Greg Utz Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

Works with external vendors and internal customers to create ancillary materials. Software Development. Developed and executed innovative ideas from concept, budget to production.• Manage multiple offshore vendors and review high-level deliverables across projects. Minimizes exposure, manages scope, and mitigates risk across multiple projects.• Facilitated a global, unified information architecture, creating an internationally consistent online branding presence.• A key aspect of the role is combining customer service skills with technical knowledge and the ability to solve problems quickly and thoroughly and translating technical information to a non-technical audience. Translate customer needs into product requirements and take part in process reviews to discover areas that could realize efficiency gains.• Trained in WCAG & 508c, helps guide projects and make sure Elsevier maintains A11y compliance. Currently working on the EU A11y compliance mandate for 2025 regarding Elsevier's educational materials. Lead compliance management activities for digital services and technology covered under the Section 508 law in conjunction with IT staff. Serve as liaison to staff and faculty in the handling of digital accommodations of institutions, schools, and customers. Develop initiatives to further enhance services provided. Performing accessibility testing of digital course content. Writing remediation recommendations to faculty and staff to ensure course content follows WCAG 2.3 AA guidelines and is functionally accessible. Working with course production team, template libraries, and other units as needed to ensure procurement of ADA (WCAG 2.3) compliant products and to improve the accessibility of online materials. • Regularly sought out by product owners for my advice and expertise on key strategic projects• A history of identifying ineffective procedures, processes or functionality and successfully presented the need for change by presenting a sound case with data

Chesterfield, Mo

Integral in managing OOS Investments/Digital's various projects. From small to large billboard structures in Times Square to IT architectural software creation. Day-to-day management of helping run growing company. Gross sales topped 15 Million.Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple or large scale projects.Oversees senior managers, managers, contractors and unions working on client engagements within practice.Reviews high-level deliverables across projects.Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with our methodology to ensure profitable and successful execution of consulting engagements as measured by regional goals and customer satisfaction.Minimizes exposure, manages scope and mitigates risk across multiple projects.Ensures engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures take place for all practice engagements.Align business objectives with the IT infrastructure that supports those goals. Taking a company's business strategy and then defining an information technology systems architecture to support that strategy.Getting different departments, companies and unions to work together, ensuring that the job is done on time and also leading the whole team from the front. Responsible for planning, coordinating and completing a project properly and ensuring that the work is carried out according to the final design, plan and date of completion.

Developed and executed innovative ideas from concept to production.• Consulted with local small businesses in developing logos, websites and collateral materials.• Wrote, recorded and marketed music tracks for movie, TV, and video game industries.• Edited and produced video promos with background tracks.• Designing for billboards, static and LED.• Large Agricultural company – conference materials for subsidiaries• Firmwide reports

Integral in managing Genworth’s multiple internet sites, facilitating a unified architecture and consistency of online branding. Led effort to retool antiquated documents, improving time-to-market application, and administered Genworth’s corporate content management system.

Integral in managing Genworth's multiple internet sites, facilitating a unified architecture and consistency of online branding. Led effort to retool antiquated documents, improving time-to-market application, and administered Genworth's corporate content management system.Integral in managing Genworth's multiple Internet sites around the world. Facilitated a global, unified information architecture, creating an internationally consistent online branding presence.Managed the migration of global sites into the corporate content management system (CMS). Designed and governed web usability standards, web style-guides, web policies and domain/URL governance.Administrated the CMS, controlling sites' taxonomies, user access rights and media library content; site contained 4,000 pages and 1,000 digital assets (pdfs, jpgs, flash, gifs).Led conference calls with project updates.Drove CMS enhancements to improve redundancy and establish an auditable workflow of content changes.Supported online marketing efforts around metrics tracking, search, lead generation and user-persona development.Retooled forms into simplified fillable form pdfs; posted to a web image conversion to improve time-to-market application.

Responsible for creating innovative and original designs under tight deadlines. Managed and delegated projects to six temporary employees. Interacted with senior managers. Oversaw projects at the printer to ensure quality finished product. Responsible for vendor relationships and negotiating quotes. Maintained open line of communication with project managers and advised on design and layout to meet client vision and needs.

Updated and designed the Virginia State Bar website.Designed and produced monthly newsletter. Integral in development and design of tracking database to ensure timely deliveries. Concepted and designed 1998 State Bar Conference collateral. Conference materials produced under budget.Coordinated 22 monthly/bi-monthly specialty group newsletters and production/mailing schedules. Monitored and maintained budget. Ensured delivery schedule was met for each newsletter group. Coordinated Virginia State Bar’s speaker’s bureau.

• Designed and produced newsletters and training materials for Virginia's 500,000 volunteer and professional firefighters.• Strategy and execution of the educational programs that were started by the Governor. Worked closely with Governor’s Office. • Concepted, developed and designed Virginia Firefighter Day at King’s Dominion. Handled contracts, hired vendors, organized space and volunteers. Handled print materials and worked with local media organizations. Increased attendance by 150%.• Integral in design and building of Virginia's elementary safe house education program (kid-size house for fire safety). Managed budgets by developing string relationships with local print vendors.