Shana Gibbs Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca

- Founded a hospitality services company, providing curated experiences targeting short term vacation rentals, hotels, tourists and local beach goers.- Manage sales, contract negotiation. site selection, on site execution and team, budget management, and key administrative reporting.- Partnering with local small businesses to ensure broad support of services for our clients, to include water sport rentals, beach rentals, tours and activities, event rentals, catering and entertainment.- Implement and execute marketing strategy to include creating website, social media, email communications, printed materials.

Greater San Diego Area

- Manage assigned accounts for Fortune 500 companies by implementing a strategy, defined by account objectives and design solutions for multi-day events -nationwide.- Increase the profit margin by an average of 8-10% per program from time of Sales turn over to operation of the program.- Key elements of this position include client relations, executing client vision while managing expectations, and event production.- Participate in creative planning sessions with Sales personnel, Design and Development and Operations teams in the development of concepts and programs for accounts that lead to further programs and sales for the company.- Manage onsite production and field staff to assist in facilitation of multi-day program logistics including décor set ups, transportation, and vendor management.- Work with vendors in a variety of industries to achieve event production goals supporting the profit and loss statement.- Since 2021, maintaining the same role in a contractor capacity.

Greater San Diego Area

Plan and manage veteran health related events while providing innovative solutions through community partnerships to meet the unique needs of all events exceeding organizational standards while delivering programmatic objectives. Utilize business and management principles involved in event planning and coordination, production methods, and coordination of people and resources while providing contract negotiation support functions.Implement international events with partners in Europe, to include military command and NATO forces.Planned and managed race day event logistics from conception to execution, to include routes, police partnerships and escorts, volunteers, and community partnerships in twenty different locations across U.S, U.K. and Germany. Act as public relations liaison and spokesperson during special events representing Wounded Warrior Project and Soldier Ride on local and national TV and radio.Train, lead, and mentor cohesive teams in a collaborative capacity through leadership efforts while overseeing budget and event compliance procedures.Work with a variety of event based platforms to ensure community engagement while educating Senior Executive level leadership to ensure maximum return on investment.Manage daily responsibilities in key travel coordination and large scale event based initiatives involving effective strategic planning and communication with clientele to build strong cross-functional teams. Spearheads, coordinates, and executes training assignments in the event planning area of operation while maintaining a high level customer service to internal and external clientele.

Various Locations, Texas

Responsible for overseeing production timelines and efforts of travel and meeting related resources in the production of marketing collateral which requires a high level of planning and vendor management communication.Managed operations of all logistical execution pertaining to organizational events: site selection, contract negotiation, registration management, on site execution, budget management, and post event reporting.Provided detailed social media-based strategies on key event public relations management procedures to engage large and small market corporations in fundraising initiatives.Used a broad range of marketing and quality assurance tools in the operation of logistics and event planning, involving creating policies and training staff on key procedural documents. Explored new and engaging tactics to relay marketing communications to our client base which involves marketing, social media communication, and extensive strategic data and research analysis. Prepared customer specific technical data submittal packages, with the preparation, tracking and following up required to ensure timely approval to internal and external clientele.Provided analysis & reporting on key fundraising initiatives, sales, procurement, and technical packages as well as performance metrics.Gathered and consolidated client specific sales and procurement reports for government officials while using the data to create customer and vendor specific action plans. Consistently carried out donor development based organizational procedures for effectively creating and maintaining files, records, forms, review and distribution of documentation, preparation of correspondence, and customer reviews.Utilized technical skillset to organize and formulate communication and account information to distribute to our target market both on an internal and external basis.