Manager Operations

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A D Y N I EC

*****.*******@*****.*** **26 N. Honore Apt #2

616-***-**** Chicago, IL 60622

EXPERIENCE

Colossal Squid Industries // Feb 2010 – Present

Creative Resource Manager

• Responsible for staffing and resourcing needs for quickly growing digital advertising agency

• Recruit for all level positions for the entire agency including creative, strategy, development, production,

operations and account service

• Negotiate salary and benefits packages with all candidates, work with HR, discipline lead and operations

team to onboard new hires

• Staff resources for all new projects in the Strategy, Creative and Development departments within timelines

and budgets, monitor existing project to ensure they remain properly staffed

• Work with Business Operations Manager to predict quarterly and annual staffing needs, write and

financially justify all new requisitions

• Establish processes including requisition, recruiting, resourcing, training and on-boarding process from

ground up, wrote staffing policies for employee handbook, on-boarding documents, job descriptions

Element 79 // 2008 - 2009

Creative Manager/Creative Recruiter

• Managed administrative functions of the creative department for mid-sized advertising agency

• Assigned creative teams to projects based on skills and availability

• Reviewed creative portfolios and interviewed candidates for creative, interactive and production positions

• Assessed needs and brought in freelance help when necessary; negotiated contracts and rates

• Updated agency reels and monitored industry news and relevant creative work to share with department

Draft FCB // 2007 - 2008

Creative Services Coordinator

• Assisted in the management and staffing of the creative, production and interactive departments

• Resourced and managed freelance staff of 40-60, acted as main point of contact through assignment

• Processed freelancer timesheets; act as a intermediary between freelancers and accounting team

• Wrote justifications and submitted requisitions for new and replacement creative department positions

• Coordinated interviews, candidate travel and collected feedback from interviewers

Energy BBDO // 2005 - 2007

Account Coordinator

Bayer Aspirin, Alka-Seltzer, Alka-Seltzer Plus, Midol, Phillips, RID and Bayer Diabetes Care

• Skillfully supported eight brands managing client and internal day to day administrative needs

• Worked with client to set up meetings, booked travel, completed expense reports

• Planned, organized and executed work sessions, internal focus groups, and off-site meetings

E D U CATI O N

Michigan State University // May 2005

Bachelors in Communication Arts with and Specialization in Public Relations, 3.5 GPA

ODDS + ENDS

• Courses completed; 35 hours of Project Management Institute courses / School of the Art Institute

“Creativity and Innovation” 10 week workshop / Chicago Park District Woodshop – 60 hours of training &

building

• Application Proficiencies; Excel / Word / Outlook / Gmail / Basecamp / Highrise / Jobvite

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