Carrie Relyea, Csm Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Project management of the Direct Mail monthly campaigns. Building the campaign matrix monthly to include all testing from various departments. Working across teams including Risk, Risk Analytics, Product, Compliance, Governance, and Partnerships to successfully execute direct mail campaigns of over 15 million pieces a month. Worked directly with internal IT team to successfully launch the new matrix platform. Provide guidance to other team members, as well as coaching and leadership.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Review all proofs and provide quality assurance. Ensure that all artwork is uploaded and all proofs have been released to the appropriate vendors in a timely manner to ensure print schedules aren’t disrupted. Use skills to create designs for new direct mail pieces. Train all team members on job routing software, as well as members from other teams that needed to review direct mail pieces. Work directly with several teams across company, including Analytics, Marketing Communications, and Partnerships.

Las Vegas, Nv

Created flyers, invitations, envelopes, brochures, booklets and other media for various companies.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Traffic all jobs to members of creative team. Adjusting schedules and ensuring all jobs are finished and to the client in a timely manner. Responsible for prepress and proofing of art files before sending to vendor. Working directly with vendors to retrieve print quotes, materials for print and approving proofs. Provides quality assurance to all files in spelling, grammar, layout and spacing. Training and teaching known skills to junior design staff members.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Instrumental in creating and prepressing items for one of the largest businesses in Las Vegas. Resize ads and other collateral pieces to mechanical specifications, check resolutions on photos. Also create several creative pieces including promotional graphics, books, brochures and other print pieces. I also prepress items and send them to vendors for printing, making sure that all specifications are met to vendors standards. I work on such clients as Caesars Palace, World Series of Poker, Total Rewards, Rio, Planet Holywood, and other Las Vegas region properties along with all national Harrah's properties, and all Horseshoe properties.

Resize ads to mechanical specifications, checked resolutions on photos and prepared items for prepress. Worked on such clients as Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino, Nevada Cancer Institute, Silverton Hotel and Casino, and MGM Grand at Foxwoods.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Created ads, posters, email blasts, and web updates for the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino, as well as other smaller clients within corporate including Arizona Charlie's and The Aquarius Hotel and Casino in Laughlin.

Created ads and promotional materials for various clients, including car dealerships, Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, SKY Las Vegas, and collateral for several casinos including the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Vegas. I also created promotion concepts and collateral and direct mailers for other casinos in the U.S.

Maintained website up to date with new products, wrote copy and did photography and photo re-touching. I also dealt with the tech people in keeping the site running and trained new employees.

Prepared items for press, created ads and brochures.

Created small ads, prepared items for press, worked with partners, attended meetings

Trained and managed staff of up to 25, also worked as Dairy Manager, responsible for inventory, ordering, stocking and rotating.

Bfa, Graphic Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, English

Activities and Societies: AIGA student chapter: elected president for 2003-2004 year Graphic Design, Painting, Drawing, Photography.

Hs Diploma, Fine Art, English

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Yearbook Staff Yearbook, National Honor Society