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Name Curtis
Phone 312-513-2866
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $126K - $150K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Director of Sales
Lamin-Art, Inc.
Schaumburg, IL
(Decorative surfacing)

International Sales Mgr.
Jeld-Wen, Inc
Tokyo, Japan
(Building materials)

International Account Mgr
Jeld-Wen, Inc
Kent, Washington
(Building materials)

Key Accomplishments Increased sales 46% from $12 to $17 million within 36 months.

Created and delivered sales training, increasing quotes, capture rate and close rate, generating $3.9 million in new revenue.

Implemented first sales channels for distribution partners and Asia's largest home builders, generating $2.6 million annually.

Responsible for all sales and marketing for new Thailand manufacturing plant, targeting the Japanese, Korean and Thailand market.
Education / Skills MBA, Thunderbird, Global School of Management International Business Development, Sales & Marketing Strategy
Cross Cultural Relations, Leadership/Team Development, Distribution Management, Channel Sales, B2B & B2C sales
International Negotiations, Country Management, Expatriate experience, Sales Analytics, CRM Systems, Sales Management
Strategic Account Management

Name Francis
Phone 773-230-6638
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Senior Project Manager
TD Bank
Columbia, SC
(Commercial Banking )

Proj Mgr/Consultant/Agent
Coface North America/J L O'Brien Assoc
Chicago, IL
(Credit Ins & Info/Collect)

Project/Relationship Mgr
3 - AMCORE/Charter One/Chase Bank
Chicago, IL
(Commercial Banking)

Key Accomplishments 1) Crafted and implemented communication and training plans for commercial on-line customers (1500+); oversaw migration from eTreasury to TD Bank’s TreasuryDirect platform. Revised MS Project Plan to reflect approved scope changes. Monitored risks.

2) Devised and implemented cross-sell templates, operations processes, and CRM configuration changes to position agency for sustainable growth in all lines. Executed successful launch of collections business, managing risk responses.

3) Supervised customer transitioning during Great Bank acquisition. Crafted growth/retention strategies for each customer, implementing information reporting and other treasury offerings. Trained 20 bankers; drove 25% increase loan approval & revenue

4) Created project plan for acquisition of suitable beta candidates for merchant card, business credit card, and remote deposit capture offerings. Coached colleagues. Coordinated internal resources. Resulted in #1 ranking in cash management.
Education / Skills MBA Marquette University; BSEE Marquette University; 3 10-week Project Management Programs DePaul University;
PMI - Certified Project Management Profressional PMP; Six Sigma Green Belt Process Improvement Program DePaul University
Sandler Trained in Systematic Selling
Licensed Real Estate Sales IL; Licensed Property and Casualty Insurance Agent IL

Name Edward
Phone 708-308-3977
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $126K - $150K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Credit Manager, National
US Foodservice
Rosemont, IL
(Food distributor)

Regional Credit Manager
Ryerson
Chicago, IL
(Metal Distributor)

Credit Manager
Allscripts Healthcare
Chicago, IL
(Medical technology)

Key Accomplishments Leadership: Spearheaded turnaround strategies for troubled credit departments: Strategies included creatiom of policy throughout the Credit, Collections, and Sales functions, aggressive "clean up" of receivables, risk management and customer service

Risk Management: Lead financial modeling team to construct scorecards and cash flow metrics. Models enabled analysts to assign credit lines while simultaneously reducing risk 50% faster than previous methods.

Sales: Continuously worked with sales and upper management to develop leads, maintain profitability, and strengthen existing customer relations. Negotiations with fledging business resulted in $10 million in annual sales.

Process Improvement: Worked with Sales, IT and Finance to improve the auto release rate of sales orders; improved release rate from 15% to 78% within a 6 month period.
Education / Skills MBA, Finance - Lewis University
BA, Clinical Psychology - Governors State University
Additional certification in financial analysis, customer service and credit law from Dun and Bradstreet
Computer background includes: Microsoft Office, Mac O/S, PeopleSoft, SAP, CARMS, JD Edwards and IBM AS400 software

Name Confidential
Phone 847-910-0724
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $101K - $125K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Division Manager
Rotary International
Chicago, IL
(Non-Profit)

Manager
Shand Morahan & Co.
Chicago, IL
(Prof. Liability insurance)

Key Accomplishments Highly motivated, creative, and experienced with exceptional staff management, strategic planning, project management, research, communications, training, program development, problem-solving, budgeting, and implementation abilities.

Created, developed, and organized divisions to ensure all essential support functions are incorporated to effectively and successfully realize an organization's strategic mission, plan and goals. Effectively hire, coach, evaluate and manage staff.

Initiate and lead task forces, teams, and committees; strategic planning focused on enhancing membership development efforts, increasing diversity, improving retention and expansion; survey and research methods; e-learning; privacy; and social media.

Research and analyze trends from an international, regional, cultural, and demographic perspective. Identify trends impacting an organization's product line(s) and business, and initiate strategies and plans to enhance business opportunities.
Education / Skills MA, Psychology & Business Administration, New York University MS, Human Res. & Org. Beh., Aurora University




Name Robert
Phone 815-382-6494
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Sales Manager
J. Schneeberger Corp.
Elgin, IL
(CNC tool & cutter grinder)

Principal
Independent Sales Rep
Chicago, IL
(IT solutions: ETO/ERP/MRP)

International Sales Mgr.
Chief Automotive Systems
Grand Island, NE
(Capital equip, auto ind.)

Key Accomplishments Technical sales & marketing manager with extensive experience in complex capital equipment / engineered products / engineered solution sales with a solid track record of international accomplishments.

● Direct / Dealer / Rep Management. ● Product Development – market driven solutions / global norm compliance. ● New territory penetration: Europe; Latin America; Asia. ● New market penetration: medical; enterprise SW; auto.

A compressed view of specific accomplishments: ● Company’s first ($500K+, capital equipment) sale to Mexico. ● (Swiss) company’s U. S. entrance into medical market, via a gorilla marketing approach with $1M+ results, 1st yr.

● Spearheaded global team to decrease operational losses by 89% in the first year while increasing revenues by 47%. ● New-To-Market development: India / PRC / Latin America / Europe.
Education / Skills ● BS Industrial Technology, Western Illinois University ● Spanish & French linguistic capabilities
● MS Office; 3-D solid modeling / CAD / CAM; enterprise software / CRM / MES / Accounting
● Private Pilot, single engine, land


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