Texas Christian University

The Madeira School

Directly manage the end-to-end planning and on-site execution for the TAA ONE Conference & Expo, the largest annual gathering for the Texas rental housing industry, with 5,500 attendees, 460 exhibitor booths, 85 educational sessions, two large all-attendee evening parties and more. Responsible for owning the overall event strategy, budget management, sourcing venues and vendors, program management, design direction, exhibitor sales and management, sponsor sales and deliverables, registration management, housing management, keynote production, travel logistics, evening parties, experiential activations and more.

Texas Apartment Association

Vice President of Conferences & Events

Freelance corporate event manager. Partnering with clients to lead or support their event strategy, marketing and production needs. Services include comprehensive event marketing, budget management, sourcing venues and vendors, program management, speaker fulfillment, sponsor fulfillment, registration management, housing management, keynote production, travel logistics, onsite execution and experiential activations.

Massey Events, LLC

Owner & Event Manager

Offering full service event management and onsite execution for multiple technology clients at in-person user conferences and trade shows. Responsibilities include client account management, budget management, owning the full production schedule and run of show, venue sourcing, vendor sourcing and management, registration management, speaker fulfillment and more.

Gregory Event Services

Director of Events

- Community and program management leader for three open source communities: Open 3D Foundation, OS-Climate and PrestoDB. 
- Primarily responsible for managing the projects community building initiatives, overseeing the annual operating budgets, hosting governing board meetings, facilitating  membership onboarding, renewals and engagement, implementing LF’s best practices and tools, partnering with leadership to support and refine project goals, troubleshooting scalable solutions to operational challenges, reducing barriers to meaningful engagement and contribution from the community and overseeing the launch and rollout of new programs such as training and community recognition.

The Linux Foundation

Senior Program Manager

- Own the trusted relationships with board members, stakeholders and investors on behalf of the Foundation, a 501c6 nonprofit, that hosts a collection of open source software projects used by the world’s leading technology companies.
- Strategic member of the Foundation’s leadership team responsible for establishing new partnerships, collaborations and community development activities within a global community of over 105,000 individual members from 187 countries. 
- Responsible for stewarding all recurring membership funding representing over $6M in annual revenue for the Foundation.

Open Infrastructure Foundation

Director of Strategic Partnerships

- Managed the launch of 5 separate open source software projects: Kata Containers, Zuul, Airship, StarlingX and OpeInfra Labs. Each project launch included coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver naming, trademarking, logo design, website and social media content, marketing and PR activities, legal documents, establishing a governance model, onboarding materials for new contributors, advising project leaders on open source best practices, organizing educational events, and many other operations that are essential for setting the project up for success.
- Organized each project’s exhibit booth and coordinated speaking opportunities at large open source conferences, hosted standing community meetings, organized special interest groups (SIGs) and working groups (WGs), and prepared the project technical leaders to present progress updates to the Foundation board of directors.
- Provided ongoing community management for two open source projects, Airship and Kata Containers, guiding them to follow the Foundation’s principles of the Four Opens: source, design, development and community. Served as the operational interface liaising with the community, the members, the Foundation staff and external groups for all activities involving the projects.
- Trained, mentored and managed project coordinators as I handed off the day-to-day community management responsibilities for a few projects after the initial launch phase was over. Provided guidance and support as they stepped in to own the ongoing operations and community coordination on behalf of each project.
- Built strong community partnerships with dozens of ecosystem companies that support each of the Foundation’s open source software projects’ overall health and long-term sustainability.
- Measured and monitored the Foundation members alignment and engagement with each project to help inform and optimize the future support strategy and investment opportunities.

Senior Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

- Directly managed 4 full-time in-house event staff reports as well as large external event production agencies to plan, organize and deliver 2 large global conferences and 20+ smaller special events each year. 
- Produced 10 best in class, global week-long conferences (2,500-7,800 attendees) where cutting edge technologies were first announced and demoed live, receiving global press coverage from the 100+ attending media. At peak, this industry leading conference had a budget of $8.6M per show, 120+ sponsors exhibiting and 7,800 attendees from 60 countries, representing 1,200 companies.
- Responsible for coordinating the biannual conference program including keynote speakers, 1,300+ sessions, workshops, trainings, board meetings and various networking opportunities. 
- Planned over 100 successful unique events over 5 years with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $8.6M.
- Responsible for budget management for the company’s event business unit, charged with self funding each event by selling event sponsorships and registrations and managing the overall finances to break-even. 
- Fundraised over $50M cumulatively from event sponsorships and registrations during my tenure.
Owned all high-level decisions including venue selection, catering, vendors, furniture/design rentals, entertainment. 
- Oversaw all aspects of the event planning including contract negotiation, marketing promotion, run of show preparations, day-of onsite oversight, sponsor sales, sponsor coordination onsite, post-event reporting, etc. 
- Traveled extensively around the world to host large conferences including Austin, Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, Denver, Hong Kong, Paris, Portland, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo and Vancouver, as well as smaller boutique experiences in Budapest, Dublin, Milan, San Francisco, Prague, Seattle, Seoul, Tel-Aviv, Washington D.C., and other locations.

Senior Manager, Global Events

- Primary account lead, responsible for the brand’s social media community engagement to understand, build, grow and manage their online communities and networks for clients including Hershey Company and Michaels Arts & Crafts. 
- Daily responsibilities included social media management (Facebook, Twitter), content creation, analytics reporting and measurement, influencer identification and relations, crisis communications monitoring and reporting, and collaboration with partner agencies, including PR, advertising, design and digital, to deliver integrated marketing campaigns.

Social Media Marketing Associate

- Served as in-house admin volunteer for the Quest office in CR. Processed 200+ applications from prospective future volunteers, organized a weekend orientation for 30+, follow-up camps and several socio-cultural activities.
- Traveled throughout Costa Rica to check-in and write up reports on other volunteers in their respective project placements including hospitals, orphanages, schools, endangered species reserves and alike.

United Planet

Long-Term Volunteer, Costa Rica

- Assisted managing donor cultivation and stewardship, including verbal and written communication with key community supporters and University alumni. 
- Coordinated recognition events for affluent donors, educational seminars with visiting guest lecturers, and hosted biannual meetings for the Foundation Advisory Council.  
- Wrote grant proposals to local and national charitable foundations and corporations for support of the Children’s and Family Wellness Centers and other training sites for UT students. Awarded $250K+ for childhood obesity initiatives.

University of Texas at Austin

Philanthropy Development Associate

- Coordinated community educational events throughout the state of Texas and managed a large diverse groups of volunteers in their local communities. Reported activities, needs assessments and metrics in board meetings.
- Facilitated major fundraising events including the annual convention that was responsible for raising 1/3 of the organization’s annual operating revenue. Solicited 10 large corporate sponsorships and collected more than 300 donated items for live and silent auctions raising $2M.
- Wrote a monthly column for Texas Wildlife magazine, a print publication with a readership of 25,000.

Texas Wildlife Association

Special Events & Membership Coordinator

- Planned all logistics of 3 major fundraising events for various local nonprofits in San Antonio. Met with and mobilized volunteer committees, board members and provided on-site supervision of events.

Claire Massey