Event planning, event production, and operations consulting from someone who spent 20+ years making organized chaos look easy.
My career path was not exactly traditional. I was not a great student, barely made it through high school, and had no interest in college. I needed to work, so I got a job at Boston Harbor Cruises. My family was friendly with the owner, which helped me get my foot in the door — but staying there was up to me.
Looking back, I probably should have known I was always going to end up building something of my own. When I was a kid, my sisters and I had a very official neighborhood company called At Your Service. Our office was my bedroom closet, and our uniforms were my dad’s Hawaiian shirts. We made flyers, walked them around the neighborhood, and offered to shovel driveways. We only had a few customers (Dad’s friends), but I was the boss, of course.
I also grew up around strong women who did not wait for permission. My mother was an electrician and became a union electrician in the 1990s, at a time when there were not a lot of women doing that kind of work. She pushed through barriers without making a big speech about it. She just did the job, earned respect, and showed me that being capable matters more than fitting neatly into what people expect.
That entrepreneurial streak runs pretty deep in my family. I come from a long line of self-employed business owners, contractors, builders, restaurant owners, and people who figured things out by doing the work. My aunt owned a catering company. Another aunt owned an electrical construction company. My father has owned businesses for as long as I can remember. My sister owned restaurants. My cousin owns a coffee shop, and my uncles have owned construction and contracting businesses.
So while I did not take the college-to-corporate-ladder route, I was always surrounded by people who worked hard, built things, solved problems, and made their own way.
I started at Boston Harbor Cruises young, distracted, and still learning what it meant to take work seriously. Eventually, things clicked. I worked hard, learned the business, and grew with the company. When I started, there were about 15 boats. By the time I left in 2019, the company had grown to roughly 60 boats and carried around 2 million passengers a year. I worked my way up from receptionist to Administrative Director and gained real-world experience in guest operations, ticketing, events, front-of-house management, and high-volume attractions.
I also had a water taxi named after me, which is still one of my favorite honors. Not bad for someone who almost did not make it past the first summer.
After nearly 20 years as an operator, I moved into the software side of the industry, helping attractions, tour operators, waterparks, zoos, and event-based businesses improve their systems, train their teams, and run smoother operations. That experience taught me a lot. It also taught me that I am not built for the kind of corporate world where people become numbers on a spreadsheet and every idea needs three meetings before anyone does anything.
I like action. I like real operations, real guests, real vendors, real problems, and the kind of work where something is always moving. That is how Rainy Day Events & Experiences came to life.
Today, I offer event planning, event production, execution support, and operations consulting. Whether I am organizing an expo, coordinating vendors, supporting a private event, or helping a business improve its front-of-house operations, my goal is simple: make the event experience feel organized, thoughtful, professional, and easy for the guest.
I am a little rough around the edges, but I know how to produce polished events. Events always come with moving parts, last-minute questions, and at least one thing no one saw coming. The guest should never see the chaos. They should just feel like everything worked.