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Ceanna Stephens

Oakland,California

Summary

Highly skilled Senior Event Planner with experience in planning and executing large-scale events. Strengths include strategic event planning, team leadership, budget management, and vendor negotiation. Experienced event manager with a proven track record of executing successful events for top Bay Area companies and institutions. Skilled in client relationship management, vendor coordination, and creating efficient event logistics.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Event Manager & Planner

Jane Hammond Events
San Francisco, USA
06.2011 - Current
  • Company Overview: Full-Service Event Planning and Catering Company; San Francisco, CA
  • Planned & managed over 400 elaborate 100-2,500 person cooperate events, weddings & fundraisers
  • Collaborate with top bay area companies and institutions, such as Google, Salesforce, and Stanford
  • Write comprehensive proposals for prospective clients, with their specific needs & budgets in mind
  • Create scaled floor plans with strategies for efficient flow & guests’ comfort
  • Developed timelines so that all key players, staff, and vendors understand the scope of the event
  • Hire, manage and coordinate with vendors to ensure our clients’ needs are met
  • Familiar with the logistics of premier SF venues, such as the MoMA, de Young Museum, Asian Art Museum, Legion of Honor, and the Exploratorium
  • Full-Service Event Planning and Catering Company; San Francisco, CA

Academic Success Coach

Inside Track
San Francisco, USA
01.2008 - 01.2011
  • Company Overview: Coaching for College Success; San Francisco, CA
  • Facilitated holistic, tailored coaching interactions with hundreds of clients at a variety of online colleges and universities, focused on improving client and partner success outcomes
  • Maintained accurate, organized, and actionable quantitative and qualitative data sets used to target communication plans and support outreach to priority clients
  • Coaching for College Success; San Francisco, CA

Program Coordinator

Global Exchange
San Francisco, USA
01.2001 - 01.2007
  • Company Overview: Social justice non-profit focused on educational travel; San Francisco, CA
  • Coordinated high-level educational delegations to Cuba, the Middle East, and Afghanistan, including participant applications, group orientation, visas, travel arrangements, and in-country itineraries.
  • Skillfully resolved delegates' concerns and problems during and before trips.
  • Wrote orientation materials and conducted cultural orientations for delegates
  • Led groups on delegations to Cuba, the U.S./Mexico border, Israel, Palestine, and Afghanistan.
  • Handled all group logistics while facilitating issue-based meetings and debriefs
  • Social justice non-profit focused on educational travel; San Francisco, CA

Education

Teaching Credential - Secondary History/Civics

Mills College
Oakland, California
05.2009

Bachelor of Science - Political Science, History

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
05.2000

Skills

  • Solution-oriented
  • Communicative
  • Collaborative
  • Team player
  • Vendor and contract negotiations
  • Event sales
  • Transportation and logistics coordination
  • Team leadership and supervision
  • Budget management
  • Catering management
  • Travel coordination
  • Event staff management
  • Managing events start to finish
  • Vendor management
  • Venue selection
  • Project management

Timeline

Senior Event Manager & Planner

Jane Hammond Events
06.2011 - Current

Academic Success Coach

Inside Track
01.2008 - 01.2011

Program Coordinator

Global Exchange
01.2001 - 01.2007

Teaching Credential - Secondary History/Civics

Mills College

Bachelor of Science - Political Science, History

University of Oregon

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