Gary Goldsmith Email & Phone Number

Westchester County, New York, United States

Unthinkable is an inclusive comedy community built for all kids to indulge in their imaginations, expand their listening skills, build confidence, and simply be themselves through the art of improv and storytelling.

Greater New York City Area

Supporting the global Design at Meta organization (5,000+ employees) with programming and internal products that centralize high quality resources, enables meaningful professional connections and leads to career and personal growth for our internal Design community.

Greater New York City Area

Lead facilitator for Improv @ Work - an interactive workshop that teaches participants, through hands-on experience, the parallels between the core principles of improv and everyday professional (human) skills. This workshop aims to enhance team collaboration, communication and active listening/presence when working in a professional environment by utilizing simple, yet effective, improv comedy tools.We now offer virtual workshops focused on "Owning your Virtual Presence" by leveraging the core behaviors of improv comedy as a framework for how you show up, engage and collaborate in your virtual interactions.

Greater New York City Area

Program & Resource Management lead for the NY office, supporting a department ranging from Associate Project Managers to Program Directors.

Greater New York City Area

Program & Resource Management lead for the POSSIBLE NY office.

Greater New York City Area

• Lead Project Manager for Global Consumer Electronics account (both Global and US business) • Manage and mentor direct reports, in addition to PM contractors as needed, through active leadership of career goals and expectations, as well as day to day responsibilities both on global and US based project• Partner with VP of Client Services and VP of Strategy on responses to urgent and top priority client requests daily• Create and manage multi-channel/complex scopes of work and cross capability staffing plans to align with agency and client goals• Streamlined documentation across account to ensure proper tracking, documenting and follow ups for all deliverables as well as established social team process and R&Rs for execution of deliverables• Oversee project and campaign execution across various channels (site design, SEO, social/social listening and overarching brand strategy)• Expert at identifying and mitigating agency/client risk with innovative and cost-effective solutions• Responsible for interviewing and hiring project managers and other team resources as needed• Implemented a variety of administrative, cultural and extracurricular initiatives for a team that works hard and forgets to play hard

Greater New York City Area

• Lead and sole Project Manager on multiple pieces of businesses, with budgets totaling $10MM+• Responsible for leading cross capability team through creative development of projects including iPad apps, websites, banners, e-mails, video production, and media partnerships• Manage and hire multiple freelance and full time resources across multiple accounts• Compile scope of work estimates and documentation, monthly and yearly forecasts, as well as budgetary tracking for multiple pieces of business• Main point of contact for client teams for any scoping or project plan related inquiries and issues• Lead Project Manager, partnering with CEO and CCO on the re-branding of Euro RSCG Life 4D

• Responsible for leading team through project lifecycle of websites and flash/rich media banners to ensure that all deadlines were met• Sole resource for scoping projects and tracking finances throughout project lifecycle, as well as paying out invoices as they were billed• Internal and client point person for all financial, timing and team oriented issues, i.e. resourcing, missed deliverables, and overarching account inquiries

• Project Management Lead for budgets totalling over $4MM• Created social media presence (Facebook and YouTube) for FluMist account • Partnered with client teams to assess and maintain project budgets and timeline• Managed two junior resources and a summer intern• Developed weekly financial summaries for internal team as well as monthly financial reconciliations for external client team