Corporate Meetings and Events Planner

Genevieve D. Gapud-Duty

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CORPORATE MEETING & EVENT PLANNER

Expertise in meeting planning, trade show, and conference management with extensive experience in people management, problem-solving, fiscal accountability, strategic planning, communication skills, and customer service. Adept at streamlining meeting planning processes and implementing policy and procedures for attendance to a conference. Demonstrated capacity for reducing meeting and convention logistical expenditure and leading companies to participate in local events.

• Planning and Logistics

• Customer Service and Support

• Contract Management and Negotiation

• Vendor Management

• Cross Functional Collaboration

• Budgeting

• Marketing

• Database Management

EXPERIENCE

Prometheus Laboratories Inc., San Diego, CA

Senior Manager, Meetings and Conventions 2016-2018 Managed meetings and conventions for Marketing Operations with an annual budget of over $1.8 million. Serve as the key liaison to management, third party vendors and internal staff members involved in the planning process. Supervised and trained support team.

• Developed and implemented standardized operating procedures to improve efficiency and accountability.

• Creatively decreased Marketing Operations budget by 20% to help fund several departments’ needs.

• Spearheaded collaborative team meetings and delegated operational tasks in support of the company’s goals and objectives for corporate events.

• Established processes to begin participating in international trade shows. Manager, Meetings and Conventions 2014-2016

Supported Sales and Marketing meetings, managed meeting budgets, and planned National Sales Meetings, Regional Meetings, and Town Hall Meetings. Planned, implemented, and evaluated more than 50 meetings, trade shows, and conferences.

• Executed logistics for speaker training, Investigator meetings, advisory board meetings.

• Delivered successful national trade shows and conferences; managed logistics regarding display booths, ordered materials, hotel accommodations, travel arrangements, and correspondences.

• Built effective relationships with venues, vendors, suppliers, customers, and exhibitors.

• Negotiated contracts for optimal cost-effective programs.

• Steered on-site meetings; working as a team with venue staff. Genevieve D. Gapud-Duty **********@*****.*** Page Two Senior Meetings and Conventions Associate 2008-2014 Coordinate all activities for sales meetings, advisory board meetings, speaker training, trade shows and conferences. Provide backup support to Marketing Communications team for projects outside the scope of responsibilities.

• Streamlined cross-functional communications with departments participating in the trade shows and conventions to manage engagement.

• Produced pre-meeting budget for each event, aligning with the overall department budget.

• Composed and prepared meeting materials.

Senior Marketing Communications Associate 2006-2008 Ensured the success of Commercial Organization, executed and implemented speaker programs. Marketing to bring management of Speaker Programs in-house to better support sales team promoting the value of Prometheus products to the market place.

• Launched the transition of speaker programs from a third party vendor to in-house.

• Designed in-house database to support speaker programs.

• Maximized efficiency by creating processes to facilitate internal requests for programs. ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Prometheus Laboratories Inc., San Diego, CA 1999-2006 Technical Service Representative

SDCR Business Systems, San Diego, CA 1999

Customer Service Support Sales

Genzyme Genetics, Orange, CA 1998-1999

Customer Service Representative

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Social Science, University of California, Irvine, CA

(Coursework) Chemistry, Southwestern Community College, Chula Vista, CA CERTIFICATE and MEMBERSHIP

Meeting and Event Planning Certificate, San Diego State University Extended Studies Certified Meeting Professional Certificate, In Progress Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate, In Progress Member, Meeting Professionals International San Diego Chapter ADDITIONAL RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Microsoft (MS) Office: Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook

• SalesLogix

• PrOs

• Concur

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