Kathleen Pope

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Wilmette, IL *****

847-***-****

acq3tq@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Broad and diverse business experience in both entrepreneurial and corporate staff roles. Commercial signage, design and consulting service, fixtures and graphic displays with government retail and commercial markets and industry. Successful track record of highly innovative but cost effective profitable fortune 500 projects.

Objective

Transition career direction from entrepreneurial to a consultant or staff managerial position that provides the opportunity to create and make meaningful contributions to businesses customers and goals.

Key Competencies

*Strategic Planning *Marketing Planning

*Project Design and Manage *Results Oriented

*Financial Analysis *Strong Business Acumen

*Staff Team Leadership *Comfortable Competing & Risk

*Sales Effective *Cross functional Experience

Career History

Cable Design and Fixture Inc. 1997 - Present

President/CEO

Built a start-up business into a flourishing visual and graphic design fixture organization. Created custom displays that tell a story using materials of stainless steel cables, glass, wood, metal and acrylics. The end results are seen in graphic, branding, signage, fixtures, museum and corporate exhibit displays. Recognized as the problem solver go to for architects, design consulting firms, general contractors, interior facility’s and property developers and managers. An expert in specialty hardware, branding, visual solutions to Retail, Government, Hospitality, Commercial, Education and Healthcare.

Experienced in a start-up consist of due diligence deal structuring & negotiations. Financial and legal transactions, purchasing, risk management and inventory control, profit and loss, costs analysis, reconciliations and control, growth management, marketing, business development, product design, develop and rollout, quality control and sales.

Major Fortune 500 corporate clients:

*McDonalds *The Pope John Museum

*United Airlines Red Carpet Clubs *The Naval Academy

* Colgate *The Smithsonian

*Time Inc. *The White House Visitor Center

* AT&T *NGA (National Geospatial Agency

*Walt Disney World *Army Intelligence

*Hard Rock *Niketown

* MGM *Crate & Barrel

Mobile Cable System 1984 to 1996

US Sales and Marketing Manger

New business from France by an entrepreneur owning several inventive products used throughout Europe. The business was called Supermarket Systems and designed and developed product for recycling, shopping carts corrals used in parking lots, and “the cable system”, used primarily in retail windows in Paris, London and Brussels by shop fitters.

Was instrumental in developing and marketing it towards the design community from retail to hospitality, government and more. Magazines, tradeshows to one on one meetings walking away with excitement from each designer. Selling cable hardware and connectors to support glass shelves in retail windows from one to 1000 stores at a time.

* Introduced a niche cable product to North America

* Created growth revenue from zero to $30 million dollar competitive business.

* Introduced product to retailer and design firms

* Researched market and restructured price

* Reduced costs through inventory control and exporting.

* Consistently grew the business annually beyond the owner’s expectation,

* Trained new sales reps across Europe

Gandalf Data 1980 to 1984

Outside Sales Representative

Sold data communication equipment to businesses across the state of Indiana. Working with data com specialist in large fortune 500 business providing modems, multiplexers and data switches which allowed employees access to the company’s main computer. Created a design layout for companies and the various departments allowing the ability to access certain data for processing.

*Worked with AT&T in Oakbrook on the future works of communication presently called “The Internet”, Web processing and access communications.

*Consistently won the National Top Ten Sales three years in a row

*Opened new major accounts to the company such as Delco Remy, Purdue University, Fisher, Alcoa

*One of the first female sales representatives to work in Data Communications across the US.

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital/ Chicago – Cardiac Catheterization Lab Professional

Professional development throughout career via workshops, formal and informal training courses, and memberships in industry associations, marketer’s research subscriptions and more. Highlights include: Executive Briefing, Presentations Certification, Selling Strategy, Presentations skills, SCORE programs on all levels of Owning and Operating a Business.

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