Grantland has also been great because of course who doesn’t want to see Bill Simmons content but the relevance is what really keeps it alive.

I suppose the common theme is how they both thrive digitally and make you feel like at any given moment something special is happening, that you are a part of.

Education
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 9/09 Bachelor of Science Degree: Construction Management
Professional Meeting and Event Planning Certificate 9/10
Long Beach State University Universita’ Degli Studi Della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy 6/08 – 9/08 Studied language, history and Italian renaissance gardens
Sales and Marketing Experience
Account Coordinator Pacific Communications, Allergan, Inc. (Costa Mesa, CA) 11/10 – Present
• Manage attendee recruitment and travel logistics for $60,000-$300,000 marketing meetings
• Complete meeting reconciliation and billing coordination to capture and report meeting costs
• Prepare weekly progress reports for client to show progress of project goals
• Design, build and manage registration websites
• Prepare monthly travel and credit card expense reports from $50,000-$200,000 for finance department
• Negotiate vendor contracting and oversee contract execution
• Developed registration processes to increase client cost savings
• Created documentation tools to increase accuracy of government reporting
• Defined SOP processes to enhance department productivity
Executive Marketing Assistant Keller Williams Luxury Homes (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) 7/10 –10/10
• Managed marketing of $700,000-$1,000,000 listings: created flyers, updated websites and managed email campaigns
• Creating listing management system to enhance office organization
Direct Sales Representative The Southwestern Company (Great Bend, KS) 6/06 – 9/06
• Executed sales, ordering, inventory, accounting and delivery of product
• Yielded higher sales than 95% of other first year dealers
• Generated a revenue of more than $13,000 in 11 weeks
• Top 10% of First Year Dealer (among 2000 sales personnel)
• Earned Gold Seal Gold Award, (80+ hrs/wk) and “I Want to Win” Award (largest weekly net sales in final week)

Management Experience
Event Production Assistant Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA) 3/11 – 5/11
• Supervised and directed production for two themed film premiers for 600 attendees
• Managed team members, vendors and volunteers from event setup to strike
• Created and communicated production schedule to event vendors
• Conducted on-site event walkthroughs with venue representatives and vendors
• Oversaw all aspects of ticketing, security, event flow to show timing
Staging Production Manager El Camino College, Fashion Show (El Camino, CA) 2/10 – 6/10
• Supervised internal/external vendors and event staff from event setup to take down
• Corresponded with vendors, venue staff and setup crew to arrange show set up
• Developed runway and stage design and using AutoCAD
• Created front lobby table set up, seating layout and tabletop design
Assistant Project Manager T and M Construction (San Pedro, CA) Summer 04, 05 & 09
• Scheduled equipment utilization and manpower, maintained job cost sheet, billed customers monthly
• Attended project meetings, documented project needs and followed up on project status
• Solicited company’s construction services to general contractors and submitted bid proposals.
• Managed accounts payables and created subcontractor invoices via QuickBooks software

Additional Experience
Administrative Assistant Contracts, Procurement and Risk Management (Cal Poly) 8/08 – 12/09
• Performed administrative tasks including: client services and data entry using PeopleSoft
• Organized and maintained office filing procedures
• Processed P-Card handlings including requisitions and cancellations
Vice President Sports Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Student Life and Leadership (San Luis Obispo, CA) 9/08 – 6/09
• Planned a week of events with 1-2 events per day for 3,000 students
• Coordinated and ran weekly meetings of 40 plus volunteers
• Generated $5,000 and 4,200 lbs of cans in donations by creating new philanthropy events

Computer Skills
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, AutoCAD, PeopleSoft, QuickBooks

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Thanks for posting. That’s exactly the idea: be unpopular when it counts. We need more of that!