Jared Blakely Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas, United States

With strong leadership and financial planning skills, I have successfully acquired and manage several rental properties.• Elevated monthly profit to 12.3% following the sale of another property with a 15% year-over-year suboptimal comparative deviation.• Produced and presented a detailed financial analysis to the 2022 Appraisal Review Board, resulting in a 23.7% reduced valuation and additional 8.5% gross revenue as profit for 2022.

Harmony Of The Seas

Managed guest bookings utilizing the onboard custom API, trained Activities Staff in proper operation, and solved any issues with the mechanical and digital systems of the "Escape the Rubicon."• Championed enhanced SOPs for all of the above, and detailed the elements and workflow for consistently hosting a quality guest experience.

Harmony Of The Seas

Ensured that guests had a positive and engaging experience onboard the ship: Hosted onboard game shows, competitions, escape room bookings, karaoke sessions, and dance parties; created & hosted trivia; assisted Activities Manager & Cruise Director during events. Contributed to passenger safety and crowd management during passenger embarkation and debarkation. As Assistant to Muster Station Coordinator, managed a portion of Muster Station Leaders and oversaw each team’s adherence to safety protocols and standards.• Crowd management and customer service lead for all onboard show bookings made through RCCL's custom onboard API• Developed and hosted four new dance class activities for guests.• Demonstrated the traits of Friendly, Passionate, and Committed to the company's Royal Way and nominated for 2019 Employee of the Year.

Brilliance Of The Seas

Being a customer-focused Leader, I managed and delivered the Bingo Program to successful financial outcomes and high customer satisfaction. I also improved internal stakeholder relations via improved processes.• Created a new bingo sales balancing process that reduced the frequency of major errors (which caused work inefficiencies and customer dissatisfaction) from 75% of voyages to Zero while also reducing by half the man-hours required for the activities lead to complete the balancing process.• Championed detailed, written SOPs for the Bingo Program, highlighting risk areas and comprehensive reconciliation procedures for sales receipts and winner payouts.

Brilliance Of The Seas

Ensured that guests have a positive and engaging experience onboard the ship: Hosted onboard game shows, competitions, karaoke sessions, and dance parties; created & hosted trivia; assisted Activities Manager & Cruise Director during events. Contributed to passenger safety and crowd management during passenger embarkation and debarkation. As Assistant to Muster Station Coordinator, managed a portion of Muster Station Leaders and oversaw each team’s adherence to safety protocols and standards.

Mabank, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

As a data-focused professional, I managed and controlled accounts payable and payment check issuance, accounts receivable and bank deposits, and credit card purchases and statement balance.• Optimized and planned financial and operational audit activities while aligning with company standards and procedures.• Championed SOPs to ensure accuracy and streamline the overall bookkeeping process, saving an estimated minimum of 208 manhours per year.• Produced and presented detailed financial reports to the management by identifying noncompliance issues, inefficient business operations, and incorrect financial transactions and practices.• Researched and applied methods of analysis for job costing the per-hour use of company-owned construction equipment, enabling management to make more competitive bids and more profitable mobilization decisions.• Strengthened cash management capabilities by analyzing, reconciling, and updating record-keeping protocols the company's cash, including credit card and disbursement transactions. As a result, the company gained specific expense and job tracking for 19.9% of all non-payroll expenses, which had previously been opaque.• Executed payroll management, including workers' compensation payments and audits.• Leveraged Intuit's Quickbooks Pro to accurately perform general ledger reconciliations and automate audit reporting to save man-hours.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Master Of Science - Ms, Accounting

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Linguistics