Experience

Ace Displays

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Account Manager

  • May 2021 - Present

  Generated 1.78 million in sales last year. Answer inbound calls and chats for custom printed event products. Answer all questions related to lead time and follow up in a timely manner. Utilize Hubspot, Asana and Slack to communicate externally with customers and internally with production and graphics teams. Generated 1.78 million in sales last year. Answer inbound calls and chats for custom printed event products. Answer all questions related to lead time and follow up in a timely manner. Utilize Hubspot, Asana and Slack to communicate externally with customers and internally with production and graphics teams.



Signarama of Magnolia, TX

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Outside Sales Representative

  • Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  Made contacts daily with business owners and leaders within the construction and real estate industries to develop leads. Met with contacts and discussed estimates and scope of project. Explained each product, lead time and graphics for the customer. Attend networking events in the community. Made contacts daily with business owners and leaders within the construction and real estate industries to develop leads. Met with contacts and discussed estimates and scope of project. Explained each product, lead time and graphics for the customer. Attend networking events in the community.



Camelback Displays, Inc.

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Account Executive

  • Feb 2019 - Jan 2021

  Generated over half a million dollars in sales last year. Monitor and accept incoming calls from customers and cold-call prospecting to build sales pipeline. Create estimates and process payments for orders for trade show and display products. Must verify customer deadlines, create purchase orders, communicate with production facility, graphics team and input information accurately in database. Responsible for managing all details until the order is complete and customer is satisfied. Generated over half a million dollars in sales last year. Monitor and accept incoming calls from customers and cold-call prospecting to build sales pipeline. Create estimates and process payments for orders for trade show and display products. Must verify customer deadlines, create purchase orders, communicate with production facility, graphics team and input information accurately in database. Responsible for managing all details until the order is complete and customer is satisfied.



Showcase Kingwood

• United States

• Event Coordinator

  • Sep 2018 - Feb 2019

  Field questions via social media, greet vendors on the day of the event, advertise vendor spaces, attend monthly happy hour and network. Responsible for building a social media presence to develop genuine relationships with vendors. During events, responsibilities also include thanking every vendor with a card and inviting them to participate in the next event. At each event, live videos are added on Facebook to introduce our vendors and invite the public to our event. Use Google forms to organize which vendors are participating in each event and keep in contact with supervisor by phone or e-mail. This is a work from home position and requires self-motivation. Show less



Premier Designs Jewelry

• Independent Distributor

  • Oct 2003 - Feb 2019

  Developed relationships with people to create a warm presentation for customers. Held a presentation to show versatility in the products and increase retail. Managed a team of professionals by providing and attending training regularly. When actively running the business in 2016, work experience included 45 shows and sold over $20K in jewelry. Developed relationships with people to create a warm presentation for customers. Held a presentation to show versatility in the products and increase retail. Managed a team of professionals by providing and attending training regularly. When actively running the business in 2016, work experience included 45 shows and sold over $20K in jewelry.



Humble Market

• United States

• Event Coordinator

  • Apr 2018 - Aug 2018

  Contacted vendors daily to fill spaces for a weekly market. Built social media presence, advertised for vendor spaces and networked with vendors on the day of the event. Contacted vendors daily to fill spaces for a weekly market. Built social media presence, advertised for vendor spaces and networked with vendors on the day of the event.



IPG Energy

• Night Shift Supervisor and Senior Power Markets Analyst

  • Oct 2000 - Jul 2002

  Gathered data from power traders to create an index for the industry’s only hourly indices for Cinergy, Entergy/SPP, ERCOT, Northern ECAR, SERC and MAIN. Trained seven reporters to collect prices and report energy market activity. This was an internet start-up company that contacted me to create the power indexes based on my industry contacts and work experience.

• Natural Gas Analyst

  • May 2000 - Jan 2001

  Wrote up to 8 stories daily about the physical natural gas market for several energy websites. Assisted in the development of a pipeline maintenance calendar for Internet publication.



Financial Times Energy

• United States
• Oil & Energy
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Market Reporter/Deputy Editor for Transportation & Storage Week

  • Mar 1997 - Apr 2000

  Attended many industry conferences to further develop relationships with sources. Gained approximately 30 natural gas traders as sources and exchanged information daily for the natural gas industry’s most widely used index. Met deadlines by writing and editing stories and price hedging reports. Co-authored two magazine articles for Gas Daily’s NG Magazine. Attended many industry conferences to further develop relationships with sources. Gained approximately 30 natural gas traders as sources and exchanged information daily for the natural gas industry’s most widely used index. Met deadlines by writing and editing stories and price hedging reports. Co-authored two magazine articles for Gas Daily’s NG Magazine.