EXPERIENCE
Financial Services/Pharmaceutical, Creative Project Manager, Remote
May 2016 — August 2023 (Freelance)
« Supported marketing campaigns, sales initiatives, and product launches; manage end-to-end creative projects, ensuring quality inputs, assigning resources, building schedules, and routinely communicating project status to stakeholders, Creative Managers and Senior Leadership Teams.
« Maintain and track project details, timeline, budgets and deliverables.
« Facilitate planning and kickoff meetings with cross-functional teams.
« Identifi ed roadblocks, mitigate risks on projects and problem-solve.
« Facilitate planning of social media, digital, video and print creatives.
« Built internal client relationships to streamline processes as a best practice.
« Drove continuous process improvements to lead and manage the branding from start to fi nish. Clients include: MetLife, UBS Financial Services Inc., Prudential/PGIM Investments, Organon, Santen, Novo, Med Pro, Johnson and Johnson, HAEA and Afaxy.
CITIGROUP, Senior Graphic Designer
August 2010 — May 2016
« Generate business leads and design print solutions for product areas with client-facing materials.
« Provide interactive designs to generate forms used by fi nancial advisor analysis for planning, development and deployment for retention.
« Built and maintain a database of ongoing marketing materials used by the fi eld and released on a quarterly or monthly reporting for information gathering.
« Worked closely with Art Director and Marketing Director on use of clients brand and logo disbursements throughout the fi rm and their strategic marketing partners.
« Provided on-demand print advertising for fi nancial advisors in local, national and regional markets to develop and maintain new business. UBS Financial Services Inc., Graphic Designer
September 2006 — August 2010
« Created and designed print ads requested by fi nancial advisors for placement in national and local publications. Designed and produced related marketing materials such as inserts, fi nancial advisor brochures, seminar invitations, conference booths, postcards, announcements, etc. Worked with printers on production of projects. Maintained and managed 300+ ad templates.
TIAA-CREF, Marketing Communications Specialist
August 1998 — September 2006
« Junior Graphic Designer — Designed and created layout of direct marketing materials, including ads, brochures and invitations.
« Video Producer — Hired fi lm/video crews and still photographers. Also off -line edited in-house, supervised on-line edits at external video/fi lm facilities and run budgets for each production from pre- to post-production.
HARD SKILLS
Project Management
« Workfront
« Slack
Adobe Creative Suite
« InDesign
« Illustrator
« Photoshop
« Premier
« Bridge
« Acrobat
« XD
« InCopy
Microsoft Offi ce Suite
« WORD
« Powerpoint
« Excel
« Offi ce
SOFT SKILLS
Communication Process
« Stakeholder Engagement
« Cross-Functional Collaboration
« Problem-solving
« Customer Services
« Detailed Oriented
« Critical Thinking
EDUCATION
Rutgers University
« Bachelors/English & Film
The New School University
« Masters/Media Studies
Eddy Byam
Experienced in Creative Project Management and Graphic Design 201-***-****
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