Ari Zomer

About Ari Zomer

Senior operations professional with over 15 years’ experience in the publishing and trade show industry; specializing in the execution and marketing of business-to-business top-tier technology and software trade shows for U.S. and global markets. Specialize: deep understanding of print, logistics and tradeshow industries. Innate insight into production timelines and building processes to enable streamline internal and external communication. Passionate about building collaborative teams and processes. Identifying and improving points of inefficient and unnecessary expenditures. Negotiating mutually beneficial agreements that fall in line with company and partner objectives. Managing and challenging engaged teams to participate in their individual professional development Specialties include: database structure, business process, graphic materials; digital & print output requirements, Adobe product suite, Tradeshow execution; including booth build, event mapping/layout, organization, negotiation, sourcing and identifying suppliers, international

Experience

1. VP Event Operations

   SAPinsider

   Jan 2019 — Present

   Event leader guiding event related sales, operations, content curation, production, and client success

Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  BS, New Media Publishing

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Indesign
• Supplier Sourcing
• Leadership
• Marketing Communications
• Dreamweaver
• Illustrator
• Adobe Acrobat
• Filemaker
• Business Analysis
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Business Process Improvement
• Microsoft Excel
• Pre-Press
• Trade Show Exhibitor
• Advertising
• Social Media
• Sourcing
• Trade Shows
• Lead Generation
• Vendor Management
• Management
• Negotiation
• Microsoft Office
• Email Marketing
• Marketing
• Project Planning
• Photoshop
• Print Management
• Mac
• Project Management
• Publishing
• Team Management