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Chicago, IL, US

South San Francisco, California, US

• Responsible for driving adoption of Stripe's Optimized Checkout Suite with our largest digital-native enterprise customers in North America
• Working collaboratively and cross-functionally across product, engineering and marketing to shape Stripe’s products and solutions to meet customer needs

South San Francisco, California, US

• Created tailored payment solutions to both new & existing users expanding Stripe's footprint across the USA/Canada
• Achieved 166% and 107% of 2022 sales targets including being over 100% of quota targets every quarter
• Working with Stripe’s largest Startup users which are $12M-$250M+ annual revenue businesses
• Spearheaded tactical implementation plans with startups to drive $100M+ in net-new processing volume with over 125+ startups live on Stripe in 2022 leading the entire USA Startups organization

San Francisco, California, US

• Managed a portfolio of customers including 75+ install base and 500+ potential prospect SMB accounts
• Strategized tactical growth plans with key C-suite executives on IT, Sales, Finance, and Operations teams
• Coordinated 2–4 week sales-cycles in collaboration with technical team to present Salesforce’s suite of CRM, Marketing, and Security solutions to financial services businesses and FinTech startups

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Worldwide business development & innovation specialist focused on building strategic Watson AI partnerships with Global System Integrators & Independent Software Vendors
• Accelerated both new and existing client relationships for Watson Partnerships with 30+ C-suite level executives
• Executed 4+ targeted prospecting campaigns to successfully acquire two new net-new IBM Watson Partnerships

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Leading clients on their journey to AI using the power of data & analytics.Worked on a highly experienced team specializing in IBM's Data & AI portfolio for industrial market customers companies specializing in manufacturing, aerospace, and petroleum/chemicals among others.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Graduated in the top 10% of my class with distinction in an intensive six-month training program specializing in the education and demonstration of sales strategy and relationship-management skills with clients as well as learned IBM solutions across the organization’s portfolio. I worked to build the knowledge and skills needed to solve client business.

Charlotte, NC, US

This summer internship consisted of learning how to allocate clients in their portfolios based upon their risk tolerance. I was in charge of creating new portfolios for multiple prospective clients based upon their investment personality assessments. I also led multiple projects on prospecting for the three advisors I worked for by targeting their specific.

New York, NY, US

This summer internship consisted of managing and updating client accounts for market risk and exposure optimization while also creating personalized financial plans for prospective and current clients using LifeView software. Throughout the summer I acquired over 40 prospective clients for the high-net worth division through sales-call marketing.

Chicago, IL, US

This summer internship consisted of cold calling clients around the country about Zacks equity analysis software ZRS. I would set up presentations with equity trading firms to get a demonstration of the analytics platform that Zacks offers. I would perform analytics and statistics on my leads in Microsoft Excel as well as use Salesforce to further assist.

Rolling Meadows, IL, US

This summer internship consisted of cold calling prospective clients to upgrade to their computer software systems for their business to the Microsoft software that Solution Systems offered. I would set up presentations for a Sales Manager to go out and present our system to the client.

This position consisted of calling a mixture of cold and warm leads of individuals for estimates on any home improvement project. I also would work festivals and have a booth set up to get leads for any type of home improvement project.

I have reffed numerous games for both young girls and boys in the North-Suburban area.

Bachelor'S Degree, Financial Planning

Summer Entrepreneurship Academy, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

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