Madison Simmons

- Coordinate with all departments to ensure the safety of guests and staff
- Create safety plans for events
- Communicate with local law enforcement and make arrangements to work together
- Handle the departments accounts and spending
- Handle personal information pertaining to open cases between guests and or staff
- Assisting Risk and Safety department as well as legal in cases
- Responsible for running the resorts lost and found
- Managing the resorts lost and found site for all employees to view to make returning items to guests easier
- Manage the return of personal belongings and their safety with the resort mailing department
- Working with Dormakaba (resort electronic key system) on building and creating programming for keys for guests and staff
- Manage and program mountain operation’s radio program
- Sustainable Acton Committee member
- Mental Well-being Champions member
- Coordinate events on mountain pertaining to what the committees are planning

- Prepared monthly safety performance reports for management review.

- Preparing WVU media students from the Reed College of Media to work alongside content creators for GoPro to provide quality content during the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado.
Workshopping camera basics, reviewing and practicing professionalism through scenarios, and what to expect in the high demand, face paced environment while gathering and creating content for various social media platforms.

- Assigned tasks to individual interns based on their skill sets and interests.

- Researched industry trends related to internship programs in order to stay up-to-date with current practices.

- Planned daily activities for internship program.

- Working hand in hand with the UCI World Cup organization and other event managers to host a variety of events throughout the summer season ranging from the UCI World Cup race, holiday celebrations like Memorial Day and 4th of July to statewide motor cross events like GNCC and 4848 Music festival.
- Volunteering and working alongside Snowshoe’s ski patrol and volunteer coordinator to provide extra help for events and on projects like the newly formed Bee City at the resort.
- This position gave me an amazing opportunity to meet others in the outdoor/adventure media industry while meeting individuals locally and from around the world.
- Applied industry knowledge and personal expertise to customize meetings, conferences and conventions to specific standards.

- Monitored feedback from participants after each event to ensure satisfaction levels were met.

- Developed promotional materials such as flyers, posters and brochures for upcoming events.

- Monitored patrons and equipment during rides to prevent accidents.

- Kept records of daily attendance numbers at the beach.

- Reported any hazardous conditions or incidents to management immediately.

- Patrolled beach to monitor guest activities and enforce rules and regulations.

- Welcomed, greeted and interacted with members and guests and verified proper equipment operation.

- Helped coordinate special events on the beach such as weddings or festivals.