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As Sales and Marketing Director, I assist a team of Creative Strategists who in-turn help businesses succeed in growing their presence on-line. I am passionate about seeing our clients grow due to the innovative marketing techniques we employ.

As a Senior CRO for BDC Consulting, I was responsible for performing a variety of administrative duties in support of Clients and the Southern Alberta consulting team. This included creating and editing contracts and proposals for clients and consultants, maintaining an orderly filing system, recommending billing schedules and following-up with customer payments, and providing answers to general inquiries from prospective and existing clients.

I match growing small and medium-sized businesses with the right loans and advisory services they need to achieve successful growth, and I have a passion to see entrepreneurs succeed at what they do. My role as an account manager at BDC is a perfect match to compliment this passion. I feel that as an entrepreneur myself, I have a solid understanding of an entrepreneur's point of view when approaching a bank for financing; I can see his or her point of view, and I am driven to work toward the entrepreneur's success.

VinoWine was an importer and distributor of fine Canadian wines. Based in Mexico City, VinoWine provided wines to high-end retail and fine dining establishments. My role involved: building client base/professional sales, relations with suppliers, office management, web site development and maintenance, inventory control, and management of team dynamics. As the co-founder of Vinowine, I was also involved in all aspects of the start-up phase of the business. This included writing business, financial, and marketing plans, aquiring business and import licences, sourcing locations for the office and warehouse, and solving import logistics.

SIFE, an international organization with chapters in post-secondary institutions across the globe, brings together a diverse network of university students, academic professionals and industry leaders around the shared mission of creating a better, more sustainable world through the positive power of business. With SIFE Mount Royal, I Held a variety of lead and co-lead project positions. These positions required a grounded understanding in group management, motivation and project time-line guidance. It also required that I act as ambassador and liason to persons and groups directly or indirectly effected by the actions of the SIFE Mount Royal.

Landmark Sales and Marketing is a wholesale produce distributor in Calgary, focusing on sales and marketing support to independent retail operators. I Operated as a sole proprietor running a profitable produce vending establishment in Calgary. In this role, I developed and honed professional selling and retailing ability, entrepreneurial ability and a professional business management focus. I Marketed product to end consumers using grassroots marketing and sales techniques and maintained the proprietorship's financial records.