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Source event venues, negotiate hotel contracts, develop floor plans, determine planning schedule, food and beverage, activities, air and ground transportation logistics, manage vendor services including freight, A/V, lodging, outside contractors, and activities.

Anaheim, California, United States

LOS ANGELES/ORANGE County

LOS ANGELES/ORANGE County

Los Angeles, California, United States

Solvang, California, United States

Anaheim Hills, California

Manage small and large scale meetings and events for groups such as Word and Brown, University of Irvine, Webb and Associates and SOKA University

Costa Mesa, California

Coordinate individual and group ground transportation, air travel and group activities. Worked with groups such as Toyota, Nissan, U.S. Bank, Chase, John Hancock Insurance, Allstate, Prudential and others.

Designed and managed all transportation for the Special Olympics World Games within the Long Beach area. This includes, but is not limited to, over twenty loading zones, 7 hotels, 4 venues, 7 sports, two parking lots, and an inter city transit system. Managed a staff of over 50 people including corporate personnel, vendors, and volunteers. Negotiated.

Irvine, CA

• Event Planning Manager
• Collaborated, planned and executed up to a hundred corporate events annually including various tradeshows, expos to include Los Angeles Marathon, New York City Marathon and Ironman Triathlon, and meetings of up to 800.
• Responsible for directing various teams and/or all aspects of management and planning including contract negotiations, housing, logistics, outside vendor/agency services, audio/visual posts, floor planning, team.
• Prearranged high profile event (In less than five months), skillfully planned a major corporate International event, which included on line registration, airfare, private airport transfers, hotel reservations.
• Managed three ASICS retail outlet store locations.
• Responsible for installation, staff scheduling, training, inventory control, POS systems implementation, POP installments, daily accountability and sales reporting.

Carson, CA

Managed a team of 50 employees in three departments (credit, customer service, and catalog) handling customer inquiries, shipping and delivery questions and problems, accounting ledgers, cash and credit collections, and product inventory.

Buena Park, CA

Managed over 400 employees in the largest restaurant in the world by seating capacity. Responsible for interviewing, performance reviews, scheduling, food and labor costs, and management meetings. Also responsible for catering, deli, orders to go, Sunday Brunch and private events up to 4,000 people including the Academy of Country Music Awards.