Experience

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  Opus, PMPN, BCD, MGME Global, Mac Meetings, GCG Partners, Meeting Candidates Network

  • Meeting Planner / On-Site Travel Director, Independent

    • 2000 - Present

    * On-Site Management for client events. Assisted with hospitality desk, coordinated food and beverage and managed ground departures.* Clients included both pharmaceutical and corporate companies such as AWS, Oracle, Microsoft, Lilly Pharmaceutical, Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon.

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  Hakins Meetings & Incentives

  • Wyckoff, NJ

  • Senior Meeting Planner / Travel Director, Independent

    • Oct 2008 - Dec 2021
    • Wyckoff, NJ

    * Planned and managed corporate meetings and incentives from start to finish including initiating, negotiating, and contracting all aspects of meetings, sleeping rooms, meeting space, F&B, A/V and final bill reconciliation. Provided on-site management. * Managed online registration and reporting using CVENT.* Assisted website build using Starcite / Meeting View and managed communication between the client and web team assuring that their design expectations were met and that the site was user friendly for registrants. * Responsible for editing contents of online registration site and creating time lines for program due dates as well as compiling various reports as requested.* Booked group air travel using SABRE. Coordinated air with meeting registration via Concur. * Managed events for clients such as Verizon Business, Verizon Wireless, Broadway Across America, Pratt & Whitney, & Weichert Realty with meeting sizes from 30-1100 participants.

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  West Point Officers Club

  • West Point, NY

  • Catering Manager

    • Apr 2005 - Mar 2008
    • West Point, NY

    * Executed off-premise functions from start to finish from written proposals to coordinating food and beverage to on-site management. Supervised and scheduled over 35 employees.* Functions included many highly political events such as the Secretary of State dinner, graduation ceremony and various military functions.

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  Courtyard by Marriott

  • Director of Sales

    • Sep 2003 - Apr 2005

    * Promoting and booking leisure and corporate hotel stays. Responsible for obtaining revenue goals. * Supervised sales group department. Oversaw the meeting and events department. Hotel won Gold award while I was Director of Sales two years in a row.

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  VTS Direct Travel

  • Mahwah, NJ

  • Meeting Planner

    • Oct 1996 - Nov 2002
    • Mahwah, NJ

    * Responsibilities included writing proposals, estimating budgets, and negotiating contracts. Orchestrated meeting logistics from start to finish including registration, food & beverage, off-site functions, ground transportation, promotional mailings & materials. * Provided on-site management. Booked air travel using SABRE & Apollo. Clients included: Minolta Corporation, Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, Reckitt & Colman, Rolls Royce, Janome New Home Sewing. Worked exclusively on-site for BMW of North America Account from 10/99-11/02.

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  BMW of North America

  • Woodcliff Lake, NJ

  • Meeting Planner / SABRE agent

    • Apr 1994 - Sep 1996
    • Woodcliff Lake, NJ

    * Arranged & managed corporate meetings, training conferences and incentives for BMW employees and their top dealers. Negotiated contracts with vendors, conducted site inspections, compiled Request for Proposals (RFPs) and reconciled final bills. Commanded all meeting operations including room set-up requirements, food and beverage, audiovisual, sleeping rooms, budgets and travel arrangements using SABRE.