Kyle Spaulding Email & Phone Number

London, Greater London, Gb

• Manage Saatchi’s largest platform businesses as the senior executional lead over the highest priority projects and digital initiatives. • Manage the execution of enhancements to the digital web and product experiences through an agile development process, including: the creation of briefing material (i.e. Epics and user stories), guidance on best practices and client business context for creative execution, and coordination across internal and external stakeholder groups.• Orchestrate internal and external discussions designed to foster collaboration across departments and partner stakeholders.• Own scope & resource planning and monitoring to execute the roadmap of projects while fulfilling client business priorities.• Guide client discussions related to delivery of various deliverables, from laying groundwork for strategic collaboration to reviewing creative work for approval. • Directly oversee junior team member career growth and project execution.• Inform and enhance internal workflows to maximize team performance. Understand how the details roll up to the big picture. Forecast next steps to meet major milestones and overcome roadblocks.• Ensure involvement of appropriate team members during each project phase. Drive team communication and facilitate collaboration to avoid roadblocks.• Identify shifts in timing, deliverables, and resources while communicating to other scope managers of potential impacts.

Denton, Texas, Us

• Drive efficiencies, manage asset production services, execute capacity planning and apply agile ways of working effectively at scale. This includes management of end-to-end seasonal campaign delivery, project management and execution, go-to-market timelines, and administration.• Production and process minded leader, with the ability to guide and maximize the talents of my team while efficiently managing a large portfolio of high-profile multi-channel creative projects with overlapping and/or conflicting deadlines• Keen ability to quickly understand business objectives in order to lead and mentor Project Managers in writing effective creative briefs, developing and implementing work processes and workflows to support cross-functional collaboration and to deliver best-in-class multi-channel marketing materials• Coach and manage a team of Production Designers in image processing, data merging, flowing copy, placing images, and efficiently building art files to exact specificity• Extensive knowledge of print production, asset management processes, digital transferring and archiving of files

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Lead team of project managers and program portfolio oversight for large, complex and cross functional data driven projects, with emphasis on product and application development, focused on transformation, automation, and technology delivery• Manage and oversee the discovery process and documentation of requirements within Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and Technical Requirements Documents (TRD)• Create, update and monitor complex project plans and timelines and track actual program financial performance against budget• Apply program management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to program activities to meet program requirements through the utilization of initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing processes• Act as escalation point for projects within portfolio where needed, for example risk or issue mitigation, potential cost over-runs, or scope discrepancies, through leveraging and collaborating with cross-functional partners

Irving, Tx, Us

• Oversee program management and workflow processes for email, digital, social media, interactive, website, UIUX (mobile/desktop optimization) and direct mail• Utilize CRMX and data analytical platform to analyze customer behavior, and design and execute marketing programs for all clients• Leverage multiple project management and marketing technology platforms including Workfront, Asana, Doubleclick Campaign Manager and CheetahMail• Prescreen, interview and recommend hiring of interns, freelancers, contract and full-time employees

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Manage integrated marketing project operations including estimating, workflow processes and budget reconciliation for digital, social media, interactive, e-commerce, website, landing page, UIUX (mobile/desktop optimization), direct mail, POP, experiential, public relations, radio and television • Extensive experiential marketing, special event planning and public relations program management• Augmented reality (AR) interactive experience project development• Extensive experience bringing new products/services to market

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Oversee creative operations spanning project management, traffic, scheduling and production art departments to ensure efficient and operational workflow for over 300 simultaneous print, interactive, social media, direct mail, TV and radio projects• Initiate, implement and manage new companywide project management system and digital asset management tool• Implement continuous improvement of project and program methodology and perform all aspects of Program management tracking and reporting• Ensure the team has the skills and tools to sustain high performance over time through developing internal talent and participating in recruiting and hiring external candidates

Irving, Texas, Us

• Utilize CRM and data analytical platform to analyze customer behavior, and design and execute marketing programs for all clients• Lead all aspects of the project management workflow/processes for print, direct mail, interactive, digital, eCommerce/website (mobile/desktop optimization) and social media• Identify and develop proactive alternatives for resource and timeline bottlenecks• Manage daily operations and communicate with and align expectations of Creative team, Client Services, Legal, Production, Quality Control and Technology• Art, font and photography intellectual property rights negotiation, buying/licensing

• Manage sales and print production for several multimillion-dollar accounts• Communicate with and align expectations of client, estimating, prepress, press room and production/assembly departments through the design, printing and manufacturing process• Extensive knowledge of estimating, design and layout, including printing on paper, board and plastic substrates• Print production supervision of all projects produced • Create thorough write-up including all job parameters for estimating department, review estimating department output and formalize written quotes• Manage annual tradeshow booth and marketing on-site at Toy Fair in NYC