Travis McBride

Experience

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  Renaissance Oklahoma City Convention Center Hotel

  Apr 2005 - Oct 2007

  Sales and Catering Manager / Conventions Services Manager

  • Directly responsible for the Military, Government, Religious, Fraternal, and Social Market for sleeping rooms, hotel meeting rooms, catering sales and managed space at the convention center.• Solicited new and repeat clients by cold calling and visiting different organizations (prospecting).• Detailed and maintained all active accounts after capturing the business by working the meeting planners on large conferences and trades shows by preparing detailed banquet event orders for kitchen staff and banquet staff.• Provided daily support for sales and catering team of 11. Show less

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  Waterford Oklahoma City Hotel

  Oct 2007 - Apr 2008

  Senior Sales Manager

  • Directly responsible for the Corporate Market for both sleeping rooms and catering sales.• Negotiated contracts and enforced cut off dates, due dates, food and beverage minimums and sleeping room blocks.• Maintained monthly sales goals by soliciting new and repeat business.• Worked closely with the Director of Sales and Marketing on monthly sales reports and helped monitor the booking pace for each sales manager.

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  Radisson Hotel Tulsa

  Apr 2008 - Dec 2008

  Sales Manage

  • Directly responsible for the Association and Education Market for both sleeping rooms and catering sales.• Negotiated contracts and enforced cut off dates, due dates, food and beverage minimums and sleeping room blocks.• Attended networking groups, solicited new and repeat business, and completed activity reports.• Worked closely with the Director of Sales / Marketing on hotel promotions and sales blitzes.

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  Oklahoma State University

  Dec 2008 - Mar 2022

  Events Manager

  • Manage complete Conference Center operations, including coordinating event bookings, contracts, facilities layout, security, staffing, technical and catering needs.• Provide a non-academic revenue source for the university by maintaining meeting / classroom rental contracts consisting of approx. 65,000 guests to campus yearly.• Maintain monthly billing and timely sales reports; meet contract deadlines / suspenses.• Provide detailed information and collaborate with the Marketing and Communications team on all advertising, marketing materials, and media coverage for university and conference center events.• Plan and manage special events such as donor fundraisers, graduation, yearly galas each year to help grow university scholarships and brand awareness.• Supervise staff at the Information Center (front desk). Responsible for assigning their daily activities, approving scheduling, managing personnel issues, training and providing support during busy periods.• Facilitate the terms of lease agreements for non-university partnerships and recommend all revisions needed to meet the needs of all parties.• Spearheaded the partnership / creation, and now manage OSU-Tulsa’s virtual bookstore for Tulsa based students which saved university expenses and established a partnership with our Stillwater campus. Show less

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  Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

  Mar 2022 - now

  Operations Manager in Facilities Management

  • Oversee general building operations for OSU branch location to include Center for Health Sciences, OSU Medicine, and OSU-Tulsa which is approximately 1.4M sq ft of building space. • Enforce and manage contracts with vendor representatives. Examine performance requirements, scope of work, delivery schedules, and estimates of cost of material, equipment, and production to ensure completeness and accuracy. • Work closely with Business Affairs on bid process, scope of work documents, purchase orders and compliance processes. • Manage and oversee Inventory Coordinator for Facilities Management general stockroom supply, tool inventory, department fleet stock/maintenance and chemical room. • Oversee OSU-Tulsa and OSU-CHS campus asset management, university inventory and surplus.• Work with staff, faculty, and Space Utilization and Asset Coordinator on space allocation, building records and directories. • Oversee and coordinate Maintenance Techs on all office moves, event set-ups, remodel preps, and surplus deliveries.• Oversee and direct the activities of building maintenance requirements and repair work performed by others for the buildings to include general oversight of contracted custodial services and performance of all phases of general, aesthetic, corrective, reactive, planned, and preventive maintenance within specific guidelines.• Collaborate with Marketing and External Affairs to insure we are setting campus standards, following brand standards, and collectively moving our branch locations in a forward motion to look and feel like the same. Show less