Project leadership People / Systems / Execution

Phillip Dowdy

Project Manager

I lead technical and creative teams with clarity and empathy to get complex work done.

Bringing people, systems, and execution together across technology, operations, media, and creative environments.

Let’s Work Together Selected Work

The through line

People Systems Execution

Currently

Associate Developer

Working inside an enterprise modernization environment—researching and resolving Java/Python defects and collaborating across technical teams from diagnosis through validation.

01 / The story

Different rooms.
Same job: move the
work forward.

My career did not follow a straight line. It followed complicated work—into rooms where people need trust, clear communication, and a practical way forward.

Every environment sharpened the same instinct: read the system, build trust fast, and find the practical way forward—whether that meant a warehouse floor, a film set, a client campaign, or a codebase.

Project management is where those instincts converge. I translate between technical and nontechnical people, build relationships across roles and seniority levels, and learn unfamiliar environments quickly enough to keep teams aligned and moving.

01 Logistics People + systems
02 Creative / Media Ideas + delivery
03 Film Production Coordination under pressure
04 Marketing Campaigns + stakeholders
05 Software / Technology Technical delivery
Now Project Management Clarity + execution

02 / Featured projects

Work that moved
through people.

Three environments. Three different kinds of pressure. One consistent approach: understand the system, build trust, and help the work land.

01 OPERATIONS Kroger Cincinnati Fresh Center · Blue Ash, Ohio Brand mark · The Kroger Co.

Training / SOP development / Team consistency

Project 01

Kroger /
Cincinnati Fresh Center

Led training and SOP development during the early ramp-up of Kroger’s Cincinnati Fresh Center, helping onboard employees, establish operational consistency, and support retention for a new regional distribution operation.

In a ramp-up environment, the work meant helping new employees understand the process, strengthening repeatable standards, and staying close to the team as operations evolved.

Formal role: Lead
Environment: Logistics + operations

Quit Culture “30-day outdoor” campaign billboard featuring a smiling participant and the quote “I’ve been trying for 22 years, but I never gave up.” — Client leadership / Video production / End-to-end delivery

Project 02

Sunny Blue /
Meet the Quitters

First Project Lead at Sunny Blue, helping lead the multi-year “Meet the Quitters” campaign for a major Cincinnati nonprofit—across video, outreach, client coordination, scheduling, and creative delivery.

Working with the company before it had employees meant operating as both manager and hands-on contributor—handling contracts, stakeholders, schedules, filming, editing, occasional audio work, and the details that turn a creative promise into a finished deliverable.

Formal role: First Project Lead
Environment: Creative production

Official trailer still from The Alto Knights, a Warner Bros. production filmed in Cincinnati — Locations / Public agencies / Production logistics

Project 03

The Alto Knights /
Locations Department

Coordinated on-the-ground logistics for a major film production, aligning schedules, vendors, departments, public agencies, and stakeholders.

The work connected production vehicles, street closures, police, municipal officials, businesses, homeowners, vendors, service locations, power access, and location protection—often across multiple departments at once.

Formal role: Location Assistant
Environment: Major studio film production

03 / Selected film production experience

Four sets.
One discipline.

Major film productions became another proving ground for the same skills: coordinating people, locations, schedules, vendors, departments, and unexpected problems under immovable deadlines.

Official trailer still · © Netflix 01
Shirley

Production Crew
Official trailer still · © Max 02
Turtles All the Way Down

Production Crew
Official trailer still · © Focus Features 03
The Bikeriders

Location Assistant
Official trailer still · © Warner Bros. 04
The Alto Knights

Location Assistant

Credits are presented conservatively. Private production records are verification only and are never published as portfolio media.

04 / Technical experience

Technical enough
to ask better
questions.

Junior / Associate Developer

PeopleShores × Accenture apprenticeship environment

On an enterprise mainframe modernization and conversion project involving Java and Python systems, I work defects from initial research through testing and resolution. Working inside the delivery cycle has made me a more credible partner to engineers—and a more technically fluent project manager.

A defect’s path

01

Ticket

Receive a defect or ticket and establish what is known, missing, and affected.
02

Research

Investigate with approved AI-assisted tooling and prior related cases.
03

Diagnose

Trace the defect to its root cause across the affected systems.
04

Develop

Build the fix in the Java or Python codebase.
05

Test

Verify the fix against expected system behavior before submitting it.
06

Merge request

Submit the change for peer review and approval.
07

Validate

Review subsequent system runs and comparison results with QA/EQ teams.
08

Iterate

Refine and resubmit until the defect is fully resolved.

05 / Marketing experience

Seventeen markets.
One coordinated effort.

In nonprofit marketing work spanning approximately 17 markets, I coordinated print, video, media, campaign design, social content, filming across markets, creative deliverables, and communication with the CEO and other stakeholders.

06 / Selected work

The work,
under pressure.

Three project-management cases across operations, creative production, and film. Open each one to see the context, responsibilities, and PM skills behind the outcome.

07 / Contact

Let’s work
together.

I’m interested in full-time opportunities, contract project work, and collaborations where thoughtful coordination can move something meaningful forward.

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Phillip Dowdy

Different rooms.
Same job: move the
work forward.