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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Manage the workflow of an inter-disciplinary team around video production (including strategy, creative, production, post- production) to deliver great integrated marketing programs that improve our clients' business.• Proactively develop and sustain new and ongoing client relationships that drive annual revenue targets and opportunities. • Create pitch materials for new business opportunities.• Communicate, prioritize, facilitate, and manage expectations with client stakeholders.• Develop schedules & timelines, budgets, SOWs, creative treatments, scripts & storyboards for video projects.• Source, gather, and QA the visual assets needed to produce videos within budget and on schedule.• Lead & direct video shoots including hiring, managing and directing crew and talent, while also handling clients on-set.• Source and manage third-party post-production contractors such as editors, motion graphics animators, audio engineers, colorists, VO artists etc.• Manage scheduling, coordination, workflow, and deadlines for multiple projects and shoots simultaneously.

Video Production in the music spaceWholesale in the alcoholic beverage space Client Acquisition in the marketing space

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Drives sales performance by managing sales, retail execution, operations and key relationships at Wholesaler level, within territories: TN, GA, NC, SC, VA, DC.Built relationships and worked with distributor sales managers and repsPrepared distribution programmingProspected leads and opened new on/off-premise and chain accountsMaintained relationships with current accountsCoordinated brand ambassador programPlanned and ran promotional eventsRepresented Owl's Brew at public and industry eventsConducted in-store demos and staff trainingAnalyzed sales data and prepared reportsDeveloped and executed sales plansMet and exceeded monthly, quarterly, and yearly sales goals

West Coast

• Managed all west coast sales exceeding 1 million dollars for two apparel brands out of a multi-line showroom• Serviced existing accounts while increasing sales volume and profitability per door on a seasonal basis• Identified, opened and grew account base to penetrate new markets while maintaining the integrity of each brand• Managed and organized seasonal sample sets for tradeshows and in store visits• Developed and maintained strong relationships with buyers for both majors and independent retailers• Regularly communicated with each brand’s designers and production teams to ensure sales goals and targets were met.• Monitored current accounts sales performance to identify and react to business opportunities • Worked remotely and independently with 80% travel for tradeshows and in store visitsBrands Managed: Saylor, Acler, Quay

Austin, Tx

• Conducted searches for candidates for various positions related to Software Engineering in the Silicon Valley area as well as in Austin, Texas.• Made cold calls to these candidates and created a professional relationship with the end goal of finding them a job that better fit their professional experience and personality.

Texas/Se Region

• Consistently surpassed LY sales numbers at regional tradeshows• Assisted in department store buy meetings (Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Belk)• Reviewed weekly sales performance to react to business• Sought out new customer business opportunities through face to face visits• Built relationships with department store managers and sales associates• Conducted product knowledge seminars• Ensured product placement and merchandising standards at store level

Seattle, Wa

Developed and managed major women’s and kid’s branded and Branded Makeup footwear accounts (Nordstrom, Nordstrom Rack, DSW, TJ Maxx, Ross)• Communicated daily with internal sales and design teams, and externally with overseas factories and agents• Managed on-order from order placement through delivery.• Tracked and coordinated sales samples for meetings, tradeshows, and customer style outs. • Created and maintained seasonal line sheets based on design specs• Assisted with fit and QA of development, production and TOP samples.• Negotiated and implemented changes in original order specifications, i.e. price, color, material, delivery dates, etc.• Entered, managed, and tracked orders using both internal software as well as customer specific websites (Vendor Central, Zapporo, Tradestone, etc).• Entered both sales and production purchase orders

Bellevue, Wa

Greater Seattle Area

Provide support for the Nordstrom BP Bottoms buying & planning team.• Enter, manage & organize all purchase orders • Manage Open To Buy and On Order information • Pull & analyze selling reports• Run shipping reports and monitor deliveries• Manage & organize samples• Set market appointments, maintain relationships with vendors• Research and troubleshoot problem issues as they occur while maintaining the overall order of the office

Greater Seattle Area

Held accessory Striker position

Coeur D'Alene, Idaho

Coordinated and facilitated all aspects of daily kids camp programming for children of the high-profile members of a luxury residential golf & lake club.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Public Relations

Activities and Societies: Pi Beta Phi V.P. Communications, Panhellenic Delegate, KUOI 89.3 Radio DJ, ASUI Entertainment Board.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Clothing, Textiles & Design