Served as Executive Director for the Merchant Advisory Group (MAG), a cross-industry non-profit trade association of Fortune 500 merchant companies involved in the payments industry. The MAG's mission is to drive positive change and innovation in the payments industry that serves the merchants' interests through collaboration, education and advocacy.

Sr. Account Executive for professional trade associations. Managed a variety of clients during my tenure.• Coordinate the association’s day-to-day operations, including working with a board of directors and volunteer committees to execute mission and strategic goals, planning national and international conferences, and ensuring delivery of membership benefits.• Plan and coordinate conferences with up to 1,000 attendees, including site selection, hotel and vendor contract negotiation, agenda design, seminar planning and promotion, registration, A/V, exhibit and sponsor coordination, on-site event management, and financial reconciliation. Domestic and International planning experience.• Engage in strategic planning and manage association boards made up of Fortune 500 company executives.• Prepare, manage and monitor budget preparation, client reporting, and other responsibilities involved with overseeing client budgets up to $6 million.• Create and execute membership and board e-communications. • Maintain membership database including dues, events, new member and prospective member processing and reporting.• Successfully manage direct reports with ability to successfully delegate without micro-managing.• Create, write, coordinate, and manage project work with graphic designer on conference promotional materials.TECHNICAL SKILLSProficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Constant Contact, Adobe Acrobat Pro, IMIS database software, SurveyMonkey, online event management providers (Wufoo, Cvent), Sitefinity-a website content management system, Social Media Tools including Facebook, LinkedIn and Flicker for business applications

•Represented J.D. Edwards at local career events and coordinated all college career event activities for 17 national and local career fairs each year.•Planned and coordinated all special events for 2003 J.D. Edwards internship program, which consisted of 75 undergraduate and graduate students.•Managed a marketing budget of $100K.•Served as project manager for corporate summer internship program that included all special events planning and budgeting; functioned as main contact for all intern inquiries and evaluations.•Successfully recruited 75 interns for 2003 summer internship program.•Facilitated trainings and intern orientation sessions to train interns and hiring managers on roles and responsibilities involving the summer internship program

•Collaborated with advertising vendor to develop marketing materials for corporate recruiting program.•Worked with local and national colleges to register companies and coordinate logistics to participate in college career events.

•Responsible for assisting clients seeking help with computer software problems. •Promoted to interim team lead in 8 months that included managing a team of twelve individuals, scheduling meetings, team events, and processing various statistics and reports in Microsoft Excel.