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Stephanie M Scott

Project Manager | Content/ Digital Products

604 723 2778

@wildfireffect

wildfireeffect.com

steph@wildfireffect.com

Professional Summary

PMP®-certified with 10+ years in stakeholder management, strategic planning, and information dissemination.

Adept at delivering projects on time and within scope, often using visualization tools for change management, a technique acquired as an Art Dept Coordinator.

Favouring phased digital strategy to lead teams to embrace continuous improvement. I’m an asset in business case development, risk assessment, stakeholder analysis, and evaluating development approaches (Waterfall or Agile).

CREDENTIALS 

PMP® (Project Management Professional), PMI

CSM® (Certified ScrumMaster), Scrum Alliance

Hybrid Projects, PMI

A.I. Enhanced Planning, PMI

Game Industry Producing, VCC/ DigiBC

Experience

2010-Present, Digital Project Manager | W.E. Consulting

W.E. clients needed comprehensive digital strategies to enhance their Online presence. I reinvigorated content strategy and assets, ensuring effective management and timely deliverables. Campaign Highlights:

  • Produced and managed digital content for a City Councilor’s successful re-election campaign, expanding a two page flier into over 200 assets optimized for different platforms with a team of six.
  • Guided a beauty brand moving to video tutorials in establishing their digital presence. We defined scope and the delivery of content to manage expectations.
  • Coached a UBC Instructor in personal brand development to define success criteria. She is now an established ‘Women of Influence’, featured in several books and conferences.

2022- Present, Project Manager | HwP Inc.

HwP Inc. required support in research and development for several projects. I provided project oversight and developed processes which improved team efficiency and motivation to achieve these incremental goals.

  • • Led a small research team by establishing a system for accountability.
  • • Designed and tailored project initiation templates.
  • • Created a comprehensive Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
  • • Researched and recommended project management software and a development approach.

2020-2022, Project Manager | Intengine.com

Accountable to digital product development and client relations, I strictly monitored a Hybrid project to progress the development of multi-media educational kits, without inviting scope creep.

  • • Distributed tasks among cross-functional teams, optimizing resource allocation and facilitated team collaboration.
  • • Over multiple touch points, prioritized stakeholder engagement to exceed project expectations, and contribute to contract renewals by monitoring risks and enhancing opportunities to provide additional value.
  • • Coordinating with teams and subject matter experts, to continuously improve product offers and suggest new streams for sales, a core business goal.

2015-2022, Project Manager | HollyWords Publicity

High-profile, celebrity clients required well-planned digital campaigns and extensive stakeholder engagement to prepare for increased visibility. I turned my attention to scope and quality control to prepare our clients for fan growth of more than 300%

  • • Consulted subject matter experts to distill and communicate best practices to clients.
  • • Identified and engaged stakeholders, (fan, influencer, support teams) to execute digital campaigns and coach clients on social media and community engagement.
  • • Implemented emotional intelligence to shape communication and aid in change management.

2014-2018, Project Manager | Vancouver International Web Festival

In it’s last year the festival’s board voted to update the brand and expand into growing media formats, virtual reality and app storytelling. By imposing quality checks I controlled message consistency, easing tensions around the programming change.

  • The festival’s website rebuild was coordinated with teams of content creators, developers, designers each flexing to accommodate the progressive elaboration of event details.
  • • Learning from previous years I managed VIP and media relationships to facilitate comprehensive coverage by taking on a servant leader role to communications teams.
  • • I balanced conflicting stakeholder agendas as they surfaced by refocusing conversations with specific tasks.

2000-2006, Film Art Coordinator | BC’s Professional Film Industry

Working with creative teams, under impossible time constraints, I questioned Creative Directors to distribute and  tailor communication to support the visualization of these concepts, providing an aligned vision without exception on unconventional project demands.

  • • Leveraging an agile team culture to accommodate necessary, often, late-stage changes to project scope and update pulled communication channels (before wikis).
  • • Designing iteratively, we embraced prototypes and concept boards, to lead scope discussions
  • • To navigate inflexibility to trade-offs I listened to choose the appropriate conflict resolution techniques.

CORE SKILLS

Stakeholder Management | Scope Management | Team Collaboration | Risk Assessment | Agile Methodologies | Campaign Management | Communication Strategies 

Additional Education & Experience

2023-2024 (LCL) Administrative Coordinator, Learning Designers

2017-2024 B2C Retail, e Commerce Products, W.E. Consultant

2010-2022 B2B Marketing and Content Strategy, W.E. Consultant

2018-2019 (BCIT) Copy writing, (UBC) Freelance Journalism

2011-2012 Presentations and Panel Facilitation, Podcasts

2010 Olympics and G20 Summit, Security Screening Team Supervisor

2008-2010 (BCIT) Event Management, JCC Sports Gala Coordinator

2006-2008 Property Management 2000-2006 (Union Signatory) Film & TV, Art Coordinator

1994-1998 (University of Alberta) BSc, Biology & Business

SOFTWARE

Project Management: Clickup, Wrike, Smartsheets, Jira, Trello, Asana and more.

Communications: Loom, Zoom, Slack, Google Meet, Prezi, SlideRocket, Miro, SEMrush, Google Analytics and more.

Creative: Adobe Creative Suite, InVision Prototyping, Motion Design, Photo & Video Editing, Canva and more.

Asset Management: Microsoft and Google Workspace, CRMs, Social media schedulers and more.

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Rates:

Project Management is a natural next step to 15 yrs in content strategy and 10 yrs in content development.

Rates are industry standard. Please contact me to discuss your needs.

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