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Corrie Smith

Erie,CO

Summary

Accomplished Senior Project Manager with extensive experience in leading large-scale projects and managing cross-functional teams. Expertise in project initiation and planning, utilizing exceptional communication and negotiation skills to exceed stakeholder expectations. Proven track record of delivering projects on time while maintaining high-quality standards, demonstrating strong leadership and effective decision-making capabilities. Committed to fostering collaboration and driving continuous improvement in project outcomes.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

SR. PROJECT MANAGER

FINGERPAINT GROUP
01.2022 - Current
  • Clients included: Dynavax, Puma, Liquidia, Chimerix, Akebia, and IntraBio.
  • Develop integrated project plans, identify and track milestones, conduct risk analysis and management, plan and manage resources, and manage project communications to key stakeholders and team members.
  • Manage monthly forecasts for my clients to ensure the agency is meeting our monthly and annual projections, and goals.
  • Partner with finance bi-weekly to assess the current state of the business, and make any necessary budget adjustments.
  • Own multiple budgets of up to $4 million per year.
  • Lead project manager for the launch of two new pharmaceutical brands, providing comprehensive project plans, and leading the teams through a combination of agile and waterfall methodologies.
  • Proficient in both print and digital projects.
  • Manage the day-to-day relationships with internal and client teams to establish and adhere to project timelines, budget estimates, scopes of work, and project expectations.
  • Worked with internal teams to optimize processes, and was the SME for our creative review platform, Zillow.

SR. PROJECT & RESOURCE MANAGER

CATALYST MARKETING AGENCY
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Clients included: Adobe, World Fuel Service, NetApp, Fastly
  • Managed integrated marketing projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, acted as the internal hub for cross-functional teams, set deadlines, assigned responsibilities, monitored, and summarized project progress
  • Owned project budgets of up to $500,000 and kept profitability at a minimum of 65% on each project through diligent resourcing and vendor contract management
  • Maintained vendor database of 270 creative resources and vetted new talent to partner with
  • Negotiated contracts with vendors to increase agency profitability while retaining and improving relationships with each vendor
  • Partnered with CFO to ensure each client maintained a 65% minimum profitability level through scoping new projects, approving budgets and negotiating fees
  • Worked with each Account Director to negotiate with client’s new rate cards that increased the agency fees on average by 20%
  • Developed new operational processes that increased the rate of on schedule delivery by 70% across all clients and improved agency efficiency
  • Processes included working within a new project management system, creating a new shared drive, implementing regular finance meetings, scheduling daily scrum meetings, and improving the creative review process

SR. PROJECT & OPERATIONS MANAGER, GLOBAL COMMUNICATION & MARKETING

CITY & COUNTY OF DENVER (DEN)
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Developed and defined the new role of Project & Operations Manager for the Division of Global Communications & Marketing at Denver International Airport
  • Researched, recommended, set-up and implemented a brand-new project management system (Wrike) for the entire Division of Global Communications & Marketing
  • Tracked, facilitated, and reported on division-wide projects for SVP of Global Communications & Marketing
  • Led the coordination and execution of multiple large-scale events for the airport including: the all airport employee picnic, the City & County of Denver employee picnic, the all airport holiday party, the employee 25th anniversary party, the VIP 25th anniversary gala, pop-up gate events for the 25th anniversary
  • Managed and coordinated 300+ volunteers to successfully implement a new passenger assistance program
  • Successfully learned how to support volunteers and colleagues with timekeeping and payroll in Kronos
  • Coordinated the scheduling, production and implementation of a virtual academy for local high school students with an interest in aviation-related careers during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Tasks included coordinating b-roll video shoots and interview video shoots with participants at a Director-level and above, scheduling the video production, coordinating reviews and approvals within two separate Divisions
  • Project Manager for a virtual Canine Airport Therapy Squad (CATS) program during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Tasks included coordinating with the CATS handlers to gather videos, scheduled the video copywriting and video production for each video, managed multiple team members through reviews and approvals, worked with the Communications team lead to post the videos to social media accounts and report on interaction with each video
  • Managed the RFP process for a $750,000 research and survey firm contract, including coordination with SVP’s and Contract Administration
  • Assigned as the project management lead for special projects as designated by the SVP of Global Communications & Marketing, including timeline management, budgeting, risk management and coordination across teams and departments at the airport
  • Worked with Airline Affairs on inaugural flight events, including the scheduling and management of vendors and airline partners

SR. PROJECT & RESOURCE MANAGER

IMM, BOULDER, CO.
Boulder, USA
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • Resource manager for agency of 30 people; assigned and tracked design, copy and digital development tasks
  • Drove employee growth through project assignments that best fit their desired and potential career paths
  • Managed freelance resources to ensure timelines were adhered to and quality work, within each scope of work, was delivered
  • Maintained freelance and resource budgets to ensure company financial objectives were met
  • Conducted daily scrum meetings to ensure project timelines and objectives were met and workload conflicts were resolved quickly
  • Worked with executive team to determine resource quality and expectations on a weekly basis
  • Fluent in agile, waterfall and hybrid project management methods
  • Managed one of the agency’s newest clients, including; budget and scope creation, project timelines, status and review meetings, risk management, education on agency and project process

SR. PROJECT MANAGER

FINISH LINE, BOULDER, CO
Boulder, USA
01.2017 - 12.2018
  • Resource manager for eight designers across two corporate office locations (Boulder and Indianapolis)
  • Worked with cross-functional business teams to set business priorities and create workflow schedules as business needs shifted
  • Created master project plans and schedules for all holiday work that included over 200 deliverables within a 1.5-month timeframe
  • Led the website operations team to ensure on-time execution of design assets on the company website
  • Provided recommendations and implementation plans for internal process improvements to gain workflow efficiency
  • Single-handedly upgraded project management system from Basecamp Classic to Basecamp 3, completed full data migration and conducted training sessions
  • Led daily and weekly status meetings with key project stakeholders

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUPERVISOR

FACTION MEDIA
Denver, USA
01.2016 - 12.2017
  • Clients included: DXC (formerly CSC), Hitachi, ProService Hawaii, WOW!
  • Led internal agency process development
  • Including research for new project management systems, new server structures, financial tracking, communication processes and team resourcing procedures
  • Responsible for on-boarding multiple new agency clients to build immediate trust in Faction’s understanding of their business and market needs
  • Teamed with external media vendors for key placements within client campaigns
  • Responsible for leading the development of multiple, strategic and complex, demand generation campaigns for DXC, the agency’s largest global client
  • Main client contact was DXC’s CMO
  • Integral part of the marketing automation team, helping to develop email campaign strategies, quality control procedures and a global training program
  • Managed financial reports and metrics for each client to ensure budgets were being met through each project phase
  • Worked closely with CEO and CFO to develop new operational processes to maximize agency efficiency
  • Mentored and managed junior and mid-level Project Managers to help elevate them into more senior roles
  • Led the development and implementation of DXC’s 2016 demand generation campaign that won 4 BMA Gold Key awards, including overall best campaign results and earned them almost $250MM in pipeline revenue
  • Implemented a new account-based pursuit marketing program that helped DXC land three new multi-million-dollar contracts and won them the SiriusDecisions ROI Award

PROJECT & ACCOUNT MANAGER

OBLIQUE DESIGN
Boulder, USA
01.2014 - 12.2016
  • Served as sole Account Manager for the agency; managed daily sales and marketing for business
  • Project management: scope/proposal writing, created and maintained project schedules, handled client objections, conducted competitive research to develop project strategy
  • Performed budget and accounting management and reconciliation tasks, ensuring projects remained within budget and costs were controlled
  • Leveraged Google Analytics for reporting on Oblique’s website as well as client websites to ensure high levels of engagement and to redefine strategies as needed
  • Maintained vendor relations; negotiated terms and contracts
  • Provided operational and administrative management to maintain project efficiency

PROJECT MANAGER

LEOPARD COMMUNICATIONS
Denver, USA
01.2007 - 12.2014
  • Clients included: IBM, Covidien, Mentor Graphics, Motorola, Farmland and Cisco
  • Served as Lead Project Manager on the IBM account team; acted as first point of contact for clients; interviewed IBM's clients regarding products and outcomes; directed weekly client status meetings
  • Completed successful project management for each client including: scope creation, project plan development, project schedules, project risk management, creative reviews, quality assurance, financial tracking and invoicing
  • Maintained project budgets and retainers up to $1.4million; collaborated with CFO to complete reporting projections, ensuring agency revenue goals were being met
  • Chosen for several task force teams to assist with implementation of new agency processes, increasing efficiency
  • Served as traffic manager to assign agency resources to projects agency wide
  • Served as account lead for three large cross-functional digital and print projects that won BMA Gold awards in 2013 & 2014
  • Led initiative for IBM’s CEO developing a 'How to Sell IBM' program presented to 400,000+ IBM staff
  • Achieved consistent year after year revenue growth and profitability

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology, Emphasis in Criminal Justice

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley

Skills

  • Project Planning and Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Company operations
  • Traditional and digital marketing
  • Pharmaceutical marketing process
  • Financial Management and Analysis
  • Team Management
  • Marketing Automation and Strategy
  • Risk Management

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

SR. PROJECT MANAGER

FINGERPAINT GROUP
01.2022 - Current

SR. PROJECT & RESOURCE MANAGER

CATALYST MARKETING AGENCY
01.2021 - 01.2022

SR. PROJECT & OPERATIONS MANAGER, GLOBAL COMMUNICATION & MARKETING

CITY & COUNTY OF DENVER (DEN)
01.2019 - 01.2021

SR. PROJECT & RESOURCE MANAGER

IMM, BOULDER, CO.
01.2018 - 12.2018

SR. PROJECT MANAGER

FINISH LINE, BOULDER, CO
01.2017 - 12.2018

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUPERVISOR

FACTION MEDIA
01.2016 - 12.2017

PROJECT & ACCOUNT MANAGER

OBLIQUE DESIGN
01.2014 - 12.2016

PROJECT MANAGER

LEOPARD COMMUNICATIONS
01.2007 - 12.2014

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology, Emphasis in Criminal Justice

University of Northern Colorado

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