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Greater Denver Area

• Led top performing stores in Colorado: Aurora, Parker, Castle Rock, Lone Tree.• Creatively competed with surrounding competitors to consistently drive new business.• Created partnerships with realtors and interior designers. • Trained employees for leadership positions.• Created staff schedules to drive store goals.• Led store visits with District Managers identifying areas of success and opportunities.• Trained and coached store employees in sales. product knowledge, and operating activities, providing feedback, individual development plans based on primary and secondary KPIs and customer relationships.• Awarded 100K Writer four times in 2021.

Elmhurst, Illinois

Responsible for all event sales, soliciting new accounts, contracts, and execution •Manage all details: set up, menu, décor, timeline, staffing, budget, talent, and forecasting •Manage and coordinate all outside contractors and vendors •Lead and delegated tasks and timelines to servers, florists, stage managers, and chefs •Document pre and post event reports •Monitor and implement industry trends in the marketplace •Create a proactive environment

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Specializing in events (donor, corporate and private) and large-scale presentations (formal and informal). Coordinator of programing and scheduling. Managed donor, corporate, and private events. Assisting in the training of new employees and volunteers and creating operational guidelines for future and current employees. Working in collaboration with the following departments: Education, Planning and Design, Marine Mammal, Animal Programs, Development, Marketing, Conservation, Guest Engagement, and Sodexo. Assisted in grant proposals with IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services). Traveled on various events, media tours, and promotions in and out of state.

Greater Chicago Area

Facilitated programs/events promoting environmental awareness, multicultural tolerance, self-esteem, and a positive approach toward learning with an emphasis on audience participation, encouraging teacher involvement, and provided useful teacher study guides. Marketed and created events within the Chicagoland area.

Responsible for national sales, marketing campaigns, and promotions/events locally and nationally. Managed and staffed all events. Facilitated regional and national sales and shipping of equipment. Media Relations Coordinator.

Organized, sold, and managed on and offsite events. Promoted arts participation in the community through educational programing and tours to encourage the public to engage in professionally-led artistic activities. Developed creative promotional sales campaigns of productions and special events locally and nationally. Media relations. Managed and trained the catering and creative staffing for events. Assisted in the negotiating and hiring of catering companies and wine and spirit vendors.

Marketing, Sales, and Development of events and productions.

Instructed students on basic and advanced delivery skills and speech organization. Coached students in a variety of speech formats (formal, informal, and dramatic) and different styles of debate (Public Forum, Parliamentary, etc...) Judged various regional forensics tournaments.

Theatre/Theater

Communication And Media Studies