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Award winning national cruise and travel company affiliated with American Express Travel. Specializing in cruises, land tours, custom or fully escorted travel packages, and all types of tours and excursions. Highly efficient organizing group travel for family reunions, corporate retreats, destination weddings and special interest groups. Offering the best service, exclusive pricing, added amenities, and choice individual and group departures on a wide range of vacation packages to the most sought-after and exclusive destinations around the world.

Dedicated and tenacious bilingual Health, Life and Annuities agent licensed in 11 States and representing most major Life Insurance, Annuities and Medicare plans. Specialized in Medicare and Final Expense Life Insurance and with a reputation for customer satisfaction, professionalism, exemplary ethics and a history of surpassing client and employer expectations. Our Agency remained current on latest trends in the industry, with comprehensive knowledge of health and life insurance products, sales, services and best practices. As an independent agency, we genuinely look out for the customers best interest with products and services that secure and enhance their life and wellbeing. Brokers for Mutual of Omaha, Midland National, Columbian Life, Humana, United Healthcare, Care Plus, Coventry, Aetna, Cigna among others. ACHIEVEMENTS: Created a lucrative inbound/outbound Call Center that generated quality leads for our agents. Spearheaded weekly status meetings to communicate agency revenue growth.Increased referral business by 55% in 2010. Initiated an aggressive campaign via the formation of a Non-Profit Organization that specialized in assisting senior citizens with a variety of help and services, offering incentives that expanded our business through word-of-mouth referrals. Increased business volume by 200% in 2011 by having a weekly radio infomercial that provided a solid and reputable following, maintaining a fluid referral base and strong relationships with customers and organizations.Passionate leader: skilled at building top-performing teams focused on impeccable customer service and accountability for goal achievement.

Managed a multitude of tasks contributing to the daily operations of a successful Mortgage Company specializing in residential financing. Duties included carrying out all management functions, i.e. hiring, training, motivation, and supervision of staff. Overseeing all aspects of company sales, marketing, origination, processing and underwriting. ACHIEVEMENTS: Increased company volume by over 300% in the first year by implementing a strong Realtor and Builder business base, planning processes that established clear goals, objectives and activities with an outstanding track record of opening new accounts and establishing strong ongoing business relationships. Developed market strategies and outstanding customer service to assure repeat business and referrals from top producing and reputable Realtors, Builders and Borrowers.Managed my loan pipeline to achieve and ensure timely closings as well as my own personal goals and objectives that opened doors, solved problems and engendered trust to close business and maintain ongoing strong relationships. Held a leadership role in the Women's Council of Realtors and the Florida Mortgage Brokers Association.

Top company producer three years in a row. Knowledgeable and experienced in originating all types of mortgage loans nationwide as well as providing proactive and outstanding customer service on loans as well as timely closings and highest conversion to close ratio..

Responsible for management, direction, coordination and sales of company's top portfolio of US franchises in Colombia, South America. Consistently exceeded sales objectives and increased bottom-line profits by developing highly successful sales strategies, seminars and symposiums that resulted in a 25% increase in sales and revenue. Clients included McDonalds, Taco Bell, Sir Speedy, Future Kids, Merle Norman, among many others. Responsible for the creation of the Colombian Franchise Association in Cali, Colombia with the backing and support of the US Franchise Association in Washington DC. Voted by franchise members as the Executive Director of the Colombian Franchise Association 3 years in a row.