Bryan Hill
Omaha,NE
Summary
A business-minded individual with many years of experience from building client rapport, mentoring, proper training to create a staff of great employees, using good judgment, determination, hard work, long hours, and good decision making are factors that lead to the success of Bryan Hill Entertainment. Rest assured it doesn't come easy.
Experiences learned from previous jobs have been steppingstones for well over 40 years. These experiences have contributed greatly to the growth of Bryan Hill Entertainment. Bryan Hill Entertainment Inc started out by taking baby steps and ended up as one of the largest if not the largest companies of its type in Nebraska. Bryan Hill Entertainment provided entertainment to countless thousands over the years, including Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. To be more specific, it included live entertainment of all kinds, such as karaoke, inflatable attractions, live bands, magician's, comedians etc. Bryan Hill Entertainments client list grew to overs 3500 consisting of high schools, colleges, corporations, night clubs, fairs, festivals, city wide celebrations, family back yard parties, and the list goes on. Looking back over a long history, it seems that sales and customers relations are a perfect Nitch.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
Work History
President
Bryan Hill Entertainment Inc.
Omaha, NE
01.1990 - 09.2020
- Hired and managed employees while training staff on best practices, procedures, and company policies.
- Trained and supervised sales staff as well as set up and tear down crews and procedures, while stressing time management. Be setup before event start time.
- Conduct research on emerging trends within our industry and find ways to develop new products, services, to create additional sales.
- Payroll / Quickbooks
- Increase company growth and awareness through sales and marketing by constantly updating our website and email promotions
- Attended yearly trade shows while building rapport with prospects and other business owners. Also attended local trade shows.
- Stressed optimal safety practices and procedures to reduce work site complaints, hazards, incidents or accidents. Clients appreciated out concern for safety.
- Do anything and everything necessary to operate a successful company.
Regional Agent in Entertainment
O'Brien Entertainment
Omaha, NE
01.1981 - 12.1991
- Collaborated with company agents to make accurate bookings.
- Make sure the band is a good fit for the facility and that the routing and the budget and lodging are adequate.
- Negotiated with entertainment buyers, agents regarding band requirements and facility needs.
- Met with clients to discuss goals for there facility and the entertainment industry.
- Collaborated with various bands to pursue leads and pitch potential representation.
- Demonstrate respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Not afraid to make cold calls to drum up new business.
- Working within tight deadlines and sometimes fast-paced atmosphere, not always pleasant at times
- Often had to make quick decisions to solve problems.
- Offered friendly advice to buyers, sometimes handling challenging situations.
- Developed and maintained effective long term working relationships.
- Helped with band development.
Flight Instructor
Hanger One
Millard, NE
06.1982 - 06.1983
- Encouraged student safety while using aircrafts by performing regular inspections of aircrafts, checking weather reports and matching level of competence of students to complex training and instructions.
- Used available instructional material and training syllabi for specific areas of ground and flight training.
- Introduced certain students to procedures and instrument flight techniques.
- Organized and conducted cockpit familiarization classes and prepared reports on students' proficiency.
- Led training flights to include weather briefings, flight scheduling and safety measures to provide safe flights in training environment.
- Observed and evaluated students' work to determine progress, provide feedback and make suggestions for improvement.
- Maintained documentation on educational services and tracked students' progress to gauge overall success of learning program.
- Identified program successes and failures based on student assessments and course reviews.
- Planned and documented programs of study meeting individual needs and abilities of students.
Flight Instructor
Aerodrome....Austin Municipal Airport
Austin, MN
06.1980 - 05.1982
- Verified safety of students while using aircrafts by performing regular inspections of aircrafts, checking weather reports and matching level of competence of students to complex training and instructions.
- Trained individual students in art of aviation through theoretical and practical flight instruction.
- Adjusted and aligned course material to meet individual needs.
- Created instructional material and training syllabi for specific areas of ground and flight training.
- Introduced students to procedures and instrument flight techniques.
- Organized and conducted cockpit familiarization classes and prepared reports on students' proficiency.
- Held training flights to include weather briefings, flight scheduling and safety measures to provide safe flights in training environment.
- Used lesson plans and conducted ground training modules covering aircraft systems across normal, abnormal and emergency operations.
- Supervised and monitored students' use of tools and equipment.
- Observed and evaluated students' work to determine progress, provide feedback and make suggestions for improvement.
- Maintained documentation on educational services and tracked students' progress to gauge overall success of learning program.
- Kept updated with developments in subject area curriculum, technical and career trends and teaching resources and methods.
- Established goals for courses with organized outlines and detailed lessons.
- Identified program successes and failures based on student assessments and course reviews.
- Planned and documented programs of study meeting individual needs and abilities of students.
Night Club Owner
Cavern Lounge
Austin, MN
10.1976 - 12.1981
- Empowered waiters and waitresses to independently handle issues
- Welcomed customer feedback from guests.
- Monitor workers performance, professionalism and service quality. This job can be very demanding.
- Trained workers in service policies, safety requirements and specifics of activities.
- Assigned and scheduled specific tasks to employee's for optimal performance.
- Worked flexible hours, night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, handled challenging situations.
- Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
Ground Instructor
Dessert Air
Mesa, AZ
04.1980 - 05.1980
- Met needs of different students by adapting teaching materials and methods.
- Helped students meet course goals by establishing clear objectives for lessons, units and projects.
- Provided informative lectures on Basic Ground Instruction.
- Only did this for a short time because I was close to finishing my own flight training.
Radio Sales
KAUS AM & FM
Austin, MN
05.1973 - 10.1976
- Engaged with customers to effectively build rapport and lasting relationships, with the hopes it would lead to repeat business.
- Made cold calls to build client list.
- Job was salary plus commission job.
- Worked with clients and their advertising budgets.
- Always made sure clients were aware of current radio station promotions.
- Involved some travel.
Department Manager
Sears
Austin, MN
06.1968 - 05.1973
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
- Worked with new employees and their training.
- Communicated with managers of other departments to maintain transparency.
- Cross-trained existing employees to maximize their agility and performance.
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
Education
Associate of Arts -
Riverside Community College
Austin, Minnesota06.1970
High School Diploma -
Central High School
Austin, Minnesota06.1968
Skills
- Industry Expertise
- Product Development
- Regulatory Compliance
- Business Consulting
- Staff Training
- Sales and Marketing
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Negotiation
Accomplishments
One of my proudest accomplishments is ranking 7th in the state of MN in the all around competition in Gymnastics.
Being in this sport with a fabulous coach helped form many positive characteristics which I credit the success to the many fun, interesting and challenging job opportunities I have chosen to be a part of throughout my working years. I have loved and learned from them all!
Wood working
Love to work with wood building small items to some furniture
Timeline
President
Bryan Hill Entertainment Inc.
01.1990 - 09.2020
Flight Instructor
Hanger One
06.1982 - 06.1983
Regional Agent in Entertainment
O'Brien Entertainment
01.1981 - 12.1991
Flight Instructor
Aerodrome....Austin Municipal Airport
06.1980 - 05.1982
Ground Instructor
Dessert Air
04.1980 - 05.1980
Night Club Owner
Cavern Lounge
10.1976 - 12.1981
Radio Sales
KAUS AM & FM
05.1973 - 10.1976
Associate of Arts -
Riverside Community College
High School Diploma -
Central High School
Department Manager
Sears
06.1968 - 05.1973
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