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Alissa R.

Marketing Event Planner & Social Media Strategist: Brand Amplification

Los Angeles, California
$40 per hour
6 jobs
$20K+ total earnings

I am a results-driven professional with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a proven track record in marketing, sales, event planning, and lead generation. My expertise lies in content creation, social media management, and event planning, all supported by a Master's degree in Marketing. I'm available for event planning and social media contracts. Need assistance with an event, branding, social media posts, or content strategy? Let's connect today!

Ty L.

Event Producer | Experiential Marketing | Brand Partnerships

Los Angeles, California
$85 per hour
2 jobs
$600+ total earnings

I turn business and marketing objectives into events and experiences that work. For over two decades, I’ve led conferences, executive experiences, branded activations, corporate meetings, trade shows, and partner-driven programs from strategy through execution. I’m equally comfortable helping define what an event should accomplish and taking ownership of the production required to make it happen. I believe a successful event has to do more than run smoothly. It should have a clear reason for existing and deliver against it. The same is true of sponsorships and brand partnerships: the strongest programs create meaningful value for the client, the partner, and the audience. **WHAT I CAN HELP WITH** • Event strategy & concept development • End-to-end event & experiential production • Conferences, executive experiences & corporate events • Brand activations & experiential marketing • Sponsorship strategy & brand partner integration • Event marketing & audience engagement • Budgets, timelines, vendors, stakeholders & on-site execution **SELECTED EXPERIENCE** **Black Enterprise | Women of Power Summit** Produced a multi-day leadership conference for 500+ executive women of color and 30+ brand sponsors, overseeing production, marketing, programming, and sponsor integration. **Writers Guild of America (West) | WGA Awards** Designed and managed the sponsorship program, developed partnership concepts and pitch materials, collaborated with sponsorship sales, and led sponsor activation and guest management. **Bank of America | Executive & Client Experiences** Produced high-touch advisory and recognition events for UHNW clients, including programs featuring keynote speakers, culinary experiences, and philanthropic partnerships. **Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | Corporate & Client Events** Managed production for firm-wide meetings, CLE programs, retreats, and client events, collaborating with senior leadership and multiple internal stakeholders. **Avocados From Mexico + Harry & David | Brand Activations** Executed influencer and media experiences that generated 14.9M+ impressions and nearly 1M engagements. Clients and brand partners throughout my career have also included Watkins, Nutella, and others across financial services, legal, media, food and lifestyle brands. If you need someone who can understand the objective, shape the experience, take ownership of the moving pieces, and get it across the finish line, let’s talk.

Valeria T.

Project Manager, Administrative Specialist, Travel Planner

Los Angeles, California
$25 per hour
1 job
$3K+ total earnings

I'm an experienced Project Manager with over 5 years in marketing and communications. Skilled in coordinating cross-functional teams, managing timelines and budgets, executing events, vendor relationships, and workflow optimization. I also bring extensive experience as an administrative assistant, having worked closely with a high-achieving creative professional as well as corporate directors and C-Suite individuals, providing seamless support across admin, organizational, and financial tasks. I am detail-oriented, a quick learner, reliable, and a creative problem-solver. Key Skills: - Calendar coordination - Inbox administration - Project management - Budget tracking - Travel planning - Event planning - CRM tools like Jira, Click-Up, Trello - Microsoft Office (advanced Excel skills) - Various other softwares and programs: MailChimp, SharePoint, Salesforce, Squarespace, Canva, etc On a personal note: I love art and creative expression. I'm a foodie who loves discovering new restaurants. I love to travel and learn new cultures. I'm passionate about health and wellness.

Travis M.

AI Solutions Builder and AI Consultant

Los Angeles, California
$200 per hour
2 jobs
$1K total earnings

AI Workflow Automation & Operational Systems for Events, Hospitality, and Growth-Stage Operations I’ve spent 12 years producing 300+ events and a decade leading enterprise-scale operations, building systems that saved 100K+ hours and $5M+ in measurable value. Across events, hospitality, and operations teams, the problem is consistent: Manual coordination scales with volume instead of becoming more efficient. Event teams manage 50+ vendors per event using disconnected tools. Hospitality managers solve workforce scheduling constraints manually each week. Operations teams re-enter data across systems, reconcile discrepancies, build reports from scattered sources, and waste hours searching for information across platforms that don’t integrate. I build AI-powered systems, automation workflows, and production-grade platforms that eliminate operational friction. At The McBurney Group, I design and implement: • AI agents and intelligent automation workflows • System integration and cross-platform orchestration • Workforce scheduling automation • Meeting intelligence and document processing systems • Operational dashboards and reporting automation • Custom-built AI production applications 100+ workflows and automation systems deployed across events, hospitality, and operational environments. Industry Focus Events Vendor coordination automation, timeline generation, budget intelligence, and communication workflows for event companies and independent planners. Hospitality Workforce scheduling systems, compliance tracking, turnover reduction, and operational efficiency builds for hotels, venues, and restaurants. Growth-Stage Operations Meeting intelligence, knowledge retrieval systems, document automation, workflow orchestration, and AI-driven process optimization for coordination-heavy businesses. I came from operations and learned to build with AI, not the other way around. Most automation initiatives fail when technology is implemented without redesigning workflow reality. I architect complete systems where AI agents, workflows, platforms, and people work together. I build implemented solutions, not theoretical strategies.

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