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Licensed residential real estate agent who assisted clients with buying, selling, and leasing properties throughout the Dallas metroplex. Over $28 million in combined sales for 65 transactions during 2015-2018. Planned and integrated all new marketing and client retention proposals.Notable Experience:• Handled negotiations, contracts, client analysis, and market research.• Experienced working with a sales team to develop new clientele in the area.• Extensive work with new and repeat clients from all backgrounds.

Reported to the Co-Founder and Director of Marketing for this major Dallas real estate company that accrued $1.5 billion in sales for 2014. Split time between sales and executing the company’s marketing and sales support initiatives that supported other sales representatives. Experience included:• Sales Representative selling upscale residential properties.• Executed the company’s strategic and tactical marketing initiatives.• Provided broad range of sales support to company’s salesforce.• Developed and maintained all social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn. • Served as adviser to sales representatives about how to more effectively market their properties.• Facilitated ten-plus group sales training sessions on how to use social media for sales purposes and an additional 25-30 private sessions for the company’s salesforce.• Managed process for creation of a new company website on two separate occasions.• Promoted Highland Park Centennial Celebration for Co-Founder in his capacity as Chairman of that event.• As the only paid volunteer for the Centennial Celebration, managed all marketing though the marketing vendors.• Wrote wide variety of sales/marketing communications and presentations and managed a major billboard campaign registering over a million impressions.

Recruited by Mood Disorders Research Program and Clinic in the Psychiatry Department of UTSW as a Project Coordinator over all administrative details for a major nationwide research study led by UTSW involving over 400 patients in collaboration with other major medical educational institutions including Stanford, Columbia and The University of Michigan. The study, Establishing Moderators and Bio-signatures of Antidepressant Response for Clinical Care (EMBARC) was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Also served for four months as Project Coordinator for a Johnson & Johnson depression trial. Experience included:• Project coordinated the major EMBARC Study and also a Johnson & Johnson Depression Trial Study lasting four months.• Increased recruitment efforts for four studies by cold calling other premier medical institutions, clinics and offices, then arranging meetings with them.• Served as study Phlebotomist and Medical Technician for EEG and Behavioral Phenotyping.• Edited, formatted and submitted research manuscripts for publication in medical journals.• Conducted phone screens with potential participants to discuss studies. • Constructed, managed and supervised national meetings for the study.• Prepared patients for screening sessions and explained protocol procedures.• Submitted study protocols through the Electronic Institutional Review Board (eIRB) system and created participant consent forms.

Worked during summers while completing college for this major Dallas cardiology practice and then for a short time after finishing college and completing the internship in Madrid, Spain described below. Experience included:• Met with medical device and pharmaceutical sales representatives during their presentations to the clinic doctors, nurses and staff.• As part of the nurses’ bullpen, aided office doctors and nurses by filling prescriptions, communicating with pharmacies, recording patient medications and maintaining patient charts.• Served as English / Spanish translator for doctors and patients during routine office visits.• Discussed lab results and changes to daily regimens with patients. • Helped patients find labs and appropriate exam rooms to be seen by the physicians.• Completed all pre-requisite courses for physician assistant school.

After graduating from college, was engaged by Adelante Abroad for a six month marketing internship with one of their clients, eAvante, a major real estate company in Madrid. That opportunity inspired an interest in sales and marketing, while also fostering a fluency in Spanish. Experience included:• Developed the company’s first formal marketing plan.• Wrote all sales collateral materials and solicitation correspondence.• Accompanied sales representatives on calls with prospects considering company properties.• Initiated advertising campaign targeting American and Spanish universities to attract students to the company’s leasing services for finding apartments and other rental properties.