Plan and prioritize sales activities and client contacts to exceed business goals while continuing to build and maintain relationships with existing customers.

Consult with small to medium companies on strategic planning, digital marketing, performance improvement, talent management, growth acceleration, profitability growth, corporate finance, and technology optimization.◾ Defined the talent acquisition process for $30M agricultural entity, leading to the hiring of an senior level leader to take the operation to the next level.

Lead sales and marketing for telecommunications provider with 140 employees serving 30K customers in Wisconsin with $50M in annual gross revenue. Drive company sales, marketing, legislative, regulatory, internal and external communications, legal, public media relations, and philanthropic operations. Manage six business unit managers, 25 professional employees, and 19 sales, marketing, and public relations employees.SALES & MARKETING◾ Exceeded benchmarks in revenue growth compared to like-size nationwide telecommunications firms for past eight years, with continual revenue growth from $28M to $45M+ during tenure and net subscriber growth in in broadband, cloud voice, managed service revenue, and enhanced series to residential and business markets.◾ Promoted and developed strategic partnerships with local telecommunication providers to create affiliate sales channels and managed sales, marketing, product, and public relations activities to sell in areas with a competitor’s telecommunication network.◾ Championed initiative to resell services such as long distance telephone services and call center services to other rural broadband companies, delivering increased revenues.PUBLIC RELATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS◾ Orchestrate corporate communications strategy, integrating planning and execution in multiple media platforms to deliver positive news and important policies, educate employees on technology innovation, and build corporate pride and community involvement throughout the company. ◾ Envision and deploy marketing initiatives in coordination with outside agencies to devise and promote Solarus using marketing campaigns, website designs, online advertising, and videos. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ◾ Launched Digital Telephone offering, “Cloud Voice,” incorporating cloud-hosted phone systems, an all-inclusive voice and data phone systems, offering unlimited calling, upgrades and maintenance, and data network with Internet access.

Initially hired as Sales Manager and rapidly promoted to Operations Sales Manager within 6 months for divisional office of telecommunications advertising firm with $250M in annual revenue. Directed Midwestern division of seven sales managers, 120 sales and support employees, four remote offices in nine states to maintain and develop existing client relationships and grow revenues for the company and its partners.◾ Managed relationships with 60+ telecommunications companies in a nine-state area through face-to-face meetings with C-suite executives to meet or exceed revenue objectives.◾ Communicated with Sales Managers who interfaced with Directory Coordinators to ensure correct placement of advertising, on-time printing deadlines, and delivery schedules.◾ Achieved Top Division and motivated sales personnel to achieve revenue goals.◾ Negotiated with Frontier for annual renewal in collaboration with senior leadership, which ultimately resulted in a three-year extension of a $500M contract.◾ Personally managed high profile key advertising accounts for the Top 10 customers in each state.