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Washington, DC, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Halcyon is a non-profit organization which equips social impact entrepreneurs through its residency incubator. Oversees all events, human resources, information technologies, and facilities. Analyze organizational effectiveness and implement new policies, procedures, strategies, and security measures to improve functionality across the organization..

Operations (main responsibilities included information technology, facilities, and events) Oversaw all events, information technologies, and facilities. Analyzed and implemented benefits for the team while monitoring their impact on Halcyon. Created a Microsoft SharePoint system and transferred our records over from Dropbox. This has improved efficiency.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Event and Contract Management Negotiated vendor agreements to build the best possible partnerships to achieve our goals. Example: set up an agreement with an AV company for all Halcyon events to receive a 50% discount while charging full price as the sole AV provider for those renting the venue. Designed and executed agreements for partnerships and rentals.

Washington, DC

The association's annual conference attracts nearly 2,000 attendees, and about 130 exhibiting companies.Budgets - Implemented a more accurate method to forecast conference costs, using vendor bids where available instead of relying on past conference costs. This allowed to account for geographic price differences.Sales & Revenue – Performed market research.

The association had three conventions which vary in size from 400 to 1,800 attendees and had 50 to 200 exhibiting companies. Budgets - Responsible for managing DBIA’s annual conference budget of two million dollars. Designed a more accurate budget model by incorporating new breakdowns such as sponsor fulfillment costs, actual estimates from vendors, and.

Directly responsible for five clients and supervision of an additional four clients, which included four immediate staff and the client teams for each conference. Client conferences ranged from 250 to 1,400 attendees, and had anywhere from 60 to 180 exhibiting companies.Client Relationships - Coordinated continuous communication between SmithBucklin units.

Coordinated and facilitated all aspects of the association's annual meeting for 5000+ museum professional attendees, from pre-conference site visits to post-meeting evaluation. Events: Managed over 150 events per year (breakfasts, lunches, receptions, business meetings, board meetings, tradeshow food functions, etc.). Educational Sessions: Processed over.