Project Manager, Creative Services Manager, Production Artist

Michael Catalano

Qualifications

Experienced with many Creative Services workflows, including extensive managing and production design experience in pharma, financial, consumer, beauty, automotive and luxury industries. A problem solver and strong communicator with hands-on understanding of the work, always ready to roll up his sleeves.

Professional skills

  • Budgeting/forecasting

  • Client-facing coordination

  • Project planning and management

  • Organizing remote staff

  • Coordinating outsourcing

  • Team leadership

  • Improving productivity

  • Mentor future leaders

  • Quality control standards

  • Print and digital workflows

Technical skills

  • Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

  • Microsoft 365, including building PowerPoint and Word templates

  • Figma development and web scripting development

  • Workfront, Smartsheets

Career achievements

  • Managed all deliverables for a multi-million-dollar account to launch the global rebranding of Bristol Myers Squibb (Siegel & Gale)

  • Managed all deliverables for the relaunch of the U.S. Army (Siegel & Gale)

  • Created an outsourcing workflow by partnering with a national vendor to extend the capabilities of a print studio (Ernst & Young)

  • Transitioned an agency studio into a combined 8-agency Operations Hub, doubling the team size and increasing the workload 4-fold in 6 months (Link9)

  • Introduced a digital project workflow, creating a new revenue stream, increasing staffing, cutting timelines in half and reducing creative freelance needs (Havas Health)

Professional experience

Ernst & Young (EY)
New York, NY
March 2025 – June 2025
Print Services Supervisor (contract)

  • Supervised and trained team creating print materials from two locations, New York and Los Angeles, including bookmaking, posters and banners, to support a multi-billion-dollar business

  • Created an outsourcing workflow by partnering with a national vendor to support the large amount of work beyond their internal capacity and provide local print sources across the country

  • Organized project planning for a nation event occurring in 20 cities across the country

  • Created training and developed process to improve the use of Workfront for project management

Siegel + Gale
New York, NY
January 2020 – October 2024
Creative Services Manager

  • Joined the team to launch the global rebranding of Bristol Myers Squibb and continued to build many large corporate brands

  • Coordinated with BMS on brand strategy and institutional integration, building their brand identity, guidelines, custom fonts, iconography, color systems, ADA compliance, environmental branding, organizational tools, congress and promotional assets and advertising. Sought innovative solutions for a company that hadn’t changed its brand in 30 years

  • Coordinated with the U.S. Army to rebrand the marketing for this large government organization, including their visual identity, custom fonts, iconography, color systems, organizational architecture and strategy

  • Created project planning to organize the agency and client’s goals, coordinate outside vendors, meet accelerated timelines and be ready to deliver unscheduled needs

  • Maintained tight scheduling for team to stay on budget for use of contractors and outside vendors

Clients: Bristol Myers Squibb, U.S. Army, American Express, Wells Fargo, 3M, NYU Langone Health, Raytheon Technologies

Harrison + Star / Link9
New York, NY / Jersey City, NJ
April 2015 – October 2019
Senior Production Artist / Studio Manager

  • Helped transition Harrison + Star Studio into a combined 8-agency Operations Hub

  • Managed Studio for 8 Omnicom Health Agencies. Supervised a 12-person team with 6 direct reports

  • Maintained detailed communication for a centralized Operations Hub, to provide accurate work, follow brand guidelines, complete quality control and hit aggressive timelines

  • Provided development and training for team to keep their skillsets strong

  • Hands on manager with strong technical skills to guide and support the most challenging projects

  • Organized cross-functional teams, both on-site and off-site, to solve technical and organizational projects

  • Increased productivity to meet larger work volume with shorter timelines using fewer staff

Clients: Genentech, Gilead, Biogen, Eisai, Novartis, Teva, Bayer, Merck, Pfizer, Celgene

Havas Health
New York, NY      
June 2007 – April 2015
Senior Production Artist / Studio Manager

  • Managed large-volume workflow environment supporting a centralized Operations Hub

  • Introduced and implemented a workflow for Digital projects to the studio. This captured hours for dedicated staff, dramatically improved timeline efficiency, and relieved creative team workload

  • Managed administration of staff: scheduled evaluations, ensured process bench, and planned long-term talent growth needs

Clients: Walgreens Pharmacies, AT&T, Sanofi, Pfizer, Shire, Wyeth, Glaxo Smith Kline, Biogen Idec, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Novo Nordisk, Merck, Novartis

Merkley + Partners, S3, Torre Lazur McCann (McCann Global Health), Publicis Dialog, Anderson DDB SF, Broadcom, Pacificare Health, Day Runner, Pottery Barn       
2000 – June 2007
Senior Production Artist

  • Worked with both large and boutique agencies and studios, developing a wide field of experience in many markets and industries

Clients: Mercedes-Benz, Arby’s, Novartis, The AXA Group, BMW, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Safilo Eyewear, Wyndham Hotels, Jaeger-LeCoultre, A.G. Ferrari, Pasta Pomodoro, Vtech, Eidos Interactive, 3DO, Foxy Vegetables, charitableway.com, Six Degrees Records

Education

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Bachelor of Arts, English