Excited to be starting a new chapter in my Solar Energy career with the winning team at Good Energy Solutions. Exciting because I get to work with local customers and educate them on the benefits of energy independence, reducing or eliminating their electric bill and being an environmentally conscious consumer. Good things are going to happen!!

Inside Sales - Educate clients on the benefits, both economically and environmentally, of going solar. We do a deep analysis of past and future electric usage to ensure systems are properly sized. Presentation to the client via screen share and close the deal!!

In addition to my regular Project Manager responsibilities, I now also work with clients to get interconnection and state rebate requests approved prior to construction of the system.

So Stoked to be starting a new career in the renewable energy field with Sungevity Solar! As a Project Manager I get to work with the client, Sungevity's design team, contractors and the local power companies to get the clients system designed installed and turned on!

While working for the Star I was responsible for the development of advertising special sections for The Star’s Neighborhood News editions. I developed the first ever special sections for Valentine’s Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, two Home Improvement sections in the Spring and Fall and two Holiday Gift Guides. The new sections included a cover, table of contents and relevant content and photo's to capture and engage readers. I coordinated all aspects of special sections and their deliverables between advertising, creative services and accounting departments. In addition to special sections I Developed rate packages with promotional pricing to be used to obtain new advertisers or incremental revenue from existing advertisers. I integrated digital marketing products into special sections and promotional pricing packages when it made sense based on the section and distribution quantity. I also used Sales Touch CRM and other databases to generate prospect reports for sales team. I was appointed the KC Star's McClatchy MCDC Champion based on my extensive experience with data analysis and segmentation to produce market analysis reports using customer sales data. The client data was appended with consumer data from Nielsen using Prizm NE and exposed marketing opportunities that would lead to new customer acquisition or improve customer loyalty. The MCDC program was responsible for $80,000+ in new and incremental revenue during Jan-Mar of 2015.

At Zillner Marketing I developed highly effective direct marketing programs for our senior living clients using proven prospecting strategies that bring a high ROI. We provided integrated marketing plans that included art direction, copywriting, traditional and digital printing, market research, list acquisition, list hygiene, lettershop, traditional media ad buys and digital and online media. While the majority of the inquiries generated by our efforts were done so through direct mail we integrated digital and online tactics to support the campaigns by reaching our prospects by their preferred means of communications. Email marketing for communication to existing prospects in support of event awareness, service or product enhancements and appointment generation. PPC, SEO and digital media placement were implemented for awareness and new prospect growth keeping the sales pipeline filled with qualified prospects. While working at Zillner I was fortunate to work with teams of professionals to develop customized marketing programs for acquiring new prospects, adult child/influencers and appointment generation. We positioned our clients as subject matter experts in senior living among seniors in their respective markets and consistently exceeded plan goals. Zillner are leaders in marketing to the senior demographic and it was a pleasure working for them.

My position was in the direct mail dept where I assisted the retail, national and major account executives develop direct mail strategies for their clients to be included in annual advertising plans. I worked with a variety of retail, wholesale and nonprofit companies to develop and implement effective direct mail strategies for both customer retention as well as new prospect acquisition. I was a member of a team that put together a shared mail program called "Living Well". Living Well allowed high end advertisers to share the cost of production and distribution with other advertisers and still afford them the opportunity to put a full color postcard in the hands of prospects.

I was fortunate to be provided an opportunity to partner with a colleague in a company called Business Cards Direct. Business Cards Direct provided printed products such as business cards, letterhead, envelopes and note cards to medium and large size clients such as Applebee's, Houlihans and Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

I was extremely lucky to work with a group of communication professionals including Debbie Claybaker in the Sprint Forms Management, Graphic and Print Department where I worked closely with internal departments to develop and implement a number of online ordering tools to be utilized by associates. In 2000 we developed and launched "Stat Wizard", a homegrown intranet ordering tool that allowed all 80,000+ Sprint associates to place orders via the intranet for items such as business cards, letterhead, envelopes and note cards. The tool allowed associates the ability to view proofs online prior to submitting their orders which dramatically reduced errors and re-prints. In 2001 we launched "SMARTworks" which was an tool developed by one of our partners which allowed Sprint associates to place order for office forms via the companies intranet. Most listings on the site included images that could be viewed to ensure the proper form was being ordered. In allot of cases forms could be immediately downloaded for use.