Howard S.

Howard S.

Interactive & Creative Management

, United States

Experience: 20 Years

Howard

Interactive & Creative Management

168000 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

20 Years

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About Me

Take a Creative Director, an Interactive/Tech Strategist & a Marketing Guru, throw that in a blender. It’s my pleasure to introduce myself to you.

My 20 years of information technology experience has been focused around internet ...

My 20 years of information technology experience has been focused around internet and mobile product innovation, design and delivery.

Conceived, designed and evolved the delivery of successful award winning web & mobile solutions for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry devices. Manage all aspects of application product management and project management including product design, budget, technical architecture, development, integration and QA. Experience in social applications, location based services, and entertainment.

My IT experience gives me a unique ability to apply design and technology in all its forms of process. Some of the business process knowledge includes accounting, finance, budgeting, vendor management and various operational processes. I have experience with merger/acquisition events, high growth challenges, technology replacement projects, and IT process improvements that led to 60% increase in productivity and reduction in expenses by 78%. I have delivered large creative & technology projects on schedule/on budget and in alignment with the business strategy.

Companies I have worked for include P&G, Intel, IBM, Rutgers University, NJCU, Kathy Davis Studios, Home Depot, Verizon Wireless, Olympus Corporation, Carfax, Mercedes Benz, VW, Mazda, Lowes, Similac & Bridgestone.

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Portfolio Projects

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  • Hands on created all aspects of marketing website to support a $100 Million grant proposal in under 2 weeks: https://macarthur100.marine.rutgers.edu/

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  • Led design, web-based user experience and development for department and project funded laboratories with the state, government and international agencies including NOAA, NASA, US Coast Guard and the National Weather Service
      • Architected initial site design, content indexing and publishing strategy for content migration from 5 versions of Joomla, WordPress, Drupal and custom web applications to 1 centralized new WordPress 5 platform with custom tool integration
      • Business problem solving and business assessment capabilities, define problems, drive innovative ideas and define solutions
      • Communicated project strategy to all stakeholders to university marketing, professors, researchers and scientific industry
      • Utilized W3C coding practices and Section 508 standards to insure ADA and SEO accessibility

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  • Executed and implemented all stages from conception to delivery of the digital strategy, design, development life cycle, information architecture, UI/UX, CRM, analytic custom tagging and reports
  • Championed all product solutions, resource planning and integration application support with eCommerce, In Store POS applications, Google, SiteCore, Day, Drupal, Joomla, Alfresco, WordPress, PhoneGap, Eachscape and RedDot
  • Led the QA process and all ongoing maintenance and upgrades within client and end-user requirements
  • Worked with cross-functional teams to understand their requirements (account managers; art directors; copywriters; Flash, Air, Flex and HTML developers; Portal and CMS programmers; and vendors)
  • Responsible for project scheduling and management, budgetary tracking, status reporting, onsite and digital promotions, stakeholder relations, resources and overall quality of work
  • Translated project requirements into an executable production plan and ensured successful delivery
  • Cultivated positive partnerships with agency clients, internal stakeholders and 3rd party vendors
  • Worked for Fortune 50-500 industries including luxury, health, beauty, consumer goods, food & beverage, pharmaceuticals and higher education

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  • Pre/post sales product consulting and execution planning focused on mobile app, e-commerce and web solutions
  • Managed global cloud spend, established governance capabilities
  • Act as subject matter expert for vendor software, use rights, and best practices pertaining to license usage & deployment
  • Optimize entitlements for multiple high-value products
  • Worked for Fortune 50-1000 industries including luxury, health, beauty, consumer goods, food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, travel & leisure, manufacturing, automotive, computers and telecommunications
  • Led teams from concept, wireframes, UI/UX, SEO/SEM, analytics tracking, reporting engine and technical agile architecture that evolved the delivery of successful award-winning solutions
  • Business problem solving and business assessment capabilities, define problems, drive innovative ideas and define solutions
  • Led the quality assurance process and all ongoing maintenance/upgrades within clients and end-user requirements
  • Provided Center of Excellence product solutions, resource planning and integration application support with enterprise partners for Google, SiteCore, Drupal, WordPress, Salesforce and Demandware

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