Rekha Soman

Senior Creative Project & Operations Manager

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Zscaler EMEA Multi-Campaign Program (Annual Retainer)

  • The Scope: Managing a continuous, multi-quarter operational roadmap to flawlessly deliver 50+ custom and researched content, digital events, and display assets per quarterly cycle.
  • The Blueprint: Overcame feedback delays by proactively syncing with all the stakeholders weekly and managed a tight tracking system that eliminated creative friction and successfully accelerated revenue every quarter.

Workday EMEA Industry Program (Recurring Flagship)

  • The Scope: Overseeing the end-to-end production of 6-12 AI Thought Leadership assets spanning 6 specialized enterprise use cases for the global Rising Conference.
  • The Blueprint: Navigated a tight 30-day production timeline and handled an urgent, post-delivery management-mandated style change by standardizing high-efficiency technical handoff packages that secured a 100% on-time delivery rate and won the 2026 account re-booking.

State of IT Annual Research Report (Aberdeen Research & Strategy)

  • The Scope: Coordinated the global lifecycle of SWZD and Aberdeen’s highest-profile annual research report, managing the simultaneous production of a comprehensive eBook and an interactive website launch.
  • The Blueprint: Implemented a centralized Wrike-to-Jira cross-functional mapping system to synchronize global teams and time zones, delivering a 13-page sneak preview 3 days early and launching the fully functional site and eBook 2 days ahead of schedule.

Dell UK Animated Video Campaigns (Multi-Market Production)

  • The Scope: Directed a complex, 10-month multimedia pipeline to deliver localized animated video assets detailing Gen AI in business for international audiences.
  • The Blueprint: Collaborated with cross-functional research and creative teams to collect region-specific data and onboard a specialized voice-over vendor, ensuring local language accuracy in Ireland, Belgium, and Austria. The videos were showcased at Dell Expos in these three regions, receiving positive feedback.

UserWay Sponsored Article Promotion (Data-driven Optimization)

  • The Scope: Managing a high-stakes, 1-month promotional campaign for a nearing-sunset product with an aggressive contractual target to jump performance from 200–300 views to over 750 views.
  • The Blueprint: Tracked production via Wrike, accelerated the email campaign by a full week to gain 3–4 extra promotions, and engineered custom display banners to drive a 177.67% surge in page views (833 total) and 175,000 ad impressions.

Dell UK Fast-Tracked Content Portfolio

  • The Scope: Resolving a high-value account deadlock where multiple iterations and translation stalls left 4 critical projects—including a last-minute eBook request—trapped under a compressed timeline.
  • The Blueprint: Enforced strict revision and delivery guidelines to unlock translation pipelines, mapping out meticulous timelines that allowed all 4 projects to finish several days ahead of schedule, garnering praise from Dell UK stakeholders for speedy delivery.

Spiceworks Video Meetup & Webinar Banner Campaigns (In-house Needs)

  • The Scope: Multi-tasking the production and cross-functional delivery of promotional banner ads concurrently with high-volume client projects.
  • The Blueprint: Onboarded the Lead Designer to the team to expedite production, adhered to strict brand guidelines, and bridged the communication gap between the Creative and Events teams, delivering all final assets 2 days ahead of schedule.

High-Volume Lead Gen & Display Content Program

  • The Scope: Directing day-to-day operations and cross-functional tracking for over 1,000+ creative campaigns annually for global enterprise tech giants.
  • The Blueprint: Managed landing pages, emails, scripts, infographics, and banner ads under 24 – 48 hour SLAs, maintaining a consistent 98% on-time rate for clients, including Google, AWS, Intel, IBM, HP, and Oracle.

Citrix System EMEA Multilingual Production

  • The Scope: Handling an intense, urgent request for 112 multi-language ad resizes (EN/DE/IT/FR/ES/JP) across two distinct concepts within a tight 2-week window, deviating sharply from standard SLAs.
  • The Blueprint: Negotiated an optimized phased scope of 80 creatives, deployed a clear internal workflow with the design team, and leveraged skeletal concepts to absorb a sudden mid-production color change with zero delays.

Blackberry / Cyclance Sprint Campaigns (Agile Risk Mitigation)

  • The Scope: Managing a high-pressure launch window where the exact campaign live date was unconfirmed and full ad buildouts were to be shared on the same day as the request intake.
  • The Blueprint: Negotiated with Account Managers and Customer Success to push an approved subset of ads live instantly to honor client promises, prepping the design team to build asset skeletons in advance to wrap up the remaining sprints within 2 days.

PDQ.com Corporation Urgent Site Takeover (SLA Compression)

  • The Scope: Resolving a project escalation requiring a high-priority Quickslider banner ad and site takeover skin build in 1-2 days instead of the standard 3-day SLA, with only one designer available.
  • The Blueprint: Streamlined tasks to preserve the designer’s bandwidth, expedited internal review layers with QA Leads, and directly stepped in post-production to resolve faulty tracking tags and regenerate live execution codes.

Cisco Site Takeover & High-Priority Sprints (Simplifying Complex Workflow)

  • The Scope: Multi-tasking three overlapping, escalated client tracks simultaneously on a single high-pressure production shift.
  • The Blueprint: Leveraged newsroom-honed journalism prioritization methods to balance an urgent Cisco Site Takeover, an indecisive Email Image Design project, and a complex HP campaign, completing design iterations for launch in a day.

Animated Product Explainer for RazorpayX (Lifecyclce Alignment)

  • The Scope: Managing a 3-month video production pipeline for a high-profile financial product launch.
  • The Blueprint: Created a comprehensive educational framework for the client that clearly detailed each milestone of the animation process, mapping out strict boundaries for major vs. minor revisions to drastically cut down feedback delays. Delivered the final video days a month ahead of the launch.

Animated Product Explainer for 21 North Europ Assistance (Project Revival)

  • The Scope: Recovering and restarting a high-value automotive assistance explainer program that had been stuck completely in limbo for over a year.
  • The Blueprint: Established real-time feedback loops to accelerate client responses, provided rough sketches to guide the animation team’s visual direction, and personally edited the final videos to integrate newly updated voice-overs and delivered 12+ videos on time.

Animated Product Explainer for Loadshare (Capacity Engineering)

  • The Scope: Navigating a tight timeline on a 2-month logistics platform explainer project without sacrificing creative production stages.
  • The Blueprint: Formulated and presented an incredibly detailed, hourly production schedule to transparently negotiate and secure a vital deadline extension from the client. Delivered the full-length video per schedule.

Animated Product Explainer for Udaan (On-time delivery)

  • The Scope: Executing an accelerated 1-month animation timeline for an enterprise B2B platform launch.
  • The Blueprint: Partnered directly with the client to lock in a minimal, highly striking visual style that balanced brand guidelines with high-speed turnaround capability. Directed the storyboard phase with the creative team and delivered the videos ahead of schedule, receiving client appreciation.

SFDC Tracking Dashboard for the Team

  • The Scope: Centralizing cross-regional visibility for EMEA and NA product bookings and revenue oversight by establishing the team’s first native Salesforce presence.
  • The Blueprint: Independently mastered Salesforce operations and collaborated with technical consultants to build a real-time tracking engine and integrated an automated weekly subscription reporting feature that saves the team 2 hours per week of manual reporting and mitigates business reporting risks.

Display Ad Banner Ticket Optimization (Wrike Intake Architecture)

  • The Scope: Resolving a highly disruptive process gap where confusing brief structures frequently caused missing media files and lengthy design back-and-forths.
  • The Blueprint: Redesigned and updated the parent Wrike intake briefs to introduce mandatory conditional logic questions for different types of ads and mandatory client info and assets, which successfully saved 1–2 hours of production time per ticket by standardizing use cases upfront and eliminating the “missing assets status,” which disrupts the production flow to a great extent.

Lead Gen Campaign Brief Optimization (80% Efficiency Acceleration)

  • The Scope: Optimizing the double-opt-in (DO) campaign configuration workflow to remove systemic internal blocks and speed up processing timelines.
  • The Blueprint: Formulated and embedded two targeted validation questions directly into the creative brief, which reduced client-success back-and-forth communication 4 out of 5 times, improving the PM team’s active processing speed by 80%.

Translation “Copy Extraction Form” (Department-Wide Standardization)

  • The Scope: Standardizing the highly unorganized legacy translation processing method that frequently caused confusion, delivery errors, and structural production delays.
  • The Blueprint: Architected a dedicated “Copy Extraction Form” to centralize multi-market asset processing and conducted targeted one-on-one training sessions with PMs and production teams to embed the format, which remains a permanent active utility across all in-house translation workflows.

AWS Lead Gen Forms & Picklist Update (Data Quality Improvement)

  • The Scope: Correcting high-volume, global lead-generation picklist discrepancies, including duplicate entries, missing countries, and translation gaps across localized assets.
  • The Blueprint: Built an advanced comparative framework to reconcile client lists with standard picklists and managed a multi-language translation rollout for 4 regional markets (FR/IT/ES/DE) via specialized vendors to fully standardize country arrays alphabetically, completely eliminating configuration errors in subsequent asset generation cycles.

The “Internal Review” Workflow on Wrike (Cross-Team Governance)

  • The Scope: Eliminating severe project workflow disruptions caused by asset change requests midway through, while the team is in an active creative production cycle.
  • The Blueprint: Created an “Internal Review” status tag in Wrike and aligned teams across departments to improve task tracking and prevent production delays.

Quality Control Guidelines For Video Production Team (Risk Mitigation Framework)

  • The Scope: Standardizing brand and technical compliance protocols across a scaling multimedia and motion graphics team.
  • The Blueprint: Created the department’s first Quality Control framework based on Netflix’s processes and implemented detailed tracking to identify errors before shipping, increasing production quality by 50%.

Comprehensive Enterprise Training & Onboarding Architecture (Scalable Mentorship)

  • The Scope: Building a scalable system to train and prepare new hires across PM, QA, and Creative Design positions for rapid project immersion.
  • The Blueprint: Authored the highly integrated Creative PM and QA day-wise training guides, developed interactive test task templates containing deliberate process errors to simulate live project management challenges, and built the Master Display Content Product Offering Deck used extensively by global Sales and CS teams to navigate complex display capabilities.

Assistant Art Director (Live Action Commercials)

  • The Scope: Managing end-to-end filming logistics, set architecture, visual styling, and asset procurement for nationwide live-action ad campaigns.
  • The Blueprint: Created the main character’s on-camera look and collaborated on the set construction for the high-profile CRED Missions commercial campaign (personally celebrated and shared by founder Kunal Shah on X); managed property procurement for the NapEazy campaign, executing visual strategies that directly enabled the project to get fully funded on Kickstarter within its first 14 hours.

The Marketing Solutions Visual Art (Team Updates Newsletter)

  • The Scope: Approaching internal corporate communications as an artistic sandbox, developing custom digital art, illustrations, and thematic visual layouts to drive remote team engagement.
  • The Blueprint: Spearheaded a highly visual departmental newsletter that maximized team capability visibility right up to Executive Leadership Team members; engineered the entire production loop to be highly cost-effective and completely reusable, resulting in the template officially being adopted by the separate Process Enablement department to standardize their internal comms.

Professional Voice-Over & Audio Portfolio (VO Artist)

  • The Scope: Delivering premier vocal talent, script translation, and professional narration for high-end luxury, corporate, and technical learning programs.
  • The Blueprint: Executed rapid-turnaround vocal production for the Jungle Bay Resorts & Spa executive promotional campaign, recorded localized Malayalam translations and safety narrations for the Center for Mental Health Law & Policy to synchronize a 10-member remote production team during national lockdowns, and voiced technical instructional videos and promotional media campaigns for Herbalife.

Art Workshops (Artist & Art Teacher)

  • The Scope: Conducting art workshops on online art and teaching the basics of sketching to adults and children.
  • The Blueprint: Manages creative operations from audience building to event supplies, using artistic skills to help corporate professionals with creativity and mindfulness.
    Teaches the basics of pencil sketching to art enthusiasts.

Creative Side Quests

We are on a mission to create 52 playgrounds to make our cities better for children. Looking forward to support of CRED community🙏. #credmissions pic.twitter.com/AWBxC90dSz

— Kunal Shah (@kunalb11) August 20, 2019
Sumakshi Singh and Art of Illusion

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