Marie Oley Email & Phone Number

Hawthorne, Ca, Us

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

I am the Outreach and Networking Lead for Workbook's ScreenTime Events. Throughout the year, Workbook hosts its portfolio events (entirely on Zoom) that connect Creative Directors, Art Buyers, Producers, Art Directors and Art Supervisors with Workbook's varied roster of commercial Photographers and Directors in an easy 1:1 environment. Just a 1/2 day on Zoom, let Workbook play match maker as we design schedules geared to the specific imagery and style that each creative is looking for. Creatives! Find more information here about how the event works: https://www.workbook.com/blog/screentimeDo not hesitate to reach out to be a part of this awesome Workbook offering for the creative community!

Beverly Hills, Ca

Director of the Production and Art Departments for the Workbook, specializing in sourcebooks for art buyers and creative departments looking to hire commercial photographers and illustrators. Additional role includes Project Management Lead for Screentime, Workbook's networking event aimed at connecting creatives with our vetted commercial artists.As Director, manage all aspects of Workbook production: including pre press, schedule management, vendor communication and client interactions for over 1200 pages over an 8 week period. Spearhead communication and follow up for over 400+ individual artists to gain approvals and ensure color continuity from pre press to final product. Attend offshore press checks, negotiate costs and estimates with offshore vendors in order to ensure quality control and timely delivery based on industry expectations.September 2020 - Project and Outreach Lead for ScreenTime: Workbook's virtual event connecting creatives with Workbook's roster of commercial clients. Responsible for all outreach, project scheduling, team building, creative interviews, HR needs, client management and day-of execution for all of Workbook's ScreenTime events across the country.

Los Angeles

Collaborated with the Director of Production to produce the Fall Edition of Workbook 37 (Photography and Illustration). Manged the pres-press for over 1200 pages over an 8 week period and spearheaded communication and follow up for over 430 individual artists to gain approval. Attended offshore press checks, negotiated costs and estimates with offshore vendors in order to ensure quality control and timely delivery based on industry expectations.

Los Angeles, Ca

Managed production, scheduling, routing, FINRA filing, estimating, billing, art buying, and delivery logistics of printed and digital participant-facing retirement plan materials. Experienced with overseeing translation services, production design, printing, and photography licensing across formats including prospectuses, brochures, postcards, quarterly newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, OOH pieces and digital deliverables against aggressive timelines, dependent go-live dates, and aggressive volumes. • Hand-selected to serve on cross-functional taskforce to create and test Agile Enterprise Publishing Process aimed at creating and delivering content across multiple delivery channels.• Proactively facilitated collaboration between multiple departments, including creative, product, marketing and legal, resulting in messaging and imagery that was compliant, aligned with established business strategies, and achieved creative goals. • Efficiency expert: identified need for and created documentation of workflow and technical requirements pertaining to regular jobs in order to ensure transparency, business continuity and accountability which enabled other production specialists to understand the scope of given project if required to assist while clarifying process standards and best practices. • Individually managed, produced, trafficked and archived quarterly updates for more than 1,200 fund fact sheets while procuring all applicable financial data ensuring accuracy. Consistently met aggressive scheduling to meet the digital content needs for outside Print-On-Demand vendor who leveraged data for custom print outputs. • Identified workflow bottlenecks associated with quarterly updates, developed and presented recommended proofing schedule that met quality assurance criteria while saving time and resources over 65%.

Los Angeles, Ca

Managed production, purchasing, logistics and fulfillment of unique print projects. Lead print/OOH researcher for new business pitches. Managed broadcast production and spot traffic, attended press checks, and created industry award research and submissions. Extensive interaction with clients, client and agency-hired vendors such as printers, mailing houses, fulfillment and event marketers, in addition to internal teams, networks, publications, and any entities integral to project success. • Researched, procured and provided vendors for variety of creative deliverables including solar sensitive inks and promo materials for pilot retail location.

El Segundo, Ca

Spearheaded field research with Board of non-profit to co-author official manual regarding procedures and intent of program; instigated creation of Official CJC Style Guide and Visual Guidelines to unify branding for consistent marketing and fundraising. Represented group at Marie Shriver’s Women’s Conference in 2010. • Utilized business contacts to produce promotional materials pro-bono.

Created production schedules and budgets, composed and managed purchase orders and invoices, generated and executed competitive outside vendor bids for color separations, retouching, printing; identified cost savings and predicted creative production challenges; anticipated and managed internal/external creative and logistical concerns; coordinated fulfillment; initiated creative research; routed and negotiated match proofs and prototype approval, managed corrections, attended press checks, and interfaced with art directors, clients, product managers, account managers as well as customer service and sales representatives from third party vendors. • Successfully managed budgets ranging from $20k-$700K+ and outputs of 1M+ deliverables.• Experienced with national print campaigns (4/C & B/W, newspaper and magazines); large format (Billboards, Duratrans, Wallscape Spectaculars); custom brochures, flyers and direct mail; posters and OOH (balloons, Tshirts, etc.), custom inks and binderies, foil stamps, offset and digital printing; sheet-fed and web.

Managed print jobs includes writing and issuing purchase orders, processing invoices, creating schedules, generating estimates, reconciling needs and expectations of outside vendors with agency teams to produce jobs correctly and on time. • Consulted extensively with outside vendor and internal departments to help create 3rd variation of internal online photography library (asset management), which included outlining interdepartmental workflows, reconciling interdepartmental schedules and asset needs, conceived practical interface to search photography archives, and creating instructional documents for outside vendors to upload interim and final photography, as well as instructions for internal use of system.• Produced Custom Dealer Box (Honda), National and Regional Print campaigns, Article Reprints.

Spearheaded second generation of Agency’s digital Asset Management System at the behest of art directors and art buyers. Coordinated needs of art buyers, art directors and print managers with an outside vendor to create a user-friendly web searching system in order to search, download and assign information to all digital photography within the agency. Assisted Senior Print Buyers to produce brochures, national magazine and newspaper ads, sales training materials for dealers (booklets, binders), and producing reformatted photography for Honda’s Dealer Website.• Supervised and trained 5 separate department assistants regarding business standards, expectations and internal processes

Provided administrative assistance to 10 Senior Production Managers. Lead resource for all 20+ years of archival assets. maintained agency internal digital photography database to ensure correct, timely delivery of assets and all metadata associated therein; heavy communication with publications to control prompt delivery of materials and proofs, fulfilled image requests against aggressive schedules and complex billing procedures, researched publication specs and interacted frequently with publication representatives to fulfill ad space needs. • Over 6 months, proactively prepared department hard copy and digital archives for agency relocation, resulting in an extensive audit and rationalization resulting in a more streamlined filing system. • Individually scheduled, managed and produced all new stationery needs associated with new brand launch.

Responsibilities included: client liaison; on-line research with Los Angeles County Assessor systems and liaison with County Assessors; preparing and filing property tax appeal applications for both commercial and private property; comparable sales research; coordinating hearing calendar; assisting the executive assistant with monthly billing of accounts receivables and billable hours/memos.

Assisted Department Specialists and Administrator with the preparation and execution of October 2001's "Important Jewelry" Sale. Reproduced jeweler Julien Cohen's original Sketchbook to accompany purchase of broach from said sale. Aided department with contracts, helped with previews, and provided client assistance.

Assisted Department Specialists and Administrator with preparations for the June 2001 “California Only” Wine Sale. Prepared and typed contracts, provided client support, edited and updated Excel spreadsheets of inventories, assisted at wine tastings, assisted at auctions, helped plan Wine Makers’ Dinner, and other duties as assigned.

Product Management Course, Product Management

Completed their 12-week course "Introduction to Product Management"

Bachelor'S Degree, Art History Major/French Languages & Literature Minor

Activities and Societies: Worked at the UCLA Art History Library and Borders. Performed/Directed Scenes with the UCLA Shakespeare Reading.