James Kurczaba Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Saskatoon, Canada Area

Calgary, Canada Area

Saskatoon, Canada Area

Responsible for all business development functions in Saskatchewan—new business prospecting, fostering strategic partnerships, attending industry events, and participating in industry organizations; Formed an in-house advertising agency to provide marketing services to existing architectural clients; Managed a creative team and contract web developers through two internal website refreshes and various client work including: Brand development, print ads, OOH, social media strategy/ads, media buying, signage/environmental graphics and web design/development; Acted as main point of contact for clients—created estimates, wrote proposals, pitched work, lead all discovery workshops and meetings, and provided guidance and support throughout the entire creative process; Produced user personas, wireframes, sitemaps, user flow, interactive prototypes in Adobe XD and website/ad copy; Developed a brand strategy on-boarding process for new clients that has received accolades from current and past clients; Oversaw Microsoft Dynamic CRM implementation and best practices across organization

Calgary, Canada Area

Main responsibilities include brief writing, project management, budgeting, social media management and scheduling across multiple accounts; Secondary duties include copywriting, strategic planning, proposal writing and deck building; Project types include brand development, strategic planning, advertising, media planning, media buying, social media planning and web production management.

Calgary, Canada Area

Coordinated and directed the creation of strategic marketing materials; Created a company-wide planning spreadsheet to track sales across company departments; Aided in the deployment of a CRM system across the company and worked with management to achieve buy-in; Worked with management to do a full strategic development of a department that included re-branding efforts; Supported in the production of video, graphics, sound design, and copywriting for various client deliverables; Video co-producer in an award winning architectural design competition entry.

Calgary, Canada Area

Managed a team of five members to design and develop large-scale websites; Responsible for lead design and UX on all projects; Managed budget, scope and timeline to ensure high-quality client delivery; Responsible for client interactions to ensure client understanding of project progression.

Calgary, Canada Area

Hired to take photos for the 2011 campaign (Gary Mar), Hired to shoot the cover photo and article spread for the Summer 2011 Where Calgary magazine (http://goo.gl/lT49n).

Calgary, Canada Area

Calgary, Canada Area

Tried out against 200+ students; Selected as one of three team members to compete in the Marketing academic case; Weekly practice to develop case writing and presentation skills; Competed against 12 universities and placed third overall.

Calgary, Canada Area

Calgary, Canada Area

Main duties were the design and composition of a high profile project booklet to be presented to the project founder; Used InDesign to create all supporting content for booklet; Secondary duties included a diverse range of activities such as photography, proposal assembly, writing correspondence and organizing a corporate event.

Calgary, Canada Area