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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Developing and executing end-to-end growth strategies to drive new client acquisition, overseeing sales funnel development, proposal and pitch development, successfully onboarding new clients across the aerospace.
• Creating sales targets and KPIs; successfully increasing revenue by 400% to date; from $400k to over $4.1 million.
• Articulating best practices around account management, overseeing a portfolio of key accounts while helping inculcate a uniform team vision around client engagement.
• Advocating for a high-model of client engagement to anticipate needs and ensure account longevity, resulting in achieving a superior number of activations, account renewals and prospect visits.
• Curating customer feedback and tracking team engagement through Salesforce.
• Ensuring seamless new client activations, overseeing onboarding and supporting post-sale adoptions.

Niles, IL

• A publicly traded member of the Fortune 500 and leading developer of construction and manufactur-ing components and parts, and provider of machining, PPE, and supply chain solutions. Ascending through expanding roles.
• Rationalized inventory management processes to ensure superior JIT responsiveness to client needs impacting over $300K in key product SKUs.
• Expanded the branch’s outreach throughout the Chicago market hospitality, maintenance, construction and manufacturing sectors., growing store sales by 40% and increasing net profits by 5%.
• Championed capacity building to elevate business continuity and sustainability programming, coaching and mentoring 5 Sales Support, Outside Sales and Account Management professionals.
• Innovated an inside cold-market development initiative to drive brand awareness and lead generation activities.

Greater Chicago Area

• Established personal sales and revenue targets being named to top 3 Wisconsin-Illinois region Outside Sales Representative list for 2016.
• Deployed a consultative and partnership-centric sales approach that grew territory sales by 300%

Chicago, IL

• Grew annual sales from $200,000 to $625,000 in 2013 and from $625,000 to $2.1 million in 2014
• Expanded sales to all 50 states and overseas by developing relationships with industry-leading distributors, leading to 100% year-over-year growth for ten consecutive quarters
• Vetted distributor qualifications using the business intelligence software Hoovers and manual research
• Managed company website, blog and electronic newsletter to provide customers with product updates, company changes and industry news contributing to a 300% expansion of the customer base
• Created client’s e-commerce site, growing sales from $0 to $150,000 per month. Utilized Google AdWords to increase site traffic to thousands of unique visits per week
• Delivered monthly reports on sales, customer acquisition and retention, and unit volumes utilizing QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel

Chicago IL

• Developed production processes and assisted in product design for 30+ LED light fixtures
• Made critical redesigns for two products that improved performance, and reduced cost by improving production times from over an hour to 15 minutes
• Grew the assembly and shipping team from zero to ten employees
• Managed facility expansion to increase capacity by over100%
• Maintained production responsibilities during transition into sales role

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Investigates newly reported claims through customer contacts, recorded interviews and medical reports
• Manages medical care for ongoing claims, coordinating with resources including nurses and regional medical directors
• Coordinates litigation and negotiates potential settlement with customers, claimants and attorneys

• Worked with city desk for two months until promoted to columnist in January 2011
• On the editorial board, improving concise writing skills with editorials and creative columns

• Developed research abilities while building a cataloged of previous studies
• Analyzing data collected from survey on social networking and micro blogging in the classroom

• Built organizational skills while maintaining electronic filing system and paper files
• Improved technical skills updating corporate minute books, typing letters, preparing bills, backing up electronic servers and installing new computers
• Developed communication skills by answering all inbound telephone calls

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science; Environmental Politics

Activities and Societies: Founding Treasurer and current Vice President of The Boiler Block Party Student Group, Dormitory Senator for the.

Study Abroad

Activities and Societies: Caving Society, American SocietyParticipated in a study abroad program to the University of Kent Significant.