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Dynamic People Leader, Program Manager and Marketing Strategist

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Volunteer Experience

  • Maintenance Volunteer

    ForKids, Inc.

    - Present 11 years 1 month

    Children

    Worked to maintain living quarters and community areas by painting and refurbishing fixtures, walls, etc. Cleaned grounds to remove old furniture and sanitized living quarters at the shelter.

  • Maintenance Volunteer

    United Way of South Hampton Roads

    - Present 12 years 1 month

    Children

    Worked to remodel the office structure and classrooms of the tutoring facility for homeless children.

  • Maintenance Volunteer

    United Way of South Hampton Roads

    - Present 13 years 1 month

    Children

    Grounds maintenance for a local state-funded daycare facility, removing debris, refurbishing the playground area, planting shrubs, laying mulch, etc.

  • Processor

    Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia

    - Present 13 years 10 months

    Education

    Assisted staff with sorting donated books from local libraries and closed schools in order for them to be entered into the database and processed.

  • Greeter, Sorter

    Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore

    - Present 9 years 1 month

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

Honors & Awards

  • 2019 President's Club Award Winner

    Trader Interactive

    President's Club is an award program in place to recognize and reward outstanding sales performance, identify and communicate best practices within the sales organization, create a positive competitive environment to stimulate sales and income growth, and maintain an organizational culture that celebrates superior performance.

    Eligibility requirements include meeting all requirements established by the sales organization, including meeting and exceeding new customer acquisition numbers…

    President's Club is an award program in place to recognize and reward outstanding sales performance, identify and communicate best practices within the sales organization, create a positive competitive environment to stimulate sales and income growth, and maintain an organizational culture that celebrates superior performance.

    Eligibility requirements include meeting all requirements established by the sales organization, including meeting and exceeding new customer acquisition numbers and growing contracted revenue to specified yearly dollar amount.

    Total obtained customer growth and revenue successfully obtained for 2019: 48 new clients, $614,000 in contracted revenue. Actual revenue obtained: $793,000.

  • 2016 President's Club Award Winner

    Commercial Web Services

    President's Club is an award program in place to recognize and reward outstanding sales performance, identify and communicate best practices within the sales organization, create a positive competitive environment to stimulate sales and income growth, and maintain an organizational culture that celebrates superior performance.

    Eligibility requirements include meeting all requirements established by the sales organization, including meeting and exceeding new customer acquisition numbers…

    President's Club is an award program in place to recognize and reward outstanding sales performance, identify and communicate best practices within the sales organization, create a positive competitive environment to stimulate sales and income growth, and maintain an organizational culture that celebrates superior performance.

    Eligibility requirements include meeting all requirements established by the sales organization, including meeting and exceeding new customer acquisition numbers and growing contracted revenue to specified yearly dollar amount.

    Total obtained customer growth and revenue successfully obtained for 2016: 41 new clients, $606,000 in contracted revenue.

  • 2016 Salesperson of the Year

    Commercial Web Services

    One Sales Representative of the Year is selected from the eligible President's Club Winners.

    Considerations for Sales Representative of the Year include:
    >Strong team player
    >Positive attitude
    >Strong steward of the business
    >Responsiveness to internal and external customer needs
    >Superior communication skills both internally and externally
    >Change catalyst
    >Leadership qualities
    >Participates in continued learning
    >Utilizes business…

    One Sales Representative of the Year is selected from the eligible President's Club Winners.

    Considerations for Sales Representative of the Year include:
    >Strong team player
    >Positive attitude
    >Strong steward of the business
    >Responsiveness to internal and external customer needs
    >Superior communication skills both internally and externally
    >Change catalyst
    >Leadership qualities
    >Participates in continued learning
    >Utilizes business systems available

  • Customer Service Representative of the Year

    Verizon Wireless

    Awarded to Customer Service Representative with the most sales and lowest churn for the year.

Languages

  • English

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  • Hawaiian

    Elementary proficiency

  • Tagalog

    Elementary proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

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