Daniel Hewitt Email & Phone Number

Miami, Florida, United States

• Directed and coordinated all shipboard entertainment activities, ensuring diverse offerings in live performances and themed events.• Led and coached a multicultural team of 50+ performers, technicians, DJs, activity hosts, and managers to consistently deliver high-quality entertainment experiences.• Delivered comprehensive performance evaluations and personalized coaching plans, providing strategic direction for managerial development and career growth.• Developed and managed… Show more • Directed and coordinated all shipboard entertainment activities, ensuring diverse offerings in live performances and themed events.• Led and coached a multicultural team of 50+ performers, technicians, DJs, activity hosts, and managers to consistently deliver high-quality entertainment experiences.• Delivered comprehensive performance evaluations and personalized coaching plans, providing strategic direction for managerial development and career growth.• Developed and managed daily entertainment schedules, balancing multiple simultaneous activities across different venues for optimal guest engagement.• Ensured strict compliance with all safety regulations and policies, fostering a safe and enjoyable environment for both guests and performers.• Successfully completed multiple contracts on vessels Elation, Radiance, and Sunrise, demonstrating adaptability and consistent performance across various ships and operational environments. Show less

Performing live piano and keyboard, providing online piano lessons, and publishing solo piano sheet music arrangements.

Macau, China

• Supervised over 60 full-time and 20 seasonal performing artists and 3 administrators, covering 17 different nationalities. Active in casting, auditions, conflict resolution, coaching, discipline, maintaining a diverse artist pool, networking with talent agencies, contracting negotiations, travel logistics, immigration, accommodation, amenities, and scheduling.• Managed opera and vocal performers, visual artists, musicians, magicians, acrobats, dancers, technicians, DJs, and a house… Show more • Supervised over 60 full-time and 20 seasonal performing artists and 3 administrators, covering 17 different nationalities. Active in casting, auditions, conflict resolution, coaching, discipline, maintaining a diverse artist pool, networking with talent agencies, contracting negotiations, travel logistics, immigration, accommodation, amenities, and scheduling.• Managed opera and vocal performers, visual artists, musicians, magicians, acrobats, dancers, technicians, DJs, and a house band.• Guided development and approval of resort performances and continually monitored shows and musical sets for quality assurance.• Successfully ran Venetian Gondola Rides and Streetmosphere operations, including capex planning, data analysis, operational expense budgeting, and improving efficiencies and incentives, resulting in record profitability.• Coordinated entertainment operations across multiple properties, including Venetian, Parisian, Sands Cotai Central, and Sands Macau. Also coordinated between departments, including mall, retail, A/V, C&E, training and development, human resources, and F&B.• Implemented engagement strategies to achieve high retention of artists.• Conducted 16 interdepartmental "Service Centered Leader" two-day leadership enrichment presentations, teaching engagement skills to hundreds of resort employees.• Responsible for COVID-19 safety mitigations, including establishing basic employee and guest safety procedures, downsizing, and repatriations. Created alternative voluntary leave policies to retain as many employees as possible during the pandemic.• Casted resident artists for corporate events. Show less

Macau

(job description continued from above)• Notable musical accomplishments:- Composed Sands China’s corporate theme song, “Along With You.”- Performed with Adam Lambert at the 2013 China Music Awards.- Deputy keyboardist for a visiting production of Cats the Musical.- Guest keyboardist for guest entertainer Frank Stallone.- Judged and directed employee Sands talent show, “Start Your Show.”- Guest accompanist for Singapore Marina Bay Sands event “Best of Best.”-… Show more (job description continued from above)• Notable musical accomplishments:- Composed Sands China’s corporate theme song, “Along With You.”- Performed with Adam Lambert at the 2013 China Music Awards.- Deputy keyboardist for a visiting production of Cats the Musical.- Guest keyboardist for guest entertainer Frank Stallone.- Judged and directed employee Sands talent show, “Start Your Show.”- Guest accompanist for Singapore Marina Bay Sands event “Best of Best.”- Bandleader of a ten-piece band for the Venetian Macau Bellini Lounge. Show less

Macau, China

Asia - Various

• Performed over 2,400 shows, six nights a week, with resident bands at top international resort brands, including Hilton, Grand Hyatt, Park Hyatt, Shangri-La, Le Meridien, Sheraton, and Crystal Cruise Lines.• Held long-term artist residencies in Macau, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), 3.96

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) academic honor society

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science & Engineering

Certificate Of Music In Performance (In Progress), Keyboard Instruments

Activities and Societies: Recipient of Musicianship Scholarship