Duty Manager at one of York's oldest night clubs

• Marketing for Tokyo and Fibbers nightclubs• Data collection• Business to business• Operations within the club• Stock control, including deliveries• Face to Face and Telephone Sales• Increased admission by 50% in first year of employment• Organising a sales team of up to 15 staff including cold callers, street ticketers, social media students and data collectors• Working on my own initiative, delivering weekly reports and staff rotas to the club General Manager• Set targets and introduced incentives for staff to increase street selling and subsequent admissions• Upsell on party packages to increase SPH• Inventing new nights, themes and sourcing imaginative entertainment to ensure that our venue remains the most populated venue in York Centre

2009 - 2011Started own events company, and built numerous club brands: Guilty, Karma, LMS (Last Man Standing), Old's Kool.Launched events in highly competitive markets. Generating profits of £46,000 p.a. from one weekly event. And Relocating a weekly event to adapt to changing markets resulting increased profitsWorking closely with Universities (Newcastle University, providing official events for ALL their sports teams, Northumbria running their Saturday union night and fresher's week)Building a whole new team and running all events from start to finishOne off events, (Inc. large scale bar crawls), and working with live acts and celebrity appearances such as Zane Lowe, cast of Geordie Shore, X-factor finalists and moreIncorporated marketing with drinks brands including Vitamin Water, Corona, JagermeisterStrong in both video editing and Photoshop design

Managing three successful nights in Leeds (We Play Vinyl, Habit and Mixtape Project) Maintaining capacity figures. Managing a team of 30 staff across the city with three completely different market clientele Training up and educating new staff and future event managers Pipeline and lead generation forecasting

In previously closed markets, generating turnover of £48,000 p.a. for the company (£96,000 for the club's annual turnover) in one of our weekly events.Setting up club events in different cities (Newcastle, Sunderland and Darlington), working with people on all levels, communicating and influencing from management to customerSet up an office and infrastructure with over 50 staff managing 11 club events per week simultaneouslyWorking with media and social networking companies. Staying at the forefront of viral media including the boom of Facebook, Bebo, Youtube, Iamvip and many other socially active marketing strategiesWorking with many live acts and DJ's and working in collaboration with record companies, Such as TVT, Def Jam, MN2S and more to organise album launch parties Working within budgets projected sales and targets

• Recruitment and staff organisation• Increased weekly turnover from £14,000 to £24,000 in a 4 week period • Building a team to market the nightclub throughout the city to various different markets (inc. Newcastle University students, Northumbria University students, young professionals etc.)• Co-managed all club events, and managed my own weekly club night MISH:MASH• Provided hospitality for high profile guests such as music artists, (Sandy Rivera, Sisqo) footballers (Newcastle United, Sunderland, Manchester United), T.V. celebrities (Dean Gaffney, Richard Blackwood and more)

• Liaising with party groups and hospitality ensuring the highest possible quality of experience for customers • Ground work and direct marketing• Experience working with high profile acts. (Including Artful Dodger, Josclyn Brown, and Dizzie Rascal)