Responsible for the day to day running of a boutique Architecture and Urban Design studio. Duties include sales and marketing strategies and exercises; organising and attending in-house and external events such as B2B, industry associations, in-house meetings and community events; HR management, organising CPD sessions; general finances including cashflow, wages, bookkeeping; strategic planning, report writing, support tender processes, copywriting and social media content.

Home Travel and Event Management Agency.Focusing on promoting the Sunshine Coast Area, travel in Qld and personal events. Businessput on hold due to COVID restrictions.

Part time role as marketing consultant whilst studying at university focused on small to medium enterprises. Aimed initially at assisting alternative local businesses such as holistic, organic, natural therapies, services and products, however worked with a number of other businesses including retail and hospitality outlets, education and manufacturing. Specialised in setting up marketing campaigns, targeted databases, designing support material, making phone calls to generate leads and writing successful press releases. JV'd with local Business Mentor to support and provide additional marketing activities.

Secretary for Not for Profit - Hinterland Tourism, promoting areas including Montville, Maleny, Glass House and the surrounding areas. Hinterland Tourism has over 200 members, many of which are involved in the wedding industry.

Various Roles within the hospitality Industry supporting my family commitments, university studies and local businesses. Bella Vista Mapleton - Front of House (12 months Part Time)Flaxton Gardens - Wedding & Events staff (12 months Part Time) Big Pineapple Music Events - Bar Staff (Casual) The Coffee Place - Customer Service and Sales (3 months) Forest Sanctuary - Casual Wedding / Bar Staff (4 months) Bella Cucina Montville - Front of House (6 months) Tapas 10 Restaurant Mapleton - part time Front of House/Relief Manager January 2023 to current

Part of a team offering full marketing support services to companies on the Sunshine Coast and SE Qld. Garnish specialises in marketing for businesses in the manufacturing industries but also has clients in other areas. My responsibilities include setting up/tidying up databases, telesales, qualifying leads, account managing, brochure design, corporate sponsorship partnerships, email campaigns and copywriting. I use ACT! database, Mailchimp, Basecamp and all Microsoft office programs.

ASCA is Australia's largest buying Group for Schools and is a Not for Profit, supporting charities for the welfare and education for under privileged Aussie kids. ASCA promotes school approved products into school canteens and tuckshops and work with major food companies such as Golden Circle, Smiths, Lion & Uni-lever, Ingham's, plus smaller independent companies who provide convenient nutritious food into schools.As Area Manager, I looked after 70 schools on the Sunshine Coast and another 35 in the Gympie Cooloola Area, making sure, as members, they are receiving all the discounts that are applicable to products stocked in the canteen and that they benefited from their ASCA membership by introducing additional products or services which may interest them.

Office workAssisted 1-2 days a week the owner/director of SH event with the Organic Wine Show and SUSTAIN, an Organic, Natural and Sustainable trade and public show over 3 days in Melbourne during October 2013. Responsibility to get as many trade customers to attend the event on the specialist trade day. Cold calling prospective and existing partners for contras and sponsorship. Doing similar for the public show invites, working with businesses to utilise their databases and social media. Uploading info to What's On sites, updating website with new partners information, helping to design flyers, working with Sales Force database.Stage ManagerAt the 3 day event, I managed the food demonstration and the speakers stages dealing with VIP chefs and speakers I ran the stage show, obtained the ingredients through sponsorship or purchased remaining items, managed behind the scenes kitchen, prepared ingredients, management of volunteers and was MC for the stage. Introduced VIP chefs to sponsors.

Employed through the school's P&C, I was responsible for running the Primary School tuck shop three days a week. The school had 500+ students and took around $1000 a week. Changed menu to simpler, healthier menu and increased sales by 100%. Implemented online ordering which assisted the increase in sales, reduced the pressure of the day to day running and offered time and cost savings benefits. Worked with a team of 10 regular volunteers putting in additional voluntary hours to my contracted hours. Though I am no Jamie Oliver, I know my home made items and special dietary recipes were a huge hit.

Responsible for promoting 4 conference and meeting rooms at this Grade ll listed business hub. Clients included Essex Police, Colchester Council, local professional businesses and Business Networking Groups. Role included meeting with clients, event/meeting proposals, liaising with caterers, both internal and external, managing own promotional events, promoting the offices space and the business centre as a whole.

Sales and Business Development Manager for East Anglia. Gray Dawes was the second largest independent Business Travel agency in the UK, looking after clients such as Reuters, Lloyds TSB and Standard Chartered Bank. The company was ahead of it's time developing an online booking tool for clients to use. My role included managing and developing existing local clients and winning $1m new business each year. My biggest win was securing Royal London Insurance as a client. In this role I also organised events and corporate hospitality for our travel partners including KLM, Scandinavian Airlines and Lufthansa, escorting clients and potential clients on familiarisation trips to Europe. Assisted in organising local business expos including relevant Travel Shows and manned our stand at the Business Travel trade show in London for 3 days. Stopped working after September 11th when the travel industry took a big dive and my personal circumstances changed so I was able to take some time out to spend with my family.

Manager of the ski department with 6 ski resorts in 4 countries, 32 members of seasonal staff and 2200 beds nights to sell. Property negotiation, Brochure Design, Recruitment, Training, Sales, Day to Day management of ski programme in this busy independent Cambridge holiday specialist. Started working for this company overseas in Spain and Switzerland in 1987 and progressed from resort staff to Product Manager.