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Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

● Hire new employees and lead the Hotel Account Management team, conducting training and onboarding around contracting and sales processes.● Coordinate across marketing, agency sales, and operations teams to drive performance for Sabre and over 50 lodging customers with $285M in annual revenue.● Negotiate and close multi-year agreements with global accounts including Booking.com, Expedia, Hilton, and Intercontinental Hotel Group, totaling $500M+ in projected revenue.● Partner with team to launch Content Services for Lodging, a new set of APIs that change how corporate hotel space views retailing, distribution, and fulfillment.● Delivered custom Salesforce interface for Lodging Ground & Sea account management teams, streamlining processes and improving overall efficiency.

Greater Los Angeles Area

● Led Los Angeles market management team of 14, delivering training on sales and negotiation and revenue management processes.● Implemented systematic structural changes and established consistency in overall team direction, resulting in 17%+ year over year (YoY) increase in Los Angeles market share.● Collaborated with key stakeholders and field marketing team as Global Partner Marketing Pillar Lead on the implementation and roll-out of On24 webinar series viewed by 3K+ nationwide viewers as well as newsletter and merchandising templates in 15 languages.● Initiated and mediated conversations with tax and legal teams to reinstate city of Arcadia on sites, adding $5M+ in incremental RMD for the market.

San Francisco Bay Area

● Built relationships with strategic partners and utilized data and analytics tools to manage $20M+ hotel portfolio and successfully exceed RMD and NRN plan each quarter.● Developed and implemented negotiation strategies to reduce marketing expenses while increase brand awareness, securing 13 new acquisition properties within one year and generating $1.2M+ in incremental RMD.● Led California/PNW Lunch & Learn Series with 40+ attendees per session, providing valuable resources and training to region.● Participated in SF Hotel Council as a Committee Chair for major annual events including Hotel Hero Awards with 800 guests.

San Francisco

● Guided and directed overall product, marketing, and distribution strategy for new hotel flash-sale start-up website with 15K participating properties.● Directed paid search, and online promotional, and email strategies, delivering weekly content to 25K subscribers.● Negotiated and contracted inventory to optimize yield and expand product reach and profit revenues, resulting in new B2B partnership deals that effectively increased membership and distribution by 400%+.● Designed and implemented turn-key, affiliate supplier portal and marketing distribution system with 10+ sites, streamlining and scaling business, retaining members, and optimizing sales.● Developed wholesale business model to be paired with existing “flash-sale” components, increasing number of hotel partners by 60%+.

● Managed all electronic marketing and eCommerce initiatives including web content and packages, SEO, SEM, PPC, and SPG loyalty rewards.● Created targeted offers to customers and provided incentives for advance purchasing, driving Average Daily Rate (ADR) increase through online travel partners by 24.8%.● Restructured paid search campaign strategy, resulting in 155% increase in conversion and performance.

● Cultivated and maintained preferred relationships and key accounts nationwide, increasing sales by 85%+ and bringing in $11M+ in new revenue.● Identified, pursued, and closed large new partnership deals including The Discovery Channel, STA Travel, Affordable Tours, and TravAddict.com contributing $3M+ through annually recurring revenue. ● Championed creative initiatives including an online Adventure Club training and certification program for 500 travel agents.● Collaborated with DMOs and tourism authorities to earn previously untapped revenue stream worth $1M+ annually.● Directed 15+ national and international tradeshow sales campaigns including the New York Times & LA Times Travel Shows, World Travel Market, USTOA, and ASTA with 35K+ attendees from 175 countries at largest show.

● Managed $10M annual budget, strategically allocating resources to optimize productivity.● Oversaw the launch and execution of 60+ direct mail, online, and email campaigns distributed to 2500+ member agents and agencies.● Designed and developed 3 weekly newsletters promoting 450+ preferred hotel, land, and cruise partners.● Collaborated with team of 12 to launch of new luxury magazine, Ensemble Lifestyles, providing editorial and creative content, generating ad sales, and communicating with suppliers, product development team, and outside design studios.

Wrote professionally for four years, with experience in magazine, newspaper, and business writing. Experienced in copyediting, content editing, and proofreading. Developer, writer, editor and designer of a wide rage of business materials, including brochures, newsletters, and annual reports. Clients include New York Magazine, AM New York, Time Out New York, Metro New York, The Village Voice, The Fashion Journal and Travel Weekly.

Now celebrating it's 30th Anniversary, this landmark bar/nightclub in the heart New York City's Greenwich Village consistently produces in excess of $8-$10 million annually.; Worked as a bartender and bar manager in an extremely fast-paced environment. Acquired valuable interpersonal and customer-service skills. Contributed toward sustaining the establishment's long-standing brand identity. Closed and balanced register sales. Maintained bar and liquor inventory. Oversaw a team of fifteen bartenders and mediated customer and internal disputes.