MATTHEW ABRAMOWITZ
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
International Associates Trade – Boca Raton, Florida
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Registered Agent
Import/Export products into markets.
Moving ideas into products for retailers worldwide.
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Sourcing Products worldwide
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Understanding role and value of importer.
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Contracting designers for patentable and copyrightable products.
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Organize around serving customer.
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Analyze trade data import/export and utilize.
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HTS classification
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Spreadsheet
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Know how to find best supplier.
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Know how to find and utilize knowledge of industry in which I operate.
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Corresponding with suppliers and manufacturers.
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Bill of lading
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Pricing strategies
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Actual costing
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Working with customs brokers.
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Understand retail market, mass market, and regular retail market.
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Finding best independent sales reps country wide.
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Contracting and working with independent sales representatives.
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Using independent sales reps as research and development.
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Build nationwide sales representative network.
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Terms and conditions with sales representatives, terms and conditions of sale
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Ability to get orders.
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Time line and strategy, reorders
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Mechanics of the Letter of Credit, Currencies
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Checking customer creditworthiness
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Dealing with problem accounts
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How to collect accounts receivable, how not to collect money
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Financing orders, cash against documents, lockbox
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Structure deals
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Solid business planning
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Sales projecting
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Maintaining company
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Innovation Ads – Boca Raton, Florida
2008 to 2010
Academic Advice Academic Advisor (2009 to 2010)
Helping people get information on schools, financial aid, and academic advice.
Provide general school information for all studies.
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Walk potential students through financial aid process.
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• Give real academic advice in perspective for persons.
• Cold calling daily, encourage individuals to go college.
University Of Maryland University College Academic Advisor (2008 to 2009)
An academic advisor enrolling people into UMUC, financial aid, and academic advice.
Enroll people into the university.
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Guidance, support, and help for students.
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Career advice and the many academic routes students can go.
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General administrative duties,
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Magazine Services America – Tamarac, Florida
2005 to 2007
Sales Associate, Debt Collection Associate, Trainer
Inbound sales, outbound sales, and debts collections for magazines subscriptions.
Persuasion learned, trained, perfected, teacher.
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Resolve complaints with customers.
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Meet sales quotas.
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Train new employees script and rebuttals.
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Collect monies owed on past due subscriptions.
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Sunpass Operations – Boca Raton, Florida
2003 to 2005
Technical Support Representative
Geeksquad
Responsibilities included: problem detection, solving; fixing; reinstalling software and
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hardware.
• Did troubleshooting, diagnosed, installed, upgraded, configured, and repaired computers and
network components.
Did procedures and practices for testing reliability and stability of company software and
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hardware.
• Desktop related functions including hardware and software set-up and configuration.
• Routine technical support for problems with sound cards, video cards, network cards,
modems, hard drives, and hard disk controllers.
Magazine Services America – Tamarac, Florida
2002 to 2003
Sales Associate
Inbound sales, outbound sales, and debts collections for magazines subscriptions.
Persuasion learned, trained, perfected, teacher.
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Complete purchases by credit card holders.
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Meet sales quotas..
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EDUCATION
Florida Atlantic University – Boca Raton, Florida
International Business Certificate
Palm Beach Community College – Boca Raton, Florida
Associate In Arts
REFERENCES
Available, request.