Samuel Boyd Email & Phone Number

Missoula, Montana, United States

Recently promoted to Director I manage the business areas of Entertainment, Events, Promotions, and People (service) for the Missoula PaddleHeads.

Missoula, Montana

Greater Memphis Area

• Assisted with events in the local community from set-up to breakdown while engaging with fans.• Helped with community promotional giveaways such as raffles and enter-to-wins.• Assisted the Game Operations Director, Coordinator and Grizz with execution of all in-game promotions.• Occasionally being on headset for games and helping with management of in-game promotions and game night staff.

Greater Memphis Area

• Assisted with events in the local community from set-up to breakdown while engaging with fans.• Helped with community promotional giveaways such as raffles and enter-to-wins.• Assisted the Game Operations Director, Coordinator and Grizz with execution of all in-game promotions.• Occasionally being on headset for games and helping with management of in-game promotions and game night staff.

Greater Memphis Area

• Manage all on court entertainment teams (hype crew, dance teams, national anthem, MC, etc.) • Devised new and creative in-game entertainment, including on-court games, video board pieces, in-crowd activities, and skits.• Helped with the execution of all marketing promotions in-game and out-of-stadium events.

Memphis, Tn

• Managed on field entertainment (national anthem, first pitches, color guard, etc.) while also managing game day staff including Team Rockey, MC announcer, and mascot.• Served as interim Director of Game Presentation managing PA announcer, sound operator, field entertainment, video operators, camera crew, video board operator, etc.• Operated Daktronics scoreboard system and click effects crossfire.• Helped with the execution of all marketing promotions in-game and out-of-stadium.• Worked with Director of Marketing and Sales to plan community events in the greater Memphis area.• Devised new and creative in-game entertainment, including on-field games, video board pieces, in-crowd activities, and skits.

Spokane, Washington

• Led the planning and execution of game promotions such as Ride the Bases Motorcycle Ride Event. Worked with sponsors and local motorcycle clubs creating in-game promotions, designing the jersey, etc. while completing project below budget.• Worked in conjunction with the Director of Marketing in the development of the promotional calendar and in-game/ out-of-arena promotions.• Served as game operations director for certain game nights from the press box.• Developed PA and MC game night scripts through TSE GameTime Pro.

Southaven, Ms

• Created the promotions team, the “Crown Crew” and was in charge of the hiring process.• Planned all game night promotions and in-game entertainment.• Managed volunteer workers (Crown Crew and Ice Crew) and game day entertainment (national anthem, nightly puck droppers, etc.) • Coordinated the execution of all in-game promotions and games.• Created new on-ice games and crowd promotional games.

Memphis, Tn

Managing the Social Media for Grizz Essentials Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Southhaven, Ms

I worked in the front office of the Mississippi RiverKings assisting in Game Operations.- Help plan game nights for the 2015/2016 season.- Help with rebranding the new logo.- Load music for game nights.- Design tickets, flyers, ect... in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. - Assist the front in ticket sales, administrative work, at team appearances as the mascot, and other business operations.The Mississippi RiverKings are the longest running professional sports franchise in the Memphis sports market. The team competed in the Southern Professional Hockey League and reached the President Cup Finals last season.

• Worked all University of Tennessee sporting events as a promotional team member.• Interacted with UT fans and provided excellent customer service.• Worked local community events, handing out marketing information and promotional material.• Helped with the booking of game entertainment for halftimes, timeouts and community events.

Bachelor’S Degree, Marketing

Sport Management, Sophmore

Activities and Societies: Beta Upsilon Chi

Sports And Leisure Management

Memphis College YoungLife

High School

Activities and Societies: DECAACT: 29