Bree Mendolia Email & Phone Number

Remote Usa

*Provides overall Project Management support to Event Managers and Directors.*Work alongside event writers and designers in order to manage all content and creative assets from conception to completion. *Travel as needed to support select events and site visits. *Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation such as workback schedules and status trackers.*Assist in scheduling and facilitating overall project and key deliverable kick-off calls in order to ensure alignment between project stakeholders and those assigned to generating the content and creative assets. *Consistently monitor and communicate status of the project or deliverable(s) to company stakeholders and agency stakeholders when working with agencies so that all necessary parties can remain informed and as up-to-date as possible.*Respect and adhere to departmental SLAs and bake them into workback schedules in order to provide accurate projected launch dates.*Ensure asset approval processes are followed by company stakeholders and contributors along with any agency stakeholders and contributors in instances when working with agencies. *Schedule regular project review sessions with the appropriate stakeholders and project contributors to keep them abreast of project milestones, scope, estimated timing of deliverable completion, and remain in sync on project expectations and timelines. *Diligently attempt to maintain forward movement of a project in order to prevent scope creep whenever possible and maintain the opportunity to meet deadlines and launch dates. *Report and escalate any at risk project components as needed. Identify and develop contingency plans to mitigate and address the risks. *Hourly and daily maintenance of slack messages, emails, opening and closing of project tickets along with reconciling or responding to direct messages and comments within project and ticketing portals. *Fulfill all other duties as assigned to ensure success of Avalara’s events.

Sacramento, California, United States

Group Sales Manager Feb 2020 - June 2020. Brought back from Furlough as Front Office Manager and filled that role June 2020 - through Dec 2020.

Holiday Inn Forest Park

Executing all group rooms sales and catering sales at a 119 room property equipped with 2,000 sq feet of meeting space. Responsibilities: Fulfill monthly requirements for solicitation, re-solicitations appointments, site visits and client entertainments. Generating contracts, creating Banquet Event Orders and distribute to appropriate departments, respond to all phone and online requests for proposals, create invoices, assists General Manager in providing oversight for a staff of 35+/- employees per day, generate pickup and productions reports, fulfill required continuing educating credit for my current brand and management company. *Contracted and Serviced 200+ Meetings and Events as well as 200+ group room blocks per year.*Generated over $100,000+ per year in Rental and Catering Revenue combined.*Produced 3,000+ group room nights per year with an additional 10,000 room nights per year generated from two permanent accounts*Types of organization that were contracted & solicited: Corporate, Association, Government, Military, Social, Educational, Fraternal, Religious and Amateur and Collegiate Sports TeamsPerforming Manager on Duty coverage when the hotel's GM is not present or available. Fulfilling hotel brand and management company training requirements as well as yearly quote for continuing education requirements for the brand.

The Cheshire

Group rooms sales for all markets. Corporate Catering Sales. During this time I was fulling the role of dual Sales for both The Cheshire and Holiday Inn Forest Park.

Hilton Garden Inn St. Louis/Chesterfield

All group rooms sales and all catering sales at a 122 room property equipped with 1,000 sq feet of meeting space. Responsibilities: Fulfill monthly requirements for solicitation, re-solicitations appointments, site visits and client entertainments. Generating contracts, creating Banquet Event Orders and distribute to appropriate departments, respond to all phone and online requests for proposals, create invoices, assists General Manager in providing oversight for a staff of 35+/- employees per day, generate pickup and productions reports, fulfill required continuing educating credit for my current brand and management company. *Produced agreements and executed 250+ Meetings and Events per year in addition to 200+ group room blocks per year.*Generated over $150,000 per year in Rental and Catering Revenue combined. *Types of organization that were contracted & solicited: Corporate, Association, Government, Military, Social, Educational, Fraternal, Religious and Amateur and Collegiate Sports Teams

Hilton St. Louis At The Ballpark

Worked directly under the Catering Sales Director. Also supported the 15+ other persons in the offices to include: General Manager, Office Manager, Director of Sales, Director of Revenue. Director of Food and Beverage, Convention Services Managers, Sales Managers, Business travel Manager and Group Rooms Coordinator.Fielded all department phone calls, entered all digital and phone leads for Sales Team, created client group block web links, assisted with group pre-keying/check-in process, created specialty event parking, drink and breakfast vouchers, conducted site visit prep of show rooms, assisted in site visits, on-site contact/event liaison for busy event days/nights, created client amenities, issued client reward points, ran reports for sales staff, entered data from reporting for certain management, created daily signage for groups, handled department postage and shipping of sales collateral, assisted in refreshed of ballrooms during large events.

Hilton St. Louis At The Ballpark

Hilton St. Louis At The Ballpark

Assisted in the production of special events2008 Heritage Festival and Concert SeriesCupple Station Loft Opening2006 Locust Avenue Film Fesitval2006 Live on the Levee Concert Series

Bachelors, Hotel & Restaurant Management/Business

Activities and Societies: Hospitality Managers Association

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