Elia VIGNAU

Managing interactive projects such as the creation, programmation & maintenance of websites, campaigns, contests, blogs, applications & events' logistic & promotion.

Clients: Alumilex, Chabanel, Tennis Canada, Dessau, Fido, Agropur...

Hired as the edition coordinator (+ consumer service) of the consumer websites of Medias Transcontinental company, i was quickly offered a more challenging mission :
- lead project manager for the projects coordinators in Toronto & Montreal: in charge to hire, train & coach throughout their projects of web campaigns & sales microsites, sections, contests...

- Project manager for websites such as www.escapaderomance.com (coordinating the information and tasks between the technology, sales, advertising team, making recommandations to our PR agency partner and the client's demands)

- For a few months in charge of the coordination of the Web operations in Montreal, being supported by a technical team on the production and delivery, and by a BA for the business analysis. Having many projects to handle i have to prioritize and plan the deadlines for all of them depending on the availability of my resources.

I managed over 130 projects overall. It was a huge challenge i am proud to have achieved !

ITEMS Consultants is an international consulting company focused on the challenges represented by the new information technologies for the firms, governmental structures, EU...

As the assistant of the President of the company, i was in charge of the administrative and financial (simple accounting, invoices, salaries...) aspects as well as the timetable, vacancies, transportation...

A big part of my job was to support one of the senior manager in the organisation, management & follow-up of a conference in Brittany about the television on cell phones.

Participation in the most famous student league of business associations in France (within Business schools as well as universities. It was an amazing experience allowing us to experience in advance what having responsabilities & challenges means. We learned how to be problem-solver and take initiatives fast when a long reflexion is not an option.

The principle is simple : as a student we need to professionalize ourselves thanks to different missions in our fields in order to get to know what is the best deal for each of us, what represents our strenght and weaknesses. The Junior associations are handle by volunteering students to develop our connexions & network with firms, ministers... and find missions for the students who are paid as apprentice. The associations have to answer to many criteria and audits to fulfill the requirements. We take care of every aspects as a small company : development of the business, sales, meeting with clients, defining the needs & strategy required, finding the right persons to pursue it, administrative, HR, accounting & finance aspects, follow-up, management, training, communication & PR, lobbying...

As part of the direction as the Treasurer, with the Secretary General & the President, we had to anticipate and settle everything, create short & long term strategies, planning our development, finding funds accordingly and preventing our structure to fall on the many obstacles (humans, materials, financials...).

Assistant of the press relation manager for a Publishing House

Creation and updates of the media / journalists listings, negociation of articles, radio & TV interviews, redaction of press releases, press reviews, going with the authors for the interviews.

Important French Public Relation agency

Press reviews / watching, negociation of articles, interviews, talks on the products for companies like 3M, Paramount & Wanadoo

Publishing house focused on youth, comics & manga books

Studying the press daily for articles on the company & products, updating files, creating documents, preparing and assisting the management of a show-room on comic books, influencing the media to obtain a visibility

Working in the marketing departement of a Swedish pharmaceutical company, i ended as the assistant of the congress manager.

Press review, translation of documents, parts of websites aiming to help the daily life of diabetic people, little accounting, and entire logistic organization of medical congress abroad (transport, accomodation process for the 50 participants with the travel agency).

My main task was to gather all the articles written on the company, competition on the Internet, Newspapers... in order to compile & order them on a daily & monthly basis, including the international articles. The goal was to maintain the direction, main clients of the company aware of the market & opinion to anticipate potential difficult situation in this touchy area.
the usual work of search, filing of the information,