Experience

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  Hammond Residential

  • Sales Associate, Residential Real Estate

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  Hammond Residential Real Estate, LLC

  • Chestnut Hill, Ma

  • Sales Associate, Residential Real Estate

    • May 2021 - Present
    • Chestnut Hill, Ma

    My love of design, creating home and working closely with clients as a renovation coach was a natural and exciting path leading me to residential real estate sales. Our team, the Kerzner Group at Hammond RE, offers Concierge Home Sales providing a hands-on full-service “whole-istic” approach to preparing a home for market. Catering to the Brookline, Newton, Metro West and Boston communities, CHS oversees and optimizes every step of the real estate process — whether you're selling or buying.

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  BrooklineStrong.org

  • Brookline, Massachusetts, United States

  • Executive Director

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Brookline, Massachusetts, United States

    BrooklineStrong is a volunteer-led non-profit first established to provide performers a virtual stage to express gratitude to essential workers and social justice advocates and to raise awareness and donations for the Brookline Community Foundation Safety Net Fund for people most economically impacted by COVID-19. We continue to seize opportunities to celebrate others and activities that inspire, and spread information we believe are beneficial for the greater good.

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  WeGush, Inc.

  • Brookline/Boston, MA

  • Entrepreneur/Founder/CEO

    • May 2012 - Jan 2020
    • Brookline/Boston, MA

    WeGush is an appreciation platform. We make expressing appreciation on mobile and the web simple and meaningful. Our free iOS mobile app offers sentiments with graphics that can be sent via text or email. WeGush group also offers web based virtual appreciation wall boards enabling participants to post messages and contribute to gift collection online. A link to completed wall board is emailed to recipient and gratitude is delivered! WeGush is passionate about expressing gratitude and possesses a business model designed to generate revenue and to scale. WeGush - unleash your gratitude

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  Room for Change, LLC

  • Brookline, MA

  • Founder

    • May 2005 - May 2013
    • Brookline, MA

    Room for Change - Provides home renovation coaching and project management helping clients achieve rewarding renovation results. We preserve client sanity by replacing uncertainty with industry insight and planning. We identify industry professionals, provide product research and sourcing, consultations, seminars and workshops.

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  The Classic Hanger Collection

  • Boston

  • Founder

    • May 1995 - May 2005
    • Boston

    Designed, marketed and sold children's embellished wooden hangers to kids' clothing designers, boutiques and department stores in the U.S. & U.K. After years of maintaining the business while raising a family, exited to apply design and project management skills to the home renovation industry.

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  Bank of Boston / BankBoston / Fleet

  • Boston, MA

  • Advertising & Marketing Specialist, External Affairs

    • Jan 1993 - May 1997
    • Boston, MA

    Account management, client services, strategic marketing, advertising, branding, print and media buying, production, and trade show management serving Bank of Boston companies including Cash Management, Leasing, Corporate Treasury, The Private Bank, and institutional and retail banking. Managed inhouse and outsourced design and agency services. Worked full-time and transitioned to freelance to manage a start-up.

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  Fidelity Investments

  • Boston, MA

  • Account Services/Production Coordinator

    • Sep 1991 - Feb 1994
    • Boston, MA

    Account and creative services management, print production and media coordination for Fidelity Investments Institutional Services 401(k) & 403(b) plans, Fidelity Captial Markets, Fidelity Properties and Fidelity Canada (Toronto).

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  Colonial Management

  • Boston

  • Marketing & Production Assistant

    • Oct 1987 - 1991
    • Boston

    Fielded wholesaler and shareholder mutual fund inquiries and literature requests. Promoted to Marketing Assistant working with IT to design and test wholesaler marketing reports. Promoted to Marketing Communications as Production Assistant responsible for wholesaler, shareholder and corporate marketing print production of brochures and legal materials and promotional items. Worked closely with fund managers, legal department, in-house and external creative, print and distribution services.