Beth Bannon

Experience

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  Clover Park Technical College

  Oct 2007 - Mar 2009

  Administrative Assistant

  Scheduling gatekeeper, managing projects and priorities, including meeting coordination, calendars, phones, and communication. Implemented administrative processes utilizing strong organizational management skills, prioritized conflicting needs and proactively anticipated department and leadership needs.

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  Macmillan Education

  Oct 2010 - Sept 2012

  Project Manager

  Selected for brand new role and organizational approach to add project managers to editorial/publishing teams; managed delivery of print and digital educational English Language Teaching products for international market.Project Management: Created, owned, and implemented full project plans; identified project milestones, dependencies, resources, risks and issues and deliverables, and managed expectations.• Managed multiple projects in parallel, including full series, workbooks, textbooks, apps, eBooks, teacher manuals, websites, CD/audio. Balanced several moving parts, timelines and needs simultaneously; projects ranged from component to full series updates to developing brand new series with duration from 6 months to 2 years.• Led update of most successful series in the company; published full series in 50% less time on budget and with a reduced team.• Ensured project completion with full launch support in place, on time, to quality, budget and scope; added much needed structure to process, keeping everyone to schedule and aligned to bring products to market. • Collaborated effectively and consistently with key stakeholders, core teams, and departments, including editors, digital, marketing, sales, and production; curbed resistance to new project management approach by communicating the path forward and keeping projects on track.Risk & Issues Mitigation: Analyzed, identified, and defined risk issues for project lifecycle; developed mitigation strategy.• Communicated project parameters, including objectives, schedules, deadlines, budgets, and constraints; responded quickly to issues to reduce impact on time, cost, and quality. • Oversaw Communication Plan and provided project strategy, status reporting and dashboard updates to streamline project visibility and predictability for all levels. Budget Management: Managed project spend and budgets; tracked expenses and identified areas of potential savings. Show less

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  CareerFoundry

  Oct 2022 - now

  UX Design Student

  • Using the human-centered design process and an agile workflow to design a responsive web app to enable individuals to prioritize their health and wellness with ease.• Define user needs and goals through user interviews and surveys and prepare design documentation to support research and analysis to highlight pain points and real problems users are facing.• Analyze research and use out of the box thinking to problem solve the most effective solutions to deliver value to users, create a profitable and successful product and an excellent customer experience.• Conceptualize and create design mockups from sketches to high fidelity wireframes and prototypes to conduct usability and preference testing and communicate design decisions and iteration based on testing results and user feedback.• Deliver design documentation to support design thinking process and to communicate to various stakeholders including tutor, mentor, case study participants and fellow students.• Participate in design review sessions with my tutor and mentor to collect constructive feedback that hone and perfect my design skills and abilities in all areas of UX and UI design. Show less