Danell Cassetta makes the SCA registration run smoothly
Date: 5/13/2006Contact: Joan Barrett/800-690-0070
As you approach the check-in desk at the Sacramento Claims Association events it’s far more pleasant to focus on greeting your friends and associates than to wonder about the processes that make the association events run so smoothly. Danell Cassetta of the Sacramento Claims Association Board of Directors thinks about those processes a great deal and has refined the steps from response to check-in to a seamless flow. Under her tender care, the attendees’ information is compiled and ready to go so the check-in procedure is effortless and focus can be on education or fun as the event dictates.
This attention to detail is no small accomplishment for anyone, much less the mother of three active children whose marketing job is extremely demanding; and whose husband is running his own service business. Somehow, Danell manages to appear serene as she juggles a challenging workload, her family and volunteering for the most labor intensive jobs in the seven industry-related Associations that she belongs to. These successes don’t just happen, Danell puts in long hours of planning, late evenings at the computer and physically compiling the packets for the events that she refines until they are ready to go. Her eyes twinkling above an open grin, she’s always up for a bit of fun as well, who can forget Danell in the disco outfits last year, wearing the Afro wig at the Glo-bowling social; driving the beverage cart at the golf tournament and having a blast! Maybe it’s her fun-loving nature that makes it possible for her to accomplish so much.
Danell is a California native, born in Los Gatos. Her parents moved to Sacramento when she was 13 and Danell went to Jr. High and High School in Sacramento. During her quest toward a college degree, she was working in property management for the A. G, Spanos Company, overseeing projects from their planning to completion to sale around the Northern California and Nevada areas when she got an offer to work for Marriott. The extensive travel with her property management job had taken its toll, so some time off the road sounded good. After a brief run in temporary housing, she was offered a position with a restoration company and found that the work suited her perfectly. Danell is happily into her new position with Restoration Management Company and enjoying it thoroughly.
With her warm and loving nature, it’s natural that her children play a huge role in Danell’s life. Her eldest daughter, Brandy, was born deaf 15 years ago and Danell and her husband succumbed to her pleading to enroll her in a boarding school in Fremont for deaf children. Danell says that she misses her every day but that she knows that it was the right decision by the fantastic progress Brandy has made academically and socially since she has been there. 13 year old Brittney is almost as tall as and looks a lot like her lovely mother. Brittney tore herself away from her many school friends to join Danell in the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure on May 13th with the Sacramento Claims Association contingent. Danell and husband Jeff’s youngest, 6 year old Christopher, is avid about Motocross and can’t wait until his mom and dad allow him to compete on his own small motorcycle. Danell explains that he has been a fan since before he could walk or talk and although she finds it terrifying to watch, she and his dad recognize that he is passionate about the sport and reluctantly agree to let him try his wings.
The Sacramento Claims Association is blessed to have such a hard-working and talented board of directors, but Danell has definitely set a new standard in defining event planning and processing. With her dedicated planning and devotion to detail it only leaves the membership to show up at SCA events and enjoy the results. Danell wouldn’t want it any other way.