"To describe them simply, makerspaces are community centers with tools. Makerspaces combine manufacturing equipment, community, and education for the purposes of enabling community members to design, prototype and create manufactured works that wouldn’t be possible to create with the resources available to individuals working alone. These spaces can take the form of loosely-organized individuals sharing space and tools, for-profit companies, non-profit corporations… Show more "To describe them simply, makerspaces are community centers with tools. Makerspaces combine manufacturing equipment, community, and education for the purposes of enabling community members to design, prototype and create manufactured works that wouldn’t be possible to create with the resources available to individuals working alone. These spaces can take the form of loosely-organized individuals sharing space and tools, for-profit companies, non-profit corporations, organizations affiliated with or hosted within schools, universities or libraries, and more. All are united in the purpose of providing access to equipment, community, and education, and all are unique in exactly how they are arranged to fit the purposes of the community they serve. Makerspaces represent the democratization of design, engineering, fabrication and education. They are a fairly new phenomenon, but are beginning to produce projects with significant national impacts."Makerspace.com Show less

Regional Sales Manager for ENT products throughout New England and upstate New York.

Provide consultation to hospitals and physician groups regarding product development and placement in local market. Responsible for managed care contracting and negotiations. Creating market brand and collaterals for health plan. Education commercial marketplace on local overlay insurance and workers comp products.Desiging and implementing systems for urban hospitals to increase visibility, patient loyalty and ultimately patient census in suburban communities by developing satellite… Show more Provide consultation to hospitals and physician groups regarding product development and placement in local market. Responsible for managed care contracting and negotiations. Creating market brand and collaterals for health plan. Education commercial marketplace on local overlay insurance and workers comp products.Desiging and implementing systems for urban hospitals to increase visibility, patient loyalty and ultimately patient census in suburban communities by developing satellite medical feeder facilities.Launched and managed over 20 satellite healthcare facilities throughout the country. Facilities included walk-in, surgery and mammography centers.Performed all physician recruiting and ancillary staff recruiting, SOP preparations and marketing plans. Show less

Provided new IT software cash management solutions (ebanking). Supported document imaging, report writing and internet banking services. Sold IT platform to execute remote depositing from local offices, recurring debits, checks by phone and web checks by converting these transactions to ACH. Focusing sales efforts on both municipal, healthcare, small business and financial industries. Presented web demos to: Finance Boards, CEO’s, CIO’s and CFO’s as well as providing technical liaison.

Started upscale resource paper for new homeowners in Farmington Valley. Wrote copy and editorials and created layout for newspaper.Sold newspaper concept and advertising to local businesses. Increased sales from $0 to $100,000 in six months.

Designed and sold first managed care PPO product to appear in the Hartford Market. Responsible for the enrollment of all flagship hospital and provider hospitals’ employees in network and opened to commercial marketplace in CT. Increased enrollment from 0 to 60,000 EEs in 12 months. • Personally met with over 2000 physicians in Hartford County to educate on the concept of managed care plans, obtain their membership in plan and procure provider fee schedules for further… Show more Designed and sold first managed care PPO product to appear in the Hartford Market. Responsible for the enrollment of all flagship hospital and provider hospitals’ employees in network and opened to commercial marketplace in CT. Increased enrollment from 0 to 60,000 EEs in 12 months. • Personally met with over 2000 physicians in Hartford County to educate on the concept of managed care plans, obtain their membership in plan and procure provider fee schedules for further negotiations.• Created all marketing and collaterals for health plan.• Secured life and health insurance broker’s license and sold PPO benefits to all participating hospital employees and commercial marketplace. Show less