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Charlotte, North Carolina

Maintain constant knowledge of all projects to proactively mitigate risks and provide resourcing solutions. Review all creative project requests. Collaborate with project managers in building timelines and securing resources. Collaborate with IT Director to recommend workflow improvements and efficiencies. Develop and implement agency-wide resourcing/capacity management model and reporting. Make staffing recommendations to directors and managers to ensure ongoing client work remains on-course. Understand personnel skill sets to match work assignments to ensure success.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Project manage creative projects for high-profile programming such as Major League Baseball, NASCAR, FOX NFL and Super Bowl. Create project plans and manage creative production schedules from ideation to execution. Daily tasks include setting up production teams, coordinate creative reviews, and supervise all phases of graphics and animation production. Train, interface, and guide junior staff. Maintain open lines of communication between account executives, artists, and scheduling managers in a bicoastal environment. Review, maintain quality control, and deliver elements to remote crews and studios.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Coordinate order entry. Ensure orders are completed accurately and on time. Communicate traffic functions and deadlines to national agencies. Monitor schedules, exception reports, and discrepancies. Track client tapes through traffic system.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Oversee video and photo projects from conception to completion. Manage schedules and workflow within the department. Work closely with designers, directors and other production staff on production shoots. Responsible for facilitating video and photo projects from beginning to end. Involved in every stage of the production, including estimating, scouting, casting, scheduling, permitting, and securing locations and crew.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Plan and coordinate print, broadcast, and special events production projects. Generate and manage production timelines and estimates. Research and negotiate with production partners. Track expenditures to ensure compliance with budget and performed cost analysis on vendor proposals. Manage communication between agency departments to ensure efficiency and accuracy.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Provided assistance to media planners and buyers. Assisted in day-to-day management of accounts (i.e.maintaining budgets, value added, and invoices) and assisted in research for new business. Requested and performed cost analysis on proposals from vendors. Expanded media and industry knowledge through research.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Responsible for the scheduling and workflow of advertising/marketing communication projects among agency departments. Managed and revised timelines and estimates. Routed layouts, copy, proofs, and other project elements for approval and production.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Developed strategic plans and ideas for appropriate media programs for strong local brands. Negotiated and executed the purchase of advertising time and space from print, radio, and television companies. Requested and performed cost analysis on proposals from vendors.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Coordinated and tracked all advertising placed in various publications. Communicated information concerning ad materials, page counts, and revenue to the sales, accounting and production departments. Managed day-to-day operations of the department. Charged with interviewing and hiring new staff. Administrated, troubleshoot, and further develop existing sales, traffic, and production database. Helped plan for policy changes and processed changes to improve the flow of traffic and future expansion.

Honolulu, Hawaii