Kimberly Teal

Project Management professional with a proven track record of leading large-scale enterprise initiatives, cross-functional operations, and high-volume project portfolios. Adept at translating complex business requirements into structured management plans, developing data-driven tracking tools, and optimizing workflows to reduce costs. Strong foundation in operations management, business analytics, and stakeholder partnership, with an expert ability to build alignment across creative, technical, and business units.

Project Manager, Implementation (Consultant) at DONATE 2 IMPACT (2026-06 – Present)

Provide strategic project management consulting for enterprise business units, specializing in software rollouts, legacy systems modernization, and operational tool development to drive business efficiencies.

• Software Rollout Strategy: Lead the cross-functional implementation planning and stakeholder management for a high-impact software rollout (Zipline), ensuring operational alignment across business units.
• Database Modernization & Analytics: Assess and design a modernization strategy for a Microsoft Access database architecture, focusing on improving data accuracy, streamlining reporting tools, and automating backend query performance.
• Business Efficiency Analysis: Partner directly with leadership to probe beyond operational symptoms, identifying root causes of process gaps to deliver scalable, technology-driven business solutions.

Manager, Multilanguage Communications at TARGET CORPORATION (2022-08 – 2026-01)

Oversee enterprise-wide project management and operations for complex global initiatives. Partner across Product, Engineering, and Marketing to define project scopes, align objectives, and drive cross-functional execution readiness.

• Project Governance: Successfully led a high-volume portfolio of 5,000+ annual deliverables, maintaining strict adherence to established project standards, timeline commitments, and quality expectations.
• Analytics & Tool Development: Developed and managed internal project metrics, tracking usage, feedback, and performance analytics (including speed-to-delivery and cycle times) to provide data-driven insights to leadership.
• Financial & Scope Control: Supported end-to-end project cost management through strategic budget tracking, vendor quote reviews, invoice reconciliation, and proactive forecasting against approved project scopes.
• Process Automation & Improvement: Identified operational bottlenecks and engineered optimized intake and setup tools, significantly enhancing operational predictability and resource allocation across technical and creative teams.
• Risk & Change Management: Proactively identified scope impacts and project risks, developing clear mitigation strategies and communicating tradeoffs directly to business unit leaders.
• SOP Standardization: Authored comprehensive operational documentation and standardized workflow diagrams, streamlining enterprise financial procedures and quality control measures.

Manager, Multilanguage Communications (Contract) at TARGET CORPORATION (2020-11 – 2022-08)

Directed day-to-day operations and execution of enterprise-level content initiatives across diverse cross-functional teams and external vendors.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Built strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, linguists, and third-party vendors to coordinate complex project timelines, ensuring seamless delivery and compliance with requirements.
• Intake & Tracking Operations: Managed stakeholder intake workflows and designed project tracking sheets that increased transparency into high-volume global content lifecycles.
• Quality Assurance: Mitigated risks by thoroughly reviewing deliverables, clarifying technical requirements, and resolving execution issues before final deployment.

Client Manager at BURG TRANSLATIONS (2018-03 – 2019-01)

Served as the primary strategic liaison for enterprise accounts, scoping complex requirements, designing project management plans, and guiding international market expansions.

• Account Retention: Rapidly assumed project management ownership for high-stakes enterprise accounts during an unexpected leadership gap, sustaining 100% client retention through trust, transparent risk communication, and disciplined execution.
• Solutions Delivery: Partnered with business units to determine necessary localized processes, aligning project outcomes directly with the client's broader commercial goals.

Project Manager, Translation at ISI TRANSLATION SERVICES (2016-08 – 2018-01)

Led the delivery of complex bilingual business operations by guiding cross-functional teams through structured schedule management and rigorous QA frameworks.

• Pipeline Management: Managed a high-output delivery pipeline of 1,000+ annual projects across technical, medical, and legal domains, balancing competing demands and organizational changes seamlessly.
• Risk Management & Scheduling: Optimized operational efficiency by engineering robust, automated project schedules that prioritized early risk identification to proactively eliminate workflow bottlenecks.
• Delivery Discipline: Coordinated cross-functional teams spanning layout design (DTP), linguistics, and QA to ensure total clarity on project goals for high-stakes global product launches.

Marketing and Spanish Outreach Specialist at GREEN MEDIA CREATIONS (2015-07 – 2016-08)

Led the cross-functional production and adaptation of marketing content for Spanish-speaking audiences, ensuring brand resonance through strategic stakeholder communication and early-stage project coordination.

• Led the end-to-end localization and production of high-impact marketing campaigns, websites, and outreach materials tailored for diverse Spanish-speaking demographics.
• Facilitated early project coordination between creative and technical teams to clarify requirements and ensure the successful delivery of linguistic assets across multiple platforms.

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Spanish – North Central College