Tom Ackerman Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Portland, Oregon Area

• President’s Club Double Diamond Sr. Sales Associate, 2014 to 2022
• Related Skills: Customer Service, Innovative Selling Techniques, Relationship Development, Problem Solving, Client Database Management, Process Improvements, Communication and Collaboration, Project Oversight
• Communicate effectively both in-person and over the phone to discover the customer’s wants and needs. Consult and guide customers to the appropriate next step based on their situation. Collaborate with Sales Managers.
• Earned recognition and praise from senior management for delivering excellent results; President's Club (15 cars per month) and Double Diamond status (1000 lifetime sales).
• Facilitated customers by developing and maintaining a working knowledge of CarMax products and appropriately recommending them to customers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Related Skills: Contracts Management, Product Management, Project Oversight, Marketing Strategies, Presentations, Budget Development and Administration, Problem Solving, Communication and Collaboration, Team Leadership
• Managed the bands The Jealous Sound, Knapsack, Weatherbox, Have Mercy, So Much Light, Rye Coalition, Stars of Track and Field, Snowden, The Forms and Mock Orange
• Helped solicit/acquire merchandising deals, recording deals and publishing deals for clients withcompanies such as Impact Merchandising, Wind-up Records, Topshelf Records, Rise Records, Triple Crown Records, Hopeless.
• Responsible for conceptualization and implementation of marketing plans for severalindependent and major label releases, coordinating campaigns for radio promotion, press,marketing and advertising
• Created budgets, coordinated production and facilitated domestic and international touring forartists in conjunction with agents such as CAA, The Agency Group, Flower Booking, The SorokaAgency, APA and Creature Booking
• Helped generate revenue-producing music licensing opportunities for artists with companies suchas EA, Whirly Girl, Bands For Brands, Go Big! Entertainment and Neophonic.

Hawthorne, CA

• Product Manager | Special Projects, 2011 to 2013
• Related Skills: Contracts Management, Product Management, Project Oversight, Marketing Strategies, Presentations, Budget Development and Administration, Problem Solving, Communication and Collaboration, Team Leadership
• Spearheaded the development and implementation of unique marketing strategies to a diverse artistic community, encouraging and maintaining positive relationships. Organized individual and group presentations /.
• Developed and implemented discretionary marketing budgets, including the coordination of advertising, 3rd party publicity, lifestyle marketing and radio promotion campaigns.
• Built and maintained a professional image of the company by attending and representing Century Media / Superball Music at various functions, such as festival shows, music expos, and trade shows.
• Demonstrated skills in applying and modifying knowledge of practical problem solving, recommending solutions, and implementing and evaluating changes

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Mechanical Licensing, 2008 to 2011
• Related Skills: Contracts Management, Client Database Management, Problem Solving, License Requests, Process Improvements, Royalty Statements Preparation, Cross-cultural Communication, Customer Service
• Navigated Harry Fox Agency’s eMechanical and UMG’s CLA proprietary computer systems. Processed hundreds of fully executed mechanical licenses in UMG’s CLA system for royalty set up. Prepared royalty statements for.
• Generated various forms of mechanical and digital licenses and license requests for music publishers.

Secondary Education And Teaching

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communications, 3.7

Activities and Societies: KXLU Production Director. KXLU DJ.Graduated Cum Laude.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters

Activities and Societies: Chi Sigma Chi.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Communication And Media Studies