HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS• Highly innovative and results-oriented professional with 20+ years of experience, dedicated to creating impactful and memorable conferences, meetings and events for 10 to 5,000 attendees• Portfolio of work encompasses both industry and proprietary events including conferences, tradeshows, board/advisory council meetings, and other custom events• Demonstrated mastery of event life cycle: development of event objectives, agenda and budget, management of logistics (site selection, vendor negotiations, attendee registration and communications, speaker management, rooming lists, food & beverage, audio visual, transportation, onsite staff allocation and execution), final reconciliation, review of ROI• Proven ability to effectively manage meeting spend through expense projection, cost containment and negotiation of supplier contracts • Skilled at working under an “agency model” – designing and delivering events to assist clients in reaching educational, sales and networking objectives while serving as an organizational profit center• Experienced in directing cross-functional teams (executive leadership, project and account management, sales, system engineering, creative and volunteers) to determine and deliver event objectives• Effective oral and written communicator accomplished in marketing communications, brand strategy and web content/design • Proficient in developing strategic plans, operating procedures, best practice guidelines, playbooks and templates to ensure consistency in event execution• Adept at introducing technology-based solutions to streamline operational efficiency and reduce implementation costs