(305) 555-0190 ◇ Miami, FL
isabela.fonseca@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/isabela-fonseca ◇ isabelafonseca.com
Hospitality professional with 6 years in hotel front office and guest services, currently the front office supervisor at a 420-room resort hotel handling about 150,000 guest arrivals a year. Holds a 4.8 of 5 guest satisfaction score on arrival experience across 3 years, cut average check-in time from 6 minutes to 3, and raised upsell revenue at the desk from $180,000 to $520,000 a year. Treats the front desk as the place where the stay is decided, and runs it that way.
Coursework in Front Office Operations, Guest Service, Hospitality Revenue Basics, and Food and Beverage Service.
Also holds a guest service gold certification and completed a hotel property management system administrator course in 2024; fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- Supervise a front office team of 18 agents across 3 shifts at a 420-room resort handling about 150,000 arrivals a year.
- Hold a 4.8 of 5 guest satisfaction score on arrival experience across 3 years and about 9,000 survey responses.
- Raised desk upsell revenue from $180,000 to $520,000 a year through an upgrade offer standard and a daily inventory briefing.
- Handled about 120 check-ins and check-outs a shift at a 280-room business hotel with a 99.6% billing accuracy rate at audit.
- Cut average check-in time from 6 minutes to 3 by pre-assigning rooms and pre-loading keys for 80% of arrivals.
- Resolved about 25 guest complaints a month with a 92% resolution rate before checkout, the highest on a team of 14.
- Rotated through front desk, concierge, and reservations across a 5-month internship.
- Built a concierge recommendations guide of 60 local venues still used by the desk.
- Hired full time at the end of the internship, 1 of 2 interns of 5 offered a position.
Upsell Programme. Built an upgrade offer standard with 3 scripted options by room category, a daily inventory briefing so agents know what is available to sell, and a monthly agent scoreboard, which raised desk upsell revenue from $180,000 to $520,000 a year with guest satisfaction unchanged.
Arrival Experience Redesign. Pre-assigned rooms and pre-loaded keys for 80% of arrivals from the reservation data each morning, added a mobile check-in option, and moved agent positions out from behind the desk for peak arrivals, which cut average check-in time from 6 minutes to 3 and raised arrival satisfaction from 4.3 to 4.8.
Guest Recovery Standard. Wrote a guest recovery standard with 4 escalation levels, agent authority to resolve up to $150 without a manager, and a same-day follow-up call, which raised complaint resolution before checkout from 70% to 92% and cut post-stay negative reviews mentioning the desk 45%.
- Member of a regional hotel and lodging association young professionals group of about 100.
- Volunteer greeter and interpreter at a community health fair serving about 2,000 people a year.
- Guest speaker for a college hospitality programme twice a year on front office careers.
- Lead a front office team of 18 across 3 shifts with scheduling, coaching, and guest recovery ownership.
- Trained 25 front desk agents across 2 hotels on check-in standards and the upsell programme.
- Run the daily arrivals briefing with housekeeping, engineering, and reservations.

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