Jamie Herman

Hospitality professional with country club, banquet and restaurant experience. Known for friendly guest service, strong upselling, POS systems, multitasking and creating a polished upbeat food and beverage experience for guests in a fast paced setting. Hosted and facilitated events, ensuring a smooth flow of activities and entertainment while I was an emcee and a maitre'de.

Set a timeline with vendors to keep everyone on the same page to help the events run smoothly as an emcee and a maitre'de. Used my strong speaking and communication skills to entertain guests as well as inform them. As an emcee and a dance motivator for 25+ years, I know how to get an entire room up and dancing....watching kids and adults having fun & smiling makes it ALL worth it.

Became a Brand Ambassador after I graduated from Towson using my marketing & PR degree. Being the face of these products was definitely an experience!

Maitre'de - Battleground Golf and Country Club

(2024-02 - 2025-01)

• Managing and overseeing hosts, servers, and front of the house staff with my expectations for the events.
• Ensuring high-quality service while maintaining club standards, by using my previous banquet experience to model from.
• Handling complaints or making special accommodations professionally.
• Supervising many events at once, while my staff is present in each banquet room.
• Training staff on proper etiquette by making sure we wear gloves around food whether serving or bussing.
• Coordinating timing with the kitchen, banquet staff, club management and all vendors.

Server - American Hotel Banquet & The Standard Restaurant

(2022-06 - 2024-01)

• Restaurant - used handheld ipad to take orders, wrote down clear concise orders on paper, side work throughout the night, break down restaurant as a closer, organize the serving stations for the next day. Fold napkins and roll silverware in napkins for outdoor seating. Bussed my own tables when it was busy. Love to upsell! Wonderful customer service towards all ages and work well with others.
• Banquet - server from time to time, during major holidays and at parties when needed. Can set up an entire room, know the ins and outs of what's needed for parties etc.

Server - Eagle Oaks Country Club (Banquets) - Prime & Vine Steakhouse

(2019-04 - 2022-06)

• Trained international staff in both banquets and in the restaurants.
• Banquets - worked every member event, some weddings, mitzvahs and bridals showers. I can fold napkins in many ways, steamed silverware and glassware to be put out at events, work well with others and loved serving hors d'oeuvres and I was in charge of alerting guests to start heading to the main ballroom. Keep my tables neat and cannot stand clutter on the tables. Worked holidays.
• Steakhouse - wrote down clear concise orders on paper, side work throughout the night, break down restaurant as a closer, organize the serving stations for the next day. Folded napkins, was in charge of charging menus and many other tasks each night to prep for the next day.

Emcee & Dance Motivator - Party Shooz (MD/DC Entertainment)

(1996 - 1999)

Helped to choreograph motivating dances, emceed at bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, communions and bridal shows.

Emcee & Dance Motivator - Versatile Entertainment

(1999 - 2004)

Helped to choreograph motivating dances, emceed at bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, communions and bridal shows.

Emcee & Dance Motivator - Randi Rae Entertainment

(2004 - 2006)

Helped to choreograph motivating dances, emceed at bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, communions and bridal shows.

Emcee & Dance Motivator - Rich Kaufman Productions

(2005 - 2012)

Helped to choreograph motivating dances, emceed at bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, communions and bridal shows.

Emcee & Dance Motivator - Sound Entertainment

(2012 - 2018)

Helped to choreograph motivating dances, emceed at bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, communions and bridal shows.

Emcee & Dance Motivator - Ambient Entertainment

(2012 - 2018)

Helped to choreograph motivating dances, emceed at bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, communions and bridal shows.

Emcee & Dance Motivator - Instinctive Event Group (IEG)

(2015 - 2019)

Helped to choreograph motivating dances, emceed at bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, communions and bridal shows.

Brand Ambassador - Brand Ambassador (Multiple Companies) - MD & NJ

(1996 - 1999)

Loved representing several liquor brands such as: Guinness, Aftershock and Appleton Jamaican Rum in both MD & NJ.

• Ocean City, MD: Bar hopped in a pink convertible for the Aftershock brand several times.
• Baltimore, MD: Represented Aftershock, Appleton Jamaican Rum & Guinness at several pubs, clubs and festivals. I also went into supermarkets to represent a new fruit juice brand made by Pepsi.
• Belmar, NJ: Went to Bar Anticipation to represent all of the liquor products above by serving samples, throwing merch into the crowd and more!!

Teacher - Red Bank Borough Schools - Red Bank, NJ

(2001-09)

Earned my Masters of Teaching and have been teaching in the Red Bank Borough for the past 25 years and still there.

Bachelor in Science - Marketing & Public Relations - Towson State University (1996)

Master of Arts - Teaching - Monmouth University (2001-09)