

Enthusiastic customer experience driven professional with experience as a Universal Orlando Event Guide and Seasonal Tour Guide, extensive personal travel history, theme park & resort expertise, and a strong background serving individual & event clients at Universal Studios and elsewhere within the hospitality industry.
• Assisted in establishing new methods for streamlining merchandise pickup while achieving operational goals, and was then rewarded with an offer to help lead the team.
• Commended by superiors for making it into the top 0.4% of “yellow shirts” across all of Megacon 2024.
• Played a major role in the creation of a plan to revolutionize the pickup of essential merchandise, and made it possible for that process to be replicated across the country at numerous expos.
• Proved ability to rise to an ever-changing task list, and to successfully handle new demands that were frequently made with little notice.
• Developed important connections between third-party vendors and co-workers.
• Provided extraordinary service to high volumes of guests, who presented a variety of challenging problems pertaining to the recovery of lost products.
• Invited to perform expanded employment roles at out-of-state venues, including Denver's Fan Expo.
• Helped to achieve record-breaking numbers for new bookings during several consecutive periods.
• Demonstrated empathy while helping clients plan, change, and manage their vacations.
• Evidenced commitment to employer through consistent willingness to ‘go the extra mile,’sacrifice personal plans, and work late nights.
• Given new tasks daily and constantly learned and developed new methods for solving problems and even creating new processes to help the company.
• Received consistent recognition from guests, leadership, team members, & executives while working at Universal's Orlando resort.
• Created strong, long-lasting connections with guests and fellow team members through the opportunity to do tours as a TA for the Marquee Events Tours season.
• Excels at learning quickly and adapting to new workplace environments & tasks.
• Assisted a large volume of clients booking travel to luxury estates in the Orlando area.
• Personally visited at least three dozen theme parks including nearly every Universal & Disney resort in the world.
Marc Barela | Fan Expo | (719) 406-0719