In 16 years with House of Floors I showed my excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills essential to gaining and expanding client relationships, resolving daily conflicts with a sense of urgency and the ability to achieve projected outcomes and exceed expectations. I showed proven leadership ability with the additional capacity to work collaboratively in a fast-paced team-centered environment where managing multiple competing sales and marketing tasks in a vendor-centric setting was a given each and every day.Highlights included:* Developed and implemented marketing and sales strategies targeting architects, interior designers, contractors and end-users in both the multi-family and home builder sectors.* Conducted on-going industry research to identify and capitalize on emerging product lines, trends and customer preferences.* Tracked and monitored sales by product line to ensure availability of high demand items in our inventory.* Gained a significant number of client-focused relationships that built strong customer loyalty and vendor support.* Utilized multiple market penetration strategies to maximize awareness of floor covering products and services throughout the Tampa Bay marketplace.* Represented many types of floor covering product lines including broadloom and commercial carpet, sheet vinyl and Luxury Vinyl Tile, Ceramic and Porcelain Tile, Engineer Hardwood and Laminate, and Resilient Floor Coverings and VCT for residential, commercial, hospitality and corporate markets.

Created a recruitment strategy by developing and maintaining relationships with both corporate clients as well as with staffing recruits by establishing personal credibility and solid trust.Working with a wide range of nonprofit and for profit organizations in the NY Metropolitan area gave me great exposure to the sales cycles of both which helped when qualifying candidates for the respective job postings that I was working on.

Managed a team of video editors promoting and marketing the NBA brand in a positive light to fans and business partners in over 150 countries around the globe.