Creative Services Project Manager

CHRISTOPHER McDONOUGH

*** **** **., **** ****, NJ 07803 732-***-**** ****@*******.*** www.linkedin.com/in/cpmcdonough

Project Portfolio: www.chrismcdonoughdesign.com/index

SKILLS PROFILE

-Project professional who is self-motivated and skilled in coordinating tasks and details.

-Strategic problem-solver who can recognize the best solution to complex problems and resolve things professionally.

-A clear communicator with extensive experience working in varied corporate cultures and scenarios.

-Focused creative services project manager comfortable with all human resource issues throughout entire staff hierarchy.

-Vast experience in prioritizing, trafficking projects, and maintaining budgets in high-pressure environments.

-Skilled in meeting planning, advertising, creative service understanding, file management, and outreach tasks with a special ability to spot opportunities and create new methodology.

CORE COMPETENCIES

-Project Management

-Stakeholder and Vendor Management

-Advertising

-Organization & Communication

-Microsoft: Project 2010, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Access

-Adobe: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, WordPress CMS, Flash, HTML, Acrobat

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Creative Services Project Manager, Chris McDonough Design

8/15/2014 Present

Mine Hill, NJ

-J.S. Paluch, Chicago, IL – Created dozens of multiple illustration packages for syndication as well as logo designs.

-Alliance Design, Totowa, NJ – Supplied overnight copy writing, as well as design and photo compositing for business-to-consumer ads, direct mail and collateral.

-Focus for Health, Plainfield, NJ – Designed trade show banners, journal ads and collateral.

Creative Services Project Manager, Turchette Advertising Agency

4/15/2001 8/14/2014

Fairfield, NJ

-Improved team time for site development by 200% for new / redesigned client responsive web sites.

-Sales increased by 300% for Vision Associates by creating highly successful promotion project. Project management, copywriting and art direction for all stakeholder deliverables. Campaign included direct mail series, trade journal ads, and trade show collateral.

-Deposits increased by $3.4 million at one Clifton Savings Bank branch with outdoor advertising promotion. Also earned two NJ Ad Club awards.

-Saved ad agency $590,000 in concept costs with process improvement and cutting development time 15%.

-Cut cost forecasting time 70% via analogous estimating during each life cycle, and incorporated continuous improvement quality management.

-Boosted one-day Investor Savings Bank deposits at satellite branch $2.7 million via "Rate, Not Bait" ad campaign.

-Created streamlined process for maintaining client web site updates via Wordpress CMS and developed e-blasts to promote clients events and news.

-Increased agency's retention rate by 23% via templates for faster front-end and back-end development for client’s online banner promotions, including billboard and peel-away ads.

Creative Services Project Manager, MarketSource Inc.

2/20/1994 4/13/2001

[Buffalo, NY]

-Increased deliverable output by 25% while project managing and designing high school and college marketing ads, posters, booklets, promotional event materials, sample boxes and booklets.

-Created cost savings workaround for risk response for team, and supervised/mentored staff of 12 art directors / graphic designers

-Increased turnaround time by 20% for deliverables to coders / game builders for online marketing.

-Developed projects that were key in generating over $20 million in business from clients such as The Hershey Company, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and General Mills, Inc.

Creative Services Project Manager

9/11/1992 2/18/1994

Elizabeth, NJ

-Doubled previous best response rate with a 3.9% response rate for Abbott Labs with EryPed animals/stickers direct mail promotion.

-Provided 37% cost savings in development of Provera patient aid for obstetricians and gynecologists.

-Researched and designed structural mail promotions to doctors for pharmaceutical clients.

-Supervised and mentored art directors and production staff in multiple brands during daily projects.

COMMUNITY SERVICES

-Membership Director, New Jersey Creatives Network, 2015

-Group Facilitator, Notre Dame Church Cluster, West Caldwell, NJ 2008 - 2012

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

-PMI Project Management Certificate, AVTECH, Fairfield, NJ

-Bachelor of Science Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

-Member of PMI and Member / Volunteer NJ PMI

-PMP aspirant

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