DIANE SIMS
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Experience
**/**** - **/**** *** COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Rancho Santa
Margarita, CA
Customer Retention Department
Taking inbound calls from current and prospective customers in San
Diego County, Orange County, Palos Verdes and Santa Barbara
Assisted customers with product information regarding cable (video),
internet (data) and telephone
Assisted customers with most current services offered and assuring
customer's needs are met
Providing customer retention options to maintain current Cox customers
Handling new customer installations, customer disconnections and
troubleshooting
Supporting all marketing programs to convey updates to customers
Participating in all vendor training meetings to learn current updates
and special programming
Handling high inbound customer calling volume and exceeding monthly
requirement
Achieved high customer focus score of 95% monthly
Volunteered and worked overtime when requested by supervisory staff
Attending weekly meetings with supervisor and team members
Working with ICOMS Cox Customer Database for customer data, sales,
orders and accounting
03/2011 - 05/2012 BLUESTAR, INC. Santa Ana, CA
Account Manager, Western Territory
Responsible for sales of digital signage for point-of-sale and
mobility products throughout ten western states, including Alaska and
Hawaii
Provided all pricing and product availability for end-user
opportunities
Product lines included LCD/LED/Plasma desktop display, large-format
display and digital signage solutions
Personal Assistant to the Business Development Manager and reported to
Western Regional Sales Manager
Set up new accounts and developed relationships with new dealers every
month
Consistently met or exceeded monthly sales quotas
2003-2010 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Ridgefield Park,
NJ/
Irvine, CA
Inside Sales Representative, Central and Southwest Territories
Supported 11 Territory Field Representatives and Product Specialists
managing Fortune 500 Reseller/End-User accounts
Responsible for growing Fortune 1000 accounts via quota-based plan
Participated in consultative selling via product and roadmap project
planning support
Supported Fortune 1000, 500 and 100 companies (resellers and
end-users) representing approximately $300 million in territory sales
Products included LCD/LED/Plasma Desktop Display, large format
display, digital signage solutions, Notebooks/Netbooks, printers and
projectors.
Achievements included performing at 125% to 140% of quota with the
highest weekly call-out statistics, grew assigned territory by 36.2%
in first half of 2010 vs. same time period in 2009, 2007 Inside Sales
Team MVP, 2004 top Sales Representative Award, 2003 Sales Excellence
Award, 2003 and 2010 received consistent high praise from team "360
reviews" and letters of recommendation
01/1982 - 08/1997 NOEVIER, INC. Irvine,
CA/Dallas,TX/
Fort Lee, NJ
Corporate Trainer
Worked as Corporate Trainer for Japanese Herbal & Natural Skincare
Company responsible for the USA & Hawaii territories
Traveled the continental United States supporting training meetings,
sales trainings and product trainings
Supported corporate events, trade shows, national sales meetings and
independent sales partners' presentations
Responsible for setup/take down/product displays and literature for
all event
Handled all catering for corporate office events for staff, and
visitors. Also responsible for all catering for corporate Guest house
in Newport Beach, CA and corporate yacht.
Traveled with President of USA Sales & VP of USA Sales to offices in
Osaka & Tokyo Japan to meet Japanese corporate trainers and learn new
product introductions and sales techniques.
Education
FULLERTON COLLEGE/LONG BEACH CITY
COLLEGE
Major: Liberal Arts - 60 plus units
SAMSUNG UNIVERSITY
Customer Service, Organization, Time Management
OTHER
Anthony Robbins: 3-day seminar
References
References are available upon request.