Sales Representative

JOHN PIOTROWSKI

**** **** ****

HOMEWOOD, IL ****0

630-***-**** (cell)

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

PROFILE

A unique blend of experiences in multiple disciplines allows me to bring reliability, dedication and leadership to any environment. Currently I direct a team of 16, maintain and repair all plant equipment, design and program products on our Park Industries Infinity CNC machine, author company website content, operate multiple pieces of heavy equipment and maintain rigorous quality control and production demands under very tight deadlines. My many years in international sales allows me to communicate clearly and interact with corporate executives while my experience with artisans from a variety of countries around the world allows me to manage fluently men and women that work with their hands.

CAREER SUMMARY

Galloy and Van Etten Cut Stone Contractors 2006-present

Chicago, Illinois

Plant Supervisor/Foreman/CNC Operator

Report to the President of this multi-million dollar private company specializing in high-end custom cut stone installations for commercial and residential properties. Select responsibilities and accomplishments include:

Responsible for project management process, from analyzing fabrication drawings, operating all necessary equipment and enforcing quality control while producing large quantities of product under very tight deadlines.

Orchestrate the employees and equipment in a fashion that allows us to produce in a 24/7 environment. Diagnose and repair any variety of mechanical, electrical and plumbing related malfunctions to ensure the shop operates at 100% with minimal downtime.

Interpret architectural drawings and shop tickets to design and program items on a Park Industries Infinity CNC machine utilizing MasterCam design software.

Directly manage a team of 16 professionals in the project planning, design, production and implementation of high-end cut stone installations. The residences and restoration projects we have spearheaded continue to garner numerous architectural awards year after year.

Match the most productive and efficient processes with the most talented staff to execute the design in a timely, accurate and profitable fashion. Our artisans have strengths in different areas and it is my responsibility to match those strengths with fabrication projects no other firm in the city is capable of executing.

Advise ownership team on improving productivity and quality.

VON Magazine 2005-2006

Chicago, Illinois

Global Advertising Account Executive

Recruited to this position by the Vice President and General Manager of this leading technology magazine in the mobile communications field. Managed and lead several initiatives for this start-up technology publication. Select responsibilities and accomplishments included:

Managed the yearly VON Buyers Guide and reprint portion of the business.

Created and launched the VON Product Marketplace and as a result, tapped into a new revenue stream

Developed employment/career portal online and in print form. Crafted a forum for decision-makers to attract talent from the most targeted audience of 56,000+ VoIP experts that grew organically with virtually no overhead or investment of VON staff increasing profit and productivity.

International Engineering Consortium 2004-2005

Chicago, Illinois

Online Education Program Manager

Reported to the Executive Vice President of this international consortium of 300 universities, corporations and thousands of engineering professionals in the electronics and semiconductor industry. The IEC hosted conferences and trade shows around the world to promote industry innovation. Through its educational programs, the IEC also facilitated the bridge between academia and professional growth to ensure the brightest minds in the field were afforded the opportunity to interact with the most influential and progressive companies in the electronics and semiconductor sector.

Built relationships with executives and marketing contacts at global, multi-billion dollar companies that resulted in a variety of multi-tiered video, conference and web sponsorships

Rejuvenated a dormant segment of the organization with new products, a new look, new vitality and most importantly, increased revenue to ensure growth of the on-line education program at a 33% rate.

Managed each online program from creation to completion including development and design of new products, writing of marketing collateral, crafting of email announcements and product launches

Tasked with managing film crews and schedules, interviewing executives for exclusive webcast interviews, and coordinating the post-production staff to ensure timely fulfillment of all webcast sponsorships.

Tracked each program on a monthly basis to gather statistical intelligence and provide each client a quantitative report that calculated the performance of each web sponsorship.

Primedia 2000-2004

Chicago, Illinois

Recruitment/Marketplace Advertising Representative

Publications include: Telephony, Wireless Review, Mobile Radio Technology, SITE Management & Technology and RF Design.

TELEPHONY: Independently managed this $1.3 million dollar territory in a very intense, high-volume (2,200 orders/year), deadline-critical environment.

Orchestrated every aspect of this business from prospecting and writing marketing pieces to gathering/interpreting industry intelligence and seeing each document through to the invoicing stage.

Negotiated partnership with an outside and competitive service to combine our areas of strength to enhance the online Telephony recruitment portal, increasing career listings exponentially while minimizing Telephony resources expended in the process.

MOBILE RADIO TECHNOLOGY, RF DESIGN AND SITE MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY: Promoted to this position in Q4 of 2002. These publications added to my responsibilities without any additional support. In only the second month of the year, I achieved 58% of my MRT goal for the entire year and more than tripled my online goal for the year.

Display Advertising Sales Representative

Promoted to this position in Q3 of 2003 for Mobile Radio Technology magazine. Began growing territory at an 8% rate.

Cahners Publishing 1998-2000

DesPlaines, Illinois

Assistant Sales Representative/Broker Sales Division of Direct Marketing

Provided support for outside sales brokers as a member of company’s most lucrative division Broker List Sales.

Responsible for seeing an order through from the count request phase to invoicing.

Extensive client management in an extremely active, deadline-sensitive environment.

Frequently maintained a $3 million dollar territory independently including all client contact, fulfillment and invoicing.

Bacon’s Information 1995-1998

Chicago, Illinois

Account Executive/Inside Sales

Provided services from coordinating and executing national press release distribution campaigns to establishing national media monitoring services. Developed new business and maintained extensive client database.

EDUCATION

Northeastern Illinois University – Chicago, Illinois B.A., English; Linguistics Minor

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