Joe Watana Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

• Clients: Accenture, Chase for Business, Dentyne, Trident, Dos Equis, CBRE, CoverGirl, Hershey's, United Rentals
• SOW scoping and development ranging anywhere between $100,000 to $18MM.
• Lead weekly resource meetings with heads of operations.
• Employee time sheet management + bi-weekly burn reports to manage project profitability.
• Develop business cases as needed for resourcing/hiring additional talent.

New York, NY, US

• Clients: HP, Visa, Franklin Templeton
• Managed and mentored a team of 2 Producers on the HP business.
• Define monthly and yearly forecast projections across various business streams.
• Regularly develop and track against SOWs for production work.
• Advocated and implemented the adoption of HTML5 development and standard practices for the Visa digital team.
• Track and manage multiple sizes and versions of flash/HTML5 banner ads with internal teams and Media partners.

London, Greater London, GB

• Clients: Iams, General Mills
• Implemented daily/weekly hot sheets and weekly creative status meetings in order to drive timing.
• Introduced an improved process of documentation such as official Brief/Debrief documents in order to create accountability.
• Mapped out the upcoming P&G fiscal year in order to forecast staffing needs and ideal project start dates.
• Monitored creative resources and highlighted potential conflicts to creative management.

New York, NY, US

• Clients: Halls, Stride (gum)
• Organized and tracked the HALLS media plan to ensure timely flight dates of online deliverables.
• Worked cross-functionally with Print, Digital and Broadcast producers in order to generate budgets and timelines for 360 campaigns.
• Organized and communicated daily and weekly plans to creative teams over multiple projects in order to reach established milestones.
• Scoped and managed hours for budgets between $1 MM to $2 MM.
• Archive and maintain all campaign presentations and creative assets for future ad hoc needs.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Clients: American Express, TIAA-CREF
• Partnered closely with Account and Creative to scope, develop, and execute whole print/online media campaigns for clients such as American Express, American Express Custom Media Partnerships, TIAA-CREF, and Comcast.
• Created staffing matrices in order to solicit and allocate limited resources among various capabilities. Managed billing rates, timelines, allocation percentages, and overall availability of internal resources to.
• Communicated and negotiated key dates with internal and external stakeholders in order to establish priorities and create monetary efficiencies.
• Coordinated online campaign management with internal media teams to effectively traffick third-party served banners in DFA.
• Designated as one of the company’s Subject Matter Experts on print with responsibility to train employees new to the process.

New York, NY, US

• Worked directly with clients' C-Level executives to make recommendations on loan contracts.
• Managed relationships with Agent Banks, and acted as a liaison between Agent Banks and end-clients.
• Developed monthly deal P&L and performance summaries for review by senior management.
• Spearheaded a new initiative to increase efficiency within accounts payable. Created a system to track and manage the workflow in order to get payables processed accurately, and in a timely manner.
• Worked cross-functionally with the buy-side group to ensure proper allocation of interest and principal.
• Analyzed and summarized key loan data on a weekly basis for one of the firm's top funds, valued at over $1.3B, for rollup into investor reporting.

• Assisted in a project valued at over $850,000 to build a Web Portal for the Council for Unity.
• Researched Trusts for the Council for Unity in order to raise money for the current project.
• Reviewed philanthropy of other wealthy individuals in order to compose a target market for donations.
• Maintained communication with current clients in order to ensure routine business process.

• Conducted due diligence of cash and asset-related issues including paydowns, bond calls, corporate actions, failed trades, dividends, and reinvestments in order to finalize monthly journal entries.
• Worked on deals focusing on International and Domestic Fixed Income.
• Reconciled and prepared periodic reports for portfolio managers to summarize results for clients.
• Monitored profit/loss margins of portfolios to help benchmark performance.