Jesi J Driessen Email & Phone Number

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne Area, Germany

Calgary, Canada Area

Jesi was responsible for the resource scheduling of Assurance engagements for Calgary and Vancouver. She worked closely with partners and senior managers to ensure that staff schedules aligned with engagement needs, and that optimal staff utilization was achieved.• Tackled significant resourcing constraints while identifying potential solutions by assessing engagement needs, reviewing staffing options, negotiating with partners and providing recommendations.• Met with partner group annually to determine staffing plans for the upcoming year.• Built trust with engagement managers as their main contact to manage the staffing pool while constantly adapting to change through promoting and monitoring the sharing of resources by facilitating challenging discussions with partners and senior managers to address resource needs.• Coordinated with other resource managers and built relationships across the firm to balance workloads and address staffing needs.• Reassigned and redistributed resources to cope with personnel leaving/joining EY, and to meet changing client needs (work is either delayed or moved forward). • Monitored unassigned resources and proactively identified assignments to increase chargeable hours. • Used scheduling tools to generate reports and forecast hours, track utilization and identify upcoming engagement needs. Built a specialized report at the request of an engagement manager, helping to resolve issues in a more efficient and effective manner.• Managed approximately 225 staff schedules each year.

Head Office

Jesi was responsible for coordinating the production and distribution of corporate marketing material across all MNP regional offices. This included being responsible for all print material, promo items and tradeshow displays.• Coordinated, monitored, tracked and organized all marketing collateral for the entire firm nationally. • Was responsible for coordinating and organizing translations for the firm; executed 95 translations.• Updated landing page templates and corporate print materials website using HTML/xHTML and CSS.• Managed relationships with external vendors across Canada to coordinate deadlines, resolved invoicing issues and ensured products were of highest quality.• Included executive assistant duties: scheduled meetings, processed invoices, organized/maintained files, prepared and edited reports/presentations. • Designed and formatted Public Company brand standards document, to be used by firm nationally.• Involved in large, company-wide campaigns; such as the campus recruitment All Access Campaign. Implemented the printing, shipping and distribution of marketing collateral for nationwide campaigns.

Toronto, Canada Area

Jesi coordinated the workflow and production of 50 fiction titles a month, managed the digital asset database and performed all QC functions for digital and print titles.• Digital Asset Management: Managed database and associated workflows to guarantee quality control from print to digital; verified changes made to the print titles were incorporated into the digital versions seamlessly• Accountable for 50 titles a month in both print and digital formats• Managed workflows, both in-house and with freelancers• Liaised with all departments involved and oversaw the accurate completion of titles, assessing current workflow to ensure deadlines were met for all formats• Performed all QC functions for digital titles before submitting to online retailers (Amazon and Apple) as well as performing all associated reworks• Organized Top Author Approval process, from Editorial to Typesetting, ensuring the completion of all requested changes and corrections• Coordinated digital files to all subsidiaries and third-party publishers, involving constant communication with Legal, Marketing, Editorial, Proofreading, Typesetting and Production• Assigned and oversaw titles to the Typesetting department• Approved all print and digital text before uploading to print and digital vendors• Involved in the execution and training of dept. in company-wide software implementation• Daily use of Sharepoint

Jesi produced all publications for the Manitoba/Saskatchewan region, organized cover bookings for national publications and maintained archival digital database.• Responsible for all publications in the Manitoba/Saskatchewan region• Organized all cover bookings for national publications as well as being responsible for the production of national publications• Coordinated with various departments nationally to ensure the approval process for all display ads and files met production deadline• Maintained file organization, naming conventions and workflow procedures. Compiled end-of-day reports, managed corporate accounts; maintained archival database and created new layouts/templates

Published writer for the Pipestone Flyer; the Central Alberta Community Newspaper for Wetaskiwin, Millet, Leduc and Camrose.

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Received narrative portions of text and applied formatting, graphics and tables while adhering to specific curriculum-based standards of educational student resources• Created a consistent and unified look throughout textbook• Monitored quality control of texts: edited final PDFs to ensure formatting consistency

Front End Web Development (Course), Html5 And Css3, A+ (100%)

HTML5 and CSS3 introduces the student to current web standards, design and development. Using HTML5 to add text, images, links, lists.

Postgraduate Diploma, Publishing Certificate (Courses Completed)

CDPB 102 Copy Editing for Books, Journals, and Reports: This course outlines the basics of copy editing: consistency, correctness.

Psychology/Mental Health

Completed credits towards a Bachelor's degree in Psychology Completed credits towards a Bachelor's degree in Community Studies/Mental Health