•Excellent inter-personal and sales related experience.•Generate revenue by generating leads and converting them to sales with a heavy concentration in the corporate, local, and association markets.•Responsible for contracting and closing corporate, local and association markets business.•Develop, actively solicit, and map group business accounts. •Assist with selling and implementing catering promotions and maximizing revenue by conducting meetings creating and developing menus for the local, association, and corporate markets.•Offer personalized solutions for our clients and enhance our reputation and business by working with our Banquet Operations Team to ensure we exceed our clientele's expectations.•Close on inbound leads and site visits.•Solicit new and existing accounts to meet/exceed revenue goals through the successful execution of closing on business leads received directly by phone to the company, telephone solicitation, outside sales calls, site inspections and written communication.•Prepare correspondence to customers, internal booking reports and file maintenance with aid of catering coordinator. •Participate in daily business review and/or leads review, pre-convention meetings, training and other catering sales related meetings as required.•Work with other departments within the hotel to provide quality service to customers.

With my business partner and wife, we helped launch the Take and Bake brand in 2007. We procured the Lakeway franchise and 15-years later as successful franchisees, sold our company. Papa Murphy's is the number one fresh take and bake pizza company in the nation, Voted best pizza chain in America. It took a great deal of consistency, hard work, kindness, over the top guest service, organization, and being flexible enough to build a well-known company with many loyal guests.

After twelve years of snowy winters, my wife Bridge and I decided to move to a warmer climate and by the Grace of God found our beautiful hill country, lake community of Lakeway in 2007.Very shortly after moving to Lakeway, we decided to purchase an area Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N Bake Pizza franchise, and helped launch the Austin area.....believe it or not, after hearing, “What? I have to bake my own pizza, no way!” We successfully owned and operated for 15-years, achieving nation-wide recognition as Outstanding Owner Operators in 2014 and Best of the Best 2009 - 2022. Papa Murphy's is the largest take and bake pizza company in the world. We sold our company in 2022 and look forward to seeing the brand continue to grow!

Oversaw all food and beverage operations. Educated guests on wine and food pairings and worked with Chef and Service staff to provide an excellent overall experience. My expertise is in the details from the start to the end of the guests stay providing exceptional and consistent guest feedback