Resume: EVENT COORDINATOR, TRADE SHOW ORGANIZER, MEETING PLANNER, BANQUET MANAGER
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ResumeId: 1000122509
Position: EVENT COORDINATOR, TRADE SHOW ORGANIZER, MEETING PLANNER, BANQUET MANAGER
City/State/Zip: BUFFALO, NY 14207
Location: FL
Relocate: Y
Years Exp: 5/10
Salary:
Salary Type: HR
Position Type: PC
Resume:
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Summary of Qualifications:
Eight+ years of upper business management/ownership experience.
P & L and small business development experience as an owner and manager
Track record of developing entities from their conceptual infancy into profitable ventures.
History of meeting and exceeding expected projections.
Strong team player.
Highly self-motivated but with strict adherence to the Golden Rule.
Committed to customer service and customer satisfaction.
Ability to handle multiple tasks in a hectic environment.
Relevant Skills:
Coordinator for numerous family, ethnic and specialty festivals with weekend or week long attendance in the tens of thousands. Participant in the opening of several entertainment complexes as a manager, consultant or staff member.
Management:
Extensive experience as an owner and as a manager of small businesses.
Innate ability to set goals and establish proper priorities.
P & L background.
F & B management and supervision.
Front of house and banquet trainer.
Banquet and off-premise catering sales and coordination.
Event planning, scheduling, set-up, conversion and tear down.
Conference and seminar coordination.
Effective interpersonal relationship skills and team building techniques.
Ability to delegate and assign tasks to appropriate talent.
Budgets and cost analysis.
Strong purchasing and inventory control background.
Ability to communicate the mission statement to all levels of an organization.
Coordinated lodging, meals and transportation for out-of town participants.
Interacted with building, health and fire inspectors.
Handled and applied for permits and licenses.
Adept at getting the most out of limited resources.
Developed team manuals, training programs and procedural guides.
Computer literate: Windows, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Possi-Touch, Micros.
Negotiated performance contracts with entertainers ,speakers and vendors.
Marketing and Sales:
Developed unique marketing partnerships with professional sports teams, local theaters and private industry.
Strong relationship with the Convention and Visitor's Bureau, the Business Alliance and the Greater Business Partnership.
Developed co-op-advertising partnerships with various businesses.
Established a solid customer base in unlikely areas.
Expanded the customer base through communications, networking and first-hand contact.
Track record of exceeding projected goals.
Wrote newsprint, TV and radio press releases and advertisements.
Edited and wrote newsletter.
Composed proposals and flyers for presentations.
Developed close ties with business and community leaders.
Ambition to look for new ways to bring the message to new customers.
Event Coordination:
Successful organization of events from 35 to 35,000. Innovative methods and involvement in sales and coordination of dozens of weddings; hundreds of rehearsal dinners; countless luncheons, company parties, retirement parties, company happy hours, funeral brunches, award banquets, fund raisers, bowling banquets, showers, stags and much more…Coordinated conferences and business seminars. Developed pool leagues and pool tournaments, golf tournaments, softball tournaments, bowling leagues , lawn fetes, boat parades and arts and craft festivals...Coordinated two major movie wrap-up parties one of which had 35,000 revelers .Set-up excursions and bus groups
Work experience: July 1997 to July 1999 Pearl St. Buffalo, NY
Special event coordinator/sales and marketing/banquet manager
Started before they were opened for business and began assisting with opening development and doing outside sales for this microbrewery, fine dining, banquet facility and upscale billiard parlor that encompasses 40,000 sq. ft. Coordinated all special events and banquets (From reunion picnics to white glove weddings.) from initial point of sale through the function to presentation of the final bill and onto a follow-up phone call and thank you note. Daily coordinated several functions at the same time. Assisted in front of house operations as needed. Menu planning/costing. F & B management and supervision. Developed unique marketing partnerships with local professional sports teams, international and local businesses, local theaters, Chambers of Commerce and the Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Produced sales that were in excess of twice the proprietorship's projections. Developed a cohesive team to meet organizational and individual goals.
Work experience: May 1988 to August 1994;AnDell Corporation Cleveland, Ohio
Vice President/Operations and Logistics
Developed management and support teams into cohesive units. Coordinated all point of sale programs. Responsible for customer service, inventory control and distribution. Organized and coordinated up to 20 trade shows annually. Interacted with other managers to formulate marketing plans, sales projections and department budgets. Responsible for facilities maintenance (60,000-sq. ft.) retail displays and seasonal decorations. Developed employee training and safety programs. Coordinated with local media in advertising programs. Against well-entrenched competition became northeast Ohio's No. 2 dealer.
Work experience: March 1983 to October 1987 Canal Way, Inc. North Tonawanda, NY
General Manager/ Proprietor
Responsible for the dynamics and operation to include P&L for a complex that included 230-seat dining room, 75-seat lounge, banquet facilities for 650 and convenience boat docks. Coordinated up to 350 banquets and 250 off-premise events per year. Administrator for 84 adjoining apartments. In '84 and '86 expanded operations to include: two movie house concessions, two riverside concessions, and small marina with gas dock and concession stand. .Responsible for maintenance of all properties and seasonal decorations. When I became involved with this company there was a weekly loss of $3,000.00 Through astute purchasing, inventory scrutiny, labor controls and innovative marketing methods within four months operations were in the black.. Staff of 140.
Work experience November 1978 to November 1982 Sgt. Preston's of the North, Lawrence, Kansas,
General Manager:
Began as the bar manager and was promoted to banquet manager within three months and three months after that was promoted to General Manager. Answered directly to out of town owners. P & L, banquet coordination, hiring, training, scheduling, purchasing, inventory control, menu planning, promotions and media relations. Worked while attending school at Kansas University.
Education: Kansas University, 1978 to 1982; Communications & Marketing
University of Buffalo, various times, courses in small business management, media relations and customer service.
Buffalo State College: courses in customer service management and grant writing.,1999
K.C. Sch Sys Prgm for Culinary Arts, 1981
American Bartenders School, 1978
Community Tourism Advisory Council, Working for Downtown, Greater Buffalo and Downtown Tourism Task Force. Worked with MDA, March of Dimes. Habitat for Humanity, Heart Association and The New Millenium Group. Post high school internship with the New York State senate committee on culture, conventions and tourism, 1977.
Seeking to relocate
References provided upon request.
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