Project Mgmt

This one is a little harder to quantify visually. My experience in project management has grown out of my experience in fabrication, as well as my production knowledge in the areas of graphic design and illustration. As someone who is both a designer and a maker, I am able to incorporate knowledge from all areas of the process to seamlessly piece together a project from beginning to end. I’m almost pathologically organized and tidy; I utilize naming conventions for even the smallest of asset file banks and subdivide my emails based on both client and project. I am personable and communicate easily with clients over video chat, over coffee, over the sound of construction noise in the background — whatever the case may be.

Former clients whose projects I have managed would say that I strive to create a low-stress process that keeps everyone sane and satisfied by the results. I take a lot of pride in my listening and communication skills, both of which are vital to managing workflows and ideation. Also! I am really good at finding things. Weird materials, funky props, 15 mannequins in all the same style but different poses in three days, oddly specific finishing materials, you name it. If I haven’t procured it before for a project, I’ll find a way to do it.

In my work at LA Fabricators, I enjoyed a great deal of trust from the owner of the business, my boss of over a decade. One of my favorite challenges (not always my favorite in the moment) was to be delegated with a task or project that had hit a big snag and to “make the problem go away,” as my boss put it. It’s always more (or maybe way less!) complicated than it seems at first but I derive great satisfaction from turning a stressful process into an easy one. There’s always a way, and I’ve spent much of my career figuring out just where that way is.

client communications — workflow management — training — vendor coordination — purchase tracking and budgeting — procurement — materials research — sample and prototype presentations — file management — ideation — conflict resolution — the occasional knock-knock joke for morale