Maintain and develop relationships with existing customers via meetings, telephone calls and email. Extensive travel for face to face meetings, product training, conventions and PR development. Gather market and customer information to readily adapt our business strategies to an ever changing globalized market. Negotiate variations in price, delivery and specifications with clients to achieve customer satisfaction. Make accurate, rapid cost calculations, and provide customers with quotations and lead times. Advise on forthcoming product developments. Maintain accurate and up to date shipping dates by having open communication between vendors and clients. Pursue untapped markets to use our product line by obtaining product spec approval through engineering departments in different cities and municipalities.In charge of our ongoing international internship program that primarily consists of engineering and international business students from Ireland and Colombia. Primary roles consist of ensuring all proper paperwork is completed and sent to the proper government personnel to issue H1B visas and J1 student visas. Tasked with ensuring they complete our 8 week training course and begin a university required project each must complete in order to graduate. These projects are done with the mutual benefit of aiding both PowerSeals most pressing concerns as well as allowing our interns the opportunity to gain valuable professional experience. Grade and report back to their respective universities about each individual’s performance categorizing both their strengths and weaknesses. Many times resulting in our hiring of previous interns into full time employees.

**This is an on going position in addition to my account management position within PowerSeal that I have held since May of 2012. ....continually maintain our website built on web responsive design; providing concise and accurate product descriptions and uses for our customers and the end user. This includes readily accessible information in .PDF and Excel formats for use in quotes, submittals, and specification work. Additional responsibilities include the maintenance and proliferation of our presence on search engines and social media in various formats.

Coordinate the procurement of raw materials including fasteners, vulcanized rubber mats, gaskets, stainless steel, ductile iron, carbon steel sheets and coils for the fabrication of pipeline accessories and tools. Handle the paperwork and work with customs brokers to ensure shipments go through border control and end up at their destinations in a timely manner. The end products are primarily used by fluid and gas distribution construction industries for the repair, maintenance, and new construction of potable and sanitary sewer lines, agricultural irrigation lines, natural gas distribution lines, and low-pressure oil gathering lines.

At Merrill Lynch I worked as a client associate under the Hickey Rogers group located out of 3300 W. Monroe in Chicago, Illinois. My responsibilities were vast as I worked on everything from litigations, quoting, business client relationships, to the reorganization of essential paperwork. This was an internship that took me through my junior and senior years of college.