CASEY CRUZ
Glendale,AZ
Summary
Dedicated manager with significant expertise in overseeing complex projects and ensuring timely delivery. Skilled in strategic planning, budget management, and risk assessment. Strong focus on team collaboration, fostering results-driven environment, and adapting to changing needs. Known for reliability, leadership, and effective communication.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Mentor Program Coordinator
Arizonans for Children
09.2025 - Current
- Oversaw the North Valley of Maricopa County. Included identifying, interviewing, and reviewing dozens of applicants for our mentor program (both volunteer adults and foster children applying for a mentorship). Held virtual and in-person interviews.
- Managed 30+ active mentorship pairs, including advising on problems and enhancing program effectiveness. Acted as liaison between mentors and caregivers, and keeping track of monthly visitation hour expectations.
- Tracked applicants status, gathering paperwork, reference requests, and other misc. materials. Created, managed, and analyzed spreadsheets for trends in applicants. Improved processes across the team by updating old templates.
- Managed social event page’s content calendar, sourcing information, streamlining it, and sharing it daily.
Project Manager
Freelance
05.2024 - 09.2025
- Delegated requests to an average of 10 team members, focusing on inter-departmental collaboration, reallocating resources according to timeline and priority shifts, ensuring everyone has an equal workload.
- Wrote dozens of copy for pitch decks and documentation, proofreading any deliverables before sending to stakeholders, and editing both internal and external reports while acting as the primary liaison between both clients and coworkers.
- Updated websites via a CMS, implementing quality assurance on any changes on a backend site before going live to stakeholders.
- Accelerated delivery, review, and signing of hundreds of agreements, equipment requests, and other misc. paperwork.
Creative Project Manager
Palm Drive Productions
02.2021 - 11.2023
- Analyzed, evaluated, and determined the viability of dozens of potential projects; reviewing based on market trends.
- Spearheaded a complete brand redesign. Hiring a designer, conducting A/B testing for possible logos, and developing and launching a fresh new six page website.
- Led end-to-end execution of a rebranding marketing campaign, managing creative resources, timelines, and stakeholder approvals; delivered 25+ social assets aligned with brand objectives and audience engagement goals.
- Included setting clear objectives, addressing challenges, and coordinating with stakeholders.
- Developed dozens of business proposals and presentation materials while collaborating with stakeholders.
Creative Producer
PXL
09.2020 - 02.2021
- Managed developers’ and designers’ day-to-day tasks in creation of a six figure product startup, creating production schedule, holding teams accountable to deadlines, and shifting priorities as needed. Included daily check-ins and weekly client updates across multiple departments.
- Created 10+ social assets, from ideation to execution. Delegated projects to designers as needed before delivering to stakeholder for review.
- Facilitated virtual events for hundreds of guests across multiple international markets in a brand new live event platform. Included sending out invites, troubleshooting in real time, and hosting the event itself.
- Always advocated for inclusion, going above and beyond, learning new skills to add subtitles three days before site launch. Included working with the localization team to ensure multiple territories had access to the product.
Project Manager
PXL
09.2019 - 09.2020
- Acted as the primary liaison between design/dev teams and stakeholders to accelerate clear, effective communication. Included reallocating tasks based on assessed prioritization. Clients included DreamWorks, Netflix, Universal, Paramount...
- Handled the production and execution of 10+ projects, from ideation to delivery, partnering with cross-functional business teams of various stakeholders to execute successful joint promotions.
- Provided hundreds of sentences as copy for pitch decks, websites, social posts, and other forms of documentation while planning and implementing comprehensive social marketing initiatives.
Education
Masters - Leadership And Management
Thunderbird School of Global Management
Phoenix, AZ12-2025
Bachelor of Arts - Filmmaking Practices
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ05-2019
Skills
- Project Management
- Campaign Execution
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Stakeholder Management
- Digital Marketing Strategies
- Data Driven Decision Making
- Project Planning and Development
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Slack, Trello, Asana
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Korean
Elementary
Timeline
Mentor Program Coordinator
Arizonans for Children
09.2025 - Current
Project Manager
Freelance
05.2024 - 09.2025
Creative Project Manager
Palm Drive Productions
02.2021 - 11.2023
Creative Producer
PXL
09.2020 - 02.2021
Project Manager
PXL
09.2019 - 09.2020
Masters - Leadership And Management
Thunderbird School of Global Management
Bachelor of Arts - Filmmaking Practices
Arizona State University