Project Manager Design

SILVIA KOVATCHEV

**-**** ***** ** * Toronto ON M*E 1G7

******.*********@*****.***

416-***-**** - home, 416-***-**** - cell

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

interactive web-based and digital media

Decisive, action-oriented and results-driven professional with 7+ years of

experience in interactive and digital media. Driven by new challenges and

desire to be successful in all endeavors.

? "Out of the box" creative thinking ? Strong planning and organizational

skills. ? Strong verbal and written communication skills ? Flexible work

style, adapting to changing work and client needs. ? Detail-orientated and

resourceful in completing projects, ability to multitask effectively. ?

Works best under pressure in demanding environments. ? Possesses strong

analytical and problem solving skills. ? Dedicated individual; achieving a

reputation for consistently going beyond what is required. ? Strategic

planning, incorporating bridging medias and formats.

ABILITIES:

. Develops creative and strategic solutions targeted to client's needs

and objectives

. Manages multiple simultaneous projects

. Prepares cost estimates and proposals

. Develops project budget and timeline including activities and

milestones, interdependencies, risk estimates

. Defines and writes project documents: Statement of Work, Site Design,

Technical Design, Functional Specifications, Test Plan

. Negotiates, defines, communicates and manages the scope of the project

. Distributes and assigns tasks to internal team and outsources to

external suppliers

. Controls and motivates team to achieve deadlines

. Tracks and manages project budgets, POs and invoices

. Implements and monitors quality standards

. Plans and manages internal and external project communications

. Works with minimal supervision

. Works with a variety of clients

EXPERIENCE:

Current: henderson bas - Lead Senior PM on the Coca Cola account

Accounts: Coke, Kraft, Nintendo, ParticipACTION

Websites: www.icoke.ca, www.sogoactive.ca

Responsibilities include: developing project budget and timeline,

scheduling resources, resource forecasting, managing/motivating/monitoring

project teams consisting of creative, tech, QA resources, engaging and

working with freelancers, managing the QA process, project documentation,

invoicing, billing, project closing documentation, as well as working with

international partners - Coke Atlanta, Savvis, FICO, Patni, YesMail,

ePrize, TrojanOne.

2008-2009 5Film

The Violet Bloom Campaign

http://cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2008/29/c8158.html

Suicide prevention campaign with Kids Help Phone, Schizophrenia Society of

Canada, National Network for Mental Health on board. Main component was the

production of online community where users upload answers to "reasons to

live" question and pictures for most creative use of the "I love you!"

sticky note. Top voted entries get their creators a day on the shoot of the

feature film 2Violet with Nina Dobrev (Degrassi) and Steve Byers (Wild

Roses). Members of the community can view, review, vote for entries;

message other members. The community board was fully moderated, built based

on PHP BB and custom-coded extensions. The site was built in Flash AS3. The

Violet Bloom Campaign was put on hold due to lack of funding.

2006 - 2008 Fjord Interactive+Technology, Cossette Communication Group

Accounts: Bell (numerous online advertising campaigns for Sympatico,

Expressvu, Bell Home Monitoring), Diet Coke, McDonalds, World Vision,

General Mills, Shoppers Drugmart.

- Strong emphasis on Flash, online video, CGC.

- Developed on-line ads process and practice, trained the PM and the

Account teams on ad specs, trafficking and serving, tracking.

- Trained the PM team on MS Project.

2006 Click Media

- creative lead and PM for www.RambaldiDVD.com for BVHE

- creative lead and PM on projects involving digital promotional assets and

ad media development and production for BVHE International for:

? Grey's Anatomy Season 2

? LOST Season 2

? Desperate Housewives Season 2

? Alias Season 5

- creative lead and PM on the development and production of ad media,

microsite, online contest and questionnaire for VH Sauces on

http://www.foodtv.ca/ for Alliance Atlantis Communications

2005 ZENON Environmental, presently part of GE

- managed print marketing campaign including ad production and media

placement for the HomeSpring line of consumer products.

- managed the implementation of a database-driven private dealer section of

the website www.homespring.com.

- creative and PM on product Flash animation.

- produced installation training video.

2004 FYIcam.com

Pushing video online and the concept for online communities (including

streaming video, voting&reviewing of clips, private member section) and

word-of-mouth promotion, generated interest with Nissan, Mazda, Molson,

Pepsi, Bacardi, Wriggley.

2002-03 MediaNet Communications

- Managed creative, design and production on various online properties that

were upgraded with member sections, online registrations, classifieds; VR,

streaming video and audio for external clients such as Toronto Police

Association, National Association of Professional Police, Ontario

Association of Broadcasters, etc.

2000-01 Autonet.ca

Amongst the first to use what was a very innovative approach for the time

being - VR in Flash, producing interactive online brochures which was also

a new concept back then.

- creative and PM on online promotional automotive brochures for 5 new

model vehicles

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FILM/VIDEO PRODUCTION

Interactive demo reel: http://www.youtube.com/user/6sil6

- 2006- present 2Violet The Violet Bloom campaign - in development

www.2violet.com

- 2005 Virtuality, DV feature for 5 Film - writer/producer/director/editor

www.virtualityfilm.com

- 2004 series of streetcasts for nightclubs in the Entertainment District

in Toronto - producer/editor

- 2003 Five, DV feature for 5 Film - writer/producer/director/editor

COMPUTER SKILLS:

? vector-based animation - Flash ? web-authoring - Dreamweaver

? digital image - PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign ? audio-visual non-

linear editing - AVID XpressDV PRO, Premiere, After Effects ? DVD

encoding/authoring - Canopus ProCoder, TMPGEnc, DVD Maestro, DVD Lab Pro ?

web streaming/webcasting - QuickTime, Windows Producer, RealProducer ?

electronic publishing - Adobe Acrobat ? Virtual Reality - Flash, QuickTime

? Microsoft Access Database, MySQL

? ASP, JSP, PHP - CodeCharge ? Microsoft Office - Project, Word, Excel,

PowerPoint, Outlook

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

- feature film production - Hollywood Film Institute

- film directing and production - Canadian Film Centre

- Philology and Journalism - Sofia University, Bulgaria

- fluent in English, Bulgarian, Russian - speak, read, write

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