Joe Cozzi Email & Phone Number

United States

Manage accounts in North, Central, and South America.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Create and maintain new business channels• Travel domestically and internationally • Create and run workshops and training sessions.• Coordinate and demonstrate gear at regional and national trade shows.• Generate social media content on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook• Manage my own travel arrangements, expenses, and logistics.

Eastern United States

• Demonstrate expertise across the entire line of products including James Tyler Variax guitars, DT-series amps, Relay Wireless, Soundscape, Stagesource, and AMPLIFi products.• Collaborate with sales enablement, marketing and VP of New Market Development to ensure effective sales and marketing initiatives.• Travel to over 60 MI locations across Eastern U.S., training end-users and sales force.• Ensure product merchandising and positioning directives are met and provide feedback.• Generate media content on YouTube channel and sound design for key products.• Manage a personal company Twitter account to engage end-users and distributors.• Improve artist relations, attend trade shows like NAMM and Afial Madrid• Responsible for my own travel arrangements, expenses, and logistics.

South Miami, Fl

• Ended 2012 having generated $1.1 million more business than the previous year, finishing 111% of our gross profit goal. In April 2012, my store was recognized as "Store of the month" of the entire chain of 238 stores, achieving 138% of our profit plan.• Helped my sales force achieve one the highest technical certification ratings chain-wide• Travel quarterly for training seminars on leadership, team building, sales training and product knowledge from industry-leading companies• Analyzed sales reports to find coaching opportunities for sales force and improve EBITDA.• Coach for sales success daily, enhancing product pitches, added-value and multichannel selling.• Coach clienteling techniques to enhance customer relationships and improve customer retention.• Delegate tasks to departmental managers for the execution of company sales promotions and maintenance of merchandising standards.• Maintain an extensive domestic and international clientele portfolio. Prepared proposals for large accounts and export business.

South Miami, Fl

• Top 4 overall gross salesman and top 7 overall profit salesman out of 642 for the entire store since August of 2002• Certified as a pro audio and keyboard ‘expert’ by Guitar Center Stores.• Met daily and monthly sales goals and objectives.• Maintained an extensive clientele binder.

Miami, Fl

• Provided production, mixing and mastering services for the record label, Department of Dance.• Represented 9 different artists from around the world• 25 releases in electronic music genres such as House, Tech-house, Electro-house, Techno, Trance, Progressive and Breaks.• Acquired and managed distribution of music through online and broadcast mediums on major websites like Beatport, Junodownload, Djdownload and Audiojelly.com• Held monthly radio show on South African Cape Town radio, Sound Republc.• Responsible for coding and maintaining a multimedia website for the record label.• Provided graphic design and video promotional content.

Coral Gables, Fl

• Assistant engineer and session guitarist for the Grammy Award winning album for Best Latin Pop Album of the Year, ¨Caraluna¨, performed by Bacilos.• Worked alongside producer, Luis Fernando Ochoa, credit available upon request.• Arranged music for McDonald´s commercial jingle.• Assisted as an engineer on Shakira´s ¨Joy of Pepsi¨ commercial jingle.• Consulted on studio technology and acoustic treatment.• Ran sessions on Pro Tools Mix Plus and Digital Performer systems.