Creative Manager | Creative Project Manager & OperationsClients: Hewlett Packard, HP OMEN, HPE, State Farm, NAACP, Credence MedSystems, SAP• Led the adoption and implementation of Asana & Monday.com to streamline communication, improve task delegation, and enhance resource planning. These tools refined creative workflows, minimized production delays, and reduced freelance expenditure by 10%. I also used these PM tools to: • Generate financial reports to track department spending and inform strategic decisions • Accurately assess team bandwidth and workload management • Refine project workflows and improve collaboration with external agencies/vendors• Optimized operational processes by developing improvements to the talent acquisition & onboarding processes, reducing administrative overhead. Managed and contributed to the recruitment, onboarding, contract writing, and invoice handling for 16+ freelancers.• Served as a primary point of contact (Creative Department) for freelancers, vendors, and clients throughout project lifecycles. Coordinated outreach, scheduled initial discovery meetings, and reviewed project needs with freelancers, ensuring alignments on proposed deliverables and timelines. • Managed project documentation, including design briefs, meeting notes, work back schedules and client assets. Implemented standardized file naming and organizational systems for streamlined file retrieval.• Facilitated milestone meetings with internal teams and external partners to align on project goals, schedules, and deadlines. • Educated clients on the creative process, including design development, production methods, and associated costs - empowering clients to make informed decisions and collaborate more effectively on design choices. This led to increased engagement and client satisfaction.

Clients: HP, NAACP, MURAL, SAP, State Farm• Design and execute concepts for virtual and physical experiences• Create site information architecture and user journey maps for web experiences and digital events• Deliver UX wireframes & mock-ups for DEV handover• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and key project stakeholders on tight deadlines•Work with account lead to develop and manage the project creative roadmap and deliverable timeline•Present project design solutions to key stakeholders• Creative Project Management - oversight on multiple, concurrent projects. Initiating creative check-ins, providing support and resources to the creative team, and oversight on deliverable hand-off during entire project life-cycle. • Direct creative management & on-boarding involvement, demonstrating creative leadership, while working alongside core Account Leads and team's Creative Director/Art Director. • Initiate the adoption and usage of PM tools (Asana) to improve project life-cycles, and internal workflows company wide. • Working closely with the entire project team - successfully managed and delivered a global project for HP spanning three locations (San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Dubai). I leveraged project management tools to create work back plans, collaborate with cross-functional teams (account management and production), and maintain meticulous asset tracking for 500+ assets going into production. • Developed a tracking system for creative assets to streamline asset management. This system improved asset identification and tracking, ensuring efficient production and minimized errors.• Proficiency in Asana, Figma, Adobe Suite, Lucid Chart, Autodesk 3DsMax

Clients: Google, Salesforce, eBay, Twitch, Dolby, Unity Technologies, MGM Resorts (Bellagio, Las Vegas)Contributed to the team by sketching concepts, delivering concept development and write-ups, providing diagrammatic, experience plans and circulation flow studies, developing 3D models and visualistations, providing creative direction for on-site installations, and working with our team of creative technologists and interaction designers to deliver solutions that unite physical and digital products.Responsible for both the conceptual phase and execution of creative deliverables for temporary and permanent installations, retail and branded environments, live experiences, and events.Fun Fact: A little piece of me is in Vegas, thanks to the fixtures I created with NicoNat for the Cirque du Soleil Shop at the Bellagio.• Proficiency in 3DsMax, Adobe suite, SketchUp, and rendering with Vray.

Clients: Lansinoh, Sanofi, Allergan, FUJIFILM Healthcare, Amtrak, Verizon, Mitsubishi Electric, Rockford Fosgate