Michael Carretta Email & Phone Number

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Work closely with the Senior Director of Communications & Marketing and other members of the Advancement team to provide critical multimedia marketing support with the goal of driving brand awareness and engagement. Leads strategic development, delivery and management of multimedia assets to engage audiences across multiple channels, analyzes strategies, and makes recommendations.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

* Assist with communications for external and internal events, employee communications and program marketing campaigns* Coordinate participation in community and program events* Create promotional materials and design collateral

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Responsibilities include administrative support for Advancement and Programs. These include providing support for special events (fundraising, program, community and training events), and committee meetings.

Fairfield, Connecticut

Provide administration and support for special projects required by business services manager in the executive support services group. Create and maintain document libraries, portals, departmental metrics, subscriptions and research metrics, and updating vendor records, equipment tracking, and other projects and assignments. Backup support for the graphic project coordinators, graphic artists, and various design requests.- Provided onsite PowerPoint support for the Board of Director meetings and the Corporate Officers Meeting, which included one-on-one edits with c-level executives, formatting, designing, incorporating proofing edits, and version control.- Graphics support for the 2011 and 2015 Union Negotiations in NYC for the Focus Newsletters, working directly with executives, lawyers and marketing personnel.- Producing professional products and support in the copy center for quarter close finance books, CEO briefing books, BOD materials while working closely with clients and meeting deadlines.- Developed business services efficiency metrics, dashboards and surveys for the graphics department and copy center. The metrics portal centralizes all data and provides better reporting capabilities for monthly and year-to-date metrics and trends.

Fairfield, Connecticut

Supported the business services manager, including the graphics and video departments. Engaged in new projects that stretch beyond my current role and seek opportunities to learn. Worked closely with the customer to simplify the process, save time and money.- Developed a digitized process for video job tracking using workflows, data forms and reports which resulted in the ability to produce accrual and billing sheets in just one click. Centralized all data, improved visibility and accuracy to finance, and saved time and errors.- Created purchase orders, invoice processing, resolved billing issues, accruals, chargebacks and vendor tracking.- Adeptly handle administrative matters including screening calls, managing calendars, planning meetings, making travel arrangements, composing documents and organizing offices for efficiency.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Provided complex administrative and fiscal responsibilities for the director and faculty, including their research groups. Financial review for research and faculty fund accounts and preparing account projects.- Monitor expenditures for compliance with sponsor guidelines in accordance with approved budgets.- Developed database in FileMaker for grant management and fiscal reports, which increase efficiency and accuracy.- Created and maintained the laboratory web site to improve visibility and updates for the laboratory.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Provide administrative and technical support to the program coordinator and director in the Harvard University, Office for the Arts, ceramic art studio that consisted of 240 plus members.- Assisted with student and studio member registrations three semesters a year for 14 plus classes.- Ordered and stocked all studio materials including clay and glaze ingredients.- Managed the mailing list database for 3,500 contacts for the annual studio ceramic show.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Fine And Studio Arts

Bachelor'S Degree, Fine And Studio Arts