all cross-sell marketing activities of a large financial services client.Key Accomplishments:
• Owned a financial services account, generating $3 million annual revenue.
• Managed a 10-person IT production and development team.
• Used SQL to research database issues in a UNIX environment.
• Documented and validated client business rules, consulted on audience selection improvements, and assisted with DM response attribution processing.
• Worked with DM and TM vendors to ensure accurate offerings as well as consolidated and standardized TM vendor processing.

Downers Grove, IL

• Responsible for the programming support of all cross-sell marketing activities of a large financial services client.Key Accomplishments:
• Increased customer targeting by 30% through household-level improvements.
• Implemented documentation standards, resulting in 100% system coverage.
• Designed, coded, tested, and implemented mainframe COBOL enhancements.
• Managed production and development team as interim production manager

• Responsible for the programming support of the company's Underwriting Department.Key Accomplishments:
• Maintained and developmed mainframe underwriting support applications.
• Identified and presented process improvement opportunities to the client.
• Developed a Visual Basic test case entry system.
• Reduced expenses by implementing ‘hot fixes’ to the policyholder database.
• Ensured continuity of business through support of insurance agency backup applications.

• Responsible for emergency programming enhancements to the company's Property and Casualty Department.Responsibilities:Maintained mainframe Cobol processes for property/casualty insurance business. Used prescribed.
• Saved significant revenue by designing, coding, and implementing regular ‘hot fixes’ to customer database.
• Ensured continuity of business via support of insurance agency backup IT applications.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Activities and Societies: . - Computer Information Systems Association - Committee Chair - Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honor.

Associates, Pre-Engineering

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta KappaMajor changed to Computer Information Systems.