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Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City, Missouri Area

The Kansas City Center for Inclusion (formerly known as LIKEME Lighthouse-KC) exists to serve the needs of the Kansas City LGBTQIA+ Community by saving and enriching the lives of marginalized individuals regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity.We provide a safe, welcoming space where individuals, their families, friends, and straight allies.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

The purpose of the Transfinity KC Chorus is to create an affirming and supportive space that inspires Trans people and allies to discover and share their voice.The mission of Transfinity KC Chorus is to express our voices and enrich the greater community through music.Values: respect, diversity, excellence, authenticity, and solidarity.

• Worked with various internal departments in order to provide digital signage solutions to Enterprise Accounts and Resellers throughout North America. Solutions include Content Management Software, Media Players and.
• Led organization to implement managed and professional services as part of solution portfolio.
• Created managed services profit center which increased recurring annual revenues.
• Managed strategic accounts by focusing efforts on core strengths of distributing content from a centralized server over a broadband connection to multiple locations.
• Directed several Digital Signage Implementations, Media Campaigns and Creative Engagements.
• Closed 4 of the largest opportunities in the history of the company.

Shawnee, Kansas

• Founded company to provide sales, marketing and design services in network and audiovisual solutions. Worked with resellers and end-users to consult on technology implementation and new business development. Provided.
• Contract sales engineering services for Communication Integrity Group.
• Led and Implemented Avaya Voice over IP practice for Midwest Technology Connection.
• Closed the City of Gardner on a citywide telephony system.
• Developed distant learning solution for K-State Vet Teaching Hospital.
• Inside sales and telemarketing services with Forsythe and Associates

Managed maintenance and customer retention programs. Maintained relationships at the director and executive level. Responsible for all training activities within customer base. Worked with Account Executives to uncover opportunities within Major Accounts.Including:Increased maintenance renewals by 25% over previous year.Closed a $1.5 million upgrade of.

Managed sales revenue of over $60 million per year. Led team of 40 sales professionals over a 7 state region. Tasked to recruit and motivate account managers as well as develop and maintain vendor relations. Maintained customer contact in major end user accounts. Including:Reorganized sales force by developing a new compensation model based on over.

Responsible for end-user sales to major corporations in the Dallas-Fort Worth Territory. Also responsible for education and government sales. Including:Closed 3 of the largest volumes sales in FY2001, including Irving ISD, Southwestern Bell and Frito Lay. Increased average monthly revenue from previous year by 40%.

Promoted from Territory Sales Manager to Senior Territory Sales Manager and on to Area Sales Manager during a seven year career. As ASM responsible for managing the area as well as leading ten direct reports.Including: Earned Presidents Club and Pinnacle Award for 1999 while an Area Sales Manager for the SE Region. Recruited and motivated ten new sales.

1986, Business Administration, 3.7/4.0

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma, Stephenson Scholarship HallBusiness Administration and Management Information Systems

Master’S Degree, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Graduate Course Certification in Professional Fundraising

Journalism And Business

Activities and Societies: School News Paper, Photo EditorI was a member of the school paper as a reporter and a photographer. I was also.