Kristen Costa Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Pawtucket, Rhode Island

-Oversee the design, development and maintenance of brand websites, campaigns, and browser-based games for Hasbro brands including Hasbro Pulse,My Little Pony, Monopoly, Play-Doh and more.-Assign and direct the output of design and development teams.-Build and manage website creation with marketers, designers, developers, legal teams, and external vendors to create profitable, successful websites and campaigns - often within tight time constraints, licensor restrictions and last-minute changes.

Pawtucket, Rhode Island

-Facilitated seamless development of Hasbro’s art assets from inception through final art release on a global scale. Represented Global Creative Development in negotiations with critical global partners to improve schedules and to ensure priorities were identified while strategizing for on time milestone completions.-Ensured all related Global Creative Development schedule milestones were coordinated and current within the Hasbro Global Milestone System and related business systems ahead of the respective review meetings.-Collaborated with Design Leads to help facilitate workload evaluation meetings and redistribute projects as necessary.

Boston

-Drove digital and print content from kickoff through delivery for clients in the pharma and healthcare industries to achieve quality products with rapid turnaround times.-Managed all timelines, communication, and workflow between copy editors, writers, designers, & account leads.

Waltham, Ma

-Primary point of contact when working collaboratively with other departments in the organization suchas Product Development, Product Marketing, Engineering, and Executive teams to ensure project delivery, quality control, and transparency throughout project life cycles.-Managed all vendor and internal relationships and processes to ensure quality control of Marketing assets during company re-brand.-Technical Project Manager during Brainshark’s website platform transition, which occurred simultaneously during the company rebrand.-Implemented the first project management tool to be used across the entire Marketing department resulting in stronger workflows, project turnaround time, and collaboration.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

-Conceptualized and guided the creative vision and development strategy of complex multimedia projects according to customer objectives.-Determined resource requirements, prepared, and tracked project schedules, budgets, and maintained control over quality and cost during the performance of the project.-Assisted in the planning for future business, including the identification and analysis of new projects, estimation of resource requirements, and subsequent proposal efforts.

Waltham, Ma

-Principle client contact responsible for building and maintaining budget parameters, overseeing, and relaying client feedback to all members of project team including directors, account managers, print and PowerPoint designers.-Worked jointly with creative/technical directors and clients to produce innovative and engaging content including live presentation content, speech preparation, videos, and print design.

Planning, scheduling and managing all activities related to successful multiple large scale events for clients in the fields of politics, economy, global affairs, medicine, and entertainment.Personally consulting with customers to identify current and future needs and formulate appropriate solutions that improve usage and revenue.Leading teams of production crews, vendors and laborers to meet and exceed clients' expectations and standards of excellence. Providing on site direction and supervision to ensure overall success of events.Experience managing and maintaining detailed budgets; controlling company expenses and therefore increasing profitability.Recognized and acclaimed by a diverse array of professionals from experts in the audiovisual and multimedia industries, representatives from Fortune 100 companies and US presidential candidates.

Recognized for extraordinary leadership skills and promoted to second in command to department head within first year of employment.Provided leadership and direction of team to ensure quality control in extremely fast paced, constantly changing live news environment.Trusted with the training of new employees and interns which steadily increased the technical and procedural growth of the department.Facilitated and scheduled live interviews with high profile talent and national news networks including FOX, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, ESPN, and Bloomberg.Created procedural documents on departmental functions and SOP's that are used for training new employees.Managed relationships with high profile talent and clients, resulting in the continued business and strong reputation of company.Operated local and remote controlled cameras and studio equipment for broadcast services worldwide.