Michael Cole Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Experienced Executive Producer with a successful history of working on the most complex and challenging event programs. Skilled in production management, creative direction, budget forecasting, budget management, and leading high-performance teams.

Greater Seattle Area

As an executive producer I am fortunate to work on the best, most challenging and highest impact events, and experiential programs in the world. On top of that I work with, and lead most incredibly talented event production professionals of our time. It adds up to having a very fun and challenging job.I spend a lot of time doing the following:• Content development and key messaging• Budget forecasting and management• Design concepts and ideation• Production planning• Delivery and execution

Greater Seattle Area

My primary function at Gail &Rice was:• Content development• Design concepts and ideation• Production planning• Delivery and execution

Greater Seattle Area

I developed, managed, directed, and executed large scale, and high impact corporate and entertainment events. This included work for Nokia, Nordstrom, Microsoft, Starbucks, Expedia, Teavana, and others. As a creative director I managed and directed, project specific design teams from concept, through production and delivery. As an Executive Producer, I was responsible for leading the overall direction and delivery of many events and marketing programs.

Redmond, Washington

I developed, created, and manage strategic marketing campaigns for a billion dollar+ brand. Including media events, direct to consumer programs and multi discipline social programs.I spent time as the overall Business Owner for Microsoft presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for 3 years as well as the Marketing lead for the Xbox business at CES for 3 years. This includes our expo and executive keynote.I also directed the Xbox brand’s presence in our Media Briefing at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3). This is a 3,000+ person live event that is covered by more than 250 mainstream and industry media outlets. In addition this program has an annual live television viewership of over 5 million.

Redmond, Washington

Produced cutting edge events and product launches such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Office 97 through Office 2010 as well as enterprise and consumer products.Managed large scale trade show operations for multiple events over 10+ years including CES, E3, PC World, NAB and many others.Developed critical flow project management systems to build consistency and continuity across multiple programs with diverse staff.Drove cost avoidance and cost saving measures across various marketing programs.

Seattle, Washington

I managed and coordinated production and production staffing for companies like Paccar and Microsoft. I also developed Mavericks production budgeting tools and project management systems. Basically it was chaos when I started and it was pretty calm and organized when I left. I really loved this job and the people at Maverick. I left Maverick to work at Microsoft. Microsoft was an opportunity that I had to pursue, and could not pass up.

Greater Seattle Area

I was a senior Production Manager, focusing on Microsoft and large trade shows, and keynote production. This was an excellent opportunity for me as I developed a capacity to collaborate with several leading technology brand on the same programs. Experiences include the Consumer Electronics Show, COMDEX, PC World, and many others. I was fortunate to lead some of the biggest, and highest impact corporate events TPN produced during my tenure. The connections and friendships I made at TPN are with me to this day.

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