Linda Finnerty Email & Phone Number

Bradenton, Florida

Bradenton, Florida, United States

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

• Planned, scheduled, and executed all logistical aspects of a 3000+ attendees, 800+ session conference with 1,400 submissions, 40 education tracks, 15 preconference workshops and 200+ ancillary events.
• Facilitated hotel accommodations, food and beverage event orders, room sets, audio visual, security, e-posters, exhibit hall, and temporary staffing.
• Developed and negotiated contracts for hotels, meeting venues, housing blocks, registration, general service contractor, audio-visual, security and staffing services.
• Developed, designed, and oversaw databases for registration, housing, and call for proposals.
• Navigated multiple meeting management systems such as Conference Exchange (CONFEX) for proposals, awards, speaker management, meeting logistics and scheduling, Convention Management Resources (CMR) housing management.
• Developed and provided oversight for $1.5 million event budget including executing invoice reconciliation, account coding and account management for all meetings and events.

Alexandria, Virginia

• Facilitated and owned all aspects of the annual meeting planning including budgets, logistics, on-site management, marketing, honoraria, and recruitment of speakers.
• Managed recruitment, training, and supervision of administrative staff and coordinators.
• Created and led marketing activities for the association as well as membership communications.
• Served as the key point of contact and resource expert for all members and association inquiries.
• Provided administrative and event operational and logistical support for exhibitors, contractors and stakeholders to satisfy contractual obligations.

Washington D.C.

• Negotiated contracts for a city-wide annual meeting utilizing an average of 50 hotels representing over 15,000 peak nights yearly for an annual convention hosting more than 18,000 attendees.
• Managed day to day housing operations and communications with an average of 25 hotel sub-blocks for corporations related to housing details, account management and block monitoring.
• Planned and executed all logistics for 35 workshops and events on an annual basis.
• Provided oversight for on-site temporary staff management, food and beverange event orders, hotel shuttle bus transportation, and invoice reconciliation.