Jake Schaefer Email & Phone Number

• Account manager for several of Avid's key audio accounts, including national and retail accounts.• Have worked with nearly every pro audio reseller for Avid, including Vintage King, Sweetwater, Westlake Pro, and Guitar Center.• Have worked with distributors Hal Leonard and Douglas Stewart.• Managed direct reports while providing leadership and mentoring.• Develop annual business plans with key accounts to ensure alignment of goals and objectives including negotiating strategic purchase agreements.• Work with partners to help develop their digital strategies along with a move to subscription licensing.• Provide both technical and strategic sales training.• Spent 2 years selling Avid video products including editorial, storage, and asset management.• Extensive knowledge of both the music and post markets.

• Sales representative responsible for providing sales training and mentorship for channel partners.• Facilitated in-store and customer on-site product demos for all audio products.• Performed the first customer demo for the D-Control professional console

• Provided phone, online, and onsite tech support for Digidesign customers.• Mentored new support professionals to develop product knowledge and skill enhancement.

• Logistics support for repair center.

Santa Cruz, California, United States

• Managed daily operations, including purchasing, inventory control, merchandising and product distribution.• Maintained detailed and accurate accounting records by overseeing documentation of sales, purchases and requisitions.• Assisted in store opening by setting up office space, computers and cash registers.• Counted and balanced registers.