Kimberly Johnson

Prior Lake, MN 651-***-**** adgp53@r.postjobfree.com

Personal Profile

Results-oriented business professional with 8+ years of experience in project management and event management. Proven ability to build relationships, communicate effectively, and work efficiently with partners, vendors, clients, and creative teams to drive the development and execution of events. Pays strong attention to detail, highly productive and efficient with the ability to multitask. Recognized and praised for handling stressful, tough situations in a calm and quick manner, both on-site and behind the scenes.

Related Experience

Skyline Exhibits (Eagan, MN) February 2019 - Present

Project Manager

Act as a liaison between sales reps, production team, graphic artists, and booth designers to ensure smooth planning of details and logistics for exhibitions that range in budgets of $2K-100K+.

Organize and facilitate kick-off meetings with sales reps, clients, and designers to have an open dialogue about the client's vision, expectations and budget, to then provide expertise on requirements versus budget, and present alternative concepts to meet the client's objectives.

Produce accurate quotes of rental and purchase booth items to present to the clients and accurately follow through on ordering within the contract's wholesale dollar amount to ensure that there is no loss of earnings for the sales reps, oftentimes earning them more than anticipated.

Handle disputes for product that was printed and/or shipped in error or was received damaged by working with the production team to immediately fix the situation and ensure the client has received the corrected product, often within strict timelines.

Manage payments and any necessary follow up for vendors involved in project management including freight and transportation services, furniture rental companies, and third-party exhibit vendors.

Communicate regularly with Accounting to ensure all contracts and payments are accurate while managing a corporate credit card to pay for outside vendor expenses. Reconcile credit card charges monthly.

Thomson Reuters (Eagan, MN) September 2012 – November 2018

Tradeshow Planner

Successfully managed over 120 annually planned and short lead-time trade shows, meetings, and events per year, ranging from smaller events or trade show booths with budgets between $3-10K to larger events with budgets over $100K.

Worked closely with clients to bring the vision of a trade show booth or event to life based on individual business or client needs and desired financial targets such as return on investment (ROI).

Provided on-site expertise with managing local talent and unions necessary for set-up, execution, and tear-down of all events. Handled any 'hiccups' to ensure a smooth event, oftentimes in high-pressure situations.

Managed contracts, on-site involvement, payments and any necessary follow up for all vendors involved in events including exhibit management companies, hotels, Banquet and Event Orders, audio-visual, production companies in addition to the above-listed vendors.

Consistently managed and delivered projects within or under budget by effectively and appropriately re-purposing marketing messages and booth properties, utilizing direct shipping from one event to the next and taking advantage of advanced pricing deadlines from external vendors.

Assisted with the development of an on-site lead-generation solution via tablet device that captured attendee contact information, identified products of interest, and enabled the sharing of electronic product literature and provided detailed data to field representatives used in lead generation and follow-up activities.

Many of the same tasks as above such as facilitating kick off-meetings, managing a corporate credit card, constant communication with all key contacts to smoothly coordinate and execute events.

Mall of America (Bloomington, MN) June 2011- August 2012

Coordinator of Nickelodeon Universe Logistics

Managed product inventory levels, incoming and outgoing shipments, and payments for incoming product.

Communicated regularly with Accounting to ensure accuracy with payments for incoming product.

Acted as a team lead to three warehouse employees.

Managed price changes of product, communicated price changes with the team.

Assisted with the logistics and set-up of events for Nickelodeon Universe and Mall of America.

Education

Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN) Graduated: May 2011

Major: B.A. in Communication Studies, English Minor

Related Courses: Interpersonal Communication, Public Discourse, Media and Society, Media Criticism, Creative Writing, Intercultural Communication, Perspectives of News, Ethnography

Eden Prairie High School (Eden Prairie, MN) Graduated: June 2007