Harvest Chocolate

Harvest Chocolate, is a bean-to-bar chocolate company that handcrafts seasonal chocolate bars and Snacking Chocolate for everyday moments. We use simple, organic ingredients, source fresh cacao seasonally, using local fruits from the season to add unique flavors to our chocolate.  

We make chocolate that anyone could enjoy, regardless of allergies or dietary restrictions and support farmers locally and abroad by using only the season's best harvest—from cacao beans to local fruits.

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Community Manager

Knotch

Leading the social strategy as part of the growth team at Knotch, an early-growth customer journey intelligence software. Including strategic planning for the go-to-market, account-based marketing, paid media, email marketing, and sales development.

Growth Marketing - Social and Community

Verint

As a Customer Experience Manager with Verint, it is my responsibility to help our clients research, develop, and execute a customer experience program that will result in customer satisfaction and loyalty, insights that can be shared organization-wide, and omni channel experience strategy and measurement.

Verint as a whole has more than two decades of experience helping more than 10,000 organizations worldwide create lasting value. A global leader in customer engagement, Verint helps businesses evolve and modernize the entire customer engagement operation while protecting legacy investments.

We are built on five core values that shape the way we do business with our customers, partners, and each other: 

⇢ INTEGRITY to do what’s right
⇢ INNOVATION to create leading solutions for real-world challenges
⇢ TRANSPARENCY that fuels mutual trust and productive, collaborative working relationships
⇢ HUMILITY to view our successes as milestones in our journey and our mistakes as opportunities for improvement
⇢ PASSION for making our customers and partners successful.

Associate Account Executive

ForeSee

As a Business Development Representative, I developed and executed an account-based marketing strategy to increase sales efficiency and accelerate new business acquisition for an integrated CX intelligence platform, which helped companies prioritize CX decisions and profit from customer feedback.

⇢ Produced an accurate and high-quality sales pipeline by researching prospective customer accounts using insight tools, creating customized outreach strategies, prospecting calls through multiple channels, and conducting exploratory calls with inbound leads, leading to $3M in pipeline growth to-date.

⇢ Partnered with the marketing team to understand the campaigns and activities with the highest response rate for validation of marketing optimization efforts.

Business Development

First Federal Bank of the Midwest

Financial Sales Manager

As a Relationship Banker, I worked with individual and small business clients to complete an assessment of financial needs and consultatively sell a full range of products such as deposit accounts, loans, and credit cards to support the overall banking center sales objectives.

⇢ Secured at least $45k of new loans each month (vs. target of $25k/month), 10 customer referrals to partners (commercial loans, insurance, merchant services and wealth management), and cross-sold  50 new products per month to existing customers.

Relationship Banker

As an Account Representative, I served as a trusted advisor to small business and personal banking clients by understanding their needs and promoting the appropriate products and services. I also identified cross-selling opportunities, surpassing a personal sales goal of referring 20 new customers per month.

Account Representative

Self-Employed

As a restaurant operations consultant, I provided an operational evaluation of an emerging restaurant and streamlined the restaurant’s ordering process, reduced food cost by negotiating with suppliers, and worked with their team to create premier events to attract top-spending clients.

Freelance Restaurant Consultant

SCM Hospitality

As a Corporate Sous Chef, I provided culinary leadership, support and expertise at celebrity chef Scott Conant’s six restaurants and corporate partnerships across North America by creating dishes featured in publications under the SCM Hospitality brand. I also mentored staff at each of the restaurants on sales techniques, menu design, and marketing strategies.

Corporate Sous Chef

Torc

As a Sous Chef with Torc, I oversaw the kitchen staff while developing and maintaining relationships with vendors to acquire high-quality products. I also served as the opening management team and contributed to the restaurant’s first-year sales goal of $2MM through enforcing quality control measures, maintaining relationships with top-spending clients, and implementing daily menu changes.

Sous Chef

Quince Restaurant

As a Sous Chef with Quince Restaurant, I managed 20 kitchen staff employees in daily production, ordering, cost control and quality assurance at a 2 Michelin Star restaurant featuring California contemporary cuisine.

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LiveSwitch

In charge of full-cyle sales operations
Conducts high-level product demos of the software
Negotiating contract values and closing deals using multiple qualification criteria

SMB Account Executive

Rethink Your Green

I help landowners install water-wise and low-maintenance lawns to protect pollinators and reduce municipal water usage.

Lawn Transformation Consultant

Chargebee

After five months of working as a BDR, I was promoted to be a part of the specialist team regarding Chargebee's Revenue Recognition Automation Tool, which helps companies automate the process of ASC606 Compliance. 

I am also proud to be Head of the Philanthropy Council for the North American Zone, which involves planning and coordinating volunteer movements, corporate donations, and political activism for Chargebee employees. 

I assist in closing Small/Medium Italian-Language deals in conjunction with AE's

Enterprise Business Development Representative

In my role I created two marketing campaigns using Linkedin ads that involved: embedding conversion trackers into websites, Setting up automated Audience Attribute Matching, Designing a multiple-choice automated chatbot with over 30 decisions in a "decision tree", and macroing multiple meeting requests to specific qualification documents. 

One of these campaigns ended with a total of 542 impressions and 205 engagements resulting in a 33.79% Click to Impression engagement rate. 

Now in addition to my previous responsibilities, I am learning about Customer Retention Lifecycles, Customer Education, and the entire Ecommerce Space.

Customer Retention Product Specialist

Roam Outdoors

In this role, I led Canyoneering trips that involved building rope rappels and then leading participants down slot canyons.

 I also led participants on a Via Ferrata in Canyon Lakes Ranch that finished in a 200ft rappel. If you're unfamiliar with a Via Ferrata, literally "Iron Path", it was originally an Italian Military installation for mountain warfare that involves long traverses on iron rods drilled directly into the rock.

Canyoneering and Via Ferrata Guide

Utah Taxpayers Association

My primary responsibility was the publication of The Beehive Family's Tax Burden Report. I also spent time designing floor fliers and brochures and met with Legislators Face-to-Face to lobby for tax legislation that UTA found favorable.

Freelance Data Analyst and Lobbyist 

Southern Utah University

Facilitating groups through a Ropes Challenge Course and leading specialized multi-day trips Canyoneering and Backpacking.

Outdoor Trip Leader/ Challenge Course Facilitator

Centro Woodfired Pizzeria

Server

Senate Offices

Intern

International Club

English Language Teacher

B2B SaaS Sales professional with a proven track record. Experience in Financial Technology and specialized in ASC606 Compliance. 

Experience in NAMER and EMEA Markets. Dual US and Italian citizen.

Quick learner and motivated self-starter ready to move on to the next step. Currently looking for a Small to Medium Business Account Executive Role.

Experience in professional environments and 
comfortable speaking to the C-Suite.

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