Supports the planning, execution and oversight of company events in North America which include tradeshows, conferences and internal company events in alignment with marketing strategy. Responsible for collaborating with various cross-functional areas and partners to execute an effective tradeshow and event program. Manage the coordination of all elements of the program including scheduling and planning, all logistics and operations, travel and housing, development of displays and graphics, vendor and association relationship supervision, ROI and ensuring TRUMPF's presence at shows reflects a polished execution of the corporate brand and business unit objectives and priorities.

Provide support for tradeshows, customer events and company symposiums for the energy generation and electric grid markets. Develop, plan, coordinate and execute company's participation at major U.S. trade shows and events for the GE Power group. Generate leads while keeping projects at or below established budgets. Recipient of two Silver and two Bronze "Above & Beyond" Awards for work on 2016 EEI Annual Meeting, 2016 Power-Gen International Exhibition and 2016 North American Customer Summit.

Manage Marketing Communications for Alstom, a world leader in power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure. Coordinated, planned and executed all major national US tradeshows and key regional events for the Grid group including DistribuTech and IEEE-PES Transmission & Distribution Conference. Developed an email campaign for one of the Grid markets that yielded about $1 MM in sales to a targeted customer base over the first year of implementation. Provided support for tradeshows, customer events and company symposiums for utility, energy and transportation customers in the Power and Rail system industries. Developed and monitored department budgets for US communications projects. Managed branding for new site location.

Manage a $1.5MM marketing communications program for a $1.3 B packaged gas business. Developed and implemented integrated communication programs (push promotions with tie-in web links and follow up emails), advertorials with trade magazines, created templates for seasonal promotions to be customized for each of our sales regions, coordinated several national tradeshows for a wide range of markets from analytical labs to the welding industry. Handle all marketing communications for the specialty gases and the metal fabrication (welding) markets.