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Seasoned creative Marketing Strategist with 10 years of professional experience in communications project management, website development and team management.
I have worked with more than 40 brands in FMCG, non-profit, banking, telecom, editorial, retail and beauty & care and contributed to 7 industry awards for some of these.
I enjoy blending strategic insights with data analysis and a gist of visual culture to bring to life award-winning campaigns or novel digital brand platforms.

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AV Production Manager @ Outbrain

šŸ“ Overseeing the production & localization of short form videos displayed programmatically on clients’ website: testing & choosing tools for video production, captioning, automated video production | curating topics based on publisher needs | ensuring the automated ingestion of videos through MRSS feeds

šŸ“ Managing a team of 10 contractors for global markets: US/UK, DACH, Italy, Spain, LATAM, Poland, Sweden, Israel; recruiting | direct contracts | briefing & supporting with queries | overseeing costs & invoices

šŸ“ Analyzing performance: looking at starts, midpoints, completion rates, matches (through IAB tags), drawing insights and conclusions to implement in the next month

Freelance creative communicator

I have been running my side gig as a creative communicator since 2016, coordinating communication campaigns for start-ups or nonprofits, managing website build-ups and developing content strategies. Occasionally, I would contribute with articles revolving arts & society or do some photo work.

I have been the recipient of an Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Grand, in Dublin, Ireland, collaborating with Rather Gather.

During the same time, I have been part of 3 art residencies:

  • with the Museum of Art & History Zalau – case study of my final exhibition
  • with WHW Akademija – see my article
  • with Marin Art Centre – coordinated the communication campaign and facilitated a photographyĀ workshop for teenagers.

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Portfolio

More details on the projects I have worked on

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The Centre for the Study of Modernity and the Rural World

Content Strategy

Communication Management

Social Media & Content Development

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Telciu Summer School

Content Strategy

Communication Management

Social Media & Content Development

PR

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IAA School Romania

Content Strategy

Social Media & Content Development

Website development: copy, imagery, coordination

PR

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D&AD Awards London

VIP Reception manager 2017-2019

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Proiect ā€žMemoriile Cetățiiā€, Timișoara 2019

Redactare, editare și corectarea revistei ā€žMemoriile Cetățiiā€, reunind povești de la Revoluție și inițiative civico-artistice din cadrul proiectului ā€žMemoriile Cetățiiā€. Detalii aici.

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MentorIAA, program de mentorat pentru studenți la comunicare & marketing

Content Strategy

Communication Management

Social Media & Content Development

PR

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Cultural journalism & art critique

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[Romanian & English]

How Many Skins of Embedded Ideology Can You Shed in 8 Days?

Being is becoming: the deterritorialization of The Paintbrush Factory

What risks did we take in our dreams?

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Ex-East. Still east.

Paris, pe stânga: grădini comunitare

Sunetele dintr-un sat, Ʈntr-o carte, Ʈn FM, pe bandă, Ʈn QR

Ars ex machina Ć®n trei expoziții londoneze

Revoluția prin ochii unei mileniale. De ce-uri, sindromul impostorului, educația, ca privilegiu

Lia Perjovschi și-a deschis Muzeul Cunoașterii la Bienala Art Encounters

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COMMUNICATION SPECIALISTĀ @ International Advertising Association Romania – june 2017 – 2018

Taking care of the content strategy for web and social channels, writing articles & interviews + photography.

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Effie-Awards
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BRAND GROWING MANAGER @ Rusu+Bortun Brand Growers – oct 2014 – march 2017

Worked as Brand Growing Manager for a local creative agency, a synergy of traditional advertising to digital products, carries various functions:

BRANDS & PROJECTS @ Rusu+Bortun

BRAND COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE @ Leo Burnett Romania – feb 2013 – sept 2014

Leo Burnett Romania is where I’ve started working in advertising, an, as the legend says, it is an awesome school, of talented, responible, hard working people. The luck made it that I started on the most educative of clients: Procter & Gamble, an example of professionalism and thorough market & business understanding. Alongside, I worked on financial and fashion clients.

For Procter & Gamble, our team was responsible with developing locally relevant campaigns and coordinating the campaign implementation in the Balkanic countries: Bulgaria, Serbia, Muntenegro, Moldova, Albania, Bosnia.

BRANDS & PROJECTS @ Leo Burnett Romania

Those were the junior times...

JUNIOR EDITOR @ MEDIAFAX – FEB-JULY 2011

Mediafax is one of the larget news agencies in Romania and it also offers press monitoring reports to corporate clients, from advertising agencies to pharma companies to sport brands or players. My work here was the ā€žback-officeā€ of such a report: I was listening to the news bulletins of the main Romanian radio stations and if one of the reporting topics came up, I summerized the piece of news, in both Romanian and English.

INTERNSHIP @ BLUE IDEA ( IQADS, SMARK, DIGITAL IQADS) – JULY 2012

social media manager creative briefs for www.thecreator.ro platform (a contest platform for artists and brands that want to challenge artists) creative brainstorming

INTERNSHIP @ MEDIA INVESMENT THE GROUP – MAY – JULY 2012

This media planning internship helped me understand how ads are positioned in media, based on reach and affinity and to be able to strategically use that in my current day to day activities. Tasks: calculating TRPs and GRPs for different kind of clients and media. At the end of the internship, a contest was organized and I received the 3rd place prize.

NGO & VOLUNTARY WORK

NGO & VOLUNTARY WORK @ AEGEE BUCHAREST

AEGEE is one of the largest pan-European interdisciplinary student organizations. It is a wonderful growth NGO, offering the framework to debate citizen liberties, to imagine a more coherent Europe, to organize various peer events (such as Summer Universities) and to fall in love with the multinational environment. Developing local events for AEGEE Bucharest Coordinating the redesign of the local website Mentorship in a recruitment campaign Event helper for Travel SrU Time Summer University, organized by AEGEE Bamberg, AEGEE Karlsruhe, AEGEE Mannheim Writing press releases and Facebook page content

NGO & VOLUNTARY WORK @ LET’S DO IT, ROMANIA

Let’s do it, Romania is an environmental NGO that aims to educate Romanians against littering, by organizing periodic cleaning events in natural areas and communicating them. I was part of the PR & Communication team, in charge with: Finding potential media partners Writing blog content and press releases Sending press releases to influencers

NGO & VOLUNTARY WORK @ CINEMA-EDU @ ASOCIATIA CULTURALA MACONDO

Cinema.edu is a social learning platform for highschool pupils, through cinematography. Macondo is a film distributor in Romania and they use their access to indie films to screen them in highschools so that youngsters can learn about social issues in our nowadays world. I helped the NGO organize such screenings and developed communication materials.

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