Partner/Manager Brother Juniper's Web Store and Memphis Gift Basket Web Store
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Partner/Manager at Memphis Gift Basket Web Store
- Partner/Manager at Brother Junipers Web Store
- Conference and Meeting Planner at Seidler Events
- Past
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- Venue Selector & Contract Negotiator at Ultimate Players Association
- Meeting Planner at California Space Authority
- Meeting and Events Planner at Foresight Institute
- Meeting Planner and Organizer at Diabetes Technology Meeting
- Education
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- University of Maryland College Park
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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
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Partner/Manager
Memphis Gift Basket Web Store
(Food Production industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Memphis GIft Basket Web Store is your one-stop online destination for gift buyers who want to send clients, friends, or family a real taste of Memphis.
Our one-of-a-kind uniquely packaged, environmentally friendly gift baskets deliver a selection of hand-picked, genuinely Memphis merchandise produced by locally owned and operated businesses. These homegrown products reflect the true heart and soul of Memphis.
MemphisGIftBasket.com is the product of collaboration between two premiere Memphis businesses, Brother Juniper's and Contemporary Media, Inc. -
Partner/Manager
Brother Junipers Web Store
(Restaurants industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Helped manage, create and facilitate an on-line business for Brother Juniper's Restaurant. This award winning restaurant in Memphis did not have a web presence to acknowledge their history, success and to sell their home-made products. Researched, coordinated and built infrastructure for online store, including shopping cart, banking, fulfillment company, and environmentally friendly packaging system.
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Conference and Meeting Planner
Seidler Events
(Events Services industry)
January 1994 — Present (15 years 11 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 -
Venue Selector & Contract Negotiator
Ultimate Players Association
(Sports industry)
June 2008 — February 2009 (9 months)
As a meeting planner with many years of experience selecting venues and negotiating hotel contracts, I helped this organization find the perfect venue for their meeting. They had budget constraints, but wanted a nice venue. They were extremely pleased with my recommendations and said, "I wanted to say thanks for all your help. I would certainly not have been able to get as much out of the deal as we did if it were not for your help with negotiating the contract."
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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.
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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 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
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University of Maryland College Park
Bachelor of Science , Education
Graduated Cum Laude
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Marcia Seidler’s Interests:
Working with people, organizational planning, international travel, Italian Language, health and fitness, hiking, new adventures, environmental causes.
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