Director of Catering

Kevin Bartlett

Director of Catering

FORMER DIPLOMAT& SENATOR, FEMINIST ICON

516-***-**** ******************@*****.*** LinkedIn.com/in/Kevin-Bartlett Education

B. A. Communications

minor: Bus. & Marketing

Marist College NY 2009

Skills

Customer Relations

Event Sales

Sales Forecasting

Operations Management

Inventory Management

Business Development

Marketing + Social Media

Event Planning

Event Coordination

Negotiation

Expertise

Delphi

Knowland

Social Tables

Wedding Site Platforms

Floor Planning Programs

Social Media Platforms

MS Office Suite

Excel

PowerPoint

Profile

Hospitality professional with a focus on customer relations and over 10-years’ experience high-end and in large-managing scale operations, events. Known diverse for acute teams, attention sales, forecasting, to detail, effective and executing teamwork, and consistently demonstrating exemplary communication skills. Professional Experience

Director of Catering

The Darcy Hotel – Washington D.C 12/2019 – 05/2020 Oversaw three chefs, management created menus, of Catering event sales, and Conference logistics and Services coordination, teams, collaborated marketing collateral, with attended expos for boutique hotel and restaurant with $4M in annual catering revenue.

• Responsible for developing and forecasting annual budgets, and setting sales goals

• Introduced new event package amounting to $175K in social event revenue

• Developed social media programs to increase brand awareness

• Created new revenue stream resulting in a 30% increase of revenue Catering Sales Manager

The Liaison Capitol Hill – Washington D.C 05/2018 – 12/2019 Managed customer all contract, aspects production for 80 catered with events the kitchen per year staff, including supervised coordinating the delivery the and initial set up of all events for groups ranging from 10 to 250. attendees

• Exceeded sales goals by an average of %130 per quarter, totaling $1M in sales

• Averaged food and beverage up sale of 15% per event Catering Sales Manager

The Sheraton Pentagon City – Arlington, VA 05/2017 – 05/2018 Promoted and catering from operations Conference including Manager marketing, to handle client full sales-relations cycle and for support, all conference staffing, sales coordinating, and vendor relations.

• Increase annual event revenue by $175K through food and beverage up-sales

• Served as project manager utilizing marketing and promotion techniques Education

B. A. Communications

minor: Bus. & Marketing

Marist College NY 2009

Skills

Customer Relations

Event Sales

Sales Forecasting

Operations Management

Inventory Management

Business Development

Marketing + Social Media

Event Planning

Event Coordination

Negotiation

Expertise

Delphi

Knowland

Social Tables

Wedding Site Platforms

Floor Plan Software

Social Media Platforms

MS Office Suite

Excel

PowerPoint

Professional Experience (Continued)

Event Production Manager

Pier Sixty LLC (Abigail Kirsch) – New York City, NY 01/2016 – 05/2017 Promoted fundraisers to to produce large scale over galas 125 with events 1000+ per year attendees ranging worth from $small 35M in conferences event sales. to

• Responsible creating timelines, for communicating menus, and providing with vendors, on-site obtaining support costs, ordering services,

• Coordinated and planned events for 3 venues with over 36,000 sq. ft. of event space

• Developed site map, schedule, and all necessary logistics Event Operations Manager

Pier Sixty LLC (Abigail Kirsch) – New York City, NY 07/2014 – 01/2016 Facilitated and time constraints. events to ensured success and cost-effectiveness, paying attention to budget

• Responsible staff, payroll, managing and inventory 20-person management Event Services team, interviewing and training Events Operations Lead

TKP New York Conference Center – New York City, NY 10/2012 – 05/2014 Executed site coordination, operational maintaining management and managing of all events inventory for the conference and proper center storage including of on- equipment of work within and timeline supplies, provided. event set-up and tear down. Responsible for completing scope

• Assisted in sales and marketing of the venue, utilizing social media platforms Events Coordinator

American Business Media – New York City, NY 10/2010 – 06/2012 Orchestrated digital events overall each year marketing including initiatives vendor coordination, and execution registration of 12-16 national tracking, onsite budget, and client contracts, and event production.

• Responsible for production of annual award show with 300+ attendees Kevin Bartlett

Director of Catering

FORMER DIPLOMAT& SENATOR, FEMINIST ICON

516-***-**** ******************@*****.*** LinkedIn.com/in/Kevin-Bartlett

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