Claire Rayes Email & Phone Number

Carbondale, CO, US

• 126% to goal Q1 2024
• Manage a portfolio of over 10,000 District/School Accounts
• Build strategic relationships and demonstrate the value of Newsela's products to district stakeholders to ensure customer success by diagnosing learning gaps and managing K-12 and university partnerships in six U.S..
• 2022-2023 YoY ARR Growth: 110%
• 2022-2023 Highest individual contributor on a team of 8

• Manage a portfolio of over 16,000+ School Accounts
• Build strategic relationships and demonstrate the value of Newsela's products to school stakeholders to either close school sales or influence enterprise district sales

• Extensive market research for all of central United States – produce reports oncompetitive markets, prospective customers, and future areas of growth
• Responsible for cold-calling prospects and organizing multi-day business trips
• Customer Rockstar of the Year recipient (2021) by being top performing rep and at 250% of annual quota

Denver, Colorado

• Generated revenue by selling add-on marketing products and services to a portfolio of 2,000 accounts
• Consistently met and exceeded monthly and quarterly goals
• Increased revenue for Promoted Inventory products in my territory 136% YoY
• Increased attachment rate for accounts in my territory by 90% YoY
• Chef’s Table recipient by being top 10% of reps and at 150% of quarterly quota

Denver, CO, United States

• Extensive market research for all of North America – produce reports oncompetitive markets, prospective customers, and future areas of growth
• Responsible for cold-calling prospects and organizing multi-day business trips
• Chef’s Table recipient by being top 10% of reps and at 150% of quarterly quota

Greater Denver Area

• Provide English/Spanish support for restaurants & diners, educating on function and usage of products
• Manage the overall health of our largest segmentation of customers
• Share data with restaurants to change behavior and drive adoption
• Encourage customers to think differently about their business in ways that will help both parties achieve success
• Consistently meet and exceed regular team and individual goals
• Reduce churn

San Francisco Bay Area

• Meet with infants, toddlers and their families to conduct a needs assessment
• Develop action plans for community resources and referrals
• Monitor child’s developmental status and provide developmental activities to enhance development.
• Pilot and contribute to creating new processes to improve team’s efficiency

Adams County

• Work with bilingual families to provide resources with the goal of promoting self-reliance
• Determine a family’s eligibility for the program by auditing income, residence and child’s age
• Set goals with families using the FPA model and monitor progress throughout school year
• Document daily case notes, monthly and annual reports which detail families education, income, services received, and demographics
• Utilize regular home visits as a method to improve family engagement and communication

Arvada, CO

• Record unbiased accounts of case notes of each encounter with residents
• Provide a mentorship for all women and children in the house
• Empower women with professional, maternal, educational, nutritional and financial skills
• Lead residents in Christian devotionals
• Reflect on ways to better advocate for residents' self reliance during weekly staff meetings

La Coruña, Galicia, España

• Used comprehensible input to introduce and/or develop English language skills
• Incorporated American artifacts into lessons to introduce culture
• Created lessons which allowed for 90% of target language usage
• Assisted clients with translation and interpretation services for interview preparation and professional documents such as resumes, blueprints, and cover letters.
• Mentored high school students on career paths and university options

Stapleton, CO

• Part of the original team of 12 to open this middle school
• Developed a TPR(S)/Comprehensible Input curriculum to assist students with acquiring Spanish
• Used Spanish for 90% of the class period to create an immersion environment for the students
• Monitored acquisition through listening, reading, writing, & speaking assessments
• Provided literacy support for ELL’s and measured fluency and vocabulary acquisition through reading assessments
• Conducted home visits to all families in the ELL program to promote family engagement in the program

Denver Colorado

• Attended district trainings in order to administer CMAS, ACCESS, SRI, STAR, ABCC pre/post tests
• Lead proctor training sessions in building for staff members
• Designed testing schedules to accommodate every child’s needs
• Circulated building during testing to assure proctors/students comply with the testing expectations
• Analyzed assessments score and tracked them under the school’s Unified Improvement Plan (UIP)

Wheaton, IL

• Developed original unit plans which incorporated technology usage
• Differentiated lessons to accommodate special needs and ELL students
• Participated in professional development workshops to improve instruction in the classroom
• Co-hosted parent teacher conferences to inform parents of students’ strengths and weaknesses
• Designed original assessments for reading, social studies, and math and used modifications to accommodate learners ability levels

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Spanish, Education, Ell, 3.68/4

Activities and Societies: Gamma Phi Beta, Dance Marathon, Girls on the Run Philanthropic leader for Girls on the Run, Volunteer English.

Education record

Track & Field, Cheerleading, Student Council, Spanish Honors Society