Founder and Executive Director of non-profit organization that provides academic scholarships to private schools for disadvantaged Chicago area hockey players.Responsibilities:• Identify academic scholarship recipients who play organized hockey and are unable to receive a quality education at their local public school.• Raise money through private and corporate donations to provide tuition for scholarship recipients from 5th grade through college.Key Achievements:• Raised over $500,000 in 11 years through “grass roots” efforts working strictly as a volunteer while maintaining full time career.• Plan, organize and host charity events biannually, including participation from current and former Chicago Blackhawks, grossing a combined annual amount in excess of $100,000.• Providing academic scholarships to private schools for 8 student-athletes for the 2014/2015 school year to at a total cost of $45,000.

Selling radio advertising opportunities to local, regional and national businesses of all sizes with a focus on greater Chicago.Responsibilities:• Development and sales of on-air and on-line advertising, marketing and recruitment campaigns.• All phases of complex sales cycle: cold-call, consultation, ad creation, proposal development, contract negotiation, closing and implementation.• Build relationships with business owners, CEOs, marketing and advertising directors, Human Resources directors and others influencers and decision-makers.• Maintain strong relationship with clients to: provide ongoing service of accounts, facilitate success of ad campaigns, ensure client satisfaction and seek opportunities for growth and/or future business.Key Achievements:• Completed intensive two-week training program to become a “Cumulus Certified Seller”.• Initiated idea for new web page to create added value for recruitment advertisers taking advantage of “Putting Chicago Back to Work” program.• Developed extremely successful recruitment advertising campaign for “Lazer Spot” to gain new hires in Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis and Savannah. (Testimonial letter from customer available.)• Frequently met / exceeded monthly and quarterly quotas even while station struggled with low ratings.

In my position as Marketing Manager my main objective was to promote the services of Open Advanced MRI to doctors in an assigned territory on the northern edge of Chicago and near north suburbs in an effort to gain referrals for patients in need of MRI services. This was done mainly through monthly visits to 10-15 offices per day, providing information about the facility and services as well as industry information, networking and providing prompt service when special requests arose.