Gary Talpas Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

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Greater Los Angeles Area

Design and Project Manager for LA-based design firm focusing on retail interiors, store planning, branding, identity, environmental graphics, and graphic design. Overpass Creative partners with clients to provide full-spectrum branding and all concomitant design and planning needs.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Design and Project Manager at Pasadena-based full-service design firm focusing on retail environments, with a specialization in food retail. DLE provides design services including concept design, design development, store layout, and interior and exterior architectural design. DLE also provides in-house fabrication services, including engineering; signage.

Singapore, SG

• Consultancy position in Singapore developing the Universal Studios Singapore theme park.
• Worked in collaboration with zone Art Directors to enhance and implement the Creative Lead's vision, primarily responsible for identifying, organizing and overseeing the design and fabrication of all non-attraction.
• Worked with other team members to produce documentation, drawings, sketches, spreadsheets, etc., required to fully represent design intent to the schematic level.
• Coordinated and oversaw approval of vendor programs as well as advice on fabrication and procurement methods to drive the project to completion under the given deadlines while controlling and insuring the assigned.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Executive Assistant and “right-hand man” to President of Recruitment & Talent Management (RTM) practice group within Hudson North America. Coordinated all meetings, communication, travel, and presentation materials for.
• One of ten members on North American Management Team.
• Coordinated logistics and helped develop content for internal Standards of Excellence program which incorporated organizational best practices, recruiter financial methodologies, and metrics tracking.
• Liaison and project manager for recruitment metrics reporting, collection, analysis, and distribution.
• Oversaw and developed marketing campaigns and materials for the practice group in conjunction with corporate Marketing.
• President’s delegate in dealing with employee compliance with processes and procedures.

Glendale, CA

• Production-based role leading cross-divisional design-build projects for retail and commercial clients in order to facilitate and expedite timely completion and improve client satisfaction.
• Coordinated projects through all phases, from inception to proposal development, design, design development, fabrication, installation, construction, and hand-over to client.
• Managed inter-divisional projects as a driver of information and general problem-solving.

Glendale, CA

• Leadership role for Environments and Brand Communications departments.
• Primary coordinator for one of three corporate divisions (Envision) in the inception, design, and design development of turnkey retail and commercial environments.
• Assisted in graphic design and art direction with Creative Director and Art Director of design department
• Devised and implemented structural process in rapidly growing, creative environment while improving business processes.
• Point for customer communication between creative staff and clients

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Managed high volume of CEO’s assignments to the 40-member Executive Cabinet, overseeing timely and accurate completion of work prior to final reporting back to the CEO via a self-designed tracking system to account for.
• Primary go-to on unique problem solving in general project administration, often simultaneously managing select projects for the Chief of Staff.
• Drafted high volume and variety of documents, including extensive copywriting, under the CEO's signature to community members, business leaders, city government, union heads, and state- and federal-level legislators.
• Liaison to the Finance Department for the CEO's budget of $1.17 million annually.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Performed all roles and functions of full-service art and production department for artists on label, artists licensed from other labels, and special projects such as soundtracks.
• Designed packaging for compact discs and all connected point-of-purchase and marketing materials.
• Coordinated approval on all projects and held sign-off responsibility prior to production, working closely with Interscope Geffen A&M staff through to completion.
• Contracted designers, photographers and illustrators, while also creating own designs, photography, and illustrations.
• Designed retail merchandise for Nothing Records subsidiary Object Merchandising, and designed and maintained a quarterly catalog for retailers of Object's full line of products.

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