Sales Customer Service

Patrick J. Kirby

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Rockford, Ill 61107

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CAREER OBJECTIVE; Customer service, Marketing Management, Sales Area of Knowledge: Retail Sales

Personal selling of key accounts

Advertising and sales promotion

Corrugated Box Industry

Graphic Printing and Packaging

Point of Purchase Displays

Education: Elmhurst College, BA Degree, Business/Art University of Minnesota, Business Administration

Harper College, AA Degree

DePaul University, Graduate School

Ministry Formation, Rockford Catholic Diocese

Special Studies: Insight into Sales Effectiveness

Dimensions of Professional Selling

5/25/2014 – 8/1/2014 Integrity Insurance, Selling insurance 7/1/2013 – 2/1/2014 In Sphere Insurance, selling insurance 9/1/2012 – 5/30/2014 Parallel Employment, Substitute Teacher 9/15/2011 – 8/1/2012, Sear's selling home products 12/01/09, retired 06/01/11, returning to work

ABS 6/15/10 - 10/01/10 Area Manager, selling

Business services.

Work History: Macy’s 7/01/09 – 12/01/09 Selling Mattresses Sears 5/05/04 - 6/01/09 Selling Mattresses and

Home Fashions

Thomas Kinkade Art Gallery, 2001 – 3/01/04

Selling art

Substitute teacher, Lake Zurich schools 2002 -2004 George S. May International, 2/02 – 10/02

Selling Management analysis, mostly to small business Mack Chicago; 10/01/00 – 09/01/01

Selling corrugated packaging and displays

Mostly sheet plant business

Started Grad School at DePaul University

Longview Fibre, 10/01/94 - 6/01/00

Responsibilities selling point of purchase displays And Graphic packaging through the Midwest.

Major markets, House ware, Hard ware, Sports & Toys SPK Marketing (owner) 5/01/89 – 10/01/94

Selling Point of Purchase Displays & Graphic Packaging Mostly Chicago & Milwaukee

Tri – Pack 5/87 – 5-89

Selling point of purchase displays and graphic packaging Mostly Chicago & Milwaukee

Weyerhaeuser Paper Company; 2/81 – 5/87

Handled local territory for 7 years, selling 60 millions Square feet of corrugated material per year. Everything From T/L’s of RSC’s to lith-o packaging and displays. Major accounts, Wm. Wrigley’s and Ekco Housewear

Menasha Corporation: 6/78 – 1/81

Responsibilities selling 4 color process printing run on a Bobst IRT P printing press, mostly 65 – 85 line screens. Major account; Maremont Corporation

St. Regis Paper Company, 6/66 – 6/78

Sales service, Minneapolis plant 1966 -1968

Sales, Chicago plant 1968 – 1978

Responsibilities selling Local and National accounts. Summary: Selling is selling! What is important is product knowledge as well as An understanding of the customer needs. The customer needs to have Confidence in the salesperson as well as the sales organization. My background will strengthen my relationship with customers.

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