Scott Ellison Ebright - Entertainment Career

 CONSULTING  /  HOSPITALITY  /  MANAGEMENT / PROFITABLE BUSINESS OPERATIONS

                                 CORPORATE BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Consulting and Marketing professional with over 20 year’s experience launching highly-successful 

business in the hospitality and entertainment industry in California

• A proven innovator with highly profitable results
• Start-up specialist - generated over $40 million for clients
• Goal oriented and dedicated to bottom line 
• Consultant and manager for multi-million dollar Oldies Nightclub chains
• Hired...trained...motivated hundreds of employees, DJ's, Bar Personnel
• Public speaker / performer - over 8,500 stage appearances
• Creative...energetic...resourceful...diplomatic

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Consulted with investors and businesses in management and marketing promotion roles. Provided clients with unique start-up concepts and successfully attracted target customers. Proficient at establishing SOP, hiring and training, budgeting, and implemen­ted control monitoring procedures for maximum efficiency. 
• Conceived and launched profitable public promotions, working closely with manage­ment. Created graphics and text content for all external and internal media advertising. Composed, wrote and designed monthly special event calendars for 39 Oldies nightclubs. Produced all aspects of large- scaled theme party events that utilized Hollywood type theme sets, special props, multi-media videos and customized contests and nostalgic music themes. Purchased media advertising, produced media spots as voice over talent, script writer, and production manager in recording studios.  
• Developed PR stream of advertising literature and Press releases to over 4,000 world-wide newspapers, magazines and television  companies. Maintained computer database of preferred clients and inventories of vinyl, digital and video music archives. 
• Wrote sales literature and training seminars for all levels of management, employees and advertising agencies. Conceived and executed unique and highly successful music formats for nightclubs to attract target clientele.  

CORPORATIONS and TITLES HELD

7/01 - 5/02    HEAD HUNTER, Triunity Corporation, Ukiah, CA

2/92 – 6/92   VICE-PRESIDENT, Bernard Haldane & Associates, Sacramento, CA

9/90 – 1/92   SEMINAR MGR and SPEAKER, Career Pro, Roseville, CA 

3/90 - 8/90    GEN MGR & WRITER, Resume Specialists, Sacramento, CA

7/89 - 12/89   PROMOTIONAL MGR & DJ, Pink Cadillac (Hilton), Sacramento, CA.

7/88 - 5/89    ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR, Flashback (nostalgia music nightclub); Rancho Cordova, CA.

4/87 - 1/88   NIGHTCLUB START-UP CONSULTANT, MUSIC PROGRAMMER,

                    Twist & Shout (Oldies nightclub) , Sacramento, CA, Hungry Tiger Restaurant / Grace Corp.

8/85 - 2/87   ENTERTAINMENT DIR. and DJ, Classic Jukebox, Roseville, CA.

8/83 -11/84 ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR for chain of Hungry Tiger nightclubs and restaurants. Start-up consulted reporting to Hungry Tiger President, Kevin Frawley, Los Angeles. Kevin Frawley was Vice-President of Disneyland Entertainment.division and talent for 25 years.

7/81 - 7/83   ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR and Head Disc Jockey, Hilton Pointe Resorts, Phoenix, AZ.

4/78 - 2/79   ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR and Head Disc Jockey, Clementine's Nightclub, Stanford, CA.

6/77 - 2/78   PROMOTIONS, TALENT AGENT, ICA Talent, Beverly Hills, CA.

7/75 - 6/77   PRESIDENT / CEO,  Jesse King Enterprises, Winterpark, FL.

ORGANIZATIONS AND TITLES HELD

1/83 - 4/85  Vice-Pres/PR director for the PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL FILM  FESTIVAL, Scottsdale, AZ.

1/83 - 4/83  Instructor, SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Scottsdale, AZ.

3/80 - 4/82  President /Regional Administrator, CALIFORNIA ORCHESTRA LEADERS' ASSOCIATION, Palo Alto, CA. (Home office NOLA, New York).

EDUCATION

Sacramento State, Sacramento, CA (Computer programming coursework, 

database creation, algorithym analysis, Wordperfect, Lotus, Excel, Microsoft Word, Photoshop.

Delta College, University Center, MI (Broadcasting Major, Business Organization, Literature, Political Science).

College of Marin, Kentfield, CA (Filmmaking, Psychology, Drama).

CAREER RELATED

Education & Training Connection, (1999), Seminar speaker for business entrepreneurs seeking advice in all aspects of running their business.

Barrister House Publishing, (1992), Consultant for Job Search books

Experience Unlimited (State of California), (1991), Writer and Seminar Speaker 

for multiple programs: "Job Search Techniques for Middle to Upper Level Management Professionals”

Learning Exchange, Sacramento, (1991), Instructor for various courses of entertainment marketing: "PR that Pays".

Scottsdale Community College, (1983), Instructor: "Entertainment Marketing".

National Orchestra Leader's Association, (3/80 - 4/81), President and Regional 

Administrator. This organization drove the musician’s unions out of business in No. California. As a result, the state laws were changed to “right to work” status.

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