Sales Manager

ADRIENNE PARKS, MFA

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Seeking: RFP / Proposal Writer - Business Development

Experience:

Extensive hands-on experience developing uniquely customized proposals.

Work well with tech writers, editors, ISDs, IT SMEs. Have supported highly

technical, web-based presentations. Data mine for relevant RFPs. Excellent

client-facing problem solver. Assist extant staff in authoring

syntactically-smart and grammatically correct final documents, work will

with technical/scientific/healthcare content. Q&A/Editorial strengths.

Easily learn new template departmental standards. Team player.

In my last position of nine years, I was assigned to the Fortune 500 sales

and government division, specializing in working with numerous divisions

(technical, admin, logistics, etc) to propose complex, but highly efficient

M&A and/or product/service/software implementations. I write excellent

interpretations of IT/SME tech input.I wrote all the RFPs for my employer

or, alternatively, re-wrote their non-skilled IT/tech attempts to say what

they mean. I analyze my client's requirements, probe for their needs (which

may still be unknown to them),and typically help in the up-sell of

additional of our services. My ITs would create the rack and system

diagrams. I would translate them.

For the smaller one-off RFPs, I typically wrote the entire proposal myself,

sent it to IT for fine tuning (if needed), made their input adjustments,

and completed the proposal. Typically I created most of my own graphics. I

created templated sales, IT, and admin documents for their departments

(with a sales/marketing eye).

Twenty+ years professional writing experience as technology, Internet,

learning/training, journalism, monthly newspaper Editor-in-Chief, and

freelance writer for Academe and industry..

MFA - Writing. Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office apps, particularly

Word, PPT, Excel. Also online software solutions specific to niche

industries. Master wordsmith/grammarian.

Most recent Employment:

MicroTek: Sr. Sales Executive Learning/Training Solutions to Fortune 500.

2001-Sept. 2009. Most continuously successful account executive in history

of company, wrote and customized corporate proposals/RFPs, SOWs,

communications.

Prosofttraining.com: 1995-2000. Co-Manager, Technical Training Courseware

Development Division. Helped create the content division. Served as

Technical Writer/Editor. Then Oversaw Technical Writers and Editors re:

their working with SME's. Then, Director of Prosofttraining.com's Certified

Classroom Solutions (PCCS).

UCLA Extension; Adjunct Professor/Instructor, Interactive Writing, Writing,

Screenwriting. 1996 - present

CSULB "University College," Adjunct Professor/Instructor, Technical Writing

for Interactive Media - 1996, Creator, First University Certificate Program

in Standardization of Web Master Credentials.

US Army, Captain, Editor-in-Chief, SW Army Reserve Command (ARCOM)

newspaper.

US Army, Lieutenant, Technical Writer, Directorate of Training Development,

Ft. Gordon, GA..

M.F.A. from UCLA - Communications/Writing, 1982

B.F.A. - Human Ecology - University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Interests: Working with animal rescue groups (Best Friends of Kanab, UT,

Retrievers & Friends of Southern California, etc). volunteer fund-raiser

for St. Mary's medical Center, Long Beach, CA.

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