Whitney Bond Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Bringing internal events at SHI to life!

Cedar Park, Texas, United States

• Event Producer overseeing vendor management, logistics and payment through multiple ongoing large-scale events with budgets surpassing $2 million
• Created and managed detailed budget documents for internal teams and client approval
• Scheduled and organized assignments of onsite teams of consisting of more than 10 people
• Coordinated travel and hotel arrangements for 350+ international event attendees
• Participated in brainstorming, creative development and strategic discussions throughout entire event lifecycle

Austin, Texas, United States

• Venue sourcing and obtaining proposals for events
• Facilitated and maintained positive client, vendor, and venue relationships
• Oversight of planning and advancement of SXSW’s signature events
• Maintained accurate tracking processes and documents through ongoing coordination with other SXSW departments, vendors, and clients

Austin, TX

• Managed 5 ongoing client projects from start to finish to ensure short and long-term goals are being accomplished
• Production lead regarding logistics from all vendors with communications happening around the clock
• Initiated, monitored and maintained budgets with numerous diverse vendors

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Start-up team member of Encore Drive-In Nights, an international drive-in theatre concert experience featuring Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton, Metallica and Kane Brown selling over 250,000 tickets to 300+ theatres
• Recruited traditional and nontraditional drive-in movie theatres to join international fleet of locations
• Served as production lead on two simultaneous pop-up drive-in theatre experiences
• Curated VIP experience from inception to execution with 10% growth after each concert

Dallas, Texas

• Travel to event sites to run staff services and oversee staff support for on-site operations of festivals with attendance of 40,000+
• Increase awareness and create opportunities to expand company services and reputation through social media platforms and event activation.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with regional and national touring acts
• Oversee creating, organization, noting and fulfilling company, venue and artist contracts

Arlington, TX

• Book various entertainment types, 7 days a week for a 220,000 square foot venue with 5 stages
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with national, regional and local talent agencies
• Negotiate and communicate with artist management on all contract deal points
• Oversee organization, noting and fulfilling all artist contracts and communicating riders
• Coordinate production needs and requirements for 5 venue stages ensuring that all shows run as needed to surpass artist and fan expectations.
• Facilitate delivery and approval of all marketing collateral between venue and artist teams

Austin, Texas Area

• Coordinated over 500 yearly concert dates at all points of interaction from contract signing to show settlement
• Assembled and executed simultaneous international concert tours for client roster of 15+ in various genres
• Executed and administered detailed marketing plans for events ranging from 200 to 10,000
• Nurtured relationships in the music industry including promoters, talent buyers, and media
• Built visibility for artists by working with key industry partners and lifestyle-oriented brands
• Generated consumer awareness and fan enthusiasm around all artists, tours and live events

• Controlled operations of all promotions and programming activities of two large market radio stations
• Expanded listenership while creating fresh and creative promotional campaigns and events
• Implemented local and national promotional campaigns from development to results
• Raised $1 million local dollars a year with community engagement and grassroots programming
• Participated in budget discussions and prioritizing minimal marketing budget
• Established and maintain community relationships for barter and cooperative agreements

Dallas, Texas

• Presented and publicized radio station’s upcoming events in the 5th largest media market
• Executed promotions at events with attendance exceeding 50,000
• Established relationships with sales executives to set up effective remote promotions