Mary Markley Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

-Supervise the project management team to ensure that all projects are delivered within the defined scope, quality, time and cost requirements. Provide ongoing direction and mentorship to the team as a direct manager to multiple team members.-Ensure teams are tracking projects effectively and documenting known challenges and lessons learned throughout workflows. Regularly briefs Senior Director and the department’s leadership team on project status, areas of success, and areas for improvement.-Manage priority and strategic projects at the institutional level by working with department leadership to set internal/external level of effort, establish expectations and collaborating with digital strategists, digital producers and developers, creative and video team members and communications leads to scope and budget recommended strategies and tactics, establishing clear and achievable timelines and identifying appropriate resourcing. -Partner with department leadership and other stakeholders to identify opportunities and prioritize projects. Ensure appropriate allocation of internal resources across all functional units.-Train team and others on project management software and create dashboards and other reports in the system to share critical information.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

-Managed projects on behalf of Pew teams while also supervising other project management staff and their workloads. Monitored team to ensure staff members effectively develop, track, and update project schedules (and budgets as required). -Served as Admin for Adobe Workfront (web-based project management software) for the organization and led the roll-out of Workfront’s new interface by developing change and training documentation and training all user roles in the organization. -Performed proactive risk assessment and developed risk mitigation strategies to help guide project processes.

Washington, Dc

-Continued to manage multiple projects through partnership with digital strategists, creative and video team, and communications leads to scope and budget recommended strategies, set internal/external level of effort, established clear and achievable timelines, and identified appropriate resourcing required to deliver work.-Worked with relevant team members to define and develop governance best practices, processes, and policy to ensure alignment with Pew strategies and goals.-Managed vendor relationship and budget with external vendors for overflow creative work and project management software.

Washington, Dc

-Partnered with editorial, creative and digital strategy colleagues to deliver high-quality digital and print assets using waterfall timeline management and creative problem solving. Provided guidance and leadership for integrated digital marketing strategy projects.-Assessed, created, and implemented resourcing processes and best practices for the PMO to use when scoping and assigning work to all members of the creative, multimedia, digital strategy and digital production teams, as well as the PMO itself.-Created processes and managed all aspects of increasing institutional podcast release from once monthly to bi-weekly, including pre-production planning, post-production, and all marketing and strategic efforts.-Continually led efforts to innovate and create new products and digital experiences within the constraints of Pew’s content management system.

-Strategized, and created digital content to effectively cross-promote all information, events and services across all digital platforms, including website content, newsletters, and social media.-Planned, wrote, and edited for NAA’s 5 niche newsletters (content drove approximately 10,000 pageviews to the NAA websites each month.)-Approved and published content updates to the NAA websites through a workflow approval process. (Drupal CMS.)-Analyzed Google analytics data, and adjusted web content strategy to improve key performance indicators.

-Project manager of 2012 website redesign project, including vendor selection, requirements document, content inventory, taxonomy creation, quality assurance testing, launch and marketing.-Lead the development and implementation of the organization’s Style Guide which managed and enhanced internal and external use of the NAA brand.-Held monthly website usability testing with stakeholders representing all audience personas and used results to inform regular website updates to improve site functionality.-Launched the NAA Community Site & Online Resource Center. Created and executed a marketing plan to drive user engagement.

Editor, reporter, photographer and videographer for a hyperlocal community website that covers the Town of Harrison exclusively. Launched website as founding editor with three weeks preparation. Reported the news through various content types, including written articles, photography and multimedia. Hired and managed a team of freelance reporters. Managed freelance budget and built Patch's fan base, influence and reach through social media marketing on Facebook and Twitter.

Reported, researched and wrote local feature and news stories for the 25,000 circulation paper.Beats included covering the Westminster City Council, Westminster Police Department and the Finksburg Planning and Citizens' Council.Photographed accompanying images and enhance with PhotoShop.Updated Web site weekly.Anchored weekly news broadcast for weekly web video series. Articles were frequently picked up for publications in the Carroll County Times.

Determined which news to cover and assigned articles each weekReported and wrote articles Edited all news storiesDesigned and completed layout using Adobe PageMakerOversaw a reporting staff of 12

Reported and wrote news feature stories for the Baltimore County pageFact-checked and wrote news briefsMet deadlinesInvestigated on-the-scene details and phoned them to editors