Catering and Convention Services,
The Peabody Orlando
q: What do you do?
a: Help manage the Food and Beverage, meeting space and special requests of groups at The Peabody Orlando. This includes city-wide conventions and social events. Since our $420 million expansion nearly complete, we're attracting new kinds of groups including proms.
q: What's your favorite part of the job?
a: Working with groups for special events; for instance, the players in the Citrus Bowl and Champ Bowl stayed here.
q: What's the greatest challenge?
q: Do you stay in touch with any other UCF hospitality alums?a: Juggling school and work. If all goes well, I'll graduate with a Master's in Hospitality and Tourism Management from UCF in December.
a: Megan Oxman '06 who works with me at The Peabody, Nate Nakamura '06, Jennifer Reynolds '09, Holly Steinebronn '07 and Jennifer Sandler Rosenthal '06.
q: Outside work...you're most likely to be seen?
a: At a UCF football game. Even when I had to study, I took my books tailgating with me.
q: Your biggest accomplishment since graduating, outside your career?
a: Being elected to serve as an officer for the Rosen College chapter of the UCF Alumni Association.
q: How did UCF prepare you for what you do?
a: The classes were exactly what I needed to be successful in my job, particularly the Event Management and Hospitality Finance courses.
q: Your favorite class?
a: Catering Management with Vivian Ray. It taught me what it takes to operate under pressure. Our class catered for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, a three-day outdoor event. It was like being in the Boy Scouts because we had to cook without electricity. For instance, we had planned on smoothies for part of the menu but there wasn't anywhere to hook up our machine. It taught us to be resourceful and improvise.
q: How could the hospitality program have been better?
a: The whole experience was perfect - maybe just a few more real-world projects like I just described.
q: A UCF memory?
a: The activities at Rosen College every Wednesday, sponsored by UCF Student Life. There would be something different every week on the Rosen campus, from making candles to Build-a-Bear.
q: Favorite meal in Orlando?
a: Crispy Spicy Beef at The Cheesecake Factory.
q: On your iPod?
a: Gospel, Pop, Rap and Rock.
q: Little known fact about you?
a: I'm afraid to sleep in the dark. I have a night light.
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