Responsible for daily operations, lifestyle events, budget development, and vendor management.

• MouseAndGloria.com• A husband-wife team providing residential real estate brokerage in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas. • Offering deep knowledge of the community and providing relocation resources for newcomers and longtime residents buying and selling real estate. • Created and direct website with focus on SEO.• Developed and manage internship program, community engagement, and marketing.

• Sponsorship fulfillment for annual large-scale multi-venue event.
• Achieve client brand integration using onsite activations, signage, VIP experiences, hotel room promotion, vending, table-tents, program guides, product placement, credentials, live streaming, social media, screens.
• Define scope, risks, costs, and budgets for local, regional, national brand partnerships.
 • Manage team of staff, volunteers, photographers.
• Create VIP experiences for fans, green room hospitality for bands and artists.
• Secure city permits, create sitemaps, communicate with utility personnel to ensure power, barricades, security, coordinate rentals.

• Produce high profile, annual event raising funds to purchase land, conserve and protect natural, cultural, and historic resources of the Eno River basin.
• Manage sponsor, partner, and various stakeholder communications & engagement.
 • Secure partnerships by creating optimal sponsorship packages.
• Define high-level scope and constraints, document lessons learned. 
• Member of content creation team for 2020 virtual broadcast.

• IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) festival production team; managed 45 volunteers, exposition hall booth presence, merchandise sales, member brunch, hospitality for main stage lunches/dinners, opening ceremony logistics.
• Concert logistics for capacity events in theaters of Martin Marietta Center for Performing Arts; merchandise sales, ticket holder communications, band hospitality, will call & box office coordination.
• Ticket sales through Ticketmaster platform as robust third party.
• Created PineCone corporate sponsorship program and secured partnerships.
• Trained as ADA Sighted Guide and in A&E accessibility best practices.
• Nurtured current relationships while developing membership growth strategy.

• Team-produced large multi-day event in destination setting with multiple stages, tent and RV camping, cabin, golf cart rentals.
• Navigated logistics with team members, park officials, attorneys, promoters, national sponsors and shareholders to develop solutions and meet deadlines. 
• Collaborated with sponsors on social media campaigns and offsite promotions.
• Oversaw promotional events to drive engagement, boost revenue, enhance revenue.
 • Ensured sponsorship deliverables conformed to laws and requirements.

• Realized goal-surpassing revenue, responsible for the vision and execution of major annual projects: 
Give!Guide Launched program to fundraise with and promote local nonprofits, raised $100,000+ yearly, vetted 100+ nonprofit applications, created marketing campaign, built alliances with foundations to provide matching funds, produced event/awards ceremony. 
 Best of the Triangle Project Spearheaded the company’s highest grossing endeavor year over year, created marketing campaign, hired and managed project team, secured media interviews, oversaw video and event production. 
Advertising Director Managed staff with annual group sales of $2.5m, served on INDY Week's executive governing board.