 Summit Hotel Properties is a public REIT. Owned brands include Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Starwood and Carlson. All properties are Select Service and Urban Select. Current portfolio consists of 90 properties. As the Director of Revenue Management, I audited owned properties. I attended weekly Strategy calls to assist in revenue maximization.  Forecasts being critical, I spend approximately 25% of the time on forecasts and future budgeting. Assist with the System Analysts in developing systems and tools for the company. Assist with the Acquisitions Analysts in developing strategies regarding new properties and entering into new markets. During property audits, I audited utilization of systems, processes, pricing, pace, mix, market conditions, and sales efforts. Audits were focused on properties that were not performing well in regards to market share and budget expectations. Audits are also performed on properties that are doing very well in order to find additional revenue opportunities. This position is 25% travel. I travel to properties that are new to our portfolio or are in markets that are more complex.

 Hotels for Hope is a lodging contractor for Livestrong, Special Olympics, Circuit of the Americas, C3 Presents, etc. We specialize in large events and in organizing group contracts for these events. Our social contribution is that our contracted hotels donate $1 per room night consumed to children’s charities and we match each dollar that is donated. I managed the hotel relationships: ensuring that we have enough contracted rooms for each event. I ensure that all contracts are agreed upon between our clients and the hotels. I monitor pick up and make recommendations on rate and length of stay for each event. I also create the events in our system and send out, accept/decline RFP’s as they come back from invited hotels.

South Central Region Regional Director of Revenue Management: June 2004 –October 2012 Revenue Director for 20 Texas multi-branded hotels. Brands include: Courtyard by Marriott, Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott, Residence Inn by Marriott, Springhill Suites by Marriott, Marriott (full service), Holiday Inn (full service), Hilton Garden Inn and Hyatt House. Duties include:  Establishing pricing structure, analyzing market supply and demand factors, daily monitoring of rooms inventory, business analysis, Food & Beverage/Catering analysis, Marketing and Promotions, brand training, training and development of new sales managers and revenue/inventory managers. Creating and maintaining tools used for the annual RFP process for each hotel brand. Pre-opening team member for Courtyard by Marriott, Residence Inn by Marriott, Marriott Full Service, Hilton Garden Inn, Summerfield Suites by Hyatt, Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott. Systems knowledge includes: Marriott: Marsha, High Performance Pricing, PMS, Fosse, MarRFP, MRDW, One Yield, EPIC Hilton: OnQ R&I, Solicitation Management, Key Marketing reports, OnQ Insider, RMS, PiM, GRO Holiday Inn: Holidex, Opera, iRFP, HIRO, PERFORM, FactBook, IHG Online, MERLIN Hyatt: Reserve, PMS, Lanyon, RMS, PAW, PRIO Hotelligence, Delphi, SalesProAustin Airport Marriott South Controller/Accounting Manager: May 2001 – June 2004Courtyard by Marriott Austin Central Front Office Manager: November 1998 – May 2001Fairfield Inn by Marriott Austin South Operations Manager: May 1998 – November 1998Courtyard by Marriott Austin Northwest Sales Coordinator: May 1997 – August 1997 Operations Supervisor: August 1997 – February 1998 Manager-In-Training: February 1998 – May 1998