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bellanga.com


Digital Producer/Project Manager with ten years experience managing projects and campaigns in digital media for leading brands such as Coke, Reebok, Bacardi, CHI, Carphone Warehouse, Saatchi & Saatchi NY, BlackBerry, Ogilvy & Mather, Sony, Columbia Pictures, Disney, Volkswagen, HSBC, Yahoo! among others.

Main responsibilities

  • Defining project scope, deliveries, schedules, budgets and tasks.
  • Conducting project kickoffs, steering committees, and team meetings.
  • Conducting brainstorming sessions and other project meeting facilitation.
  • Estimating duration and resource requirements.
  • Facilitating setting of technical, functional and business requirements.
  • Site and platform information architecture and user experience.
  • Developing detailed project plans including resource plans.
  • Working with functional and resource managers to acquire needed resources.
  • Tracking/managing projects from initiation to successful completion.
  • Identifying and escalating any project issues.
  • Communicating project status internally and to clients.
  • Resolving project issues, problems, and changes.
  • Leading projects to overall success.


Specialized Skills

  • Experience managing multi-faceted interactive projects.
  • Strong knowledge of the user-centred design process.
  • Excellent understanding of managing client and stakeholder interests.
  • Good ability to work under pressure and with strict timelines and budgets.


Technical Knowledge

  • HTML, DHTML, Javascript, Action Script
  • Content Management Systems/Online Communities
  • Information Architecture, Acessibility and Usability
  • Web 2.0, W3C standards


Education

  • Master in Business Administration (incomplete): Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Brazil.
  • Bachelor Degree in Advertising: Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Brazil.
  • Project Management (PMI): CPlan - Brazil.
  • Leading Training & Emotional Inteligence: Núcleo Ser - Brazil.


Software Expertise

  • Project Management: Microsoft Project, Office, Cmap, MindManager.
  • Information Architecture: Axure, Visio, Omnigraffle.
  • Design & Development: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Logic.
  • Plataforms Mac and Windows


Honors and Awards

  • X Factor Challenge - One of the top 50 FWA websites from 2008
  • Website category winner 2008 - British Interactive Media Association for X Factor Challenge
  • FWA Site of the day for X Factor Challenge
  • Bronze Prize - One Show Interactive 2008: Carphone Warehouse X Factor for CHI & Partners
  • Official Honoree: 12th Webby Awards 2008
  • Bronze Prize: ABEMD 2007
  • Gold Prize: 2002 MMOnline
  • Gold Prize: One Show Interactive
  • Grand Prix: 16th London Festival
  • Bronze Lion: 2001 Cannes Lions
  • Silver/Bronze Prizes: XII Brazilian Advertising, Packaging & Design Festival


Languages

  • Portuguese
  • English
  • Italian

News

Check out here the new Bombay Sapphire blog.

Woolworths is back! Check out their new blog clicking here.

Check out here the new Coke Zero campaign.

The Carphone warehouse X-Factor has been shortlisted in the “Most innovative digital campaign” category of Creative Circle: view shortlist. The project has also been included in the Creative review annual 09.

The Carphone warehouse X-Factor is one of the Best in Book of this year’s Creative Review Annual.

The guys from BBC - Radio 1 recently came to glue to check out our last piece of work for Bacardi. You can see the video here.

Check out here the new Bacardi Beatology project from glue London.



Work Experience

Producer at glue London - London/UK.
Main projects: "Impossible made possible" campaign for Coke Zero and Bacardi Beatology for Bacardi (in german).

unit9 - London/UK
Interactive producer from April 2008 until September 2008. Main projects: X Factor 2008 for CHI and JCPenney Linden Street for Saatchi & Saatchi New York.

Alt Communication - Rome/Italy
Project manager from January 2008 until March 2008. Main clients: Blackberry, Telecom Italy.

Basics - São Paulo/Brazil
Project manager from January 2007 until August 2007. Main clients: Ogilvy & Mather, Vivo.

VirtualNet - São Paulo/Brazil
Head of production/project manager from June 2005 until December 2006. Main clients: Sony, Columbia Pictures Brazil, Latin America and Mexico, Disney Brazil, Buena Vista and Yahoo!

BVTI - São Paulo/Brazil
Project manager/studio coordinator from March 2003 until May 2005. Main clients: Brazil Federal Government, Bradesco, Ig.

32Floor - São Paulo/Brazil
Digital media consultant from January 2003 until February 2004. Main clients: Roche, São Paulo County.

Solo Propaganda - São Paulo/Brazil
Project manager/studio coordinator from April 2002 until December 2002. Main clients: Xerox brazil, BMC Software, Medley.

Almap BBDO - São Paulo/Brazil
Frontend developer from June 2000 until March 2002. Main clients: Volkswagen, UOL, Havaianas.

Submarino.com - São Paulo/Brazil
Frontend developer from March 2000 until June 2000.

FarolNet - São Paulo/Brazil
Frontend developer from January 1999 until February 2000.

Working in web production companies from January 1997 until December 1998.