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Florida, United States

Power Distribution and New Construction

Pompano Beach, FL

• Directing marketing and strategic planning to ensure continued success.
• Project managing utility coordination on an average of ten large construction projects.
• Managing day to day operations of the business.

Boca Raton, FL

• Liaison between sales organization and large manufacturers ensuring that all vendor programs were utilized to their full potential.
• Worked closely with Account Managers and manufacturers, ensuring that large quotes receive the maximum discounts available to MoreDirect through various special programs.
• Managed over 500 transactions resulting in $90 million in revenue, plus one large transaction for St. Luke’s Hospital resulting in $1.2 million dollars in revenue with Hewlett… Show more Liaison between sales.
• Managed over 500 transactions resulting in $90 million in revenue, plus one large transaction for St. Luke’s Hospital resulting in $1.2 million dollars in revenue with Hewlett Packard.
• Reported over $10 million dollars in unreported sales, improving our overall rating with Hewlett Packard and increasing backend funding. Show less

Oakland Park, FL

• Responsible for developing a national market for high end case and custom foam insert business for bio-medical, military, electronic and other commercial markets.
• Worked with design team to secure new business, both with existing customers and net new customer opportunities.

Pompano Beach, FL

• Directed strategic planning and sales and marketing efforts to further develop existing customer relationships and prospect for additional new business.
• Managed day to day operations, including improvements to accounting and billing processes.

Boca Raton, FL

• Directed daily operations within the organization. Developed and executed corporate brands and marketing communications projects, including sales collateral (brochures, case studies and best practices) and Web site.
• Championed Sales team with customer relationship building and selling at trade shows and customer events and development of sales tools.
• Managed a team of internal and external contractors and employees responsible for ongoing creation of, on average, 100 sales collateral, public relations, press release and Web content projects.
• Directed execution of trade shows and customer events, managing logistics, brand management and budgeting of over $2M.
• Negotiated trade show and event contracts, including trade show promotional packages, hotel contracts and various other vendor contracts.
• Implemented fulfillment warehousing and online web-based collateral ordering system and trained project managers, account executives, administrators and other employees on utilizing the system. Show less

North Miami Beach, FL

• Taco Metals, Inc., North Miami, Florida 1991-1999Sales and Marketing Manager (1995-1999)Created in-store merchandising packages, instructional brochures and new brand awareness strategies. Responsible for annual.
• Managed Independent Sales team and presented programs… Show more Taco Metals, Inc., North Miami, Florida 1991-1999Sales and Marketing Manager (1995-1999)Created in-store merchandising packages, instructional brochures.
• Managed Independent Sales team and presented programs at major customer meetings and events.
• Elevated brand awareness utilizing comprehensive marketing strategies.
• Created over twenty product point of purchase merchandising packages.
• Wrote and produced ten hands-on consumer installation brochures. Product Manager, Marine Metal Fabrication (1993-1995)Created and implemented strategies and programs to improve customer satisfaction and increase sales.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Education

Cum Laude High School Degree, Advanced Educational

Activities and Societies: Drill Team, Cheerleader