Jesse Collins

Created & branded an event center with a capacity of 3,500 from the ground up in order to help the owner see a growth in profit on his off nights with a clientele he wasn't reaching.

Successfully navigated through years of negative public publicity that the venue had, and the challenges that Covid brought to the entertainment industry. I was responsible for all aspects of the event venue / night club including, but not limited to:

• Negotiating and booking with talent agencies
• Insuring that talent and management had good experience with the venue, to help negotiate further deals and other artist within the same agencies
• Hiring and training of bartenders, floor staff, Security, Dj's and accountants
• In order to cut payroll many times I was responsible for assisting with artist load in, hospitality, production advances, box office, VIP experience, event clean up and settling up with artist and agents.
• Responsible for cashing out bartenders at the end of the night and paying expenses; on average handling a cash flow of $50,000 every night
• In charge of ordering and maintaining the install of all tech equipment including but not limited to, $60,000 DAS sound System, Artfox LED Walls, high-end Stage lighting
• In charge of all social media aspects...Including Follow up emails to concert gowers to ask for feedback

My two favorite parts about this job were

1. Being able to provide a positive experience to the talent and the talent crew by providing outstanding service and making them feel like rockstars at all times

2.being able to help younger employees develop new skill sets and see them open up doors to new possibilities

I started working here in hopes of eventually getting on air as a radio personality, One of the greatest Skills I learned here was all about Digital marketing and social media marketing. here are some of the task I had:

• Prospect, research and connect with new clients: 4 new key target business touched a day while also calling on the left and right to reach a minimum of 12 new contacts a day
• Prospect, research and connect with new clients: 4 new key target business touched a day while also calling on the left and right to reach a minimum of 12 new contacts a day
• Create and implement successful radio & digital campaigns
• Produce creative and unique ads
• Maintain relationship with clients to ensure retention

I left this Job because I didn't believe in the product I was selling.

This is my own Event / DJ company I own, I consider it now to be more of a hobby and only allow myself to do events for Family or close friends. I've made some great connections along the way and this job has really helped me with learning how to communicate with people of different social classes and backgrounds. Here is some of the task I had:

• Manage all operations of renting out equipment for trade shows, holiday parties, receptions. proms, etc
• Host charity events, bridal Expos, receptions
• Developed and deepened relationships with key customers by closely monitoring projects, providing information and resolving concerns

This was one of the greatest experiences I ever had and something I'm very grateful for. This job taught me that I loved being involved in live events. Some of my duties included:

• Perform nightly in the cruise ship night club as a Host and as a DJ
• Perform various day time activities with a team of Entertainment Host
• Carry out numerous Emergency drills and procedures
• Always be a smiling face that anyone can talk to
• Report to cruise director on ratings and entertainment team concerns

• DJ/Host every Thursday-Saturday, Bring on all performers and talk about upcoming events
• Stay up to date with all social media. Promote specials and upcoming events
• Maintain Lighting, sound and dance floor equipment
• Lead a team of Floor guys to tear down show productions in a timely manner
• Update music weekly

• Managed wide variety of customer service and administrative tasks to resolve customer issues quickly and efficiently
• Consistently hit and exceeded sales goals by 20%
• Partnered successfully with other venders to produce happier Brides
• Week in and week out performed numerous Weddings, Proms, Birthday parties (etc) receiving nothing but outstanding reviews
• Meet with owners to discuss ratings and staff

• Night time producer making sure all radio ad's were played
• Monitoring all sound levels and readings. Answering phone calls and email requests
• Reporting Halftime score updates
• Posting scores to social media