Team Leadership
Recruiting, onboarding, coaching, performance feedback, corrective retraining, scheduling, and accountability for teams of 7 to 12 plus performers, vendors, and technicians.
Curriculum VitaeJustin Bunnell
Live Event Production · Client Services · Team Leadership
The short version
- 20 years in live events, production, and client services; 15 years of full P&L ownership across two businesses
- Built, hired, trained, and led teams of 7 to 12 delivering ~100 live events annually
- Creator of SOP libraries, onboarding programs, and training systems still in daily use
- Hands-on with QLab, Lightkey, Bitfocus Companion, Stream Deck, DMX, live audio, projection, QuickBooks Online, and Square POS
Professional summary
Live event and production leader with 20 years of experience and 15 years of full profit-and-loss ownership across two businesses. Built, hired, trained, and led client-facing teams while personally advancing and delivering approximately 100 live performances, private functions, and themed experiences annually. Known for calm leadership, clear communication, and for building the processes, training systems, and accountability standards that make service quality repeatable.
What I am relied on for
Client Experience
Primary client contact from discovery through delivery. Stakeholder alignment, approvals, escalation handling, and long-term relationship management.
Process & Training
SOP libraries, role-based onboarding programs, opening and closing standards, checklists, and station procedures built from scratch and still in daily use.
Financial Management
Budgets, estimates, deposits, invoicing, labor and fee tracking, reconciliation, and profitability using QuickBooks Online and Square POS.
Event Delivery
Advancing, run-of-show documents, cue plans, staff briefings, load-in, rehearsals, live execution, resets, strike, and post-event review.
Technical Fluency
QLab, Lightkey, Bitfocus Companion, Stream Deck, DMX, live audio, projection, playback, and theatrical lighting and effects.
Where the work happened
Venetian Soda Lounge
Aug 2022 – Aug 2026Owner / General Manager
Burlington, Vermont
- Owned and led a hospitality and live entertainment venue delivering approximately 100 live performances, private functions, and themed experiences annually, from booking and advancing through execution and closeout.
- Recruited, onboarded, trained, and coached a seasonal team of 7 to 12 covering bartenders, servers, barbacks, operations leads, and event personnel; set clear expectations, gave ongoing performance feedback, and held staff accountable to service standards.
- Created a structured digital onboarding program plus SOP libraries, station procedures, opening and closing standards, and staff-facing iPad tools integrating reservations, recipes, inventory, and costing.
- Managed the full financial picture: event budgets, estimates, deposits, purchasing, vendor invoices, artist fees, labor costs, and reconciliation through QuickBooks Online and Square POS.
- Coordinated performers, booking partners, vendors, and technicians; resolved live issues and schedule changes without disrupting the guest experience.
- Operated and troubleshot integrated show systems including QLab, Lightkey, DMX, Bitfocus Companion, and Stream Deck, supporting live audio, projection, playback, lighting, and timed effects.
RetroMotion Creative
2011 – 2026Owner / Executive Producer
Vermont / Remote
- Led commercial, documentary, branded, and narrative productions from client discovery and creative strategy through scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing, approvals, and final delivery.
- Served as primary client contact, translating business goals into creative treatments, production plans, and practical execution strategies; maintained multi-year client relationships.
- Built estimates, staffing plans, call sheets, equipment lists, contracts, and status updates; monitored scope, deadlines, resources, and production quality across the full lifecycle.
- Directed multidisciplinary crews and cast; identified risks early and adapted personnel, equipment, schedules, or creative approach in real time as conditions changed.
Tools built for a working venue
Practical, staff-facing applications and workflows built to improve speed, consistency, training and decision-making at Venetian:
- A staff operations hub integrating table reservations with an iPad-based resource for SOPs and daily information.
- Opening and closing procedure tools, recipe management, inventory tracking and drink-costing applications.
- The Venetian Guild training application, using themed slide-based modules to teach SOPs, hospitality expectations and bar standards to new employees.
- AI-assisted workflows for ideation, visual development, content creation, design exploration and filmmaking, with attention to brand quality and practical business use.
Before the companies
Burlington College
2014 – 2015Adjunct Professor, Motion Graphics
Vermont
- Project-based instruction, critiques, and technical coaching.
Mt. Mansfield Media
2009 – 2011Video Producer & Lead Editor
Vermont
- Managed production and post workflows, schedules, approvals, and delivery.
Edgewood Studios
2005 – 2009Lead Film Editor & VFX Supervisor
Vermont
- Supervised technical workflows and partnered with producers to solve complex production challenges.
Technology and availability
Business
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook. Google Workspace, QuickBooks Online, Square POS. Quick to adopt CRM and project management platforms such as Asana.
Production
QLab, Lightkey, Bitfocus Companion, Stream Deck, DMX, live audio, video and projection systems, Adobe Creative Cloud, DaVinci Resolve.
Availability
Orlando-area based. Available for travel, evenings, weekends, holidays, and extended production schedules.
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