Karen Bryden
2159 Viking Drive
Reedsburg, Wisconsin 53959

608.617.1400
Karleigh42@yahoo.com

  

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Organise, direct activities and provide technical support
Insure compliance with policies and procedures
Coordinate, Manage, Supervised accounts, sales and personal
Experience in Word, Excel and Act programs
Sold existing / new products and techniques that increased product sales
Event Coordinating and Promotional advertising experience
Ability to train and direct employees to exceed in their potential for success

Education

1987-1990 Waukesha County Technical College: Pewaukee, WI
Fashion Marketing Degree

1985-1986 John Robert Powers Finishing and Modeling School
Fashion Certification

Experience

2006 - 2009

BlueGreen Vacations and Wyndham World Wide Vacations
Sales Executive

One on One sales to potential Vacation Ownerships (5 star Resort)
Was rated the 6th top sales person of the year
Selling large ownerships face to face
Follow ups and Upgrades were always part of growth revenue, along with excellent customer service
Was also involved in Marketing strategies with the Hotel and Resort for growth
Worked with other local businesses for tours for the area, these businesses included Restaurants, Night Clubs, Water Parks, Animal Parks and The towns Chamber of Commerce
Reason for Leaving: Lay off

2004 -2005

Mudd-Lyman Set & Service Corporation

District Manager

Responsible for a total of 26 stores and 9 Representatives
Responsibilities were to make sure monthly and weekly goals were achieved
Manage Representatives, support and direct all Management at located stores, travel, daily
correspondence to my Superiors on achievements of daily activities through a Blackberry unit
and e-mail
Hiring, training, tracking reports, surveys, PDA unit daily, resets, blueprints, sales, monthly retail displays, MAP and C-Map completions and education of all new products to store personal, Managers and Field Representatives
Reason for Leaving: Redundancy due to closure of department

2001-2004

Great Expectations

Manager of Operations

In the first year was employed as a Sales Representative
Cold calling to targets to achieve financial revenue target
Promoted to Assistant Manager within 6 months and helped manage everyday activities such as: banking, opening and closing, daily paper work, T-O for sales crew, collections, customer care and support for employees
I was promoted to Manager and was in charge of the complete centre which had 4 different departments
The Departments were Sales, Telemarketing, Member Services and Photography
On a monthly basis was responsible for spreadsheets, stats report on sales and sales crew,
employee scheduling, event scheduling and promotional marketing
On a daily basis, was responsible for making sure sales were lucrative
Cash handling of all monies, banking, problem solving, employee direction customer satisfaction and all other aspects to make sure a Centre was running smoothly, efficiently and profitable
Reason for Leaving: Redundancy due to company being brought out

1993 - 2001

Christian Dior

Freelance Makeup Artist-Sales / Coordinator

Was self-employed working for various elite companies such as Gurlein, Channel, Prescriptive and mainly Christian Dior
During these years I coordinated events, displayed merchandise, traveled, participated in trade shows, managed counters at department stores and trained, educated clients and personal in color, cosmetics and fashion
Was buying and selling cosmetics, jewelry, clothes and accessories not only for my business but also for salons and department stores