Lori Powers ad1f24@r.postjobfree.com (preferred) 520-***-**** (text first preferred)

WORK EXPERIENCE: (LPowers Pg 1 of 2)

American Express Small Business Card Elite Sales (Provider) Sept 2021 -Current

• Inbound Business Card Consultative Sales NPSL Lending product conversions, optimizing Product Mix + Employee Cards

• Rookie of the year 2021 all categories 2022 Monthly/Qtr 1-4 Top Tier sales + Veteran of the Quarter(s) in all metrics

Verizon Business Wireless Feb 2021 – August 2020 - August 2021 (Pilot Program) Feb 2021 – August 2021, Business Sales Consultant Pilot Program

• B2B Wireless Communications Outbound Loyalty Team Plans and Product Sales from qualifying Salesforce.com leads, setting appts with company decision-makers through closing the sale for accounts across the US with up to 24 business lines (top 4 out of 75+)

Aug 2020 - Feb 2021, Consumer Chat Sales Agent

• Business to Consumer Inside Online Inbound Sales Chat wireless products (#3 of 125 inside sales chat agents until promoted to B2B Sales Outbound Loyalty Sales in Feb 2021)

Aqua-man Aquatic Services Inc. March 2013 – April 2020 March 2013 – Dec 2016 Business Consultant and Ecommerce Sales and Training Dec 2016 - May 2020 Investor/Owner Partner, Business Consultant/Sales Director Commercial Websales

• B2B Sales and Operations national and international ecommerce business sales for large pool water filtration products to commercial accounts of all sizes through website rebuild completion March 2020 (COVID), active 30% owner Dec 2016 – non-active owner since May 2020 to current 2021

• Aqua-man.com new website design and business operations Sept 2019 - April 2020

Staples Business Advantage NAD/Corporate Express Inc. October 1995 – June 201*-****-**** Staples Business Advantage, Strategic Account Leader

• B2B project and contract new account acquisition and existing account management penetration sales to local, regional, and national medium to large businesses by assisting to onboard new accounts with Business Development Team to lead ongoing Account Management consultative prescriptive selling in joint as the Team Leader of team experts in business operations sales penetration.

• B2B transactional and project sales through organically growing new account acquisitions for ongoing account management through consultative prescriptive selling for local and regional small and mid-size companies in business operations core commodities of Office Supplies, Furniture, Paper, Toner ($0-$3.5mm/yr by 201*-****-**** Corporate Express (until 2008) / Staples Business Advantage, Business Development/Account Manager

• B2B transactional and project sales through organically grown new account acquisition by onboarding new customer accounts for ongoing account management through consultative prescriptive selling for local and regional small and mid- size companies in business operations core commodities of Office Supplies, Furniture, Paper, Toner ($3.5mm/yr by 2013)

Pools Plus, Inc. April 1997 – May 2008

Founder Owner and President, Operations and Sales

• Founded, financed and operated start-up Swimming Pool residential weekly service company still successfully in business today ($300/mo with 6 clients in 1997 to $1mm in service sales of 500+ weekly service residential and commercial accounts as of summer 2021)

• Actively contributed to operations related to all set up and implementation of processes for Accounting, HR, PR, Vendor Relations and Sales while working for Staples Business Advantage (Corporate Express 1995-2008, Staples NAD 2008)

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Other Experience:

• Securities certification training prior to approval by FINRA Oct 2018-Feb 2019

• Property management for 3 rental properties since Dec 1999 through Sept 2020 EDUCATION:

University of Arizona Aug 1987 – May 1992 Tucson, Az Cum Laude Graduate in Bachelor of Arts 1992, Major Pre-Law Political Science, Minor Marketing GPA 3.67 as working student, self-financed

Sabino High School Aug 1984 – May 1987

Graduated Diploma 1987 with Honors (3 years, Freshman year at Emily Gray Jr High (7th-9th ) GPA 3.75 as working student in band, football, choir, National Honors Society SKILLS TRAINING & FIELD EXPERIENCE:

• Property & Business Management and Contract Negotiations (1995-2021)

• Business and Sales Systems, Software, ERPs for Project/Product Distribution Management and growth in sales revenue and profits

• MS Office Suite, AS400, Accounting & HR programs and ERPs

• Formal Securities Training sponsored by one of the largest securities investment firm in North America (Oct 2018-Feb 2019)

• Staples Management Training (2010-2011) referral internal recruitment 3 sessions throughout the year, La Mirada CA (2) and Framingham, MA (1) as the only representative referred, selected and sent for highest level training from 48 reps in Arizona

• Mutual Gains Negotiation Sales Series through Harvard University (2016 Staples Corp U ongoing training/field implementation)

• Salesforce.com (2008-2021) Staples and Verizon B2B sales

• Staples Advantage Corp U Prescriptive Proactive Selling Series (2016 6 weeks and continuous mandated updates); Harvard Law Mutual Gains Negotiations Corp U (2 years); Strategic and Conceptual Selling (1997- 2000 continuous); Selling to VITO (2001) “Very Important Top Officer”/C-Level Selling, Miller Heiman Blue Sheets (2001 continuous)

• Staples Way (2008 and ongoing) Sales Basic Training, initial live and phone cold and warm calls, UFA>Appt- Setting>Conducting Appointment>Closing the Sale; Selling Apple Products (2014 2 weeks certified and continuous mandated updates); Hon/Allsteel University Commercial project furniture (1995-2018 ongoing, Muscatine, IA 1998 and 2017); Managed Print Services Selling (Muscatine, IA 2017 and ongoing), Facilities/Janitorial/Safety Training (La Mirada 2013 formal training and field implementation); Selling Against Amazon.com (2013 continuous)

• Ecommerce Sales Training (1997 CE Eway ongoing + 2008 Staples.com + 2009 StaplesAdvantage.com certified ongoing) CE Eway to StaplesAdvantage.com Pathways to transition accounts 2008-2013; Aqua-man Inc. commercial national/international website distribution large equip sales management (2013-2020) new website recoding 2013 + 2015 + Sept 2019 finalized March 2020