Experience

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  Various US Tour Operators, student & adult tours

  • Tour Director/Manager, Boston Step-On Guide

    • May 1994 - 2017

    • Suburban Tours – 1 to 4-day high school student tours to NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Virginia, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Chicago, Cleveland • Yummy Walks - Food/history walking tours of Boston's Freedom Trail, North End, Seaport District• Guide Service of Boston, Gerber Tours, Junior Tours, NE StepOns – inbound 1 to 4-day Boston, Salem, Lexington/Concord, Plymouth area student/adult tours • R&R Travel - 5-day, DC, NYC student tours • Tourico Holidays - Boston Hebrew student tours • Fisher Travel, Tourpax and Destination Directors– Boston airport meet & greet VIPs & groups • Olde Ipswich Tours – 9-13 day culinary tours to France, Italy, Switzerland; tour development and marketing; OIT/Elderhostel program leader; 13-day NE foliage tours• Destination America – 8-day New England fall foliage tours; 12-day Maritimes• Wolfe Adventures & Tours – Boston area custom guiding• Caravan Tours – 8-day New England fall foliage tours• Saga Holidays – 12 to 23-day land tours to western & eastern Canada, Maritimes, New England, Road Scholar & Smithsonian Odyssey Iceland, cruises to Caribbean, Asia, Russian rivers; also in-house sales/customer service • WorldStrides – 2009 Inaugural touring

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  HALO

  • Operations manager

    • 1998 - 2001

    NE operations manager and marketing for national promotional products company

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  Pondside Communications

  • Consultant

    • 1990 - 2000

    Freelance writer/marketing communications consultant; desktop publishing; direct marketing print production/account executive for Boston ad agency

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  Compugraphic Corporation

  • Sales Promotion Manager

    • 1984 - 1988

    Advertising & sales promotion manager for Type Division, Software Products, Aftermarket Sales

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  Honeywell Information Systems

  • Employee Communications Manager

    • 1977 - 1984