Jessica Ferris

• Collaborated with events team to develop conference programming content, including break-out and keynote sessions
• Managed the speaker recruitment process from start to finish, including industry research, application review, curating agendas, and sourcing speakers
• Project manage, edit, and execute the launch of speaker-related webpages and printed programming,
• Build online agenda infrastructure in content management system for each conference, averaging five events per year with up to 6,000 attendees.
• Worked closely with speakers to provide clear and direct communications to all presenters, including presentation development and onsite speaker support
• Develop post-event surveys and track, measure and report the results based on attendee feedback
• Write original content for website and a variety of social platforms promoting events

Compensated volunteer January 2006-August 2008

Full-time employee August 2008-February 2012

• Recognized departmentally as the top-producing content writer, creating error-free content
• Research, write, and edit 40-50 new, engaging, customer-facing hotel descriptions each week; conduct site reviews to maintain and expire information on an ongoing basis
• Ensure consistent tone and style across various hotel brands
• Coordinate with SEO teams to develop marketing copy advertising internal promotions/contests
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to brainstorm homepage site redesign, specifically related to cleaner navigation, search engine, streaming media, and advertising placement

• Managed 30 multi-million dollar business acquisitions, summarized due diligence, drafted asset purchase agreements, and oversaw the successful, timely completion of each project
• Fact-checked and edited legal contracts, marketing collateral, press releases, and internal and external web pages
• Administrator of online document retention database, ensuring 100% compliance by more than 50 branches nationwide