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Senior Project Manager
Rita Wiggins
Thousand Oaks, CA
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I am a Senior Project Manager with over 10 years of experience in visual merchandising and retail space planning. I am comfortable leading teams and am passionate about creating a healthy work environment for everyone. I always strive to deliver the highest quality deliverables, and my background as a designer and design student help me understand how to direct designers as well as the challenges they face.
In my free time, I do illustrations, portraits and paintings both as a hobby and under commission. This portfolio showcases that work, as my professional work has always been confidential at the client's request. -
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) DesignUniversity of California, Davis2010 - 2014Minor in Communication
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Senior Project ManagerThe Argonaut USThousand Oaks, CANov 2023 - Apr 2025 (1 year 5 months)As Senior Project Manager and Merchandising Lead, I collaborated with the Associate Director to guide our team of project managers and 2D and 3D designers as we supported our client through new product introductions, directly overseeing and coordinating the production of visual merchandising guidance.
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Project ManagerLos Angeles, CAJun 2018 - Nov 2023 (5 years 5 months)As a Project Manager on the Merchandising Team, I coordinated with 2D and 3D designers to produce high quality visual merchandising guidance for our consumer electronics client.
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Graphic DesignerIrvine, CAJan 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year 5 months)As Graphic Designer, I used the Adobe Suite to create dynamic print and digital documents, guidelines, presentations and other communications assets for our clients. Working with our diverse team of copywriters, graphic designers, 3D renderers, Project Managers, and software engineers, we conveyed dense, often technical language in an engaging and straight-forward way, while still showcasing our clients' unique and iconic styles.
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Vectorworks DrafterSan Jose, CAAug 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 5 months)As a member of the 2D Drafting Team, I used CAD software to prepare architectural drawings of retail environments for our client, a leading electronics manufacturer. The drawings included floor plans, elevations and isometrics showing our client's visual merchandising fixtures in a given setting. I would then assemble a multi-page document for each store, to be used by a third-party to install the actual fixtures on site. During my time on this team I worked on hundreds of stores all over the world.
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Design Review InternSacramento, CAJan 2014 - Jun 2014 (5 months)
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Kitchen SupervisorDavis, CANov 2011 - Jun 2014 (2 years 7 months)
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InternDavis, CASep 2013 - Dec 2013 (3 months)
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On Coroflot@ritawiggins, member since 2014
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