Proposal Writer

ANTHONY KILBURN

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CAREER FOCUS

Skilled proposal writer looking to broaden my career. I am trained in Agile and Design Thinking practices, and use these to develop differentiating value statements to back up the professional business style and writing practices I have employed for the past two years on documentation created for multi-million dollar requests issued by large B2B clients. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jan 2015 - Present Proposal Writer/Proposal Content Strategist Sales Transaction Support, Transformation and Operations IBM - Research Triangle Park, NC

Lead calls with deal response teams to determine IBM’s value to the client and drive those win themes within our response document(s).

Crafted Cover Letters and Executive Summaries in response to RFIs and RFPs for the purpose of persuasion and negotiation.

Edited entire proposal documents ranging from one to 300 pages for consistency, grammar, tone, and flow under tight deadlines.

Simultaneously worked on multiple deals with scope of up to 100 Million USD for some of IBM’s large B2B clients.

Played an integral role in the directing, storyboarding, acting, and filming of an internal promotional video for Agile methodologies in Transformation and Operations.

Developed and conducted training and enablement on script writing for internal proposal writers located worldwide.

Served a lead role in the development of external videos for customers, which played a key role in driving IBM to differentiate proposals to win business.

Participated in special projects, including planning social events and writing a poem used as a personalized invitation for an AgileGo event in RTP, and sent to the CEO of IBM. SUMMARY OF SKILLS/TOOLS

Copyediting

Writing

Microsoft Office

Engage Support/Sales Connect

Agile/Design Thinking

Interpersonal Communication

Presentation Skills

Integrity

Time Management

Customer Focused

EDUCATION

Aug 2010 - May 2014 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Art, Minor in Creative Writing Graduated Magna Cum Laude, 3.5 GPA

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