Sarah Meierhoefer

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Personal Profile

I am a hardworking and dedicated individual, working to further my career in event coordination. I have extensive experience planning events for both public and private entities. I pride myself in being a quick learner and have strong computer, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Professional Experience

Rusack Vineyards, Wine Club Manager, August 2009 to Present

Redesigned wine club newsletter, created a more dynamic layout and design, resulting in positive response from owners and club members.

Initiated, then maintained tasting room staff group incentive for wine club sign ups, which led to 60% increase in number of members.

Utilize Mas 200 software to maintain club list, process club shipments, and reconcile daily transaction registers. Worked directly with programmers to improve the flow of the software.

Worked directly with financial officer to ensure proper filing of excise taxes, knowledgeable about current wine shipping compliance laws. As a result, we have been able to open new markets and increase sales.

Coordinated and executed annual wine club event, with improved efficiency resulting in customer retention.

Worked with owners to plan exclusive, upscale, private events held at the vineyard; including nonprofit events, and royal dinner, thus furthering the company’s world class reputation.

Increased basic wine knowledge and experience by participating in harvest processing and through conversations with the winemaker in order to educate and enhance customer experience.

Assisted in redesign of tasting room, researched and worked with multiple vendors and provided support to supervisor to complete the overall project effectively.

Carivintas Tasting Room, Tasting Room Associate, July 2009 to June 2010

Instrumental in opening new tasting room, including merchandise placement, general organization and helped establish procedures.

Increased wine club membership by 25%.

Educated customers about wines while maintaining a high standard of customer service.

Fess Parker’s Wine Country Inn, Events and Catering Manager, April 2007 to May 2009

Hired as front desk associate, quickly promoted to events and catering assistant, and soon after events and catering manager due to excellent performance.

Actively increased the number of events held at the winery and Inn by 40% in one year.

Created contracts for location rental, hotel buyouts, and catering, in order to better secure terms and conditions between company and client.

Effectively organized and managed events varying in size from 10 people up to 500 people including meetings, company parties, corporate retreats, press events, and weddings.

Skilled in anticipating the clients wishes and needs in order to execute a successful event from an aesthetic, budgetary, and logistical standpoint.

Formed and maintained strong relationships with vendors to execute successful events.

Redesigned event collateral generating greater appeal for the venue.

Daily supervision of hotel reception operations and all event staff.

Life Chiropractic, January 2007 to January 2008

Performed reception duties: answering phones, checking in patients, filing and organizing x-rays and patient records.

AMCS, February 2006 to January 2008

Created new filing system for small consulting office and maintained weekly filing.

The Cat House Hotel, July 2005 to April 2007

As lead staff trained new employees and oversaw daily operations.

Isera Group, June 2004 to October 2004

Tested military and emergency service scheduling software, working with developers to inform them of detailed problems they subsequently resolved.

Education

University of California – Santa Barbara, CA

Bachelors of Arts in Political Science with a Minor in History, 2011.

Skills and Activities

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Micros hotel software, and Lightspeed Point of Sale system.

Speak fluent German.

Santa Ynez Valley Therapeutic Riding Program – volunteer from July 2003 to Present.

American Cancer Society – Logistics Chair for Santa Ynez Relay for Life January 2011 to Present.

References

Available upon request