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EVENTS DIRECTOR
Summary

Personal and professional motto:  To always leave my customers better off than I found them.
Innovative, self-driven, results-oriented professional, bringing strong interpersonal and customer service skills with expertise in sales and the meeting planning/hospitality industry. Strong work ethic, execution, confidence and competitiveness and a strong desire to succeed. 

Accomplishments
  • Improved fiscal status of the association by implementing strategic partnerships and creating a sales plan.
  • Created and enhanced customer service plan for association.
  • Author of OneBelievableOne. 
  • Developed and designed online tradeshow floor.
  • Increased sales of tradeshow spaces over 35%.
  • Increased annual conference attendance by 48% in the first year of position.
  • Collaborated with numerous organizations to strengthen relationships with industry partners which provided ongoing sponsorships to the agency.
  • Created and designed key branding messages.
  • Workshop presentations and publication contributor.
Experience
Events Director 06/2013 to 05/2016 Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association Westerville, Ohio
  • Manage and sell exhibit space and sponsorship sales.
  • Focused on providing excellent customer service to all customers. 
  • Heavy emphasis on new business development while maintaining current exhibitors and reactivating dormant accounts.
  • Coordinate and supervise all trade show and related activities including vendor coordination, logistics, and on-site management.
  • Create, manage and monitor convention budget.
  • Attend industry functions to develop sales relationships.
  • Design, maintain and supervise exhibitor floor plan 
  • Manage Communications Department and Advertising Agency to market and promote annual convention with all forms of communications including mailings, email, website and social media posts.
  • Create and design marketing materials (emails, social media posts, brochures) for the convention. 
  • Work in tandem with Director of Education to create a cohesive convention.
  • Negotiate all contracts,and manage all related services with convention center, hotels, convention and visitor bureau, audio visual, registration, general contractor, security, first aid, entertainment, and food and beverage.
  • Supervise onsite staff, volunteers, security and third party agencies. 
  • Provide through and timely communications with exhibitors and sponsors.
  • Monitor and tracked speaker/staff/board/comp rooms.
  • Serve as on-site show supervisor.
  • Serve as a liaison to the ONLA Exhibits and Landscape Contractor committees.
  • Managed and promoted annual Golf Outing Manage and promote biennial Advocacy Day Buckeye Magazine advertising sales.
    Events Director 12/2002 to 06/2013 Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children Mount Gilead, Ohio
    • Manage and design all aspects for meetings and events for the association which includes a large annual state conference with a trade show.
    • Develop and designed all marketing materials for the association.
    • Establish relationships, negotiate contracts and work closely with hotels, convention center, keynote speakers, audio visual companies, decorators, security, transportation, food and beverage providers, and convention and visitor bureau.
    • Develop relationships with exhibitors to sell exhibit booth space and advertisements.
    • Design exhibit hall for trade show floor in ExpoCad.
    • Coordinated all activities with exhibitors that included communication, logistics and onsite management.
    • Sell advertisements for association publications, and e-marketing campaigns.
    • Seek and sell sponsorship.
    • Manage online registration software - CVENT.
    • Market and promote the value of membership to potential and current members.
    • Strategize with senior executives to meet organizational goals and objectives through meetings and events.
    • Design event specifications to meet organizational needs and objectives.
    • Recruit national speakers.
    • Supervise consultants and volunteers.
    • Provide workshop presentations at local, state and national levels.
    • Represent association at a state level.
    • Create and edit all marketing materials including brochures, newsletters, and e-marketing campaigns.
    • Design and maintain association website and social networking sites.
    Education
    BBA: Business Administration Mount Vernon Nazarene University Mount Vernon, Ohio Business Administration
    Associate of Applied Science: Business Administration North Central State College Mansfield, Ohio Business Administration
    Skills
    Computer literate, Microsoft Suite, Adobe, InDesign, Adobe Photo Shop, Frist Aid, CPR, Child Abuse Training
    Professional Affiliations
    American Society of Association Executives, Ohio Department of Job & Family Services Child Care Advisory, Professional Development Network, National Association for the Education of Young Children, 179th Service Flight FR
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    Resume Overview

    Companies Worked For:

    • Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association
    • Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children

    School Attended

    • Mount Vernon Nazarene University
    • North Central State College

    Job Titles Held:

    • Events Director

    Degrees

    • BBA : Business Administration
      Associate of Applied Science : Business Administration

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