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Remote

This position has offered me the unique privilege of getting to help build a company from the startup stage, while gaining remote work experience. I am responsible for coordinating 150+ events monthly from the time of booking until the event date. Events include personal and corporate clients, from 5-500 guests, and can be onsite, virtual, or hybrid. This includes, but is not limited to, communicating with clients, tracking to ensure event deadlines are met, handling client contracts and invoicing, and coordinating with our staffing, tech, and billing teams for any event needs. I also help manage several lower level admin employees who assist me in this role, and have trained several successful employees. Additionally, I have also assisted with many major company improvement projects, including restructuring our event coordinator team operations, implementation of our business development program, and building a database of venue partners for onsite events.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lexington, Kentucky Area

As Wedding Specialist / Catering Sales Manager for the Hilton Lexington Downtown, I handle the entire wedding department largely on my own. This includes, but is not limited to, lead catching, site visits with potential couples, sales for wedding ceremonies, receptions, rehearsal dinners, farewell breakfasts, and room blocks, networking with wedding vendors, participating in bridal shows, planning each event with the couple via phone, email, and in-person meetings, communicating details to other departments, creating BEOs for each event, attending all meetings for management, overseeing and coordinating event days, and coordinating with wedding vendors prior to and during event days. I have also recently taken on our hotel's Local Catering market, which includes professional and social events from local clients and businesses.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

As the Catering Coordinator for the Hilton Lexington Downtown, a full service hotel, I was a right hand assistant to each member of the Catering Sales & Management team. This included office administrative work, data entry, communicating changes between departments, handling guest/client questions via email, phone, and in-person contact, and lead catching for all managers, as well as assisting before, during and after professional and social events. During my time in this position, I also helped cover the role of Catering Sales Manager and Director of Catering, while my colleagues were on back to back maternity leaves.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

I served as part of a corporate marketing team for a regional chain of mattress stores (Sleep Outfitters, Mattress Warehouse, Mattress King). My day to day tasks included building a database for all Chamber of Commerce Memberships for 100+ stores, planning social media content, editing newspaper ads via InDesign, assisting in planning and running promotional events, and securing promotional materials for each store.

Wyoming, Mi And Evansville, In

I am solely responsible for all Marketing needs for the Grand Rapids South and Evansville, IN Franchises of Two Men and a Truck.

Wyoming, Mi

I am the first connection that a customer will have with Two Men and a Truck. My responsibilities include using my communication skills to help the customer find the move scenario that works best for them, keeping up our move schedule to make sure things go smoothly, and ensuring an excellent customer experience.

Allendale, Mi

I work as a peer consultant by assisting students with their public speaking concerns in 30 minute sessions. This can include any part of the speaking process, from speech writing, to delivery, and even visual aids. I also help groups of students with group presentations. This job has given me the experience of a real office environment, and also provided me with the experience of interviewing candidates for a job.

Allendale, Mi

My role was primarily to promote Wesley to the Grand Valley community through various methods of public relations, marketing, and advertising. This included, but was not limited to: social media, print advertising, email newsletters, and event hosting.

Gayord, Mi; Standale, Mi

On top of the regular responsibilities that come with working in fast food, I learned a lot about customer service from this position, as well as company/brand loyalty. As a Crew Trainer, I was also responsible for greeting new hires and making them feel welcome, along with preparing them to effectively do the tasks required of them.

Allendale, Mi

I work closely with our pastor and other board members to think creatively and get ideas for events for the year. I also help to set up and oversee most of our events. I am also involved quite a bit in any advertising we do as a group, especially since that is directly related to my major at GVSU.

Allendale, Mi

I lead our weekly meetings, as well as plan the content with my board. We are in charge of all events and outreach, and I am often our liaison with any faculty, staff, performers, and speakers that we interact with. I oversee every other board member's position as well as completing my own tasks. I also make sure we build community within our organization.

Gaylord, Mi

I had a weekly column for several months, which later turned into a bi-weekly column. The concept was to have a young face on the staff (unpaid) to spotlight unique organizations, students, and staff at my high school who were doing amazing things. I worked under strict deadlines, gathered all of my own information, conducted interviews, and took my own photographs. My column was received well by the community.

Bachelor’S Degree, Communications, Advertising And Public Relations

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