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Multimedia Presentations, Off-Site Annual Sales Meeting Support   Clients:  Amgen Corporate (specifically scientists, sales & marketing executives) Objective: Set up an off-site production team to create PowerPoint presentations for the Amgen employees speaking at their annual Sales Meeting to be held in Chicago;  Have same team available for last minute revisions on-site in Chicago during the 5 day conference. Role: Project Manager, Creative Director Challenges: Original presentations and revisions had a very short turnaround time-frame, and all communication with author/presenters was primarily through scanned and faxed mock-ups. Approach:  Set the team up in Syndicatebleu’s Century City Offices (agency with the creative support contract with Amgen). ...

Interactive Entertainment, Marketing, Online Community   Clients: Proctor & Gamble, Excite @Home, Creative Wonders/Mattel Objective: To create the first interactive online beauty makeover application for teens using the Max Factor cosmetic brand products, including an online community gallery. Target Market: Excite @Home’s European Teen Community website “Swizzle”.  Future plans were to update and release a U.S. version. Role: Art Manager (Tasks included: Activity/UI/UX design, asset production scheduling & dev management, creative direction of in-house & contract artists/animators, collaborating with client’s producer, project manager,  programming & marketing leads to meet goals) Challenges: “Virtual Makeover”...

New Technology Product Release, Website, Packaging and Marketing Clients: O.W.I.P. Holdings & Shareholders Objective: To bring a new voice technology, V.O.I.P (Voice Over Internet Technology), service company to market including the sales website, brand identity,  marketing materials (print, email & online), packaging & product inserts, etc., within an extremely aggressive development schedule  & limited budget. Target Market: Households with traditional phone service, Persons & businesses that make a lot of long distance calls, especially international. Role: Creative Director, Project Manager Challenges: Bringing a fairly new technology to market within a limited time frame with a limited budget. Approach: Led a team of artists, programmers...

Retail Early Learning CD Game Series, Licensed Characters, Marketing   Description: The Learning Company’s educational adventure CDrom series includes editions for Preschool, Kindergarten,First, and Second grades.  This program offers automatic help messages, multiple skill levels for younger and older children, and progress reports for parents. Role: Art Manager, Game Design, Web UI/UX Design, Illustrator, Clients: The Learning Company/Creative Wonders, Mattel Interactive, Creator Marc Brown Objective: Initially to create a 3 title/ 6 CD educational children’s game series featuring the popular “Arthur” cartoon character. Upon completion contracted to add the Preschool version. Target Market: 3 – 8 year old children (includes 4 ...

Jana Yeakel I am an extremely motivated Creative Director and Project Manager with 16 years experience managing creative development for entertainment, educational and marketing applications, including interactive and print. With a positive, energetic outlook, I thrive on being an integral part of a highly creative team developing cutting edge product. With strong organizational skills and a eye for detail, I have been very successful in designing and managing complex, challenging projects involving large teams over many disciplines – not only meeting, but exceeding expectations. These recommendations offer great insight into my work ethic and abilities. The Elephant in the Room Considering me to manage your project?  Some may think that if it’s not...