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Painesville, OH, US

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Indianapolis, Indiana

Bloomington, Indiana Area

Elkhart, Indiana Area

• Networked with co workers and leaders within Lippert to build meaningful business relationships and drive my growth within the company
• Produced weekly updates for, and communicated with, the Chief Sales Officer of Lippert in order to further our relationship and give voice to my current position
• Developed an understanding for the RV industry and products through hands on production, shadowing, and sales calls.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

• Fine Tune is a 3rd party consulting company that serves a business to business market. Fine Tune reduces nuisance costs for companies on their rented uniform and waste management contracts.
• Arranged sales meetings for Fine Tune sales executives through cold calling of decision makers throughout various companies
• Obtained significant knowledge of SalesForce.com in order to organize the sales process.

Mishawaka, Indiana

• Wishbone Marketing is a business startup with a heavy focus on social media marketing for businesses in the South Bend, IN area.
• Visualized a need for social media marketing in the South Bend region and launched a marketing firm specifically targeting this need
• Conducted sales calls with local area business leaders to negotiate the use of Wishbone’s services and successfully obtain clients with a specific focus on fulfilling customer needs

Mishawaka, IN

• Not Just a Garden center is a locally owned garden center and landscaping business.
• Performed opening and closing tills of the cash register, as well as opened and ran the store throughout summer 2018
• Facilitated the selling of various garden products using a personal selling style
• Served and sold to a vast demographic of customers aged 18-95

South Bend, Indiana Area

• RISE is a regional leader in best practices for entrepreneurship education. Startup Moxie serves area high school students and the Applied Entrepreneurship program is offered to regional colleges and universities.
• Displayed successful public speaking skills while hosting an “Startup the City” in front of 350+ event attendees
• Lead a team of peers responsible for securing over $70,000 in sponsorship funds for “Startup the City”
• Negotiated and solicited over $20,000 worth of sponsorship's from area businesses using an external, personal sales model in order to secure funding for the event “Startup the City”
• Led strategic planning while learning delegation in order to successfully execute the event “Startup the City”
• Performed successful networking in order to build and maintain relationships internally with area business leaders and partners

Professional Sales & Marketing

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Football, Varsity Wrestling, National Honor Society, St. Joe CEO