Samuel Pittman

Experience

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  WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOC INC

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2021

  Facilities Student Assistant

  During my first stint at Wichita State, as a student assistant I held many responsibilities. My main responsibility was to assist with the daily maintenance of 5 athletic venues. I also assisted in setting up our venues for gamedays and tearing down after events had ended. Finally, I assisted with all gameday operations which included helping manage our event staff personnel and assisting guests with any problems they may have. I also had the great pleasure of being able to be apart of many high profile events, which included NCAA Men's basketball regional in 2018, NCAA Volleyball regional in 2017, 2019 & 2021 TBT Regionals, and many high school championships. Show less

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  Wichita Wind Surge

  Feb 2021 - Aug 2021

  Gameday Baseball Operations

  During my time with the Windsurge I held multiple responsibilities. My main role on gamedays was to assist in the deployment of our event staff personnel along with parking staff personnel. I was directly in charge of the parking staff, which we brought in between $1500-$2000 dollars per night with only two paid parking lots. I assisted in helping to solve any guest complaints and to help make the gameday experience for our attendees the best it could be. On days we did not host events, I was in charge of stadium maintenance and getting our event staff and parking staff scheduled for gamedays. Show less

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  University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

  Facilities and Game Operations Graduate Assistant

  During my time at UALR I held multiple responsibilities. One of the main ones that I held was that I was the game manager for women's soccer, volleyball, women's basketball, and men's wrestling. As game manager, I managed several event staff personnel to help enhance our customer experience, was the visiting team/referee liaison and took care of any needs they may have had, assisted the director of facilities in scheduling officials and ball kids/chasers, and assisted in the scheduling of university police officers and city of Little Rock EMS. My other duties included assisting in the daily maintenance of 5 different athletic facilities, ordering and getting team store apparel inventoried, and ordering and getting inventoried concession stand items. Show less

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  WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOC INC

  Dec 2021 - now

  Assistant Director of Facilities and Events

  During my second stint with Wichita State, I hold many day to day and gameday responsibilities. My main daily responsibilities include maintaining a natural dirt and grass softball field and an artificial turf baseball field and performing repairs in our baseball and softball stadiums as necessary. I act as the visiting team and umpire liaison for both softball and baseball. As a visiting team liaison, I create and send out a visiting team guide to all our opponents for the year at the beginning of the season, reach out to visiting teams a week prior to home contests to confirm a practice time and to confirm travel plans, and to assist with any issues that may arise. As an umpire liaison, I send out hotel information and confirmation numbers to all officials a week out from contests and assist with any issues that may arise. Finally, I assist with the gameday operations for all 13 of our varsity sports, including helping to manage event staff personnel and assisting guests with any issues they may have. Show less