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OBJECTIVE

To ulitize my diverse talents and experience. I am creative, resourceful and well organized.
I am a motivated team player and will rise to any challenge set before me.


EXPERIENCE
3/3/2010-Present  Astron Consulting, LLC, Morris Plains, NJ
Sr. Sales Manager � IT Consulting
	Senior Sales Manager-IT Division;  Strong project management and organizational skills which include:
Recruiting and screening potential consulting candidates in the areas of IT system support, architecture, analysis, infrastructure, programming, migrations, scripting and security code and meeting the needs of our top fortune 100 clients. Reviewing unique skill sets and talent in industry specific sectors. 
Cold calling new sales leads and generating leads from job boards, postings, networks, blogs and forums, as well as maintaining existing customer needs.
Established a network of industry professionals, consultants and colleagues that support and work with me through a network of trusted and carefully screened resources. 
Currently creating and developing the company solution center as a secure portal for information resources to be used by the Office Management Team.  
Worked with Director of IT Sales in producing �virtual support teams� throughout the US to provide remote support 24 hours a day to our top clients. Helped put together a network of installation specialists throughout the top 20 NFL Cities and outlying areas for turnkey network installations on a retail level. 
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2002 -2008	Nature�s Thyme LLC	East Hanover, NJ
Director of Sales & Marketing/Network Administrator
	Helped run and maintain a family owned business for 6 years. Responsible for all facets of day to day operations which included:
	Finance; full charge bookkeeping to include A/R, A/P, posting to general ledger, financials, monthly budgets, payroll, invoicing, filing, collections. 
	Advertising; Generated sales leads, organized trade shows, ad layout & brochure designs 
	Developed and maintained company website using FrontPage, HTML, and Java  including which included embedded  video introduction and company overview. Set up online purchase order processing with a cart option via Paypal.
	Procured product through import and export as well as local suppliers, negotiated purchase contracts with vendors overseas as well as in the USA working with financial institutions on deposit options, LC�s and other funding options. Set up wire transfers, customs paperwork, FDA registration, dispatching drivers and scheduling shipments and weekly inventory analysis.
	Managed a sales team of 4 including a remote office located in Richmond VA, with video meetings weekly, via Skype. Developed challenges and goals that were realistic and attainable and provided support through sales leads, research and development and office support.
1991�1995	
Cerberus Pyrotronics (Siemens)                    Cedar Knolls, NJ 
Executive Assistant/Business Development
 
	Reporting directly to Executive Vice President of Business Development. 
	Researched and prepared report data for Product Review Board council meetings.
	Compiled and presented statistics for customer knowledge as well as global meetings. 
	Preparing statistical reports and training aids for field service reps, designed hand outs and information guides for roll outs via Freelance
	Working with customers to resolve equipment issues or troubleshooting. 
	Assisted Director of Finance annually with physical inventory and worked directly with project planning teams to implement ISO Certification. Developed and helped maintain all ISO procedures and binders. 
	Received commendation and $1000 bonus for implementing cost saving plan for photocopy reduction .

1987-1990	
Warnock Automotive                                     East Hanover, NJ 
Executive Assistant/Secretary

	Worked as Executive Secretary to CFO answering phone calls, writing correspondence, taking customer phone calls when issues arose and helping to resolve them. 
	Prepared financial reports, working with all the dealerships to prepare daily/weekly/monthly sales productivity reports, faxing and filing. 
	Created a Lotus Macro program which allowed all dealerships throughout NJ to report daily sales statistics online for a real time compilation of daily sales results.
	Obtained Employee of the Month Status three times while employed.
1984-1987	
Horizon Bank                                                  Parsippany, NJ 
Executive Assistant/Secretary

	Worked as Executive Secretary to Vice President of Credit Card Division. 
	Prepared reports for Visa and Mastercard USA on a monthly basis.
	Worked with Merchant Services to help provide support and customer service. 
	Developed custom Lotus macros to run queries and provide reports for Merchant Processing end of month filings. 
	Attended AMA Courses and attended Dbase Programming classes to help facilitate easier reporting mechanisms within the merchant service division. 
	Customer correspondence, phones, filing, faxing and general office responsibilities.
EDUCATION
1977�1979	The Kings College	Briarcliff Manor, NY
1	Business Administration
INTERESTS
Computers, Music, Writing, Karaoke, Baking, DJing
OTHER CREDITS/AFFILIATIONS
U.S. Army Veteran � Army Intelligence Corp.
SKILLS/APPTITUDE
Windows, Windows Live, MS Office; Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, FrontPage, HTML, PHP, Exchange, Dbase I, II, II, MySQL, Quickbooks, Lotus Notes, Freelance, Peachtree,  SAP BW,  Router  & Firewall configurations, Wireless setups, Norton, McAfee, AVG, MS DOS, Dell and HP Printers.