Andrea Porretti
Summary
Project management professional with 9 years' experience. Expert at assigning and designating tasks, manages projects throughout the life cycle. Builds strong relationships with clients. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Quast Media
10.2018 - Current
- Acts as an effective liaison between clients and project teams to ensure requirements for all projects within the organization are met
- Developed an internal project request system by working with the sales director that increased transparency on projects across the company, this led to a more efficient workflow process across the organization and faster turnaround times for all projects
- Proactively troubleshoots, overcomes, and/or escalates project challenges in a timely manner
- Has established strong professional working relationships with clients over the past 5 years, providing them guidance and advice as it relates to their needs
- Handles all project scheduling and timelines, including scouting and filming details for videos and digital installations
- Provides and reviews copy and design layout on digital ads
- Works in collaboration and supports the sales, creative director, graphic designers, videographer, and IT members; providing them with all necessary details for projects, and updates throughout the project life cycle
- Point person for any additional needs that arise
- Leads all kick-off and status meetings, ensuring effective communication of timelines, deadlines, budgets and deliverables
- Determines resource requirements and assigns tasks to team members
- Project types include digital ads, signage installs, billboards and video production
- Reviews projects in each stage of the process, checking for accuracy of the design and copy.
Project Manager
Research Now SSI
06.2018 - 10.2018
- Maintained project ownership in delivering low to mid-complexity custom market research projects with a project duration typically between 1 week to one month
- Managed expectations and delivered high level of services in an ever-changing, fast turnaround environment
- Established effective, professional working relationships with clients, providing them guidance and advice where appropriate as it relates to Research Now' SSI's products and services
- Effectively communicated both as an individual and as part of a client-facing project team.
B2B2C Marketing Communications Sr. Specialist
Aquent Staffing | Cigna
05.2017 - 09.2017
- Updated marketing pieces with new verbiage to reflect new and updated information for Cigna
- Submitted pieces for state filing and compliance review/approval
- Provided defect tracking for websites and identified any issues to developers to make necessary changes
- Worked in partnership with multiple groups to initiate projects around Adobe Creative Suite.
Assistant Project Manager
Wunderland Group Staffing | Lego
02.2016 - 12.2016
- Handled day-to-day client relationship management
- Prioritized responsibilities between cross functional teams including project managers, creative, production, prepress, and licensing departments on multiple projects at once
- Project managed and supported in-store, online, print catalogs, store events, and displays
- Worked closely with 3rd party vendors and prepress team on installs
- Successfully supported the creation of the Target Christmas catalog, where I collected approvals for every item in the issue from Legal and Licensing and enforced brand awareness
- Lead project manager for requests, submissions and approval processes for all licensing needs
- Supported the process of moving projects through the entire project phase-scheduling, budgets, working with internal teams and outside agencies in the US and Latin America.
Assistant Marketing Project Manager/ Traffic Coordinator
BlueSpire Marketing Group
10.2014 - 01.2016
- Handled day-to-day client relationship management
- Worked in collaboration with all agency department teams to implement strategic project plans
- Managed teams between 3 -8 members
- Reviewed and wrote creative briefs and schedules
- Led kick-off meetings, internal project meetings, including weekly status check-ins with account managers and clients
- Tracked multiple projects from inception to completion/launch simultaneously
- Managed and trafficked all print and web projects
- Networked with external vendors, media planners, and released ads to publications
- Spearheaded a new tracking process for projects using a project management tool called Smartsheet
- This system shortened turnaround time and increased efficiency by 30% among the teams.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Marketing
Post University
Skills
- Project planning/management
- Client management
- Traffic management
- Advertising
- In – store event marketing
- Digital, video, social media & print marketing
Personal Information
Title: Marketing Project Manager
Awards
Lamplighter Awards, Single Item & Series Division: Advertising Video: Short Format Series, Silver Award, 2019
Timeline
Project Manager
Quast Media
10.2018 - Current
Project Manager
Research Now SSI
06.2018 - 10.2018
B2B2C Marketing Communications Sr. Specialist
Aquent Staffing | Cigna
05.2017 - 09.2017
Assistant Project Manager
Wunderland Group Staffing | Lego
02.2016 - 12.2016
Assistant Marketing Project Manager/ Traffic Coordinator
BlueSpire Marketing Group
10.2014 - 01.2016
Bachelor's Degree - Marketing
Post University
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