Experience

Kings County Distillery

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales and Marketing Consultant

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  Kings County Distillery is New York City’s oldest operating whiskey distillery, the first since prohibition. Founded in 2010, Kings County makes handmade moonshine and bourbon out of the 115-year-old Paymaster Building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We use New York grain and traditional distilling equipment to make distinctive whiskey. Our whiskeys have won numerous awards from the American Distilling Institute, the American Craft Spirits Association, and our bourbon was recently named #2 craft bourbon by Eric Asimov of the New York Times. We only distill whiskey for our label and we never buy bulk whiskey from any other source. First located in a 325 square-foot room in East Williamsburg, Kings County began as the smallest commercial distillery in the country, with five 24-liter stainless steel stills making whiskey seven days a week, 16 hours a day. In 2012, we moved into the Paymaster Building in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard, just steps from legendary site of the Brooklyn Whiskey Wars of the 1860s and the former distillery district of the waterfront. With traditional copper whiskey stills fabricated in Scotland, wooden fermenters were built locally by Isseks Brothers, and a corn and barley patch at a small farm onsite, the distillery is a model of sustainable and traditional whiskey production and one of the preeminent craft distilleries in the United States. We offer tours and tastings every Saturday.



Ambassador Education Solutions

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Client Services Specialist

  • Mar 2014 - Oct 2021

  Ambassador Education Solutions is the industry leader in engineering, developing and implementing customized bookstore and technology solutions to simplify the delivery and management of all student course materials including textbooks, eBooks, kits, logo wear, scrubs and custom content. - Primary Account Executive for DeVry University and Chamberlain University of Nursing - Analyze sales data and research market trends to forecast purchasing - Facilitate staff training on daily technological enhancements to proprietary systems - Identification and development of sales team initiatives - Regulate all facets of online bookstore sites including pricing and content - Manage first line responses to faculty and student inquiries



Pipeline Brands

• Beverage Manufacturing

• Brand Ambassador/Consultant

  • Jul 2009 - Feb 2014

  - Strategic marketing and sales of artisanal/niche brands with a focus on key off-premise accounts - Increased sales and distribution of select brands in the New York metro area - Brands including St. Germain, Don Q, Maker’s Mark, Bak’s Bison Grass Vodka, Luksosowa - Domaine de Canton, Montecristo, Charbay, Rhum Clement and Uluvka - Schedule and facilitate numerous retail tasting events as well as industry special events including "New Taste of the Upper West Side", "NYC Food & Wine Festival" and "Madison Square Eats"



Grande Harvest Wines

• United States
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Retail Manager

  • Feb 2004 - Jun 2009

  Retail Store Manager, February 2004 – June 2009 - Implemented Wine of the Month program with over two hundred subscribers - Hosted numerous corporate and private wine tasting events. - Developed and cultivated numerous corporate accounts including: Equinox Sports Club, Cline Davis Mann Advertising & Russell Reynolds Executive Staffing Retail Store Manager, February 2004 – June 2009 - Implemented Wine of the Month program with over two hundred subscribers - Hosted numerous corporate and private wine tasting events. - Developed and cultivated numerous corporate accounts including: Equinox Sports Club, Cline Davis Mann Advertising & Russell Reynolds Executive Staffing



Cine Magic International

• Greater New York City Area

• General Manager

  • Jan 1998 - Jan 2003

  Specialty motion picture camera rental house focusing on commercial table-top photography. - Equipment sales, rentals and manufacturing. - Photo-Sonics high speed cameras * Revolution Snokel Lens System * Cinewand Borescope - Clients include:Celsius Films, MacGuffin Films, Radical Media, Michael Schrom and Santiago Films Specialty motion picture camera rental house focusing on commercial table-top photography. - Equipment sales, rentals and manufacturing. - Photo-Sonics high speed cameras * Revolution Snokel Lens System * Cinewand Borescope - Clients include:Celsius Films, MacGuffin Films, Radical Media, Michael Schrom and Santiago Films