Social Media has made its way into almost every industry, including healthcare and manufacturing. Years ago, customer relationship have been build up in meeting, personal conversations and direct contact. But in a world with unlimited access to media, news and almost daily changing trends this is not possible any more. I am responsible to maintain ICW's social media and online presence, come up with new ideas and publish news, updates and everything that might be relevant for customers. Some tasks include taking care of the Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, Wordpress, Blogger, Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest profiles.

Being the Co-Owner and Executive Director of Gallery Reinert Karlsruhe taught me already early in my life how to manage and direct a business, or art gallery, from the beginning on.Developing a long-term strategy, customer relationship building and brand building were some of my main responsibilities. After moving to the USA my key focus changed, and I focused on forming Gallery Reinert into a strong, international well accepted name. Marketing and Social Media were essential tools which I used to form Gallery Reinert and increase the customer base.Besides the Marketing and Financial Responsibilities such us budgeting, I managed several exhibitions and planned events for Gallery Reinert in Germany but also abroad.As of right now the main focus is on the international market and the next years will be interesting to observe.

I started at LyfeStart with the target to develop new marketing and social media strategies, projects and campaigns.Soon enough my key focus went from just the market part to build up a strong network with other companies and industry relevant people and athletes. I successfully developed sponsorship agreements and connected LyfeStart with potential advertisers. Google Anaytics, CRM and ORM were just some of my daily responsibilities.Besides the marketing and management aspect, the main part of this positions was project and event planning. With its own convention at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas on August 24th, my job at LyfeStart had a strong emphasis on planning and managing anything to guarantee a successful event. I enjoyed working for LyfeStart and I am glad to say that I had the chance to be part of an enthusiastic, focused and dynamic team that understood it perfectly to form trends into success stories.

As a marketing field representative i was responsible to generate new leads via direct customer acquisition in several stores such as Home-Depots in the area of Orange County, LA and San Diego. I was responsible of setting up meeting between customers and representatives of Home-Depots to help our clients to get the best possible service to their best convenience.Working in this fast paced environment helped me to increase my communication skills and to realize the customers needs immediately. As part of the Orenda Marketing Team we developed new marketing strategies how to successfully find leads even under difficult circumstances. Daily team meetings to discuss potential threats, problems and issues were also part of my job as well as customer relation and brand building on events. The main responsibility was lead generation via direct customer acquisition. Additionally customer service as well as working as a field representative for various companies around Orange County were also important parts of the job. The ability to reach weekly/monthly quotas and social skills to help u satisfied customers, daily team meetings, managerial skills as well as a punctuality, high energy and marketing skills were main parts to succeed in this fast paced environment.

As a Water Solution Manager for Alpine Water Systems I had the responsibility to find and create new leads, turn them into prospect and also close the sale and assure that the client is satisfied with our service. Marketing implementation ways to find new customers, mostly B2B, were searching leads through programs such as SalesForce or Act!, but also Cold-Calling, email-marketing and door to door customer acquisition. Working in a faced paced environment and the responsibility to reach weekly and monthly quotas helped me to learn to focus under difficult circumstances such as time pressure, complicated weather conditions as well as dealing with complicated clients, I also had the chance to increase my communication and presentation skills, using Notebooks, Brochures, Magazines and Cellphones to present the benefits of our service and product during sales meeting with business owners and managers, Additionally to the already mentioned duties I gained experience in how to effective schedule meetings with clients, close sales successfully and also how to manage several existing accounts in forms of follow ups and customer service.

I worked as an administrative assistant for the German Air Force, LTG61 in Landsberg am Lech/Germany for several months. This position included a number of different responsibilities such leadership duties, project/event planning, daily data-entries, supply chain management, creation of marketing/PR material, budgeting and restocking essential parts for the airplanes as well as creating and scheduling maintenance work plans.This position was essential to make sure that the safety of national and international soldiers is guaranteed by working on a strict timeline and prohibiting any kind of delays of maintenance work at the airplanes, It was also very important to create a good relationship to the citizens in the surrounding areas in forms of creating awareness of the duties and responsibilities of every soldier stationed at the Airforce base.

FitIn Karlsruhe is one of the state-of-the-art leading companies in Karlsruhe, Germany. With more than three facilities, a strong brand name and growing number of customers FitIn had a great position and reputation, but also a growing number of competitors entering the market that made it necessary to build an in house marketing team. I started as a member of the promotion team, focused on finding new customers either through person to person, telemarketing or on-site events. After successfully increasing the number of members noticeably and exceeding all quotas and monthly targets I became the marketing team coordinator.Planning projects, creating work and event schedules for our promotion teams, finding cooperation partners and maintaining customer relationships as well as follow-ups with former members were essential parts of my duties. In addition to these responsibilities I worked as an assistant for several personal trainers that have been contracted to train the members of the fitness facility. This helped me to better understand the fitness industry and gain useful knowledge about the nutrition and health that stand behind every successful athlete.