Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Complex Group Sales Manager
The Westin Element Huntsville
10.2024 - Current
Developed key relationships with clients for long-term partnerships, resulting in repeat business and increased revenue.
Implemented a CRM system to better track client interactions, resulting in improved customer service and increased sales.
Led successful negotiations with major clients, securing lucrative contracts that contributed to company growth.
Conducted market research to identify new opportunities and adjust the sales strategy accordingly for optimal results.
Collaborated with other departments to coordinate events for large groups of customers.
Catering Sales Manager
The Westin Huntsville
01.2023 - 10.2024
Created detailed proposal for prospective clients outlining the scope of work, pricing structure and timeline for delivery of services.
Provided excellent customer service by responding promptly to inquiries, addressing concerns and resolving issues in a timely manner.
Performed service and menu upgrades and upselling activities to meet predetermined revenue objectives.
Maintained accurate financial records related to catering services such as invoices, payments received, and outstanding balances.
Exceeded both quarterly and annual sales goals.
Complex Sales Coordinator
The Westin Element Huntsville
07.2022 - 01.2023
Served as a liaison between internal departments such as production, logistics, finance, ensuring seamless end-to-end management of client accounts.
Utilized effective communication skills to respond promptly to customer inquiries via phone or email.
Created, maintained, and performed data entry tasks related to tracking customer information in a database system.
Answered telephones to give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls.
Greeted visitors and callers and handled inquiries and directed them to appropriate persons according to needs.
Banquet Supervisor
The Westin Huntsville
04.2014 - 07.2022
Performed personnel actions, such as hiring staff, providing employee orientation and training and conducting supervisory activities, such as creating work schedules and organizing employee time sheets
Performed various financial activities, such as balancing and posting banquet checks, cash handling, deposit preparation and payroll
Assigned duties, responsibilities and work stations to employees in accordance with work requirements
Forecasted staff, equipment and supply requirements, based on master menu
Inspected supplies, equipment and work areas to ensure efficient service and conformance to standards
Trained workers in food preparation, and in service, sanitation and safety procedures
Persuaded or influenced guest purchase by enticing with higher margin items and add-ons
Memorized frequent customer preferences to build relationships and loyalty
Bartender/Server Trainer
Romano's Macaroni Grill
01.2010 - 02.2015
Prepared hot, cold and mixed drinks for patrons and chilled bottles of wine
Memorized menu to help diners make informed meal choices
Prioritized multiple tasks in dynamic environment and stayed calm and composed
Delivered customer checks and securely processed credit card or cash payments
Designed, coded, tested, debugged, and migrated components of a Front-End application, using the following ISPF Dialog Manager Tools: Panels, Messages, Tables and Skeletons, along with REXX Execs, which facilitated Subject Matter Expert’s (SME’s) identification and extraction of Endevor elements, to prepare for transfer to a LINUX-based system named, “Informatica”. SMEs used Informatica to prepare the downloaded element’s flows to identify technical debt, so that the Agency could migrate away from, what it considered, Legacy development languages. This was due to the shrinking pool of expertise and availability of Legacy Language talent pool.Supplied support to many other mainframe developers, via a tool called Workbench from Allen Systems Group (ASG).The tool was a Data Resource Management System (DRMS) Facility, which provided a repository for and management of COBOL, HLASM, and CICS development metadata. Also managed by the tool were various other elements, such as user access, and Dynamic Table Access Management (DTAMS).Using JCL, REXX, Endevor, TADz, Workbench, and CyberFusion on the mainframe and UltraEdit, MS Access and Excel on the Network, developed a very extensive and complex spreadsheet, for a Tech 14 to evaluate and ultimately present to the Associate Commissioner and other higher-level SSA management. The spreadsheet was a depiction of the overall scope and effort that needed to transition from Workbench (SSA no longer received support for the product), and it aided the Tech 14 in his future presentation.Coding, testing, debugging, and migrating programs (HLASM/COBOL/CICS/Db2/IMS), routines, copybooks, and macros, in support of multiple applications across the Agency.Created and maintained numerous ISPF REXX and CLIST scripts.Created and updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and User manuals, using M365 Tools, including VISIO Pro.Created and supported many MS Access and Db2 SQL scripts, to access and update related databases and tables.Involved in the testing of zOS Multi-Factor Authentication (zMFA), which supplanted Single Sign-On (SSO) at the Agency. zMFA provides multiple levels of authentication and thus, greater levels of security.Participated in Daily Stand-ups/Weekly/and Monthly and other Agile-Related meetings on multiple Teams.Maintained Team SharePoint sites (pages) which later were ported to Confluence. at Leidos, Inc., for Social Security AdministrationDesigned, coded, tested, debugged, and migrated components of a Front-End application, using the following ISPF Dialog Manager Tools: Panels, Messages, Tables and Skeletons, along with REXX Execs, which facilitated Subject Matter Expert’s (SME’s) identification and extraction of Endevor elements, to prepare for transfer to a LINUX-based system named, “Informatica”. SMEs used Informatica to prepare the downloaded element’s flows to identify technical debt, so that the Agency could migrate away from, what it considered, Legacy development languages. This was due to the shrinking pool of expertise and availability of Legacy Language talent pool.Supplied support to many other mainframe developers, via a tool called Workbench from Allen Systems Group (ASG).The tool was a Data Resource Management System (DRMS) Facility, which provided a repository for and management of COBOL, HLASM, and CICS development metadata. Also managed by the tool were various other elements, such as user access, and Dynamic Table Access Management (DTAMS).Using JCL, REXX, Endevor, TADz, Workbench, and CyberFusion on the mainframe and UltraEdit, MS Access and Excel on the Network, developed a very extensive and complex spreadsheet, for a Tech 14 to evaluate and ultimately present to the Associate Commissioner and other higher-level SSA management. The spreadsheet was a depiction of the overall scope and effort that needed to transition from Workbench (SSA no longer received support for the product), and it aided the Tech 14 in his future presentation.Coding, testing, debugging, and migrating programs (HLASM/COBOL/CICS/Db2/IMS), routines, copybooks, and macros, in support of multiple applications across the Agency.Created and maintained numerous ISPF REXX and CLIST scripts.Created and updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and User manuals, using M365 Tools, including VISIO Pro.Created and supported many MS Access and Db2 SQL scripts, to access and update related databases and tables.Involved in the testing of zOS Multi-Factor Authentication (zMFA), which supplanted Single Sign-On (SSO) at the Agency. zMFA provides multiple levels of authentication and thus, greater levels of security.Participated in Daily Stand-ups/Weekly/and Monthly and other Agile-Related meetings on multiple Teams.Maintained Team SharePoint sites (pages) which later were ported to Confluence. at Leidos, Inc., for Social Security Administration
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