• Develops and implements menus, promotions, and new programs to lead company growth.• Establishes new partnerships and fosters relationships with key revenue clients and event venues.• Analyzes financial reports for optimum company operation during the fiscal year.• Ensures all functions follow Kitchen Mouse standards, marketing plans, and health codes.• Maintains 30/60/90 plan for the company as well as assists managers with their departmental 30/60/90 plans to ensure company cohesion.• Supervise, inspire, and train all management and hourly employees.

• Delivered internal and external catering events across the brand portfolio to achieve business growth.• Directed local training initiatives and vendor logistics ensuring exceptional customer experience.• Created, managed, and led strategic marketing partnerships and data-driven promotional offers.• Negotiated and oversaw contracts, RFPs, and budgets to optimize controllable profit execution.• Analyzed customer preferences and competitors to develop catering pricing, menus, and packages.• Oversaw festival operations at Coachella, Stagecoach, Rolling Loud, Campy Flog Gnaw, Eat Drink Vegan, Vegan Street Fair, Ozzfest, the Tournament of Roses, Bottle Rock, and Atlanta Super Bowl LIII.

• Developed the annual private dining and events sales goals while leveraging the revenue and yield strategies for all concepts.• Managed the social media communities by creating the content calendar, monitoring engagement, and supervising the social media teams.• Produced the creative, marketing, and PR strategies for the restaurants and event spaces.• Sought and fostered strategic partnerships to strengthen community and industry relationships.• Led restaurant staff to sell special events, restaurant experiences, and promote our culture.• Coordinated our partnership as the in-house restaurant group with Le Meridien Chambers & W Foshay Minneapolis to share event spaces and launch brand partnership events.

Located in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood of Minneapolis, moto-i is the first sake brewpub outside of Japan featuring sake brewed on site, unpasteurized and served on draft. My responsibilities included Social Media, Private Events, Restaurant Sponsored Events, and Marketing Campaigns.

Established in 1999, The Herkimer Pub and Brewery brews small-batch craft beer and serves award-winning food. Being part of this historic team allowed me to work hands-on in the booming Craft Beer scene and manage the Marketing Campaigns, Social Media, Private Events, and drive sales to Packerbar.com.

•Created daily content for all social media accounts to promote the brand, our events, and drive engagement.•Directed the audio/visual projects and the distribution for our events and coordinated vendors.•Event coordination and planning including off site events, media events, and private client events.•Established the digital marketing strategy by designing the email marketing program, company website and partnerships sites.•Recruited and booked the talent and maintained the schedule for The Library Bar at Marin.

•Establish rapport with clients and verify correspondence on Banquet Event Orders.•Serve as liaison for group contacts, facilitate event implementation, and ensure all client requests are fulfilled.•Delineate responsibilities to team members in order to successfully execute banquet related functions.•Assist coordination of banquet department's payroll, scheduling, equipment and direct external vendors.•Audio Visual Integration.