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Islamorada, Fl, Us

Key Largo, Florida, United States

• Responsible for all facets of affiliate operations and administration as the senior executive of the organization.• Advocate for the Habitat for Humanity mission as a high-profile leader in fundraising activities, municipal government, and community relations.• Ensure compliance with all applicable legal requirements and standards for the activities of the affiliate including those governing 501(C)(3) corporations, affordable housing laws, policies and issues, residential construction, mortgage lending, affiliate bylaws, Habitat for Humanity International requirements as well as the policies and procedures adopted by the local affiliate.• Primary interface with external accountants and auditors, responsible for the financial activities of the affiliate including the development of accurate budgets for board review and approval, preparation of forecasts, management of expenditures within approved budgets, compliance with accounting standards, banking, and reporting. • Regularly seek out experiences that change perspective and/or provide an opportunity to learn.• Administer single-family and multi-family construction projects from start to finish. Including the recent successful completion of a 16-unit multi-family affordable housing condominium ($4,000,000 in scope).• Develop, lead, and execute a robust range of fundraising activities in order to support affiliate operations and building plans. Including raising awareness via various forms of communication, including social media, traditional media, word of mouth.• Lead and manage staff along with 50-60 volunteers annually.

Key Largo, Florida, United States

Miami

*Planned and oversaw the Town of Surfside, FL tourism activities including marketing, public relations and events with objective to attract luxury visitors in key markets to the Town. *Developed, managed, and administered departmental budget of +$1,000,000.*Managed and oversaw advertising agency projects, including, but not limited to: social media, website, monthly e-blasts, printed collateral, photography shoots, video shoots, and more.*Maintained working rapport with local hotel management, merchants and restaurants in order to collaboratively develop and promote the destination locally, nationally and internationally.*Presented to Town Commission and Tourist Board at monthly meetings, as well as oversaw tourism team.*Planed, organized, managed all tourism related events - 12 events annually.*Served as liaison between Town administration, civic groups and business organizations involved with Surfside’s downtown district and tourism.*Generated various complex and specialized correspondence, articles, memos, agendas, orders, reports, forms, manuals, as well as other related promotional materials.*Reviewed and evaluated proposals for new programs and services.*Oversaw Request for Proposal process in 2018 for new marketing services agency, and implemented 3 year contract upon award of the bid.*Ensured compliance with all municipal policies, procedures, and applicable operational, budgetary and regulatory standards.

Miami

•Managed all B2B and B2B2C projects with the goal of conveying premium messaging, and unique selling points of Club Med to travel agent professionals and their clients (both groups and individuals).•Conceptualized and executed yearly trade marketing plan, while maintaining budgetary restraints as well as overall marketing schedule (via blitz and rolling offer strategy), including print, digital, events, loyalty program, social media, and out of the box ideas including Virtual Reality. •Supplied sales team with product kits : Flyers, banner ads, eBrochures, images, HTML, Value Comparisons & bench marking versus competition, and social media tools.•Managed offer process for entire US marketing team and contact center: negotiate with Revenue Management, present to Executive Committee, then disseminate offer details to the teams in a consistent and concise manner.•Planed & implemented yearly Travel Agent Appreciation Month; print ads, on-hold messaging in the contact center, social media and eCRM plans, contests, webinars, and more!•Responsible for increased travel agent engagement: grew Club Med Expert Agent graduates (+10-15% per month) and amplified Facebook group membership (+200%) in 2016.•Lead roll out of Meeting & Events structural project: a complete re-branding of groups (new website, new look & feel, and most importantly new structure of offers negotiated with RMP, Accounting, and Sales) in an effort to be top of mind and increase revenue for groups.•Increased millennial travel agent engagement: co-sponsored “Instameet” & millennial advisory group for development project in the DR.•Spearheaded easy-to-do-business with B2B initiative, including eDistribution & single-sign-on projects.•Assisted launch of new CRM program for sales team: Salesforce.com, best-in-class tool.OTHER:Key GO Development Program: Invitee 2015, 2016, and again in 20175 Trident Award Recipient: Summer 2016 & Winter 2017 (Two seasons in a row)

Monaco

Project management, development of client relationships, Prospected new clients, identified business trends, benchmarking, developed campaign concepts, monitored campaign performance, database management, CRM, etc....

North Miami, Fl

Senior AE tasked with executing the bridal advertising campaigns for Sandals & Beaches Resorts via 2 Creative Directors, 3 Lead Designers, and 2 Junior Designers. Conceptualized new wedding packages by working with both the internal creative team, along with the corporate marketing team. Together we launched unique a la carte options to enhance wedding package revenue, and up-sell. Facilitated the relationship with Martha Stewart Weddings. Presented ideas and concepts regularly to key stakeholders on Executive Committee.

Ensured all print, video and online collateral for consumers were up to brand standards. Worked with internal creative team as well as outside ad agency to fulfill the marketing plan for the year. Attended photoshoots and managed production teams, as well as numerous other items.

Mba, Marketing And Management

Bs, Human Ecology

Activities and Societies: Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity