Senior Project Manager

Melissa Krawitz

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EXPERIENCE

**/**- */** ******* Sr. Project Manager

• Managed all Print/Online Projects in an autonomous manner from initiation through to completion i.e.Ads, Direct Mail, OOH, Emails,Banners, RTWs, Landing Pages – HTML,XML,CSS, JavaScript, Flash

• Defined and documented all required project tasks, assigned creative resources, resolved project, design, or development issues prepared and presented project progress and status reports

• Created/Managed timelines, assets/stock photography, scheduled briefs, creative reviews, client presentations

• Clients: USAA Financial Group

11/05 – 9/07 Ogilvy Sr. Project Manager – Freelance

• Managed all creative projects from conception to direct mail, print, outdoor, promotional and collateral campaigns,POP, Kiosks, interactive banners, emails

• Create schedules, assembled specs & dates, review retouching, match prints. Budget/Estimate/Actualize all projects

• Clients: du Maurier, Unilever, KODAK, BAT

4/05 – 10/05 JWT Sr. Project Manager - Freelance

• Managed all creative projects from conception to direct mail, print, outdoor, promotional and collateral campaigns

• Clients: Estee Lauder International, Aramis, Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Pfizer, Rolex

11/03 – 4/05 Grey Worldwide Sr. Project Manager

• Managed all creative projects from conception to direct mail, print, outdoor, promotional and collateral campaigns

• Clients: Glaxo SmithKline, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Panasonic, Playtex, Frontier Airlines ,Bell South, Flonase

3/03 – 11/03 Bates USA Sr. Project Manager

• Created schedules, assembled specs & dates, review retouching, match prints & blue lines.

• Clients: British American Tobacco, Brown & Williamson, Pfizer, Allied Domecq, Estée Lauder, T.Rowe Price

8/00 - 3/03 I-Traffic.com (an Agency.com co.) Director of Project Management

• Hired to establish Project Management department.

• Managed projects from conception to delivery – assigned 14 creative teams, created schedules, estimates and hired Freelancers to ensure client due dates were met. Created – e-mails, banners, pop-ups, and mini-websites, rich media.

• Clients: British Airways, Columbia House, Discovery Channel, Double-Day, LandRove-FreeLanderr, Motorola, Nokia, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Sprint, The Sporting News and Fox Entertainment.

7/94 - 8/00 Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners Project Supervisor – Direct Mail

• Supervised operations of creative, production and traffic from concept to fulfillment.

• Created and implemented Standard Operating Procedures and supervised staff of five.

• Create estimates and schedules for direct mail, print, outdoor and non-traditional campaigns.

• Compile specs and dates from publications and worked closely with account management, media and

production to maintain creative rotations. Monitor retouching on all campaigns to insure deadlines were met.

• Clients: Citibank, Cablevision, Neuberger Berman, Liberty Mutual, Blimpie and NetGrocer

2/93 - 7/94 Palestrini Post Production Business/Office Manager

• Managed all post production activities for $2MM accounts

• Budgeted, estimated, actualized, scheduled, and managed projects.

7/92 -12/93 Freelance – Production Manager/Project Manager/Stage Manager

• Chiat-Day Direct, Merkley Newman Harty,Warren/Kremer, Broome Street Theater, Leonard Street Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater.

3/88 - 6/92 Alan/Anthony, Inc. Production/Office Manager

• Coordinated estimating, purchasing and scheduling of printing, freelance design, photography, audio recording,

and other production. Provided account services and supervised and coordinated all direct mail.

4/82 - 1/88 ABC NEWS/Capital Cities Production Coordinator/NABET Video Tape Editor

• Coordinated newsgathering and arranged coverage for daily and special news events.

• Events: President Reagan’s trip to China, Pope’s visit to Central America, Economic Summit, 1984 Olympics. • Videotape editor for World News Tonight, 20/20 and Weekend Nightly News

EDUCATION Hunter College, City University of New York BA, Art History/New York University, Film & Television

ACTIVITIES Dancer/Stage Manager/Off Broadway Theater, 13 years

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