Stephanie Little Email and Phone Number

Working with employers to help navigate their employee benefit needs. Offering a full line of group health, dental, vision, life, disability and ancillary products with technology driven processes to help manage benefits easier and more systematically.

• Update working conference calendar weekly• Create and update event App with agenda, exhibitors, and sponsors• Assist with updating event agenda on our website• Create and send out speaker packets• Manage speaker registration list for conference and hotel.• Create speaker logistics emails • Update entire TSIA staff workbook • Manage staff responsible for event coordination activities• Hire, train, and educate temporary staff on proper event procedures• Pay temporary staff for their participation in the event• Assist with booking private event venues.• Update Hotel Specification working document• Update all pre-conference PPT’s• Assist Partner Program Manager with all exhibitor document updates • Request and update all exhibitor deliverables• Create session evaluation spreadsheet and conference survey PPT

• Sells hotel guestrooms, catering services, and use of banquet facilities through direct client contact to maximize total rooms revenues and profits.• Maintains client base of organizations, associations, social, and corporate businesses through direct outside and inside sales effort.• Manages customer inquiries in a timely manner with proposals, addressed problems, presented solutions and followed-up on progress.• Negotiates guest room rates, meeting room rental, function space, and hotel services within approved booking guidelines. • Maximizes revenues by selling guestrooms at most advantageous rate and managed inventory during high demand dates of the following citywide conventions: South by Southwest Festival, Austin City Limits, X-Games, Moto GP.• Conducts tours of the hotel and banquet facilities; entertained qualified potential clients in accordance with company and property policies and procedures.• Represents Omni Hotels & Resorts at trade shows such as Southwest Showcase.

• Assisted in selling courtesy wedding room blocks by exceeding sales expectations. • Serviced wedding, holiday or guest room only blocks by ensuring customer satisfaction with reporting activities to all departments.• Supported the sales team to increase revenue streams and profit targets.

Greeting and directing guests to assigned tables; cleaning tables and placing drinks in glasses, serving menu cards to customers and getting their orders; announcing current menu or daily specials; checking to see plates and glasses are clean; promptly serving food while ensuring quality and accuracy of orders; attending to guests throughout their dining experience; maintaining cleanliness of restaurant; delivering bill requests; and performing other tasks as assigned.

• Met with families to capture their specific needs objectives and budget constraints.• Prepared the overall wedding plan including the guest list, catering services, limousine options, decorations.• Oversaw team of vendors and wedding contributors including rental, photographers, caterers, transportation services, venue, florists, and Musicians. • Successfully managed a $50,000 budget for over 200 guests.

• Assisted in the Planning and Opening of the newly built pool bar.• Promoted to Lobby Lounge Cocktail Server.

• Planned Semi-annual Convention for 800 delegate’s semi-yearly in Silicon Valley and Las Vegas.• Hired and Trained Temporary on-site Staff for convention.• Skilled in Excel, RegOnline, EventForce, Central Desktop.

Worked as the Front desk, Concierge and Reservations for a small boutique hotel located in the heart of downtown La Jolla.

Ran the front of the house in a fine dining restaurant. Worked with all the servers to ensure an effective flow of the restaurant.