•Founded Aisha Thomas Events, a planning, design/décor, and destination management company to provide a fluid planning process for wedding, social, and corporate clients. •Event professional with experience managing events with guest sizes ranging from 5 to 1,300.•Maintain a wide network of live event professionals (vendors) including catering, floral, lighting and sound (AV), venues, photography, videographer, entertainment, etc. • Keen eye for process improvement, improving systems, integrations, and controls. •Spent over 12 years in a corporate culture providing project management and corporate experience preparing and managing operating budgets over $4.8M.•Organized the expansion of local networking group and act as NC Co-Director for the Association of Bridal Consultants which includes Creating area educational meetings, newsletters to promote and enhance wedding professionals in the area as well as other promotions for the Association of Bridal Consultants.•Founding board member of a nonprofit organization and assisted in obtaining the Internal Revenue 501c(3) tax exempt status. Created process and procedures for capturing and communicating with prospective supporters. Coordinates annual fundraising events and documents foundation standard operation procedures and annual giving campaign strategies.•Experience managing small business bookkeeping and financial statements. Sales and payroll tax reporting, annual withholding reports, including W-2 and 1099 disbursement in adherence to federal and state regulations. Non-profit annual 990 reporting and filings.Specialties: Production, planning, floral design, responding to RFPs, budgeting, destination management, small business finance and business consulting, tax planning, fund development