Sales Manager
Resume:
Vernon Gibbs
**** ********* ****-***. **, North Bergen, NJ 07047
Day and Evening - 646-***-**** (cell) e-mail: **********@*******.***
SKILLS - A seasoned Sales/Management executive with experience in a variety of
industries including: TWENTY FIVE YEARS of sales contacts, (administrators and
parent groups), in New York City area public schools.
OBJECTIVE To help a company grow by turning this experience and these contacts
into new business.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
4/00 to Present
Premium Marketing Group
581 RahwayAve.
Union, NJ 07083
Position -VP Marketing
Premium Marketing provides photo and graduation products to schools in the New York
City/New Jersey area including: yearbooks, cap & gown, rings, diploma cases, autograph
albums, t-shirts and other graduation mementos. Responsibilities include bringing in new
business (average 75 new schools per year) and supervising the company's mail order
marketing program.
4/99 to 4/00
Miss Chocolate -300 Spagnoli Road, Melville, NY 11747, 516 -777-2400
Position - District Manager
Responsible for direct sales of fundraising products to schools in territory stretching
from New York City to Trenton, New Jersey. Opened up new areas where the company
had previously been unable to find business, including the cities of Newark, Irvington
and Trenton.
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2/97 to 3/99
Cherrydale
2452 Quakertown Road
Pennsburg, PA 18073
215 -679-6200
Position -Regional Program Director
Responsible for direct sales of fundraising products to New York City area schools, working
directly with administrators and parents. Tripled second year sales to over $400,000 by signing
up over 100 schools and daycare centers in twelve months.
1988 to 1997
A-I School Photography
725 River Road
Edgewater, NJ 07020
Position -Sales Manager
Company provided yearbook and school photography services to New York City schools. As
Sales Manager, helped turn company into a local market leader that eventually merged with
Jostens, a national leader in school photo services.
1986 to 1988
Devon Video Productions
210 Summit Avenue
Montvale, NJ 07645
Position-Senior Account Executive
A corporate television production house. Responsibilities: securing new accounts. Brought in
major projects with Simon & Schuster, Alfa Romeo, Conair, Smith-Corona and many others.
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1984 to 1986
National Credit Systems
853 Broadway -Suite 708
New York, NY 10003
Position -Regional Manager
A founding member of the sales force. Responsibilities: selling a computer
service for accounts receivable management. Built up a personal client base of over 200 clients
in less than two years. Major signings included Barnes and Noble, Transamerica Financial,
Grand Union Supermarkets, The Bergen Record, U-Haul, United Jersey Bank and Cable
Television Network of New Jersey.
1982 to 1984
Gibbstone Productions
500 Central Ave. -1401
Union City, NJ 07087
Record production and management company. Sold all three projects made during life of the
company. The largest was a $250,000 2 album and video deal with Island Records which
resulted in a Number One Dance single on the national Billboard chart.
1977-1980
Arista Records
6 W. 57th St.
New York, NY 10019
Position - A&R Director, R&B
Hired by Clive Davis based on my reputation as a journalist and on demonstration records
I produced. Responsibilities: finding, evaluating and signing recording artists both new and
established. Job also involved producer and material search and studio management of artists in
production. Major successes include: bringing Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin to Arista
and production work on a Million Selling album and single, "Disco Nights," by a new group, GQ.
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1976 -1977
Mercury Records
110 W. 57th St.
New York, NY 10019
Position - A&R Director, R&B
Responsibilities similar to those at Arista but included production of demonstration records in
Mercury studios.
1969 -1996
Freelance Writer
Started while in high school and continued in college and while employed as a recording
industry and school services executive.
Have written for the following publications.
Playboy, Penthouse, Downbeat, The Village Voice, Essence, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Jet,
Scholastic and others.
Have also done free lance public relations work including album liner notes, biographies, trade
magazine articles and press releases for Sony Music, Atlantic Records, Mercury Records, Stax
Records, United Artists Records and other record companies.
Education
Birch Wathen High School, New York - Graduated 1970
Columbia University, NewYork - Graduated 1974 with a B.A.in English
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