Sales Manager

MiChael david raya

**** *. ********** **., ******, IL 61604-2656 309-***-****

*******@*******.***

Offering 16 years of graphic design experience.

SOFTWARE proficiency

QuarkXPress (Mac & PC) Adobe Photoshop Microsoft Access Microsoft

PowerPoint

Adobe PageMaker Adobe Acrobat Microsoft Excel Microsoft

Publisher

Corel Draw Quattro Pro Microsoft Word

Peachtree Accounting

Typing: 80 wpm Microsoft Outlook Windows

MovieMaker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

01/17/07 - 04/02/07 ORDER OF SAINT FRANCIS, INC.

8001 N. University St., Suite C,

Peoria, IL 61615

PUBLIC RELATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

- Conceptualized and designed promotional materials for OSF Home

Care, OSF Medical Group,

OSF Hospice, and OSF Home Medical Equipment throughout

Illinois/Michigan.

- Created articles and advertisements for publication in

journals, newspapers, magazines, etc.

- Solicited service bureaus to print materials. Evaluated

service bureaus.

- Responsible for many aspects of internal/external special

events.

- Established and maintained relationships with media. Bought

radio/TV air time.

- Proactively arranged interviews between OSF health care

professionals and the media.

- Earned 6 Sigma green belt certification.

06/12/06 - 01/12/07 ADVANCE AMERICa

922 Main St., Peoria, IL 61602

CENTER MANAGER

- Qualified customers for payday and installment loans. Performed

transactions, phone collections, field calls, door-to-door

marketing, cash management, scheduling, profit & loss, etc.

- Networked with area businesses.

- Doubled store's accounts during fall 2006 sales contest.

05/95 - 06/06 Adventure Sports Outdoors

magazine

1408 Downing Ct., Tremont, IL 61568

EDITOR/Graphics DEsigner

- Directed content of 100-page, recreational magazine with a

statewide circulation of 15,000.

- Edited articles of over 60 contributing writers.

- Wrote eight features (lifestyles, environmental, historical,

business, etc.) each month.

- Sold display ad space and designed ads for more than 300

advertisers.

- Performed photography, typesetting, and all pagination.

- Helped increase publication from 16 to 100 pages in less than

four years.

- Performed electronic bookkeeping (Microsoft Excel),

collections, and deliveries.

- Assisted with ASO radio/television production (WMBD Radio 1470

AM/Illinois PBS affiliates).

- Promoted ASO at outdoor shows and miscellaneous special events.

- Published three books in spare time: Letters From the Front:

Three Years in the Civil War,

Life & Lore Along Illinois Waterways, and Adventures Along

Illinois Waterways.

- Wrote business features for service bureau's four weekly

newspapers: Banner Times, Manito Review, Olympia Review,

and WHAM.

10/91 - 05/95 Raya's Marketing, 333 Margaret

St., Pekin, IL 61554

Raya's Power & Fitness, 521

Caroline, Pekin, IL 61554

The Hair Affair & Tan-X, 110 Main,

Lacon, IL 61540

MULTI-UNIT BUSINESS PROPRIETOR

- Operated 850-member health club w/pro shop, advertising agency,

and beauty parlor/tanning salon.

- Designed accounting system to generate accounts

payable/receivable, payroll, cash flow budgets, income statements,

et cetera, using Quattro Pro, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access

programs.

- Created billing system for fitness center (based on one- and

two-year contracts) consisting of coupon payment booklets and a

collection system from which were generated accounts receivable activity

and summary reports, membership aging reports, and month-end processed

sales reports using Novell's Database Desktop and Microsoft

Access database programs.

- Presented innovative, fitness seminars and was the third-

largest promoter of powerlifting meets in the United

States. Fielded powerlifting team which remained undefeated for 3 1/2

years.

- Grew sales from an initial $0 to $202,000 annually while

decreasing advertising costs by 92%.

- Designed newspaper display ads, direct mail pieces,

telemarketing scripts, lead boxes, brochures, outdoor

advertising, in-home sales portfolios, slide shows, et cetera, for clients

of Raya's Marketing. Applied these tools synergistically in large,

multi-media marketing campaigns.

- Wrote, directed, and appeared in radio (WTAZ) and television

commercials (WHOI and WYZZ).

- Performed routine management functions: purchasing,

bookkeeping/accounting, scheduling, merchandising,

maintenance, inside/outside sales, collections, etc.

- Participated in business expos and fundraising events for local

charities.

- Active member of Pekin Chamber of Commerce and South Side

Business Association.

- Employed 17 full- and part-time employees (telemarketers, hair

stylists, receptionists, etc.).

11/87 - 10/91 TRANSTECHNOLOGY ELECTRONICS,

INC.

8800 N. Allen Rd., Peoria, IL 61615

MANAGER OF DOCUMENTATION CONTROL

- Organized Documentation Control Department in 1988 when TTE

consolidated its acquisitions (TJ Electronics, Breeze Illinois,

and Flight Connector) with its executive offices in Peoria, Illinois.

- Managed transfer of company's executive offices to new site.

- Organized, maintained, and distributed 40,000 company,

customer, and government blueprints and redundant microfilm

files (aperture cards); military specifications, company manufacturing

procedures, and OSHA material safety data sheets.

- Maintained validity of a computerized cross-referencing system

(IBM mainframe network).

- Supported every department (sales, engineering, purchasing,

production control, stockroom, brazing, plating, cable assembly,

and quality control) in every step of sales-manufacturing-delivery.

- Upgraded reproduction equipment, increasing department's

capabilities.

- Contracted with outside vendors to supply a myriad of services

and supplies.

- Initially managed stockroom, mailroom, building/grounds

maintenance, and shipping/receiving.

VOLUNTEER WORK

1997 - 1998 LAKEVIEW WILDS, INC.

331 W. Ivy Ln., Peoria, IL 61614

MARKETING DIRECTOR

- Set policy as member of board of directors for non-profit,

green space preservation organization.

- Created promotional materials including posters, slide shows,

multi-media educational displays, newsletters, newspaper

display ads, event tickets, grocery bags, trail guides, etc. Wrote grants.

- Promoted special events including March For Parks.

EDUCATION

01/80 - 05/82 ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE East Peoria, IL AAS -

Business Management GPA - 3.7/4.0

1972 - 1976 PEORIA HIGH SCHOOL Peoria, IL Diploma

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