Executive Assistant Sales

Location:

United States

Posted:

December 12, 2010

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Dawn M. Ahern

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Motivated, professional, creative executive assistant. Trusted confidant for employers, including management of personal and professional affairs. Expertise in working with high-profile individuals, with multiple and complex business concerns. Comfortable with VIP, celebrity events and highly visible situations. Accustomed to handling extremely confidential information on a daily basis.

Expertise includes strong presentation production, technical and organizational skills, including:

• Firm, yet diplomatic and tactful, gatekeeper

• Operating in an extremely fast-paced, deadline driven environment

• Manage extensive and complex calendars

• Meeting planning, staff trainings, corporate events, charity fundraisers and launch parties

• Preparing press releases, talking points for media interviews

• Supervise photo, DVD as well as editorial and commercial shoots

• Oversee all aspects of trade show presence from load-in to sales

• Manage and arrange domestic and international travel (commercial and private), hotel and ground transportation

EXPERIENCE:

Kate Somerville Skin Care, Los Angeles, CA 12/2008 – 8/2010

Executive Assistant to Founder/CEO

• Organize meetings with board members, legal teams, brand department heads, corporate officers as well as QVC and other key accounts. Plan and organize all personal and professional calendars, and related travel and logistics. Prepare and submit complex expense reports for Kate Somerville’s travels and other corporate activity

• Manage event prep, including coordination with PR teams, fashion designers, jewelers, hair and makeup for special appearances at the Golden Globes, Emmy Awards and other TV interviews

• Oversaw the move of corporate offices and skin care clinic, including coordinating packing, transfer of IT equipment and office communications, and set up of new space

• Managed photo shoot for Complexion Perfection, a book by Kate Somerville (launched 3/2010), as well as other photo shoots for corporate brand collateral

Freelance Projects 2/2008 - 12/2008

• Produced, directed and edited DVDs and CD series for a variety of clients including Kelly Cardenas and Veronica Botti

• Managed production of CDs and DVDs, including duplication and replication, product packaging, graphic design

• Consistent track record of delivering projects on time and on budget. Identified cost-efficiencies at every opportunity to optimize client budgets. Average cost-savings per project: 33 percent.

• Recommended e-commerce sites for online sales

• Conducted agency search for marketing Kelly Cardenas Salon and Kelly Cardenas himself

Angus M Inc. and John Paul Mitchell Systems, Los Angeles, CA 3/2007 - 2/2008

Executive Assistant to the Owner

• Served as “Gatekeeper.” Coordinated and managed owner’s calendar, including the artistic schedule for show tours, interviews, press conferences and charity functions worldwide

• Served as liaison with business associates and all staff

• Supervised PR, trade show marketing, creative and education departments for photo/video shoots, major media events and live productions worldwide. Planned high-profile celebrity and press events.

• Saved company approximately $100,000 in production costs

• Organized complex domestic and international travel arrangements, including commercial and private air transportation

• Oversaw multiple homes, including coordination of household staff

A Robert Cromeans Salon Inc./Paul Mitchell The School 11/1995 - 3/2007

Global Artistic Director Paul Mitchell Hair Care, San Diego, CA & Las Vegas, NV

Executive Assistant to the President and 0wner

• Served as liaison between President and John Paul Mitchell Systems Senior management, VPs, distributors and all staff worldwide in addition to PR department and marketing teams. Took internal/external meetings on president’s behalf

• Kept President and Artistic Director informed of daily “running” of multiple aspects of businesses; act as go-between with each business

• Identified opportunities for cost efficiencies in trade show planning as well as DVD and still photo production, saving the company more than $1.1 million over 12 years

• Facilitated planning of high profile events, business seminars, trade shows, and educational events, worldwide

• Oversaw all production and planning of large scale live shows, DVD/video, CD series photo shoots, commercials, charity and press events worldwide

• Oversaw and ran all start up of new salons, schools and private business ventures. Over 12 years, helped grow business from one salon with 10 chairs into a five-salon, multi-million dollar business

• Created and maintained relationships with local hotels and venues for opening new salons and business units

• Organized complex domestic and international travel for company President and artistic team, including hotel and ground transportation.

John Paul Mitchell Systems, San Diego, CA 1/1991 – 2/2008

Independent Contractor

• Artistic Coordinator for San Diego-based Distributor

• Ran and organized meetings, trainings at local distributor

• Organized Paul Mitchell Advanced Academies and conducted new hire trainings and educational team members

COMPUTER SKILLS

MAC OSX, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage), Adobe Creative Suite (PhotoShop and Illustrator), Microsoft Outlook and savvy online researcher.

EDUCATION

Mira Costa College, Encinitas, CA, A.A. Degree

California State Board License in Cosmetology

Palomar College, Palomar, CA

Dawn M. Ahern

References

Jon Bilock

Former General Manage/VP of Sales for Kate Somerville

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Robert Cromeans

A Robert Cromeans Salon