Project Manager Design

Melissa Pugh

Email: ********@************.***

Address:

City: Alpharetta

State: GA

Zip: 30004

Country: USA

Phone: 678-***-****

Skill Level: Any

Salary Range:

Primary Skills/Experience:

I am a clever, resourceful, and driven professional focused on growing in the design and branding field. I am mostly self taught, always looking to learn the next the thing and how to do it better, I have exceptional leadership skills in my current job as a project manager and group fitness instructor, as well as past leadership skills in the military. I have strong oral and written communication skills with a passion for public speaking.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage AK 1/2001 to 5/2004 (Journalism and Public Communications)

Job History / Details:

Who I am

I am a clever, resourceful, and driven professional focused on growing in the design and branding field. I am mostly self taught, always looking to learn the next the thing and how to do it better, I have exceptional leadership skills in my current job as a project manager and group fitness instructor, as well as past leadership skills in the military. I have strong oral and written communication skills with a passion for public speaking.

Skill Highlights

Omnie Project

Microsoft Project

Copper Management system (online Project management tool)

Basecamp

Dropbox

Min Illustrator skills

Asana

Projects I have Managed

Boston Acoustics E-commerce website

www.bostonacoustics.com/US/Pages/home.aspx

Boston is an e-commerce website. For this project I started from the very beginning, from the first meeting to win the client to the day when the site was pushed to production. Since production, I also project manage the seasonal banners for the site. I was responsible for time tracking, content gathering including creating and managing a content matrix, asset collection, and managing QA of design prior to production. This was the first project that I managed from creation to production.

Southwire Mobile Applications

www.southwire.com/support.mobile-applications.htm

Southwire is the biggest copper producer in the world, and as a marketing strategy, Southiwire initiated the first mobile applications to the market for the electrical industry. For this project I was responsible for five applications. I was brought in 2 months after initiation, and through many challenging obstacles during the 15 months, these five applications were published in both the iTunes and Android Market. I was responsible for taking client feedback and giving them to both design and development, QAing each build prior to sending it to the client, creation of general QA to submit to Southwire's IT before publication to iTunes, as well as emergency tasks to include, creating an Excel document of Southwire's Tappan catalog for their stock numbers, comparison document of Southwire's application and competitor's applications presented to Southwire's company president, and excel documents to explain Southwire's formulas to our developers.

Apps Published to iTunes (iPhone and iPad) and Android Market

Conduit v1 and v2

Conversion

McAP

SIMpull

App published to iTunes (iPad)

Internal Sales catalog

D M External Internet

www.dmglobal.com

D M decided to re-brand their corporate identity. Implementing the new branding standards formulated by our company, we re-designed their corporate external consumer facing site. We were tasked to created a project plan for a 12 week design and development roll out of the site. I was responsible for coordinating with both design and development to create this project plan. In addition, I was also responsible for creating and managing a content matrix, collection of assets, and account management. In the interim of development, the company decided prior to the build out of the site, they would develop overlays for regional pages. I was responsible for design time management, collecting content for development, and managing design QA.

D M We Connect Internal Intranet site

To push D M's new identity to the employees of the company, D M initiated the design and development of an Intranet site on CMS SharePoint 2010.For this project I was responsible for the time management of an initial one page site, followed by a six week roll out of minor additions to the one pager to include a video platform, third party widgets, and implementing Google search. After the six week roll out plan was completed, we began a 20 week development strategy to build out the entire site in 3 phases. I was responsible for coordinating with design and development to create the project plan, interfacing with the client to gather content, assets, and feedback, and coordinating between design and the client to development to assure the success of development. I managed the project from design to development to production.

Kenwood Cooking Chef Cookbook

Parent company De'Longhi requested to take an existing cookbook published in the UK and convert the metric measurement into US standard as well as the terminology to appeal to the US market. This book was 300 pages. We had two weeks to complete this project. Between one of our junior designers and myself, we completed the entire book and submitted it to their UK publishing company in InDesign files.

Please ask me for additional retainer projects that I managed.

Experience

March 2011 to Current

Aumcore Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

Aumcore is a multifaceted creative company that offers branding, marketing, SMM, SEO, mobile and web solutions.

I started as a receptionist and worked myself up to project manager. Please see above section for projects that I managed for this company.

July 2010 to Current

Brookhaven Fitness Brookhaven, GA

TRX and Kettlebell Instructor

I am a group instructor for this gym for kettlebells and TRX. I first started with teaching two classes at the gym and as the programs grew, I now teach 4-6 classes a week. I've assisted with bringing in fresh ideas to evolve the business. I will continue to support the gym and have been asked to expand their social media strategy, and possible implementation of an internal forum for the success of the clients.

February 2003 to August 2007

United States Air Force Reserves McChord AFB, GA

Emergency Medical Technician

I was an emergency medical technician for the Air Force Reserves. As my last assignment, I drilled with the 446th AMDS, a non-deployable unit whose mission was to maintain the medical readiness of McChord's Air Force reservists. During my service, in my technical training period, I became the second in command airman for 1,000 airman flight, also known as a yellow rope. During my time at McChord, I was the Vice President for the junior level airman. Through serving my country, I learned the importance of integrity, service before self, and to do excellence in all that I accomplish.

Education

2003 University of Alaska Anchorage Anchorage, AK

Associate of Arts Journalism and Public Communications

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