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Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Providing on-site event operations support to set up, manage, and educate guests on using event bidding technology.

Establishing sales procedures and processes while securing business partners. Identified ideal customer profiles, GTM strategies, and messaging.STB Technologies offers an innovative storage solution that meets the modern-day demands of security and convenience.

Houston, Texas, United States

- Executed strategic sales initiatives to expand Qwick’s market share in Greater Houston by 450%.- Collaborated with marketing, marketplace operations, BDRs, and account managers to generate qualified leads, produce seamless onboarding experiences, and minimize account churn.

Greater Houston

- Strategically targeted highly desired local and regional SMB restaurant partners located in SE Texas and SW Louisiana. - Achieved two successful market launches in central Texas.- Ranked #10 of 40 BDM for revenue generated in the first 60 days of partnership.ASAP, formally Waitr, a restaurant success platform.

Greater Chicago Area

- Managed relationships with property owners, increasing monthly revenue by 37%. - Created online presence for properties to include attractive images, engaging descriptions, and helpful city itineraries for visitors.

Greater Chicago Area

- Established the company’s first-ever prospecting initiatives to target high-revenue events, and trained Event Coordinators on strategic practices. - Developed upselling strategies that increased revenue by over $150K annually.

Greater New Orleans Area

- Responsible for implementing sales and marketing initiatives to secure private event revenue and tourism foot traffic. - Consistently generated over $300K in miscellaneous sales, contributing to New Orleans being named most profitable in 2014.- Created and managed annual marketing plans to ensure corporate initiatives, holidays, and convention-specific.

Greater New Orleans Area

- Generated unprecedented demand for Club Lounge events, creating ancillary space revenue and increasing it by 30 - 35% YOY.- Served as facility expert to third-party clients for coordinating and executing events for the 2011 and 2012 Sugar Bowls, 2012 BCS Championship Game, 2012 NCAA Men’s Final Four, and 2013 Super Bowl.ASM Global, formally SMG.

Greater New Orleans Area

- Supported the Dir of Convention Marketing and Dir of Business Development in creating marketing plans by researching potential statistical resources, competing city’s marketing strategies, and running reports from internal databases. - Assisted in creating the annually presented 2009 and 2010 CVB Marketing Plans. New Orleans & Company is a nationally.

Greater New Orleans Area

- Supported Game Presentation Managers in coordinating and implementing game day operations and entertainment. - Worked with team sponsors to coordinate elements of the marketplace and in-area promotional activity.