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Professional Singer and Performer with various opera companies, music festivals and arts organizations.

Coordinated and managed division’s annual global meeting and education sessions for 340+ people including oversight of registration website build; monitoring registrations and reports; facilitating communication with management team, invitees, and attendees; managing details of hotel, transportation, space and off-site events. Managed schedule of customer meetings for SVP and other division team members attending SAS Global Forum and other events. Facilitated office moves, division's mass-move to new location, and onboarding for new employees/contractors; Managed purchase order spend of $2mm per year and reviewed invoices for payment. Handled division’s communications regarding IT/technology issues, expense processing and global meeting. Training activities included being selected by Global Training and Development to provide expertise and deliver proprietary vocal health training sessions to SAS employees and presenters; also, provided training on expense guidelines and reconciliation process which included training on the Concur system. Managed American Heart Association’s STEM Goes Red event hosted by SAS aimed at educating middle-school girls about potential STEM careers working closely with external and internal stakeholders to plan and execute event preparations including arrival/departure logistics, event flow, registration website and attendee registration process as well as schedule appropriate planning meetings, develop meeting agendas, and document decisions and checklists. Provided administrative support for SVP and other senior team members.

Executive Assistant and Event/Conference Manager: Worked simultaneously as an executive assistant to the founder and as an event manager, taking on an increasingly larger role in managing the annual global conferences—ultimately, taking the lead in managing all details for remote annual conferences. Additionally, created multi-level tracking spreadsheets, documents and process guidelines for monthly and quarterly expense reports, accounting related issues and client billing.

Processed vendor invoices, coordinated global monthly status reports, maintained projected monthly income reports, and assisted in starting departmental CRM database. Global travel and calendar management, expense processing and other executive assistant duties.

Maintained highly detailed calendars, coordinated complicated and fluid travel itineraries, processed business expenses, and maintained archives. Planned special events and meetings with clients as well as VIPs; managed and tracked attendance for internal and external events. Extensive contact with press, foreign dignitaries and government officials.