>> I went to Penn State University.
My degree is in Hotel Restaurant Institutional Management.
I actually started out Pre-Med.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do.
I took one class in Intro to Hospitality Management, and I was immediately hooked.
I knew that that was for me.
You know, I'm a service-based individual.
I really like helping people.
I love entertaining.
You know, I feel it's my calling.
So I came in as the evening manager, which is basically their entry-level management position.
I was the first kid they ever had right out of college.
Within the next six months, I was promoted to Assistant Food and Beverage Manager,
where I got more involved in the banquet side of things, and from there, I guess it was a year
after that, I was promoted to the director of banquet operations.
So about two and half years out of school, I was running the entire banquet department.
So from there, I was in that role for about three years.
Well, yeah, about three years, and then after three years,
we had a new general manager come in.
About three or four months after he was here,
he decided to create a new position called director of business development.