Julia Boini Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Expanded to event operations, managing multiple vendor relationships, internal resourcing and logistics including F&B, health and safety, transportation, conference activations, communications for customer service and staffing. Oversaw the main event budget for a Tier One event of over $20 Million in 2022.- Through 2020 and into 2021 was a core team lead first mitigating damages for in-person event cancellations, then helping to create our virtual programs that prioritized attendee engagement and a customized experience.

Seattle, Wa

- Maintained all responsibilities as the Housing Manager and added oversight to our employee staffing program and team.- Created and managed our events customer service team including its standards of process.

Seattle, Wa

Marketing: Events and Customer Engagement- Managed the domestic & international housing programs for all Tier 1 & 2 Tableau events from strategy through execution and billing.- Lead complex housing programs for conferences that had 45+ hotels in a metro area, employee roommating, and working with international properties.- Partnered with Legal, Procurement and Finance to streamline venue and hotel contracting and billing for better efficiency and compliance.- Managed travel and expenses budgets totaling more than $1M+ per year.

Seattle, Washington

as Director of Housing:• Oversee all housing related activities including; consultation of contract negotiations, processing of reservations and transactional communications, managing program deadlines and budget as well as mentoring Housing Managers with these duties. • Strong dedication to client and program retention. This is achieved through cultivating relationships and providing solutions to issues that are sometimes outside the housing parameters; as exceeding expectations is considered the norm.• As a valued partner of eventcoretm I create and utilize proprietary web tools for housing and roommate management within their event registration websites. • Provide support with planning and organizing conferences, including collateral and onsite registration all over the world.as a Housing Manager:• Management of the housing and room-mating components within our registration websites over a variety of events: execute hotel room blocks often consisting of multiple allocations of up to 30 hotels for one event.• Exceptional level of detail and genuine care given to ensure that all housing aspects are accurate and actual charges are in-line with budgeted amounts. Guidance and action to utilize all beneficial aspects of a hotel contract is standard. • Exceeding written and verbal communication skills used daily to negotiate with hotels as well as make presentations to decision makers and provide customer service over a global base of event attendees consisting of Fortune 500 top executives, global leaders, tech developers, sales managers, analysts, and various media.• Have successfully managed registration with hotel and transportation for numerous council meetings of senior level executives.

-Responsible for negotiating, contracting and servicing catering only groups. This included numerous weddings, holiday parties, corporate VIP dinners and restaurant buy-outs.-Responsible for negotiating, contracting and servicing groups within the Corporate, Association, Smerf and Wholesale market segments of 15 rooms or less per night-Service groups booked by the Sales Department. Tasks include: obtaining rooming lists, monitoring of cut-off dates, maintaining room blocks, assisting clients with off-premise resources, resume, banquet event orders production.-Captured business opportunities from new and existing accounts through site visits, sales calls, entertaining, telephone and email solicitation, which contributed to exceeding the Conference Services Department room revenue goals for 2006 by 292% ($639,878.00)

Seattle

Strategize and implement advertising programs for 15 regional clients. Process advertising and artwork in addition to coordinating with: clients, publishers, graphic and interactive/e-marketing departments. Supervised three assistants in these skills.