Experience

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  Destination king

  Aug 2005 - Oct 2006

  Sales and event coordinator

  • Managed event details (food and beverage, transportation logistics, venue negotiation, and rental details) for multiple accounts including: spousal tours, offsite events away from hotel meeting facilities, incentive trips, weddings, and transportation.• Visualized and created event details for corporate clients to include FEDEX, AutoZone, DaimlerChrylser, Computer Environment, Nestle Purina, St. Jude, and political fundraisers. • Maintained groups sales and events for Peabody Place Entertainment Center Show less

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  Race central

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2007

  Event coordinator

  • Traveled to domestic and international destinations to manage tradeshow setup, race coordination, and team logistics• Created and coordinated races, race day festivities, volunteers, and marketing for RC Productions and international clients• Created a baseline budget for project needs and solicited sponsorships to allocate towards the budget• Developed timelines, milestones and kill points for project development • Communicated with internal and external customers project status, budget developments and planning progress • Created and developed Race Central’s Event division, RC Productions Show less

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  Meeting sites pro

  Sept 2007 - May 2008

  Meeting planner

  • Facilitated global site selection, contract negotiations, and onsite meeting management for corporate clients to include Acclarent, Inc., Johnson and Johnson, Stone Edge Technologies, Navair, and Environmental Protection Agency• Ensured pharmaceutical programs followed FDA regulations and government programs followed set per diem daily rates• Troubleshot issues that arose during the planning stages or onsite and created solutions • Solicited new business in the pharmaceutical, government and technology industries• Managed 4 internal employees daily activities and inside sales efforts• Oversaw each program’s development and contact negotiations from sale to closure Show less

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  Bedrock technology partners

  Jun 2008 - Sept 2010

  Senior it project manager, onsite consultant at qualcomm

  • Provide project leadership for the SAN and NAS project teams for data management projects, including: budget control, project timelines, status reporting, vendor and project team coordination, and quality assurance• Define and archive customer needs through one on one sessions, project team meetings, and on-going communication • Manage and facilitate the onsite relationships for multi-million dollar contract accounts at Qualcomm by coordinating meetings to review roadmaps, driving current and future projects, and ensuring equipment meets the customers expectations for vendors such as NetApp, HDS, HP, Cisco, EMC, Citrix, and Iron Port• Produce Qualcomm’s storage capacity tracking by monitoring all NAS and SAN storage requested, granted and reclaimed• Provide inside sales support for Bedrock Vendors, including: HDS, Netapp, HP, Cisco, DataDomain, Zetta, Citrix, Fusion IO and Akorri within 4-48 hour SLA’s• Experience in managing high level storage projects from project conception, cost justification processes, sales support, budget development and monitoring, plan development, resource coordination, status reporting, quality assurance and closure• Coordinate Qualcomm, Vendor and Bedrock resources daily activities and project timelines• Manage and direct storage projects development from beginning to end Show less

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  Cmt

  Oct 2010 - Jul 2012

  Project manager

  • Create, and develop PMO from ground level, focusing on documentation, best practices, training, processes, standards to work from for all projects • Initiate and implement new methodologies and processes that fall within company values and methods for the PMO and projects • Program/project management maturity, process standardization, portfolio management and partnership opportunities management• Define and archive customer needs from pre-sales to project completion, including creation of presale documentation and tracking methods of new opportunities• Manage and facilitate customer relations during and after projects, such clients including but not limited to American Express, VISA, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Cisco, Rady Children’s Hospital, GoDaddy, Atmel, APS, Ariba, AMEX, Microsoft, Hawaiian Electric Company, L-3 Communications and Scripps Hospital• Manage and implement storage and security projects, additional projects fall outside of these type but majority of projects are within Enterprise Vault, NetBackup, NetApp, MobileIron, SEP, and others• Maintain Program and Project Management for multiple projects at once• Provide project leadership for internal engineering team and clientele internal teams• Ensure projects remain in scope, in budget, and tasks are being coordinated with the appropriate team members during weekly meetings outlining project status and milestones• Close out projects with customer, internal teams around lessons learned and CMT accounting department; • Analyze engagement staff resource utilization, pipeline, and create reports for executive staff• Analyze internal IT services to develop plans and projects for ITIL implementation• Implement IT service ticketing system internally and plan for roll out to customers for managed services• Build and maintain complex project schedules, scopes, MPP’s and communication• Main conduit of communication for entire project team, both written and verbal Show less

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  Inmarsat

  Jul 2012 - Feb 2014

  Project manager, global xpress

  Inmarsat is an organization that provides global mobile satellite services. Global Xpress was created to to deploy three new satellites with the KA-band broadband network for their customers. Planned to launch in 2013, Global Xpress will allow uplink speeds up to 50 mbps and up to 5 mbps over the uplink to the Maritime, Aviation, Government, and Energy markets. • Develop integrated end to end GX Market Schedules• Maintain Market dashboards and timelines• Monitor and Manage Market launch schedules• Ensure Market tasks are defined, executed, and tracked• Monitor the end to end GX Delivery solution maps with the Market launch schedules• Supprt planning for further market development activies / unplanned activities• Validate Market schedules and VAR schedules are integrated and remain on track per launch goals Show less

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  United states department of defense

  Mar 2014 - Dec 2014

  Substitute teacher
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  Yosc

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  Fundraiser coordinator