dana pitts armour

Dana Pitts Armour began her career in the hospitality industry over 25 years ago as a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines, a major airline carrier throughout the 70s to early 90s. After flying the friendly skies, she went on to work for Maritz Travel Company, one of the world’s largest corporate meeting and incentive travel companies, as a Senior Travel Director. This role required her to travel worldwide with a team or independently to facilitate the operations of corporate meetings and incentive events. Her clients and events included Fortune 500 companies such as, AT&T Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, Novell Sales Meetings in various cities, Honda New Car Show in Orlando, Lexus New Car Show in New York City, Maritz Masters in Buenos Aires, and IBM in Venice, Italy and Paris.

In 2007, Dana launched Pieces of a Dream, a boutique event planning company that handles corporate, as well as social events where provides event production and management for organizations nationwide. She is experienced in handling all of pre-program details, daily client requests, managing every aspect of hotel management (function space, food and beverage, guest room block, and logistics), vendor contracts, audio visual, budget management, ground transportation, event collateral, signage, and onsite staff management.

While planning is instrumental, the operational aspect of an event is the most crucial and that’s where an experienced Travel Director comes in handy. Generating a seemingly flawless experience for celebrity and high-profile corporate clients on multi-million dollar accounts, Dana ensured overwhelming customer satisfaction and repeat business for her employers. In her previous role as a Senior Travel Director, she became grounded and gained the experience to take on any and every aspect of event operation, such as food and beverage, transportation, conference production, group activities, registration/hospitality desk, guest room management, and meeting production, local activities, and VIP handling for groups ranging from 50 to over 30,000 attendees.

By working herself up through the ranks as a Senior Travel Project Manager, Catering Marketing Manager at SF Zoo, and Senior Event Producer, she developed a multitude of skills and knowledge to manage and produce over 1000 events. Dana is regarded as a key contributor to the success of each event and provides a valuable talent of experience and leadership to every organization she partners with.

CORPORATE PARTNER AND CLIENT LIST INCLUDES:

Red Chair Events: 2010 - Present - PayPal Customer Summit (150 Attendees, Scottsdale, AZ), PayPal Sales Kick Off (175-300 Attendees, San Francisco, CA), Assurity Leadership (250 Attendees, Lisbon, Costa Rica, Rome, Ireland), PayPal Presidents Club (125-150 Attendees, St. Thomas, Cabo, Punta Mita, Big Island, HI, Maui, HI, Kauai, HI), PayPal Merchant Sales Forum (350 Attendees, San Francisco, CA), eBay Family Day (8,000 Attendees, Great America, CA), Expensify Portland Office Opening (125 Attendees, Portland, OR)

Opus Agency: 2014 - Present - Salesforce.com President's Club (3500 Attendees, Maui, HI), Amazon AWS Invent (31,000 Attendees, Las Vegas, NV)

Box: 2016 - IBM Hospitality Events (7-15 Attendees, throughout the US)

VMware: 2013-14 SMB Trade Shows (Bonita Springs, FL, Chicago, IL, Schaumburg, IL, Phoenix, AZ)

Woodberry ITA Group: 2008 - 2014 - Salesforce.com Peak Performers (600 Attendees, Kauai, HI), Salesforce.com Presidents Club (100 Attendees, Kauai, HI), VMware Virtualization Forum (2000 Attendees, Washington D.C., Cincinnati, OH, Anaheim, CA, Minneapolis, MN), Microsoft Platinum Club (300 Attendees, Monte Carlo, Monaco, and Maui, HI), Jigsaw Peak Performers (60 Attendees, Whistler, British Columbia), MicroEdge Solutions Conference (500 Attendees, Las Vegas, NV)

Enterprise Events Group: 2010 - Present - Amgen (300 Attendees, Washington DC, Lisbon), Hewlett Packard Global Sales Kick Off (2,700 Attendees, Las Vegas, NV), Hewlett Packard PS Leaders (350 Attendees, Dallas, TX)

Extraordinary Events: 2008 - 2010 - Bon Appetit's Vegas Uncork'd, (2,500 Attendees, Las Vegas, NV), Dick Butkus Charity Fight Night (250 Attendees, Chicago, IL)

Unbridled Solutions: 2013 - 2015 - Amylin National Leaders Meeting (500 Attendees, Beverly Hills, CA), 2013 - Amylin National Sales and Launch (450 Attendees, Phoenix, AZ)

Autodesk: 2013 - Autodesk Peak Performers (250 Attendees, Kona, HI)