Meredith Craft Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Served as the head of the organization’s project management team and responsible for the development and maintaining of discipline standards, processes, and key metrics.
• Ensured execution of project management best practices including strategic planning, cost estimating and analysis, budget management, scheduling, resource allocation and quality control; mitigation strategies applied.
• Expanded project management team by 150% to effectively manage workload, ensure timely completion of projects, and maintain optimal quality of all deliverables.
• Responsible for the hiring, training, and leading of project managers to meet key performance goals, while facilitating professional development for team members through ongoing coaching.
• Collaborated with executive leadership team to analyze existing operational processes, identify inefficiencies, and implement continuous improvement strategies.
• Streamlined reporting to deliver key insights to executive management such as project status, project health, project risks, and project profitability.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Spearheaded multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects and initiatives for a global professional services firm (the agency’s most mature account to-date). Managed annual project portfolio of over $2M, while completing.
• Oversaw strategy of enterprise products at various stages, such as product vision, new feature integration, enhanced experiences, and creation of transformational applications/products.
• Gathered and analyzed historical account data to determine client growth goals and forecast staffing needs for meeting project requirements and demand.
• Orchestrated implementation and adoption of agile methodologies for product delivery on the largest government owned energy provider in the U.S. (the agency’s largest account).
• Partnered with account directors during the sales and discovery process while leading the scoping, resourcing, planning, and execution efforts across all projects.
• Supervised and mentored junior project manager and served as an escalation point throughout delivery of projects.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Managed client portfolio of approximately $2M and teams of up to 15 multi-discipline resources in the execution of web application development, brand strategy, integrated marketing campaigns, and automated marketing.
• Defined technical and functional requirements from client stakeholders; identified and managed dependencies, risks, and roadblocks; performed extensive quality assurance/quality control throughout the course of a.
• Successfully implemented SCRUM methodology within the agency’s website design and development framework.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Oversaw all project success factors including management of budgets, timelines, workflow, and client expectations.
• Spearheaded timely completion and delivery of up to 30 parallel projects at a time from basic website development to complex builds with extensive functionality.

Shreveport, Louisiana Area

• Responsible for marketing and communications for full-service luxury travel agency.
• Developed and established company presence among social media outlets including Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube; social media exposure led to new clientele.
• Created and implemented new content for company website and blog.
• Designed client presentations and customized travel itinerary booklets.

Shreveport, Louisiana Area

• Planned, directed and supervised logistics and operations for annual initiative with community organizations and local businesses. Duties included volunteer recruitment, marketing, media contact, and overall event.
• Created a marketing plan for an urban renewal project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Shreveport, Louisiana Area

• Summer internship for advertising and public relations firm specializing in healthcare, national food service, tourism, and not-for-profit clients.
• Created marketing strategies for a variety of clients and assisted account supervisors with projects.