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Account Executive @ Sony Electronics From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Demand Planner @ Best Buy From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Director of Sales--eCommerce (North America) @ Belkin International Responsible for building the strategic direction for eCommerce partnership activities to achieve the efficient and profitable sale of the company’s products. Develop concepts, strategies, policies and procedures...

Account Executive @ Sony Electronics From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Demand Planner @ Best Buy From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Director of Sales--eCommerce (North America) @ Belkin International Responsible for building the strategic direction for eCommerce partnership activities to achieve the efficient and profitable sale of the company’s products. Develop concepts, strategies, policies and procedures to improve Linksys’s eCommerce competitive position, increase sales, and meet financial objectives and functional goals for the channel. Member of the executive team, leading and crafting the eCommerce vision for sustained revenue and profit success. Highly engaged with Amazon at multiple strategic levels, with an in-depth understanding of conversion tactics along with problem solving creativity. Broad understanding of Amazon sales success factors and strong history and success in growing brand search relevancy and fixing operational metric issues on the Amazon platform. From 2015 to December 2018 (3 years) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaSenior Demand Planner @ Best Buy Responsible for planning, budgeting, forecasting and analyzing the profitability and value creation of the Mobile Electronics category at Best Buy. Assisted the buying staff in advertising, assortment and vendor profitability analysis. Responsible for transition, planogram and space management initiatives for the category. Increased inventory turns by 2.5% from 1999-2000. Increased promotional availability by 14% from 1999-2000. Management and supervisory responsbilities of Inventory Analyst. From 2000 to 2001 (1 year) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaLogistics Planner—Consumer Foods Sales Division @ General Mills Responsible for planning, forecasting, and analyzing profitbility of SKU's for Grocer Warehouses. Provided analytical and implementation support to sales force and category management including operational and category financial support. Managed product procurement and deployment, order processing, balance sheet reconciliation and Trade/COOP funding. From October 1997 to January 1999 (1 year 4 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaSenior Director of Sales (North America) @ Panasonic USA From 2013 to 2015 (2 years) Secaucus, NJDirector of Sales @ Panasonic USA From 2006 to 2013 (7 years) National Account Manager @ LG Electronics At LG, I spearheaded negotiations and collaborative efforts to achieve the original launch of the LG brand in the U.S. with Best Buy and Target, a $1B US launch initiative. Highlights included:• Led and negotiated trans-national collaboration between Best Buy cross-functional teams and LG product management to triple sales of digital audio video (DAV) products through development of multi-brand supplier strategy. Received Best Buy’s Bravo Award for best DVD supplier.• Saved over $500k in Best Buy shipping violation penalties by co-leading complete logistics evaluation and process change initiatives. Achieved best-in-class status by improving on-time / right-quantity metric scores to high of 96% from low of 55%..• Negotiated a global sourcing initiative for video sourced products for Best Buy, generating $35M in yearly incremental revenue..• Team recipient of Best Buy's prestigious "Bravo" award in 2005 for the DVD Category. Awarded "Account Manager of the year" in 2004. From 2003 to 2006 (3 years) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaManager—Finance and Operations @ Sony Electronics At Sony, I started out in a regional account sales position for the mid-west territory and then was promoted to a financial/operational management role supporting the strategies and initiatives for the TV, Audio, Video, Mobile and Computing businesses at Best Buy, a $2B business. Responsible for developing efficiencies in sales and operational processes with the Best Buy sales team to reduce costs, maximize profit contribution, and gain preffered vendor status. Coordinated the funding, reporting and analysis of Sony's trade and marketing development funds. From 2002 to 2003 (1 year) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaVice President Sales, US Consumer Channel @ Signify Director of Sales--US Consumer Channel @ Signify Full P&L Responsibility for various retail channels and accounts in the Americas, managing $90M in revenue across Ecommerce, National, Mass, Specialty and Distribution channels. From December 2018 to October 2020 (1 year 11 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area