Creative Team Management

Creative Team Management

Here is a handy tool for tracking creative deliverables. I worked as both Project Manager and UX Architect on two projects over the last 3 months. We had an informal system of verbal check-ins to understand the status of a given item. While this worked just fine for our small team, we had no “big picture” view and ran the risk of missing something that had been requested or promised as we rushed to deliver, refine and evolve.

I believe in using the minimum structure necessary to accomplish our goals. We need a tight knit team with good communication, an in-person, human centered and participatory process. But in order to contribute to our PM toolbox, and as a design challenge, I whipped this up in a couple hours. Feel free to have a look: Creative Team Project Management (Spreadsheet)

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Digital Airstrike:  Redesign

Digital Airstrike: Redesign

http://digitalairstrike.com/

Digital Air Strike is the automotive industry’s largest and most experienced provider of social media, reputation management and lead response solutions, serving thousands of dealers nationwide. Digital Air Strike has received recognition from Microsoft and been endorsed by GM, Kia and Ford.

As the project lead, I worked closely with the management team in Sunnyvale to develop requirements. Throughout the process I collaborated with remote team members, including the CMO/COO, Technical Lead and Designer. I provided UX, IxD and UI consulting services, including feedback and direction in the creative phase to produce final deliverables. I also did front end development, QA and testing.

This was a 9 month project, lasting from August 2012 to April 2013.

Services Provided:  PSD to WordPress, User Experience, Interaction Design, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, PHP, Cross Browser Optimization, Optimization for Mobile and Tablet, Project Management and Consulting

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Omega Boys Club:  Alive and Free Redesign

Omega Boys Club: Alive and Free Redesign

http://stayaliveandfree.org

The project was to create a new website as part of a rebranding campaign and upgrade from static HTML to WordPress for a local nonprofit.

This was a 9 month project that started in September 2012 and launched July 2013.

The Omega Boys Club, founded in San Francisco in 1987, works with youth to end violence.  Alive & Free is an Omega Boys Club life-changing program. Young people who have learned the Alive & Free prescription have a new set of life skills to make choices that help them go to college, succeed in life, and give back to their communities

Fenton is a social change communications agency founded in 1982 and with offices in 5 cities.

My role included:  project lead, UX, IxD, project management, front end development and QA.
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Laney College:  BEST Center Redesign

Laney College: BEST Center Redesign

http://bestctr.org

The Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center promotes state-of-the-art building technician education at publicly-funded 2- and 4-year colleges through the dissemination of curriculum, research and best practices for managing energy efficient commercial buildings. Sponsored by Advanced Technological Education grants from the National Science Foundation.

The main goal of the site is to be a user-friendly robust repository of information and resources related to building technician training, and to share this curriculum with instructors and administrators throughout the US.

Users will login to access curriculum. A WordPress Custom Post Type will be created for entering and displaying Curriculum, and a custom reporting dashboard will be developed to track downloads and produce monthly reports.

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