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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Phaidra is an AI-enabled Virtual Plant Operator for mission critical facilities. Our platform integrates directly with existing controls governing complex industrial systems. Working with the plant operators, Phaidra turns traditionally static controls systems into dynamic controls capable of continuous productivity improvement.The result is an industrial system capable of learning, adapting and optimizing for select objectives simultaneously like process stability, energy consumption and resource conservation. No new hardware required.As Business Development Lead, I am responsible for growing Phaidra's partner base with the best fit industrial organizations and associations serving that community. Are you an industrial manufacturing Executive or Plant Operator looking for ways to grow your productivity while simultaneously reducing the energy and emissions intensity of your plant? We can help your operations team deliver.

Davidson, North Carolina

As a part of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, my team plays a central role in Trane Technologies's enterprise-wide sustainability efforts. Such as enhancing our employee engagement and education programs, as well as launching internal campaigns to integrate sustainability in sales and marketing functions. As a member of the public reporting team, I address the evolving requirements of ESG reporting. This includes: the delivery of Trane Technologies's annual ESG Report, responses to public rating agencies and meeting customer sustainability inquiries and expectations. Finally, I work to identify and deliver content for best practice training, sales presentations, employee education and external speaking engagements. I work closely with the sales excellence team, strategic marketing and product management leaders to help deliver an enhanced value proposition for customers.

Davidson, Nc

Burlington, Vermont Area

Ensuring that our clients' experience exceeds their expectations. My role focuses on the proper and timely completion of all client projects as well as quarterly qualified lead growth for our clients leveraging any of our retainer support services. I achieve this through consistent improvement in our service delivery process as well as clear communication between our account team and the main contacts at our clients' organization.

Winooski, Vt

Helping small, medium, and enterprise sized businesses grow and improve their conversion of website visitors into paying customers through implementation and proper execution of Inbound Marketing strategies.

Burlington, Vt And Panajachel, Guatemala

Enterprise for a Sustainable World (www.e4sw.org) works directly with companies to develop and nurture the capabilities necessary for sustainable enterprise. We provide consulting services and education that facilitates effective clean technology, Base of the Pyramid (BoP), and Green Leap initiatives by firms. We focus simultaneously on the development of new strategies (business models, goals, and partnerships) and the removal of internal organizational impediments to change (systems, processes and mindsets) to accelerate “beyond greening” innovation.I am currently focused on developing inclusive business models for a client desiring to develop and market new nutritional products in the Latin American market, beginning with a pilot location in Guatemala. The intended market here are individuals and families living off of less then $3000 USD annually (47% of the population) that lack access to affordable nutrition. A key element of our proposed business models is an inclusion of the local population in the product's value chain to encourage successful adoption and provide more economic opportunity to this underserved population. My role has been to firstly develop a dialogue with local communities and search for potential partners as well as assess the organizational ecosystem working with and around these communities. I have been approaching and engaging in discussions with national and international firms to seek product and ecosystem partnerships.

Sugar Land, Tx

• Analyzed territories and coordinated advertising teams to promote sales representative position focused on college students and young professionals • Established and nurtured relationships with college administrations to provide campus recruiting opportunities• Planned, organized, and executed university and high school “on campus” recruiting events• Managed an inbound and outbound telephone recruitment team consisting of 8 employees• Developed a sales and recruiting assistant staff of 15 from talented collegiate sales reps• Personal office interviewed 12,000+ applicants to develop a sales team of 1900+ over 7 years• Conducted training seminars for an average of 15 new representatives weekly (46 weeks/year)• Managed, motivated, and retained talent through individual consultations focusing on time management, actionable strategies, and personal growth• Promoted 13 collegiate entrepreneurs to the summer Branch Manager position and 6 professional entrepreneurs to the career District Manager position• Corporate “Court of Honor” inductee for $5.8MM in career sales

Covington, La

Presenting the World's Finest Cutlery to customers in the comfort of their own kitchen! Conducted sales presentations, collected referrals from my initial network, and participated in training and assisting other reps on the team.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Sustainable Innovation, Mba

Activities and Societies: Find out more about this unique program here: https://www.uvm.edu/business/simba_sustainable_innovation_mba.

Bachelor'S Degree, Manufacturing Engineering