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Denver, Colorado, United States

◼️ As tradeshows became available once again, became the ambassador for Speck to represent products atnational and international shows where I’ve excelled at relationship building due to depth of productknowledge.◼️ Concurrently worked with creative team to manage the creation of materials for onsite displays, booths, andwall graphics.◼️ Manage the development of digital programs to train the end seller in retail stores to increase sales resultingin being the preferred product for sellers.◼️ Conduct market research to ensure product placement and pricing aligns with competition and drives sales.◼️ Ensure all displays, fixtures and programs in retail stores align with compliance.

◼️ Managed learning management system with 24k+ users; created content and developed interactive modulesand lessons to gamify modules to increase engagement, resulting in 1.5 million impressions over 4 years and an increase in brand awareness.◼️ Transitioned into this position at the start of the pandemic as the sole sales team member to be retained, and was able to continue to elevate brand awareness, sales, and engagement with retail locations remotelythrough this LMS.◼️ Oversaw all aspects of the LMS including coordinating with vendor and developing content and ways to gamify the platform and influence sales representatives to preferentially sell Speck products over thecompetition.◼️ Successfully launched multimedia learning modules multiple times a year resulting in growing to 24K+registered users.

Denver Metropolitan Area

◼️ Concurrent to market manager responsibilities, promoted to Senior Market Manager to oversee territories in 11 states and launching a rep program in Canada resulting in overseeing the management of a third-party company and representatives.◼️ Responsible for managing budgets and conducting market research for upper management.◼️ Mentored and trained members of the US and Canada teams and onboarded new employees.

Denver Metropolitan Area

◼️ Grew personal territory from the Denver Metro area to the mountain regions and 5 states within 3 years byidentifying key events and trainings to build relationships with management within carrier channels andretail stores to implement more training and brand engagement of our products.◼️ Developed sales initiatives and programs in conjunction with the sales team which increased revenue andbrand awareness.◼️ Oversaw multiple product launches yearly to educate and train sellers on all new features and technology,increase brand awareness, and to educate sellers on the key differentiators of the products to help drivesales over competition.◼️ Regularly travelled throughout territory to gain a competitive advantage through training retail staff and behands on with competitor products.

Dallas, Texas, United States

◼️ Due to the ability to quickly learn the intricacies required to process claims, develop trust amongst clients, getacquainted with different machinery, and master the pricing of all the materials involved, was rapidlypromoted to manage more intricate cases.◼️ Managed 50 to 100 claims monthly seeing them through to payment and closure.◼️ Evaluated and researched all information necessary to determine how to write and process each claim tobest accommodate and serve each client.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

◼️ Promoted from managing a one city territory to a 7-state territory.◼️ Twice recognized for outstanding performance and won many individual and team-based sales and incentivecontests.◼️ Elevated sales channel by making Pantech a preferred product amongst carriers and retail locations throughevents and training sales representatives and store management on features.◼️ Managed all product launches, sales incentives, promotions, and product training activities.◼️ Collected and reported market conditions and competitive data via electronic call reports.◼️ Increased sales channel and product awareness by representing Pantech at all events and managed thecreation of all onsite marketing and displays.◼️ Mentored and guided peers to develop strategies to reach sales goals.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

◼️ Consistently recognized as top selling associate, and worked closely with management to increase salesand exceed customer expectations through incentives and coaching.◼️ Managed, trained, and coached internal employees to increase customer serve, brand awareness, andincentives to boost sales.◼️ Key team member in launching the successful opening of multiple new locations through training newsales staff.◼️ Instrumental in relocating store inventory for two major store remodels while seamlessly continuing toelevate sales and staff.

Bachelors Of Arts, English

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