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American Fork, Ut

• Keep CEO’s calendar, coordinate calendar with other staff and family• Follow correspondence, including email, and assist by making sure critical needs are met by timely responses• Plan executive and company meetings, training and catering arrangements• Assist in advertising and recruiting for key positions• Learn CEO’s objectives and decision criteria then assist in reaching goals• Apply perceptive judgement and anticipate needs while meeting preferences• Research and make travel arrangements for executive & team members • Assist in tracking and overseeing projects• Organize CEO’s materials, files, projects and presentations• Read, research, edit, format, copy, transmit, analyze, report and archive information• Liaison and representative of CEO to other executives, staff, vendors and customers, reporting issues to the CEO

Alpine, Ut

Manage & coordinate projects and deadlines between clients, writers, sales, design and distribution teams for HEALTHY Utah Magazine. Maintain client relationships for improved retention with regular communication and reporting.Manage and prepare payroll, commissions and time sheets. Perform accounts receivable duties including invoicing and reconciliation. Administer HR duties including new employee recruitment and on boarding and maintain personnel records.

Orem, Ut.

Assisted with team building initiatives and overall support for maintenance of organizational culture and employee morale.Researched, analyzed and implemented new and existing vendor product lines.Directed administrative functions for key managers.Coordinated both vendor and company trade shows and special events.Acted as liaison and maintained open lines of communication between senior managers, administrative and warehouse staff.Worked closely with company executives to identify new business opportunities and routinely participated in the sales and marketing processes.Reviewed, researched, and negotiated insurance plans, merchant accounts, and shipping vendors.Identified staff vacancies, recruited, and interviewed selected applicants. Created employee manual.Managed company payroll, accounts payable & health insurance program. Assisted in administering company benefits and compensation.Customer Service Manager (2006-2009). Created new processes and systems for increasing customer satisfaction. Supervised team and regularly sought opportunities to up-sell.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Responsibilities included principal business reviews, coordination of local radio, TV & newspaper promos, trade & consumer show coordination, company advertising, research projects, Account Executive special projects, and broker/principal evaluations.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Supplied technical expertise to engineer data collection programs at satellite broker operations nationwide. Developed sales presentations for large retail food chains in key national markets: General Foods Corp., Pillsbury, & Meadow Gold Dairies. Initiated test markets for Jell-O frozen novelties and Wave super detergent, combining local demographic information with on-site retail store conditions and sales volume information. Analyzed test results and presented recommendations to manufacturers resulting in successful national expansion of the product lines.Designed & maintained weekly performance data including graphic presentations for key management personnel. Administered a forecasting model to project annual revenue on a revolving monthly cycle. Compiled historical data for presentations in annual customer and manufacturer reviews. Analyzed and recommended methods to enhance growth trends. Created presentations for manufacturer interviews including acquisition of competitor activity.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Represented large food manufacturers such as General Foods, Pillsbury to wholesale food accounts including Associated Food stores, Smith's, Albertson's as well as food service industry accounts such as Orson Gygi and Sysco Foods. Presented and sold new items, as well as developed processes and strategies to increase sales revenue. Figured out needs and recommended appropriate products or services.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration (B.S.B.A.)

General & Social Studies