Erica Kozocas Email & Phone Number

Brentwood, Ca, Us

San Francisco

Accounts – Pacific Gas and Electric, SunEdison, Recology, First Databank, DMB Pacific Ventures, and SS Jeremiah O'BrienResponsibilities Include:• Primary day-to-day client contact for development and implementation of marketing programs for all clients.• Creating SOWs/estimates, monitoring budgets, invoicing clients, manage budget trackers and forecasting, and approval of vendor invoices.• Producing projects through completion – videos, print ads, web banners, websites, social, radio, direct mail, collateral, outdoor, and tradeshow/experiential.• Manage media team and media campaigns – including billing, resources, project management. • Recruiting, resource allocation, and management of all teams.• Hands on with updating, light coding, and creating websites, creating PowerPoint decks, updates to creative, light proofreading, etc.

San Mateo, Ca

Client: Fisk AlloyConsult on Production Management - producing collateral, ads, tradeshow and permanent signage

Consulting on billing management: creating SOWs, managing billing workflow, facilitating estimates and invoices to clients as well as creating po's for vendors and processing vendor invoices and payments.

San Francisco

Client: GoogleArt Buying and producing of OOH Campaign, as well as manage product and lifestyle shoots and retouching.

San Francisco

Account: Blue ShieldPrint Production Management of Collateral Pieces for Blue Shield

Sunnyvale, Ca

Tablets and Phone Marketing Division - Brand Identity & Design Group• Lead and collaborate with Brand Identity and Creative Design team leadership to make key project decisions, including requirements gathering, scheduling, resource allocation, and coordination of client teams and approval process.• Define and manage project schedules and budgets from inception to completion.• Work with Brand Identity and Creative Design team to develop, implement, maintain, update, and communicate brand guidelines and enforce standards across all brands and product lines.• Shepherd work through all departments including marketing managers (local and international), product development, legal, compliance, localization, manufacturers, as well as outside vendors to ensure the cost-efficient, on-time execution of packaging and video projects.

Accounts: Procter & Gamble – Pantene and Clairol, Disney, Coors, FedEx, Allstate, Bank of America, Cingular, Visa, General Motors, Gilead, etc.• Produced extensive print, collateral, POS and outdoor campaigns, microsites, web banners, custom booths and traveling shows all while pushing the envelope creatively and negotiating costs to keep under budget.• Directed/managed studio, traffic, art buying, and print production departments including training and setting up goals for each individual and department and ensure that all goals have been met.• Evaluated and re-vamped processes and production departments, implemented changes, and trained all agency employees to create a smooth workflow and increase productivity and timing.• Increased profitability of studio over $200k in each of the first two years after implementation.

Accounts: IHOP, wine.com, PeopleSoft, Metricom, Offroad Capital, Blimpie, Mothers Cookies, etc.• Produced extensive print, collateral, and outdoor National award winning campaigns – managing photo shoots, retouching and printing.• Created project management/traffic workflow and department as well as working with a team to create a database to manage jobs efficiently, including an image database to eliminate duplication and legal concerns.• Created studio structure from scratch, including sourcing equipment and hiring, while making it a profit center billing $500k annually.• Created, maintained, and actualized budgets for in house departments and client budgets - working with the account heads and the CFO

Accounts: Kensington, National Semiconductor, Gravis, Schmaltz Brewery, etc.• Managed all production - print, online and videos - including many guerilla ideas and permanent displays that created substantial pr buzz.• Online production experience included jump pages, animated banners and interstitials.• Worked with an outside company to customize accounting software to work inline with the traffic/project management process to avoid an additional cost for two separate systems.

Accounts: Verifone, Price Waterhouse, Computerworld, Sun Microsystems, Cyrix, Xilinx, etc.• Managed photo shoots and illustrators, extensive retouching and press checks - including outdoor, collateral, and direct mail• Handled scheduling, project management, proofreading, video production and tradeshow/exhibit signage and promotions• Supervised a staff of project managers, production artist, web programmers, and freelance creative teams• Estimated, budgeted, and actualized costs on all jobs, and kept current on knowledge of all tax laws

Business

Print Production