Rikuu Mikami

Led 14-person cross-functional teams delivering websites, branding, photography, and social media for 10 Seabright businesses over 6 months, managing timelines, scope, and weekly check-ins across concurrent workstreams. Managed $20,000+ in project delivery across 10 client engagements, scoping work and tracking budgets against city-funded program allocations. Standardized proposal structure across the studio, introducing per-deliverable hour estimates that made project budgets traceable to client-agreed scope for the first time.

Project Manager - GetVirtual – City of Santa Cruz Partnership

(2024-09)

• Led 14-person cross-functional teams delivering websites, branding, photography, and social media for 10 Seabright businesses over 6 months, managing timelines, scope, and weekly check-ins across concurrent workstreams.
• Managed $20,000+ in project delivery across 10 client engagements, scoping work and tracking budgets against city-funded program allocations.
• Standardized proposal structure across the studio, introducing per-deliverable hour estimates that made project budgets traceable to client-agreed scope for the first time.

GTM Intern - AI Square Studio - Remote

(2025-09 - 2026-01)

• Reached out to 50+ creators weekly — a mix of 20+ high-profile influencers and content creators across multiple platforms — converting 10 early adopters per week during pre-launch.
• Engineered and ran a UC Santa Cruz onboarding campaign, converting all 20 event attendees into early users and product testers.

Web Designer & Digital Consultant

(2024)

• Designed and built 9+ websites over the past year — through GetVirtual's small-business program and independent client work — for clients across retail, wellness, fitness, and food & beverage, using Wix, Squarespace, and Framer.
• Managed the full client lifecycle — discovery, design, build, launch, and hand off — migrating and modernizing sites to improve branding, mobile performance, and online presence.

B.S. - Network and Digital Technology (Electrical Engineering Concentration) - University of California, Santa Cruz (2025)