Leading a team of amazing creative individuals!

Serve as lead intake for all new events business opportunities for this multimillion dollar media production company. In this position, I work with account managers to vet RFPs and research potential clients for new business. Once in proposal phase, I assemble a team to develop the creative vision, audience engagement and event strategy that best meet the clients needs. I then drive the creative proposal process from RFP to complete printed/electronic proposal. I also serve as executive producer for large and small events as the business need dictates. Key deliverables: direct creative proposal process, assemble and lead team to create and develop proposals from RFP through proposal completion, other duties as assigned.

Served as lead events production management for all Nationwide Sales and Finance meetings and events. I worked directly with company leaders to create business session strategy and content development for general sessions. Also responsible for creating all event script and show flow writing, and create awards and recognition programming. Responsible for procurement and RFP's for audio-visual services, staging, lighting, outside speakers and entertainment and video production.

Directed all aspects of live events production with this young and rapidly growing direct selling company. • Secured domestic and global locations for multiple events sized 25 - 20,000 attendees• Developed and drove successful attendance strategies for a national conference; resulting in an attendance increase of 400 percent each year• Sourced and successfully developed the company's first ever sales incentive trip; attendance rose from 212 attendees in 2010 to 1,200 attendees in 2011• Implemented the company's first hotel management and Cvent attendance registration systems• Directed all aspects of events, including logistics, housing, creative, promotion and budgeting• Developed strategies to create the ultimate event and recognition experience for all attendees at all events• Managed a staff of four dynamic event planners

Directed all creative and technical media productions for Events

Television Program Manager for the College of Food, Nutrition and Environmental Sciences and Cooperative Extension Services' video unit. This full-service video production unit with 7 employees produced over 40 videotapes and 80 hours of live television programming yearly.