Jeff Starr Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

I'm focused on improving every aspect of production and team, specifically the areas of Growth, Culture and OperationsGrowth - evaluating client and partner opportunities, projecting revenue, and working with our Executive Leadership Team on staffing that services growth Culture - maintaining and improving company culture, including learning and development programs Operations - systems required to maintain and anticipate growth, reporting, sharing of institutional knowledge; cost cutting measures

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead project manager three years in a row for Slack’s annual user conference Frontiers. I’m responsible for building and scaling global event marketing strategy for our most valued clients. It is my responsibility to understand agency briefs, calendars and deadlines, budgets, and creative needs and resources decisions. I am involved with all new client pitches.I manage complex event logistics at International and National sales meetings, executive off-sites, product & brand launches and holiday parties. I ensure the execution and completion of defined project plans through effectively coordinating people and resources, monitoring project variables, creating and tracking timelines, proactively implementing corrective or preventive actions, supporting changes in scope, and finalizing all activities across projects.Project Management - oversee our internal and external client team meetings, including issuing agendas, recap action items and tracking progress of deliverables on many concurrent projects. Budgets - create, establish and manage show budgets, and define the project reporting and reconciliation roadmap. I manage production costs from soliciting initial bids and estimates, competitive pricing reviews, contract negotiation and final payments and reconciliation for all partnershipRemote/Virtual Team leader/Team Building - excel at building diverse teams, growing talent, knowing what makes a team great, and what can make them better. My team management experience includes creation of recruitment processes and training and development of personnel for our most important clients.Executing shoots for virtual content - producing and leading content shoots for keynotes, breakouts, interstitials and creative spots.Digital Media - experienced at partnering between clients and agency to drive creative, engaging branded storytelling spots. I have digital strategy content marketer experience leading client partners on consumer event marketing

San Francisco Bay Area

Advanced to project lead on annual, public facing user conferences for Slack, Okta, DoubleDutch, Xamarin/Microsoft and Xero, as well as internal annual National Sales Meetings for ZEISS Vision Care. Project lead on as holiday parties for clients such as Electronic Arts, Okta, Lyft, Lucasfilm, and Zendesk. Department lead for all other Trademark projects, including all user conferences, internal client annual meeting (Stryker, Bausch+Lomb), Zimmer Biomet Entire Event Scope - responsible for managing customer relationships and ensuring their business goals are met at every turn during both the planning and execution of our partnerships Venue Selection - research, site, propose, host and coordinate clients in-person reviews and ultimately contract property and venue selections including hotels, conference centers, event venues, concert hallsOffsite Party manager - lead on all offsite events, including c-level meet and mingles, corporate holiday parties, happy hours, all-hands company picnics; venue site visit, pitches, proposals and contracting; all vendor engagement, proposal, contracting and logistics, catering, bar and specialty vendors, entertainment, security, and waste management New business development - strategy through new initiatives including: developing onboarding systems, organizing and maintaining outreach schedule Sponsor Management - created an onboarding system for new exhibitors, organized and maintained deliverables schedule, on-site management of exhibitor services, and overall sponsor project management including all pre-production, onsite support and post-event follow up. Managed shipping of booth collateral, giveaways and displays to/from eventTechnical / AV - project lead on creative lighting concept look and feel, LED video wall and projection mapping concepting and installs, equipment and staging ordering and budgeting, audiovisual rider management for world class talent

San Francisco Bay Area

Role specialized in venue selection, vendor and staff management, onsite production lead, staffing and recruitment, location scouting - theme creation, vendor management, onsite production lead and branding implementationBranding - concept creation & placement scouting; print & online invitations, signage & banners; customized promotional vehicles; special display and prop production/installationCreative and Operations - driving event design, theme development, implementation, and infrastructure on large scale events including team building, staff planning, infrastructure development and maintenanceTalent/Staffing - building and maintaining our teams through recruitment, retainment, and developing creative teams. Assigning project responsibilities, cultivating technical training to improve and expand our team’s expertise. Overall recruitment, onboarding, training and advancement of talent. Led recruitment of external producers on project basisPerformance talent lead - review, propose, pitch talent for all conferences, sales meetings and holiday parties. Contract, schedule and oversee logistics of live performances. Securing executive/c-suite, musician and all performance talent attendance Branding - manage design and realization of event design, logos, messaging and all print & digital looks; including invitations, signage & banners, attendees guidesImmersive visual environments - created experiences for people to engage through art, activations, installations and technology. Registration - conference registration management, daily reporting of reg status, training and managing teams to run seamless registration on-site, facilitated relationship with third party reg and app vendor

San Francisco Bay Area

Project Lead for annual Lucasfilm Holiday Party including budgeting, venue selection, theme creation and pitching, entire project management and pre-productionVendor management - maintained key relationships w/ existing clients, vendors, industry partners; primary interface with caterers, set decorators, live musicians and performing talent; researched unique and innovative partners, presented research of vendors effectively to client, managed relationship w/ transport companies, live artists, musicians, photography, A/VStaffing - hiring, training, onboarding and all onsite staff management and follow up payroll

San Francisco Bay Area

I started off as a volunteer at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival and worked my way up through stage manager, branding lead, as well as staffing and operations coordinator.Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - San Francisco, CA Stage supervisor - talent coordinator, sponsor liaison and technician supervisorPreferred vendor analysis - selection, budget management and onsite performanceBranding - signage printing, inventory organization, onsite installation and staff trainingVolunteer coordination - including database creation, interview, hiring and managementVendor relations - waste management, security, f&b partner, and volunteer coordinator including billing, on-site communication and receiving, followed by post-event reconciliationBay to Breakers - San Francisco, CA Finish Line Installation and strike coordinator - archway, tenting, signage, and staging Staffing - built high performing team of staff and volunteers; onsite development and training Bluegrass for the Greenbelt - Oakland, CA Vendor relations - managed all external vendor relations within operations department including creating vendor processes, manage vendor approval and coordinate onsite relationsStaffing - pre-production hiring and orientation and onsite coordination for staff and volunteers

San Francisco Bay Area

Production Lead on Bay Area events and activations, including: Alice Summerthing and Now and Zen music festivals, Nike Women's Marathon, Nike Women's Marathon Summer University challenge at StanfordSignage and print production budget, implementation and onsite execution management Production team management and delegation, stage management and talent wrangler

San Francisco Bay Area

Created the overall sales and promotional vision for each of five wholesalers within the Northern CA region, implementing BBC market strategy with local and national initiativesTrained wholesaler teams and executed monthly strategy meetings to help teams reach goals Marketing budget execution & ROI analysis, inventory supervision, wholesaler team initiatives Built working relationship with high profile national accounts through detailed sales programsRole as Account Manger - Promoted after 16 months and 8% growth in San Francisco marketDeveloped relationships between wholesalers, retailers, venues, and promotional departments Acted as coach to store managers and resource to distributor reps in reaching sales goalsPlan, coordinate and execute special events, beer education seminars and on site promotions

San Francisco Bay Area

2005 Charge Beverages Salesman of the Year Launched and expanded brand throughout Nor. CA region with 17 distributors and sales teamsManaged four sales reps to hit distribution and sales goals, plus event marketing quotaAdvised on creation and execution of POS, marketing and co-branding opportunitiesCreated and executed large scale activations through wholesalers, vendors and promoters

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Sold more than 500 tours and generated approximately $70,000 revenue at University of OregonSupervisor and event facilitator for more than 250 participants in Cancun and Whistler B.C.Conducted, registration, presentations, on-site management of special events and publicity Arranged promotional tie-ins and awareness with beverage companies to increase purchase propensity

Portland, Oregon, United States

Assisted in creation and execution for five stations including branding, marketing, sales/client generated promotions and street awarenessDirected promotional appearances at station sponsored events focusing on building station brand awarenessSupervised and coordinated staff of interns and volunteers Hired as paid event coordinator after two weeks as intern

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Master Of Science - Ms, Recreation Parks And Tourism Departmentevent Management Focus, A (3.98 Gpa)

Activities and Societies: Graduate Level Research with Pacific Leadership Institute (https://pliprograms.org/) and Get Out and Learn.

Bachelors Of Arts, Major: Public Relations Minor: Business Administration, 3.10

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi Fraternity Recruitment Chair, Public Relations Chair, Social Chair Inter Fraternity Council 2001-2002