Marissa Mare

I’m a Director of project management or Production, a certified scrum master and an artist with An enthusiasm for baking

Resume

Although I started my career as a designer, while working at Mess, I transitioned to a producer. Since changing positions, I have come to realize I am naturally wired for keeping projects organized, but I think my previous experience as a designer has helped me better understand the needs of my team. I am now acting as a project manager or a producer, while occasionally adopting the role of product owner or scrum master when it is needed.

 

Experience

Digitas

Associate Director, Digital Producer / 2024 - 2025

  • Coordinate creative and project teams to streamline production workflow. 

  • Manage Jira tickets and budget tracking for efficient project execution. 

  • Assist production directors to optimize resource allocation and risk mitigation. 

  • Serve as client liaison to ensure clear communication and problem resolution. 

  • Analyze project metrics and client feedback to identify improvement areas, driving continuous enhancement of production quality. 

  • Provide ongoing support to production directors, fostering a collaborative environment and ensuring all team members have necessary resources. 

  • Envision and execute innovative solutions for client challenges, enhancing overall project outcomes and contributing to long-term relationships. 


Huge

Senior Project Manager / 2021 - 2024

  • Team leader and primary point of contact for clients

  • Scope creation and budget management

  • Organizing roadmap and project plans

  • Responsible for identifying issue/risks and forming mitigation plans

  • Provide status updates, gather feedback and understand requirements

  • Primary decision maker for establishing processes and optimizing the team to be more efficient


Adage Technologies

Scrum Master & Project Manager / 2016 - Current

  • Team Coaching by helping the team remove impediments and keep moving their work forward

  • Hosting Agile Rituals which included hosting standups, sprint planning, retrospectives and team backlog grooming meetings

  • Oversee two Scrum teams and lead in all Scrum competencies

  • Client Coordination by meeting and communicating with clients to plan projects, provide status updates, gather feedback and understand requirements

  • Managed project organization by gathering estimates, drafting SOWs, creating backlogs and roadmaps

  • Planning sprints, gathering metrics and creating sprint reports to ensure my team is aligned and on track

  • Backlog grooming by adding acceptance criteria, requirements and additional information needed to make a story easy for any team member to start working


MESS

Project Manager & Producer / 2013-2016

  • Client coordination by meeting and communicating with clients to plan projects

  • Provide status updates, gather feedback and understand requirements

  • Project organization done by gathering estimates, ticket tracking, drafting SOWs, creating backlogs and road maps, planning sprints, gathering metrics and creating sprint reports

  • Scheduling the project to ensure a timely finish

  • Budget tracking and management day to day to meet project deadlines

  • Oversaw agile team management throughout my team

Designer / 2011 - 2013

  • Web design using tools like Sketch and Adobe Creative Suite

  • Social media design

  • Assisted in marketing tasks like digital signage, print ad design, editorial, web banners

  • Mobile app design for iOS/Android


Victory Records

New Media Intern / 2010

  • Print ad design and merchandise mock-ups

  • Developed web banners and social media design


CMH Magazine

Contract Freelance Designer / 2009-2010

  • Worked mainly on editorial design and print ad design

 

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design

BFA in Graphic Design / Minor in Drawing

Savannah, GA / 2005-2009


New Albany High School

High School Diploma

New Albany, OH / 2001-2005

 

Certifications

psm i certification

scrum.org

 

Professional Skills

project management

Atlassian

Coda

Smartsheet

Harvest

Basecamp

Attask

Team Gantt

Asana

design

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Figma

Office

Microsoft Office

iWork

Google Suite

 
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I’m always working on a lot of projects, but most of the time I’m baking.