Producer / Creative Services / Project Manager

Charles-Lee Howard

Lantana, FL United States +1-786-***-****

mailto:**********.******@****************.**

PROFILES AND

PERSONAL

WEBSITE

Linkedin.com/in/charles-lee-howard/

WhoDaresCheerAll.me

EXPERIENCED

PROJECT MANAGER

A charismatic communicator, with strong stakeholder and team dynamic strengths, delivering quality performance to marketing, digital campaign, eCommerce and print collateral products, in advertising and internal corporate environments. A to mentor team members to further enable delivery of on-time and exceptional final product handoff. Strong local and international customer services experience, and able to manage competing priorities. Always learning and looking to add new methodologies and technologies to increase productivity. AREAS OF

EXPERTISE

Creative Direction

Customer Satisfaction

Digital Media

Marketing

Public Relations

Advertising

Marketing Strategy

Event Planning

Interpersonal Communication

Diversity & Inclusion

Critical thinking

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Adobe Creative Suite: 10+ Years

o Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, Acrobat Pro

Microsoft Office: 10+ Years

o Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams

SharePoint 3+ Years

Smartsheet 3+ Years

Jira 3+ Years

Workfront 2+ Years

Google Suites 5+ Years

LINGUISTICS

English

o Fluency: Native

French

o Fluency: Professional

Spanish

o Fluency: Professional

CERTIFICATIONS

Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt - San Diego State University 12861577

Smartsheet Product Certified User

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PMP - Project Management Professional – (Exam Pending) WORK HISTORY

PROJECT MANAGER 01/2022 to 12/2022

KROGER CORPORATE Cincinnati, OH

Brand – Kroger Delivery

The management and coordination of Brand Marketing, In-House Creative, Agency, External Vendors, Campaign Management, Outdoor/ Online Social, Logistics and Distribution/Transpiration in the marketing, strategy, creative and the timing opening of satellite distribution nodes, delivery, offers in new expansion markets.

Highlights:

o Outlook: Communications with Stakeholders, teams, vendors and executives. Created mass and team specific communications with highlights to specific persons, hyperlinks, meeting creation event reminders and meeting recaps.

o SharePoint: Hub creation as a depository of information as location for status updates for all Stakeholders.

o PowerPoint: Process documentations as well as a presentation of status and financial health of projects, and future forecast and outlook.

o Workfront: Created and communicated requests for new and in process jobs and proofing projects such as Paid Search, Paid Media, Print, copy, etc.

PROGRAM MANAGER 04/2020 to 03/2021

OFFICE DEPOT Boca Raton, FL

Product & Technology / eCommerce

Facilitated the status management and communications of the Digital Print & Copy website and app.

Highlights:

o Smartsheet: Created, organized, overviewed projects with timelines and dependencies in Smartsheet, which further o Outlook: Facilitated communications between projects teams, department managers and project owners.

o Jira: Lead Scrum meetings with eCommerce teams to review daily project status.

o PowerPoint: Presented status and financial health of projects, and future forecast and outlook.

MARKETING ANALYST 12/2018 to 04/2020

Creative Operations

My project management primary role was for B2B and B2C in Creative Operations was a focus of campaigns, print catalog, marketing collateral, internal corporate creative concept, and event collateral. Overseeing the project process of a multitude of short- and long-term projects such as print, virtual, monthly and yearly catalogs, marketing campaigns and requests from other departments for creative collateral under the brand guidelines.

Using Smartsheet as a CRM software, I was able to customize for the business owners and creative team members custom web portals in which they were able to create and submit project briefs, view their project status, showcase timelines and comment on projects or proofs. I accomplished the following and more:

Highlights:

o Smartsheet:

Created new lanes of communications by with schedule and timing automation and procedures.

Created new methods of proofing and deliverable hand- offs.

Created year over year projects forecast Gantt chart for team workload and timeline review via Smartsheet

referencing of other sheet data.

o PowerPoint: Created business plans and project management plans to define milestones and guide account managers. MARKETING COORDINATOR 11/2014 to 12/2018

Creative Operations

Oversee National and Puerto Rico in-store retail and online Inserts. Manage a multitude of short-term creative projects in Marketing.

Oversaw the creation national and Puerto Rico weekly inserts and online offers.

Coordinated and facilitated communication and with print production, marketing, legal, copywriters and creative teams to complete elements of marketing advertising and print campaigns, of inserts and projects and ensure schedule adherence.

Leveraged different market research strategies to investigate new products and enhance campaign planning.

CLIENT SERVICES COORDINATOR 08/2014 to 10/2014

CBRE Boca Raton, FL

(2-month contract position)

Responsible for the general administrative and creative support for managing office(s) or group of sales clients facing professionals.

Maintained the organization brand to develop and produce marketing materials such as proposals, presentations and communication materials.

Performed medium to complex administrative support activities and provides functional advice when needed.

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE 04/2011 to 07/2011

ZIMMERMAN ADVERTISING Fort Lauderdale, FL

Responsible for all client initiatives and responsible for positive client satisfaction.

Managed internal groups, apply strategies, and build client relationships through effective and efficient strategies.

TRAFFIC COORDINATOR 03/2010 to 04/2011

Facilitate the internal workflow and manage the technical process to allow the coordination, scheduling and managing of creative design jobs from clients and Account Executives to the appropriate Artist, Art Director or Copy Editor.

Ensured all jobs and tasks are recorded in JMS and deadlines are met.

Facilitated communication with Account teams to the Artist, Art Director or Copy Editor.

Ensured that agency procedures are followed.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Computer Animation

Miami International University of Art and Design Miami, FL High School Diploma

. Colegio Franklin D Roosevelt Lima, Peru

COMMUNITY

INVOLVEMENT

Community Ambassador

#depotdifference, Office Depot Boca Raton, FL

Associate Producer, Production Coordinator

No Jive Productions Miami, FL

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