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E DUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
College Park, MD
Business Marketing (Jun 1975)
US Navy - Honorable Discharge
ADDITIONAL S K I L L S
Execute Team Leadership
Client vendor focused
Market Analysis
Strong verbal communications
Microsoft executed skills
C E R T I F I C A T I ONS
Professional Consultants of America
Charter Member
Past Golf Board Director of Bonita
National Golf Club
Past Condominium President of
Bonita National Terrace Association
S UMMARY
Successful Sales/Manager
Professional with over 40 years of
experience in customer relationship
selling. Over achiever and action
oriented individual. Multiple
Presidents and Chairman Club
honoree.
E X P E R I E N C E
NATIONAL SALES TEAM EXECUTIVE
Lexmark International, Lexington, KY / Jun 2005 - Aug 2012 Responsible for monitoring the sales targets, revenue growth, product knowledge and overall performance of the key account managers for Lexmark's largest Fortune 100 accounts.
NATIONAL ACCOUNT MANAGER
Lexmark International, Lexington, KY / Jul 1997 - May 2005 Responsible for developing partnerships between Lexmark and the large accounts through value added customer driven initiatives and interactive account planning.
MAJOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Verizon Communications, New York, NY / Aug 1995 - Apr 1997 Responsible for initiating new business ventures as well as growing existing major accounts for Internet, Data and Global Telecommunications Services for Fortune 500 companies. SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
Nynex Corporation, Middletown, MA / Feb 1992 - May 1995 Initiated and implemented the first inactive on line yellow page sales and marketing advertising platform. Managed all aspects of the interactive platform, from planning, development, zip code searching, to staging accounts online in conjunction with hard copy placement of yellow page sales.
NATIONAL ACCOUNT MANAGER
Nynex Corporation, Middletown, MA / Jun 1986 - Jan 1992 Responsible for selling and managing regional yellow page portfolios of New York Metro Corporations and Businesses growing their accounts into a larger National Yellow Page presence.
PRESIDENT
Small Business Advertising Consultants, Montclair, NJ / Oct 1982 - Oct 1986
Professional consultant for Small Business Advertising/Marketing planning.
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JAMES RAFTER