About me
As a highly effective Production manager with a proven history of success, I am honored to present my skills and expertise to you. I believe my history, professional acumen, and leadership skills align closely to the position represented by the Events Manager at your agency/company.-
With hands-on experience in the Production Industry, I am a highly dependable and organized Production manager with the ability to drive organizational improvement and lead successful and high-achieving teams. In my career I studied also the Conservatory of Music, in Venice where I've worked over theory and solfege, piano and conducting. From this is derived a keen attention to the classic music.
Through sound decision making and leadership, I have aided past employers, including Azalea Srl, Zed Entertainment's World S.r.l, and Europa, Europa S.r.l., in achieving short- and long-range goals.
I have ten years of experience in the events sector and I have demonstrated my good results with clients.
Over the course of my professional history, I have achieved the following career highlights:
- Managed 52 events in the last six years with clients, agencies. Planned with venues and theatres, build new spaces. Managed new uses of the spaces, searched speakers. Searched new ways of making adv and digital campaigns: made also items if needed. Made events in more than one day. Searched wow effects. The dimensions: from 250 people to 5.000 people.
Drafted budgets, business plans.-Dealed with caterings, health and security, logistics, suppliers, technicians saving between 8% and 15% on budgets (except one occasion where the saving has been 20%).
The dimensions: from 250 people to 5.000 people.
- Realized consistent enhancements in performance through dynamic analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities.
- Made festival as general manager, and participated to many festival with shows.
- Managed over 800 shows on tour. During these shows: savings between 5% and 12%, solved many problems (technical, logistical etc.)
- Collaborated with employees and team members to manage cost sharing relationship on shoots with various events and show.
- Joined together with marketing and ad sales to develop specialty content around marketing campaigns
- Managed international projects, especially in the David Zard grand operas (such as Austria, Switzerland, France)
- Mantained the interest and support of existing donors and recruiting new individual donors (gain of new big sponsors such as Enel, Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railways) etc.
- Joined together with marketing and ad sales to develop specialty content around marketing campaigns.
- Managed catering, health and security and access to commissions.
I can be flexible with the timing.
Thank you for reviewing my submission, and if you have any questions about my professional history or qualifications, please contact me by phone or email. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Paolo De Santillana
Skills
Audio Visual, Music, Negotiation, Problem Solving, Team Management