Marcia Seidler

Current

• Conference and Meeting Planner at Seidler Events (Self-employed)

Past

• Meeting and Events Planner at Foresight Institute
• Meeting Planner at California Space Authority
• Meeting Planner and Organizer at Diabetes Technology Meeting

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Education

• University of Maryland College Park

Recommended

11 people have recommended Marcia

Connections

55 connections

Industry

Events Services

Websites

• My Website

Marcia Seidler’s Summary

Complete understanding of all aspects of conferences, meetings, tradeshows and events. Highly organized, flexible, high energy and positive personality allows me to handle all of the "unexpected surprises" at meetings. Strong people skills allows me to work easily with all levels of positions (i.e., CEO to banquets servers). My conferences have always run very smoothly and I have been congratulated by chairpeople, speakers and attendees for organizing the best conferences they have attended.

"Marcia Seidler is a joy to work with. Her brilliant organizational skills, marvelous personality and rich experience make her the best conference organizer I have ever met."

My goal is to work with a company or client who needs an organized, positive and experienced meeting planner who loves new challenges.

Marcia Seidler’s Specialties:

Venue selection, hotel contract negotiation, budget, vendor relations, desktop publishing

Marcia Seidler’s Experience

• Conference and Meeting Planner

  Seidler Events (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Events Services industry)

  January 1994 — Present (14 years 9 months)

  Organizer Extraordinaire:
  Extensive experience and job skills in all areas of Meetings, Conferences, Events and Tradeshows
  Detail oriented organizer with the ability to juggle many balls and keep the meetings running smoothly
  Responsibilities have included overall event project management, budgets, event preparation, venue evaluation and management, contract negotiation, meal selection, speaker travel and designing conference materialsComplete on-site event management responsibilities
  Post conference evaluation
  Experience range from 30 person executive workshop to 500 person conference
  Developed a training workshop on how to plan and run a successful conference

• Meeting and Events Planner

  Foresight Institute

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Nanotechnology industry)

  September 1994 — December 2005 (11 years 4 months)

  • Complete logistical responsibilities for organizing and managing conferences and meetings from 30 to 500 attendees.
  • From Budget and venue selection, to on-site meeting management and meeting wrap-up all conferences were successful and highly praised for being well organized with great menu selections.
  • Desktop publishing: designed conference materials, brochures, newsletters, meeting programs and managed production with vendors.

• Meeting Planner

  California Space Authority

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  April 2005 — December 2005 (9 months)

  Helped organize and plan 2nd annual Transforming California Space Conference. Developed at Master-to-do list for the meeting, and worked with the management team to keep the planning on track. Worked on-site with team to facilitate a smoothe registration process and kept the overall meeting organized for over 300 attendees.

• Meeting Planner and Organizer

  Diabetes Technology Meeting

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  June 2002 — December 2002 (7 months)

  I helped the organizer of this meeting pull together the event at a very late date. I taught a workshop on how to organize a conference and proceeded to lead the team to a successful meeting of over 500 attendees. I became the meeting project manager and helped with hotel contract negotiations, budget, distribution of tasks, meal planning, audio visual, speaker travel, production of materials and was the hotel liaison.

Marcia Seidler’s Education

• University of Maryland College Park

  Bachelor of Science, Education

  Graduated Cum Laude

Additional Information

Marcia Seidler’s Websites:

• My Website

Marcia Seidler’s Interests:

Working with people, organizational planning, international travel, Italian Language, health and fitness, hiking, new adventures.

Marcia Seidler’s Contact Settings

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