Director of Sports Brands at Upper Deck
Greater San Diego Area
Director of Sports Brands at Upper Deck
Greater San Diego Area
Energetic and goal-focused sales and marketing professional with seven years of demonstrated competency in developing and executing marketing plans. Highly motivated individual with a proven ability to close deals with vendors and customers.
Consultative Sales, Product Marketing, Sponsorship Activation, Negotiating, Project Management, Profit and Loss, Key Account Management, Data Analysis
(Privately Held; Sports industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
(Privately Held; Sports industry)
August 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 7 months)
(Sports industry)
July 2005 — January 2006 (7 months)
Provided 25 luxury suites exemplary customer service during the 2005 service by quickly satisfying any suite holder requests, resolving any problems and proactively anticipating any customer needs.
(Privately Held; Sports industry)
January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year )
Redesigned Braves’ season ticket package portfolio for 2006 to capture $3 million in incremental revenue and identified three corporate customer segments for the Braves to target in 2006 which represented an additional $1.3 million in incremental revenue
(Privately Held; Sports industry)
May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)
Cold called and presented proposals totaling more than $350,000 to various companies including Dell, 1-800-Flowers.com, Helzberg Diamonds, UPS and Cooper Industries
(Wholesale industry)
August 1996 — July 2004 (8 years )
Successfully capitalized on the opportunity to build a new company division from scratch. Carefully selected and negotiated terms with 30 vendor partners and introduced the new category of home automation to West Michigan. The home automation division sales grew steadily to $1.25 million dollars annually.
MBA , Marketing , 2004 — 2006
BA , Marketing , 1997 — 1999
Marketing 1995 — 1997