Jason SanMarco

As the Creative Director for Pivit Marketing, I am tasked to handle all creative direction & design strategy for our clients. I conduct daily scrums to assist our design & development staff, maintain project expectations, and correspond with the clients frequently. I am responsible for design training, best project placement for skill-sets, and maintaining our agile work environment. I manage the client discovery meetings (relating to design and user experience), and consult on project work-flow.

I am also responsible for completing design tasks such as:

• Design Strategy
• Wireframing
• Website Design
• Application Interface Design & strategy
• User Experience Design
• Print Design
• Brand Strategy & Design
• Etc.

• Created Custom website/branding/user interface designs for each project, in every inquiring industry.

• Manage client expectations and deliver high quality production files per project specification.

• Built proposals for each client to determine their budget for the project.

• Provide Consultation as ”White-label” to marketing / design firms that do not have staff with the required experience, to present to their clients.

I am responsible for creating compelling user experiences relating to web-services, application interfaces, branding, and design strategy. I directly communicate with clients on a regular basis, to discuss project expectations, and strategies relating to their project. I conduct meetings to outline project needs and asset requests. I assist other designers with creative direction and consult on new designer hires.

I also am responsible for presenting project creations to clients during a “reveal-meeting,” and collect new model requests, changes & disucss project functionality. I am well versed in current best-practices including development techniques. Although I do not program in HTML5/CSS3, etc., I communicate with developers and assist in problem solving for functionality restrictions, and can read and understand most HTML.

I am also responsible for cross-training employees that may be focused mainly on print design, and educate them on best practices for web/interface design. I also specialize in brand strategies and produce many of the branding campaigns.

I was responsible for all Development of design strategies, work flow and design & client coordination. I spoke with each client to determine the best process to complete their project request. I assigned project tasks to the appropriate employee by skill level or style. I was also responsible for hiring and training new employees. I was entrusted to find employment resources, train them on our project processes, provide constructive critiques in order to tweak the designs to the specific requests of the client, and correspond with the client by providing proofs, have meetings regarding design changes and strategy adjustments, etc.. I also designed most of the pieces being produced by the company. Most of my team worked telecommute and their locations range from: San Francisco, Arizona, Texas, Seattle, Florida, Ukraine & Spain. I was able to coordinate meetings and manage this team from my home office here in Arizona via skype, email and phone conference.

I was also responsible for managing client events/shows. I coordinated with the companies hosting the shows, create concept designs for the booths, ordering, and attended the shows to ensure proper design placement. I am a perfectionist and what I call a “qualitist.” I am my own worst critic which allows for design evolution, but am extremely responsible with time management. I have used Active Colab, Basecamp and Trello to manage projects, tasks, timesheets and assignments. I also provided consultation to other marketing / design firms that did not have someone of staff with the required experience. I met with their clients, discussed goals, budgets, timelines and strategy.

• Responsible for the initial meet with the client, scope of work, acquire pertinent information regarding their project needs, and assessing budgets and timeframes for said work.

• Produced High quality production pieces according to the project specs using Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver (if programming was necessary), and Adobe Acrobat.

• Built proposals using web-based invoicing software that included tasks involved with the client’s project, timeframe for completed work and the estimated costs involved.

• Managed a design team of 3 (additional), delegated work/tasks and proofed each proposed design prior to sending to client. Made corrections and suggestions that would better represent the client’s needs.

• Provided design strategies and consultations for clients, by “white-labeling myself for larger firms and their clientele.

• Assisting with sales calls/conferences in order to answer design related questions, and determine the best project build per client budget/needs.

• Training for new skill-sets, and design procedures to Jr. Designers & Interns.

• Responsible for meeting with current and potential clients to retrieve information regarding their project.

• Built proposals that included tasks involved with their project, timeframe for completed work and the estimated costs involved

• Design/Br¬and Strategy Consult for application clients.

• Assisting with sales calls/conferences in order to answer design related questions, and determine the best project build per client budget/needs.

• Training for new skill-sets, and design procedures to Jr. Designers & Interns.