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St. Louis, MO, US

St. Louis City County, Missouri, United States

- Manage and coordinate all conferences, meetings, group functions and group activities booked through the sales department.- Focus on creating amazing moments for guests, planners, and team members and dig deep to find ways to create success for their team.- Responsible for maximizing Catering Corporate and Social revenues and profits for the hotel..

St Louis, Missouri, United States

- Manage floor operations activities that maximize customer satisfaction.- Coordinate logistics for each Banquet.- Prepare and execute accurate long-term and short-term operational and financial goals.- Evolve all food stations and buffet set-ups utilizing the "Food is Art" Sonesta Standard.- Manage communication to colleagues and staff to ensure events.

- Develop work schedules to ensure contracted services levels are achieved- Inspect and evaluate physical condition of establishment for program compliance, i.e. safety, quality, and service- Audit and maintain inventories, supplies, and equipment- Implement organization policies and goals- Analyze budgets to identify areas in which reductions can be made.

- Provide clients with an excellent banquet experience by consulting with Banquet Sales Director and Head Chef, determining the number of wait staff, and planning the layout and setup of venues.- Manage Food and Beverage initiatives for club members and provide superior customer service

Greater St. Louis Area

- Manage floor operations activities that maximize customer satisfaction.- Coordinate logistics for each Banquet.- Prepare and execute accurate long-term and short-term operational and financial goals.- Evolve all food stations and buffet set-ups utilizing the "Food is Art" Sonesta Standard.- Manage communication to colleagues and staff to ensure events.

St. Charles, MO

- Help clients buy property, sell property, or rent property.- Communicate effectively and pleasantly with clients, other agents, brokers, and other real estate related professionals.- Problem solve issues that regularly come up during the home buying/selling process.

Augusta, MO

- Book, plan and execute weddings, corporate events, private parties, etc.- Set up, staff, execute, and manage events from start to finish to ensure excellence. - Serve as the 'face' of Mount Pleasant and work with our guests to design the perfect combination of food, wine, tours & team building for corporate and social events.- Utilize networking, social.

Cottleville, MO

- Create content and manage website and social media properties for winery.- Manage community relations and PR efforts through e-mail marketing, press releases, and advertising.- Plan and execute special and private events at the winery.- Supervise servers and bartenders and coordinate efforts with kitchen staff to provide an excellent customer experience.

Greater St. Louis Area

- Brainstorm and create content for website including blogs, YouTube videos, and professional photos.- Market and promote website through social media (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Vine, etc.) including the use of Facebook Advertising.- Continuously grow knowledge on the Missouri Wine Industry by reading articles, attending conferences, and.

Missouri

- Monthly contributor to the 2015 VisitMO Spotlight series with an emphasis on Missouri Wine.

- Develop the strategies and tactics to best support businesses' marketing efforts.- Write engaging social media posts, grammatically clean long-form copy, effective headlines, tag lines, and calls-to-action.- Day-to-day development and management of content on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, LinkedIn.

- Cultivate strategies and manage social media properties for 92.3 WIL, 101ESPN, 106.5 The Arch, and Gatewaycitysavers.com, including daily monitoring, posting, contesting, and content development for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube.- Analyze and report social media data, providing insights and improvement tactics.- Coach on-air, sales.

Creve Coeur, MO

- Manage social media properties for three radio stations, including daily monitoring, posting, and content development including posts, contests, photos, and videos.- Assist with monthly reports including database analytics, site traffic, and video views.- On-line content research for breaking news, entertainment content, fact verification, etc.

- Supported development and execution of WXOS, WIL, and WARH promotional efforts. - Worked with on-air promotions, sales promotions, publicity, and special events for all stations. - Managed, trained, and scheduled the Street Team/On-Site Event Coordinators.

St. Louis, MO

- Projected a pleasant, friendly, professional image while representing the company and worked effectively with the public, clients, radio hosts, and other employees.- Presented exceptional organizational skills; meet deadlines; accurate follow-through on all projects and assisted others as needed.- Handled more than one assignment at a time and performs.

Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO

- Collected and analyzed information about newsworthy events to write news stories- Received assignments and evaluated news leads and tips to develop story ideas.- Took photographs and shot video to illustrate stories.- Edited videos for broadcast.- Appeared on television program when conducting taped or live interviews and narrations.

Greater St. Louis Area

- Assisted in planning and coordinating the second largest party in the United States.- Managed 2 festival events (Winter Carnival and Wine Taste) as the go-to person and lead volunteers.- Ran the Vendor Program to ensure Pet Parade and Grand Parade Day would have enough food and drink options to supply attendees.

- Worked with the program Promo Suite to add and schedule contests, write copy, and contact contest winners.- Set-up, prepared for, and worked remotes and special events.

- Hired on staff after interning in the marketing department for 5 months.- Led promotional remote teams at various venues.- Organized prizes and giveaways for remotes.- Cold called business in pursuit of new prizes and giveaways for on-air.

Master'S, Communications/Media Management, 3.8

B.A., Mass Comm, Corporate Comm, And Advertising, 3.8

Activities and Societies: NBS, LU-TV