Highly motivated Sales Associate with extensive customer service and sales experience. Outgoing sales professional with track record of driving increased sales, improving buying experience and elevating company profile with target market.
Skill Highlights
Proficient in IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS Statistics).
*Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Accomplishments
Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity, Zeta Chapter, Pennsylvania State University, 2009-Present Rush Chairman, Spring 2010-Fall 2010 Responsible for brotherhood recruitment Successfully recruited 8 new members during Spring 2010 rush and 19 new members during Fall 2010 rush (one of our largest new member classes in Kappa Delta Rho history) Formal Chairman, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Responsible for organizing, planning, and decorating a formal social event Duties included organizing a date and time, fund collection, buying and making decorations, organizing catering, cleaning and decorating the house, and organizing car service to pick up brothers' accompanying dates.
Executive Board Member- Junior Tribune, Spring 2011 Responsible for new member education and initiation according to Kappa Delta Rho national tradition Successfully educated initiated 10 new brothers during a smaller than average rush period Greek Sing Chairman, Fall 2011 Responsible for coordinating and choreographing a dance with a sorority for an on-campus performance.
Professional Experience
Mobile Crisis Counselor, 01/1 - 12/2013 Hillcrest Family Services – Wapello, IA,
Briefing and Debriefing participants Assisting experiments by recording participants answers to a predetermined scale Collecting and Analyzing Data Contributing ideas to present and future research during weekly lab meetings Supervisor: Dr.
David A.
Rosenbaum Duties included gathering client information from crisis call center, travelling to client's location to initiate contact and assess client, providing emotional and mental support to client and their family, discussing treatment options with supervisor, working with institutions, hospitals, emergency personnel and law enforcement, discussing case with county delegate to obtain mental health warrant when needed, filing paperwork, and attending trainings and job-oriented career days.
Customer Service, Delivery Driver, and Cook, 01/2010 - 01/2012 Scotto's Pizzeria – City, STATE,
Duties included operating a cash register, cleaning and preparing dining room, kitchen, storage areas, and bathrooms, washing dishes, waiting tables, unloading truck and stocking shelves, answering phones, cooking and preparing various Italian dishes, delivering food in town and surrounding areas, and buying food items from vendors and local stores.
Customer Service, Delivery Driver, and Cook, 01/2011 - Pizza Hut – City, STATE,
Duties included operating cash register, preparing and cooking various food items, answering phones, stocking shelves, cleaning and arranging food storage areas, sweeping and mopping kitchen, delivering food in town and surrounding areas, and assisting other cooks.
Education and Training
Bachelor of Arts: Psychology, Expected in 2013 - The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA GPA: Psychology Will be re-enrolling in the near future to complete three credits to earn a second
Bachelor of Arts degree: Sociology Psychology, Expected in Spring 2012 - - , GPA: Dean's List GPA: 3.59 Sociology Dean's List Psychology GPA: 3.59 Research Assistant, Spring 2013, Department of Psychology and Women's Studies, Social Cognition Lab Participated as a mock-interviewer in helping a graduate student with her doctoral research experiment. Interviewed participants and recorded answer data according to a predetermined scale. Learned interview script to recite by memory in order to allow study to run as designed. Supervisor: Dr. Theresa K. Vescio Research Assistant, Spring 2012, Department of Psychology, Lab for Cognition and Action Assisted a graduate student with his doctoral research experiment
Languages
Four years of high school Spanish in addition to four semester hours in college.
*Can speak, read, and write with basic proficiency.
Interests
Penn State IFC/PanHellenic Dance Marathon (THON), Fall 2009-Spring 2013
Forty-six hour dance marathon to raise money for the Four Diamonds Fund and the Penn State Hershey Medical Center to support and pay bills for victims of pediatric cancer.
*Largest student-run philanthropy in the world.
Additional Information
Leadership/Honors_____________________________________________________ Penn State IFC/PanHellenic Dance Marathon (THON), Fall 2009-Spring 2013 Forty-six hour dance marathon to raise money for the Four Diamonds Fund and the Penn State Hershey Medical Center to support and pay bills for victims of pediatric cancer. Largest student-run philanthropy in the world. Served as THON chairman of canning for organization Kappa Delta Rho. Responsible for placing over 100 members from two Greek organizations on trips and organizing them to various locations throughout Pennsylvania and surrounding states, contacting businesses in trip locations to receive permission to stand on property to raise money, and counting and turning in money raised upon return to campus from weekend trips. The process of going on aforementioned weekend trips to collect money is known as "canning". In 2013 the University raised over $12 million for pediatric cancer victims, of which Kappa Delta Rho raised over $130,000 in combination with its sister sorority, placing eighth overall out of over 80 Greek Organizations. Raised over $440,000 combined during participation in THON with Kappa Delta Rho.
Practiced two hours per night, four days per week from October until the performance in November
Phi Sigma Delta Sigma Educational Foundation Scholarship, Fall 2012
Honors outstanding academic achievement
*Selected by the Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts as one of only two selections by the Dean for said academic year.
IRB CITI Board Certified in Social & Behavioral Sciences
*Good communication skills through various methods as evident from both life and educational experiences
Skills
basic, call center, cash register, cooking, client, experiment, experiments, filing, IBM, Italian, law enforcement, meetings, memory, mental health, Excel, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Word, personnel, Psychology, read, recording, Research, script, Spanish, SPSS, Statistics, Supervisor, tables, answering phones
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