Account Manager for and Salesman for the Mid-Atlantic Region, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Provide full Heat Transfer Fluid service, engage with customers, seek out and bring in new business. Research companies and construction projects. Assist with customer service.

Assisted Hydronics Team with Sales and Customer Service. This included sales research, tracking down leads and researching companies and individuals for large public and private construction projects via phone, email and online sleuthing. Followed projects and companies using our CRM, improving sales by presenting Sales Team with key contacts, project timelines and important details. Cleared out jobs that did not use Heat Transfer Fluids, which is what Houghton Chemical manufactures and sells, thereby saving the sales staff time and effort.

Crunched numbers and wrangled invoices as a member of our talented but small Accounting Department since 2013. Processed large amounts of information quickly and accurately under tight deadlines. Resolved problem invoices and vendor payment issues. Worked across all departments of our music and popular culture retail company. Handled phones, email and mail daily and interfaced with vendors, stores and the public. Assisted with daily, weekly and monthly bank, payroll and general ledger entries. Sorted and distributed paychecks. Tracked and entered utility payments for 28 stores and our corporate Headquarters and Warehouse. Organized and maintained Accounts Payable files, and helped lead our shift from paper to digital records.

Previously worked in Web Sales, including a long period of explosive growth. Processed daily orders and shipping for some of our company's most successful web portals. Pulled inventory, packaged, shipped and tracked orders. Managed daily sales spreadsheets for multiple portals, with goods ranging from music and movies, clothing, collectibles and games. Popular portals included Amazon, NewburyComics.com, Punk.com and our movie memorabilia site, Nostalgia.com. During the busy holiday seasons, managed our "High-Velocity Warehouse," running a team of 4-15 people for high-volume sales.

Cleaned and processed used goods for re-sale. Fulfilled orders to be sent to our stores, accurately and quickly. Assisted with maintaining inventory for music, movie and fashion stock. Contributed to website, external company newsletter and e-mail blasts, including music and movie reviews.

Freelance writing for Ellis Strategies, an award-winning Boston PR Firm specializing in Media Training and Executive and Corporate Communication. Stories include staff profiles, short features and magazine-length features.

Assisted with game-day operations in the press box. Was official scorekeeper. Compiled statistics and team/game information for use in Twitter, blog and web outlets and helped with media and public relations.

Started my own small business: BE SNOW, New England's Weekly Ski & Snowboard Report. Designed and published weekly newspaper supplement on New England skiing and snowboarding. Oversaw all aspects of editing, producing, marketing and distributing the page to regional newspapers. Organized and maintained weekly updates to company website and blog.

Served as beat reporter for the University of Connecticut women's basketball team, the WNBA's Connecticut Sun, prep boys basketball, Arena Football and boxing, as well as contributing feature, column and game writing and special projects. Assisted with daily planning, editing, design and layout. Captured a CT Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) award for Sports Feature writing.

Gained significant project management and organizational experience while recruiting and managing a staff of four plus part-time contractors. Managed the daily, weekly and yearly planning, reporting, writing, editing, design and layout of the daily section. Successfully planned and oversaw many special projects, including season previews for prep and college sports and popular NASCAR special sections which gained recognition from the national racing media and also brought in significant revenue for the paper. Diversified our department's coverage by adding women's coverage as well as recreational sports such as hunting and skiing. Developed young writers and helped them move on to bigger and better things. One of the outstanding people I brought on-board is still the current sports editor.

Produced feature, column and game writing as well as assisting in all aspects of putting out the daily section. Served as the beat writer for the University of North Carolina basketball and football. Won a North Carolina Press Association award for sports columns.

Produced feature, column and game writing. Learned all aspects of production, including editing, design and layout. Helped plan and design very successful annual season previews for prep sports, and also worked with local schools and coaches to select and honor all-area teams for most major sports after each season. Started developing an outstanding nose for news. Worked within the community to set up and manage a popular local Christmas basketball tournament. Discovered how to make a positive impact in our community. Served as a beat writer for ACC basketball and football. Won a North Carolina Press Association award for Sports Features.