Vela talent profile · VEL-26-A-056

Kieran W..

Senior Project Manager · Multi-VendorSan José, Costa Rica10 yrs in agencies
// Years10
// AI rubric2/3
// EnglishNative
// Earliest start3w
// Target base · yr 1$44K
// Time zoneGMT−6
// Sourced via referral · search 26-AVetted on a 45-minute working call · February 2026Currently employed · 3-week notice
Experience

Ten years inside Latin American agencies.

1 seats, all client-facing. Each move was a promotion or a lateral into a more demanding book.

Event production + AV/IT delivery

Senior Project Manager

2014 – present · 10+ yrsOriginally UK · now San José, CR · multi-vendor freelance teams
  • Ran event-side project delivery across the UK for a decade — logistics, technical staging, freelance staff coordination, on-site client lead.
  • Held the on-the-ground PM seat at two leading UK universities for AV/IT support — multi-campus rollouts, ticket triage, vendor coordination.
  • Comfortable owning a delivery timeline without a separate ops manager. Default mode is single-thread accountability.
  • Native English. Now in Costa Rica, working US-time for remote roles.
Education & languages
Tools

Daily stack.

// PM
AsanaNotion (light)
// Production
Adobe Premiere Pro
// Ops
Google WorkspaceSlack
// AI Stack
ChatGPT
AI proficiency

Level 2 of 3 on the screening rubric.

// Level 1
Tool familiarity.
Pass

Uses ChatGPT for scoping drafts and vendor brief synthesis.

// Level 2
Prompt judgment.
Pass

Catches structural errors in AI-drafted scopes — knows what a good brief looks like, so spots when the model is missing one.

// Level 3
Live workflow.
In progress

Hasn't built a self-running automation yet. Strong week-3 candidate for vendor-status summarization.

Next step

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