Experience

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  Hilton Worldwide Holdings

  • Senior National Sales Manager, Hotel Alpenrock Breckenridge, Curio Collection By Hilton

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  Rocky Mountain Getaways

  • Breckenridge, Colorado, United States

  • Senior Mountain Vacation Consultant

    • Sep 2020 - Present
    • Breckenridge, Colorado, United States

    Rocky Mountain Getaways is a ski and snowboard vacation travel wholesaler offering destinations in the Western United States, Canada and South America. Combining my expert knowledge with the highest level of service and attention to detail, I assist my guests with their western mountain vacations to include: lodging, airport ground transfers, lift tickets, season passes, rental equipment, ski school and travel insurance. Let me do all the logistical planning to save you time and apply our volume discounts to save you money at no fee to reserve your vacation experience of a lifetime! Delivering above & beyond while planning your vacation, during your travels and after you return home results in my guests confidently use my services year over year as well as referring friends and family.

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  Meeting Sites Resource | Global Meeting Planning & Event Management Company

  • Breckenridge, CO

  • Vice President of Marketing & Global Meetings | Hotel Site Selection & Contract Negotiations Expert

    • Jan 2012 - Mar 2022
    • Breckenridge, CO

    Meeting Sites Resource is a global meeting planning and event management company with a 25 year track record of meeting excellence. This includes global hotel sourcing and site selection, custom contract negotiations, event technology delivering robust value reporting and meeting spend tracking, professional event management services and SMM consulting. Our buying power and expertise assure value to the meeting and bottom line, with an emphasis on risk reduction. Meetings are big investments and our total team focus is on meeting goals, customer collaboration, strategic negotiations and measurable value based outcomes. Meeting Sites Resource Performance Advantage:* Highly experienced customer service teams* Volume Buyers with hotel chains and independents.* Hotel contract experts - MSR creates a custom hotel contract for each customer. * Strategic Meeting Management (SMM) emphasis enterprise-wide.* MSR Service Promise - assuring added meeting value, real cost savings and risk reduction* Advanced SMM Technology - web based global hotel database, customized RFP's, e-proposals, meeting budgets, side-by-side meeting space evaluation, custom hotel contract template, real time meeting budgets and customer 24/7 access to all current and past meeting activity and reports* Award wining service, including MSR as a recognition recipient of Meeting Professional's International Golden Paragon Award, MPI's highest recognition for meeting excellence* Industry Leadership - members of our team serve on hotel and CVB Advisory Boards, present workshops at industry events and contribute articles to major trade publicationsSome of the clients we work with are:Boston Scientific Corporation, National Coal Transportation Association, The Boeing Company, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Great Harvest Corporation, Banker's Bank of the WestLearn how we can help you achieve your meeting goals with MSR. Email: [email protected] Phone: 970-557-3234

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  Metropolitan State University of Denver

  • Affiliate Professor-Dept of Hospitality, Tourism and Events

    • Dec 2010 - Dec 2014

    Taught "Convention Sales and Services" in the convention, meetings and trade show industry. Conducted class discussions on selling to the various industry market segments, developing a marketing plan, advertising to the meeting planner, and negotiations and contracts. Prepared class lectures from course material to support learning objectives, developed syllabus, created class activities to supplement classroom presentation, invited industry guest speakers to enhance student's learning outcomes, identified individual and group work opportunities for the students to better understand the scope of the industry via real world experiences.

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  Associated Luxury Hotels International

  • West Coast

  • Director of Sales, Northern California and Pacific Northwest

    • Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
    • West Coast

    *ALHI is a National Sales Organization representing 130+ Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotels and resorts worldwide, with over 100,000 rooms and 10 million sq ft of meeting space.*Created and executed innovative and successful in-market client events*Strengthened personal/ALHI brand on West Coast via industry volunteering, writing articles, and speaking engagements* Contract negotiation and site selection expertise

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  hinton+grusich

  • Director of West Coast National Sales

    • Aug 2004 - Dec 2010

    *Opened h+g West Coast National Sales Office*Represented 140+ Three to Five Diamond hotels & resorts in US and Mexico*Created and executed innovative and successful client events*Strengthened personal/h+g brand on West Coast via industry volunteering, writing articles, and speaking engagements*Expertise in contract negotiations, site inspection assistance, extensive product knowledge

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  Inverness Hotel, Denver, Colorado; Destination Hotels & Resorts

  • National Sales Manager

    • Aug 2001 - Jul 2004

    National Sales Manager, 2001-2004Serviced & Developed National Association Market302 rooms; 60,000 sq ft; AAA Four-Diamond IACC Conference Center Resort

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  Keystone Resort, Denver, Colorado; Vail Resorts

  • Associate Director of Sales

    • Sep 1995 - Aug 2001

    Promoted to Associate Director of Sales, 1997-2001National Sales Manager, 1995-1997Serviced West Coast Market1,600 rooms; 100,000 sq ft; AAA Four Diamond

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  The Westin Michigan Avenue, Chicago

  • National Sales Manager

    • 1993 - 1995

    Promoted to Sales Manager, 1995Catering Sales Manager, 1993-1995720 rooms; 30,000 sq ft, AAA Four-Diamond

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  Destination Hotels- Two Roads Hospitality

  • Rosemont Suites Hotel O'Hare

  • Director of Catering and Convention Services

    • 1992 - 1993
    • Rosemont Suites Hotel O'Hare

    296 Rooms; 10,000 sq ft meeting space

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  The Landings Club

  • Savannah, Georgia Area

  • Club Catering Manager

    • 1990 - 1992
    • Savannah, Georgia Area

    Three distinct clubhouses each with event space and 18-hole golf course; two yacht clubs

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  Walt Disney World Resorts

  • Orlando, Florida Area

  • Assistant Restaurant Manager

    • 1988 - 1990
    • Orlando, Florida Area

    Magic Kingdom Parks Division and Resorts Division

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  Marriott's Great America

  • Gurnee, IL

  • Food And Beverage Attendant

    • 1981 - 1985
    • Gurnee, IL

    Food kiosks, Restaurants, F&B Auditing, F&B Training