Jay Markham Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

As Senior Director, Event Technology (Sr DET I), I am spearheading the charge to achieve revenue and profitability milestones for the Hyatt Regency complex in downtown Seattle. My role is a dynamic blend of strategic leadership and operational finesse, ensuring that our team delivers nothing short of World-Class service while fostering key relationships.

• Member of Village Theatre’s executive leadership team, managing six direct reports (Production department managers) and 15-20 dotted line responsibilities. Oversees design and execution; logistics, planning.
• Has successfully managed multi-million-dollar annual budgets for 15+ years, while driving timely production schedules and high production values. Noteworthy shows have included Les Misérables, Mary Poppins, My Fair.
• Developed first production of the critically acclaimed, fan favorite Million Dollar Quartet—that would graduate to a successful, multi-year run on Broadway.
• Negotiated, administered, and managed end-to-end development lifecycles of 150+ yearly Union contracts with Actor’s Equity Association, IATSE, and American Federation of Musicians.
• Established cogent systems and reporting mechanisms for all Production departments, including migration from manual to automated/digital processes—to ensure prudent fiscal maintenance and budgetary controls as the.
• Toggled organizational monetization and messaging strategy during Covid, helping conceptualize and drive digital content creation and implementation, and social media marketing to increase audience/member engagement.

• Mined and cultivated scores of existing industry relationships and pipelined new contacts to expand business opportunities and grow account footprint each year. Responsible for managing large lighting productions—all.
• Managed aggressive RFP and project bidding processes to procure 20+ new lighting clients per year.
• Hired and managed 100+ production crew for each production. Utilized AutoCAD for production conceptualization, planning, and design.

• Essentially an operations management role. Managed team of six FTEs based in Seattle. Responsible for budget management, customer service delivery, and client relations. Backstory: Had opened the Seattle branch in.
• Responsible for onsite load-in; set-up, operations, and “strike” of state-of-the-art lighting equipment and rigging –for 20+ high quality productions per year.
• Recruited and hired 20 technical crew and operations staff per year. Managed $2M+ annual budgets.

Ba, Theatre

Certificate, Project Management