Robert Brooks Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx

- Talent buyer for Illectric River Music Festival.- Assisted with Public Relations & Media outreach for Illectric River.- Handled all Settlements, Artist Relations, Artist Hospitality, and Artist Advancing.- Effectively built and maintained a brand ambassador and promotions team in Waco, Dallas, Austin, College Station, and Houston Texas.- Responsible for overseeing Sponsorship procurement for Illectric River Music Festival.

Austin, Texas Area

- In charge of booking concerts in Austin & Dallas Texas. Artists worked with include: GTA, A-Trak, Liquid Stranger, Borgeous, Barely Alive, Virtual Riot, Minnesota, Megaladon, Skism, Krimer, Bleep Bloop, Protohype, Arius, CloZee, Ott., Thriftworks, and more.- Formed strategic partnerships with Disco Donnie Presents, Heard Presents, Fast FWD Entertainment, Prime Entertainment, and Euphoria Music Festival.- Procured talent for the “Finding Euphoria Music Festival” concert series leading up to the 2018 event.- Managed all operations at events including: Settlements, Artist Relations, Artist Transportation, and Advancing.- Oversee our entire promo team consisting of 40 members in Austin & Dallas Texas.Produced a 2017 SXSW showcase for The Summit in Austin, TX.

Atlanta, Ga/Richmond, Va

- Effectively manages all Social Media content, marketing, and promotions for the band People's Blues of Richmond.- Created multiple promotions for upcoming tour dates (Charity Raffles, In-store Acoustic Performances, Social Media Contests, Ticket Giveaways, Meet and Greets, etc.)- Assisted our Management & PR teams with tour marketing and press efforts for upcoming shows.- Maintained the People's Blues of Richmond website/online store and managed all SEO efforts.

Austin, Texas Area

- In charge of Artist Relations, Artist Hospitality, and Artist Transportation for concert events at the C3 owned venue Emo's in Austin, TX.- Assist with Artist Advancing.

Houston, Texas Area

- Worked with Eventbrite to train our entire box office staff on how to use the ticketing platform.- Oversaw the day to day operations for the festival box office.

Greater Atlanta Area

- Assisted in planning and producing multiple events for various clients (Taste of Atlanta Food That Rocks, Taste of Atlanta 2015, Q100 Big Wicked Halloween, Swanky Tunes, Kryoman, CRNKN, HXV, & more).- Handled Artist Relations for Imagine Fest, Tomorrowworld, Shaky Knees, Shaky Boots, Sweetwater 420 festival, and more-Responsible for Brand Ambassadors, social media marketing & promotions for events.

Atlanta, Ga

-Successfully handled Artist Transportation & Artist Hospitality for festival.- Maintained all green rooms, stocked food and beverages, created shopping lists, and fulfilled all rider requests.- Assisted with art décor & build-outs for select installations on the festival grounds.- Helped art décor team with building & decorating the artist lounge and bar.

Greater Atlanta Area

-Successfully handled Artist Hospitality for festival (Maintained all green rooms, stocked food and beverages, created shopping lists, and fulfilled all rider requests).- Assisted the art décor team with build-outs for all Artist and VIP bars & lounges.

Atlanta, Ga

- Obtained & Fulfilled artist riders that were requested in Artist performance contracts. - Handled Artist Relations, Artist Settlements, Artist Hospitality, & Artist Transportation for entire festival.- Assisted in the talent buying process for the Not-So-Silent Disco Stage in 2014 & 2015.- Assisted the Director of Artist Relations with artist advancing logistics (artist lodging, flights, and ground transportation).

Chattahoochee Hills, Ga

- Responsible for taking festival operations meeting minutes, & handled all correspondence between operations staff and festival vendors, site-ops team, artist relations department, festival security, and emergency services.- Created strategic signage logistic plan (mapping out and placing signs where all exits, emergency exits, emergency services, & specific festival areas were located) as well as designed & maintained all LED signage on festival grounds (including using Photoshop to create graphics for signage).- Assisted with ticketing issues with box office staff (guest list, non-working wristbands, & counterfeit wristbands).- Coordinated all artist transportation logistics for the Atlanta Airport with artist management & artist relations staff for the 2014 festival.

Atlanta, Ga

- Responsible for daily operations, end-of-day sales reporting in QuickBooks, & daily bank deposits.- Built and maintained a B2C E-commerce website & managed web analytics & Search Engine Optimization efforts.- Managed all customer orders & customer service, as well as packing & shipping all orders.- Successfully increased sales revenue by executing creative traditional & digital media marketing campaigns.- Effectively managed all B2B relationships, product inventory, and product ordering for our E-commerce website.- Created several customer loyalty programs to increase repeat business.- Researched and evaluated new products for company's e-commerce website in order to keep our growing customer base satisfied & challenge the competition.

Greater Atlanta Area

- Traveled the southeastern United States to mobilize voter registration efforts for upcoming elections.- Registered new voters & educated those in need on the primary laws in their states.- Some of the artists I have worked with include: Railroad Earth, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9), The String Cheese Incident, Big Gigantic, Galactic, Dave Matthews Band, Snarky Puppy, and more!

Athens, Ga

My responsibilities as an Artist/Label Relations Intern consisted of communicating with artists and their management about the potential benefits that the Go Rank'Em platform could provide artists, helping with designing promotional material to attract more visitors to the web site, and managing current artist/label relationships for the company.