Deborah Rush Email and Phone Number

As a Catering Sales Manager, I have a vital role in supporting the hotel’s financial goals through marketing and supervising catering services, meeting room rental and banquet facilities through direct client contact to maximize revenues and profitability.• Forecasts and accurately records for all bookings and cancelations at each hotel.• Ensures that predetermined sales expectations are met or exceeded at each hotel.• Establishes client base for specific markets to include organizations associations, social groups, transient and corporate businesses through direct outside(majority) and inside sales, in order to secure business for the hotels.• Negotiates guest room rates, meeting room rental, function space, and hotel services within approved booking guidelines for each hotel. Confirms agreements in writing and forwards document to client and affected hotel departments.• Conducts tours of the hotel and banquet facilities; entertains qualified potential clients in accordance with company and property policies and procedures.

Responsible for the delivery of all aspects of events including planning, development, and execute. This would include ticketed and free events in the Summit Event Center, The Barn, Vineyard and Tasting Room.Interviewed, hired, trained, motivated and coached our team of employees. Maintained and updated web-site as well as all social media pertaining to events on and off property. Managed Tasting Room, retail store, winery, rental of all event facilities, cottage rental, and 13 employees.Schedule weekly live entertainment and live entertainment for all special events.Toured, created sales proposals, and contracted event facilities and outdoor locations for weddings, parties, fundraisers, or any special occasion, tripling the sales annually. Manage print materials and promotional items from the creative development, print management, and quality control. Manage all records while performing regular office management functions. Cultivate and maintain external relationships with vendors and other business partners. Participated in weekly creative sessions with owners to develop new concepts and create budget.

• The Development Coordinator position was created to serve as the lead event planner for the Foundation for Seminole State College to plan, implement, and improve all event fundraisers and donor recognitions. • Maintained and updated over 50 department web pages. • Served as a liaison between the Foundation and the College Relations and Marketing Department to publish press releases and maintain social media. • Managed print materials and promotional items from the creative development, print management, and quality control. • Tasked with maintaining all records and performing regular office management functions.

• Planned, implemented, and improved all college wide events on and off campus. • Developed and maintained event volunteer database and organized volunteer recruitment and instruction. • Coordinated event logistics with venue, vendors, contractors, maintenance, media, and any other related entity.• Managed and maintained all ordering of marketing materials for the department. • Trained and served as alternate for the financials of the office to included payroll and P.O. requests. • Created and maintained budget spreadsheets and reorganized filing system.