Executive Assistant, Event Manager

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT - EVENT MANAGER / PLANNER

Articulate, results-oriented, and high-energy professional who intends to offer immediate and long-term contribution to a company to achieve bottom line results, leading to profit growth and business expansion.

- Recognized as a confident leader with proven track record of success in event planning and execution. Ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously within highly pressured environments. Flexible and hardworking with high energy levels, with the ability to relate effectively to a wide range of people.

- Offering extensive experience in sales and marketing, event planning, including coordination of a wide range of customer-focused and company events, requiring excellent communication and negotiation skills. Demonstrate strong customer-focus, high level of project management problem solving skills, and keen attention to detail.

- Able to focus on project, develop strategies, and meet or exceed deadlines. Committed to achieving outstanding results and to work accurately under pressure within fast-paced environment. Willing to assume increasing responsibilities.

- Decisive and direct, yet flexible in responding to constantly changing assignments. Determined and results-driven to see projects into successful completion.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES

- Created all marketing collateral and company website content and coordinated PR activities including press releases, press meetings, and tradeshows while facilitating sales team on the floor for the entire tradeshows.

- Directed the planning and implementation of marketing communications projects within the advertising and promotional programs, public relations and events, with Internet-based communication sectors.

- Contributed in the creation of development plans for product endorsement in support of marketing objectives by arranging materials for internal and external presentations on products, business plans and management issues.

- Communicated with key management and external/internal resources to discuss the whole details of the project specifications. Planned schedules for projects in accordance with the corporate style and consistency of the overall divisional projects.

- Rendered assistance to the VP and CIO of Corporate IS&T on all levels by organizing the appointment calendar, screening calls, and previewing and prioritizing incoming correspondence, both e-mail and mail.

- Organized small and large technical review meetings, incentives, celebration events, and tradeshows while supervising 35 administrative staff members in handling various divisional projects.

- Documented gathered data and prepared PowerPoint slides for high-level presentations for corporate meetings and Board of Director meetings; oversaw recognition and awards committee; and revised monthly online divisional newsletter.

- Sold title insurance policies and escrow services to the real estate industry while performing sale and processing loan escrow transactions.

- Negotiated with customers, branch, and county managers; managed month-end reports; and facilitated in training junior escrow officers and assistants.

- Established Broadmedia freeTone(TM) service that allowed calls through the Internet, which reduced cost expense of traditional phone service and attained more exposure in the telecommunications arena.

WORK HISTORY

2004-2008 Real Estate Agent, Coldwell Banker and Keller Williams -Roseville, CA

1999-2002 Marketing Communications Manager, BroadMedia, Inc. -Santa Clara, CA

1997-1999 Marketing Communications Specialist, Applied Materials, Inc. -Santa Clara, CA

1994-1997 Executive Administrative Assistant, Applied Materials, Inc. -Santa Clara, CA

1990-1994 Escrow Officer/Outside Sales Representative, American Title -Cupertino, CA

EDUCATION AND OTHER CREDENTIALS

Associate’s Degree, West Valley College -Saratoga, CA

Certificate for Event Planning: 2000

MS PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Visio Training: 1997

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