Design Project

GREGG WATT e w c

*****@*********.*** greggwatt.com/portfolio 917-***-****

OBJECTIVE Assist companies and organizations to improve their Web initiatives by providing guidance and

management throughout the entire project life-cycle with a focus on social media integration.

PROFILE

Consultant with a strong balance of both creative and technical skills.

Extensive international experience across diversi ed industries from broadcast and entertainment to

social networks, technology and IT.

An analytic problem solver who can synthesize many forms of research and business requirements

into informational, navigational and web page / application design.

orough understanding of how to harness and capitalize on social media and networking tools

including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress CMS, Google Analytics and web-to-lead

generation maintained by Zoho CRM.

orough knowledge of visual design principals including graphic design and layout, typography,

animation and content production with excellent video production skills.

Areas of expertise include design, process analysis, project management, implementation and

integration.

Broad experience with user interface design principles, navigation, process owcharts and mock-ups

as well as maintaining client relationships.

Excellent at multi-tasking, determining priorities and time management skills.

US Green card holder, EU/British passport holder and South African passport holder.

SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIALIST

Current focus is on integrating social media, and helping entertainment industry and small

businesses to adopt content management systems.

Design, develop, implement and maintain Wordpress CMS websites, including theme frameworks,

template customization and basic PHP coding.

Integrate social media tools including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

Integrate front and back-end solutions with CRM, PayPal and invoicing as well as web-to-lead

generation setup.

Deploy video across multiple channels along with analytics tracking and monitoring.

Social networking, blogging and online community building.

Assemble and manage technical and creative resources both internal and external.

Present ideas, concepts and propose navigation for site redesigns to optimize user interaction and

seamless access to premium news content.

Communicate with clients to discuss requirements, progress reports and issues throughout the

project life-cycle.

Create graphics for special news segments and banner ads.

Develop client concepts, manage projects from inception to completion, including design, code and

user interface.

Clients / Companies: Reader s Digest, Discovery Channel En Espanol, National Public Radio,

Sawyer Entertainment / Wheelhouse Creative, Denim erapy, AzureMayan,

Mutopo Collaboratorie, Earth Metals, e Radio Data Group, Conus

Communications, Harp Week.

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DIGITAL MEDIA PROFESSIONAL

Supervise teams of up to 25 technical and creative individuals on a project-by-project basis.

Manage all phases of production from storyboards, identifying and securing top talent, directing

lm shoots, overseeing post production (telecine, color correction, grading, sound design and nal

mix) and analyzing online video landscape.

Present client concepts, storyboard and produce cinema commercials and online video clips.

Meet with actors weekly to develop short lm scripts. Employ improvisational techniques to

develop story concepts. Direct and shoot each short lm in a single day.

Clients / Companies: Redken, South African Broadcasting Corporation, MNET, unda.com,

Cybersmart.

VERSATILE TECHNICAL CONSULTANT

Determine organizations business objectives and processes, develop and present ow charts, present

mockups and prototypes, and design relational databases using object oriented design techniques.

Initiate, design, and implement a robust, department-wide version control system for one of the

Europe's leading IT companies that operates systems for customers in nancial services, telecoms

and retail.

Participate in multi-national pan-European restructuring of a PEPSI product replenishment

system, contributing to dramatic improvements in e ciency and cost savings.

Develop and implement POS system for major UK retail outlet as well as document processes and

guide user testing.

Combine live action and 3D animation for lm and TV visual e ects sequences.

Identify business work ow and develop UNIX scripts to automate processes, increasing

department e ciency and e ectiveness.

Clients / Companies: e Image Group, PEPSI Europe, Fijitsu/ICL, Marks & Spencer, Softwright

Systems, United States Coast Guard, Cedar Cli Systems.

PROFICIENCIES

Design Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Video Editing with Final Cut Pro including various video encoding

tools, OmniGra e.

Web & Social Media Tools: Wordpress, HTML, CSS, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter.

Business Tools: Basecamp, Zoho Business Applications including CRM, Invoice, Creator, various

Open Source and SaaS tools, MS O ce and cloud computing equivalents.

Other Tools: Comfortable with Search Engine Optimization techniques, Google Analytics, PHP,

Adobe Illustrator and a close follower of Web 2.0 developments.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Mac OS and Windows

EDUCATION

Rhode Island School of Design

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Video and Animation (cum laude), June 1998

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