| work
experience |
| 20024Current |
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Bouvet USA - French Decorative Hardware Company (San
Francisco, USA)
Regional
Marketing
& Sales Manager |
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Business
Development |
- Managing
a network of 70 dealers (showrooms, distribution chains,
wholesalers) over 20 states
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Developing business with existing customers - Selling product
display boards, stock program and increasing product awareness
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Prospecting new customers and building strategic partnerships with
door manufacturers and distributors
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Training sales people and developing closer business relationships
with showroom owners
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Marketing
Management |
- Developing
and implementing new national marketing programs and sales
incentives: 20/20 cash back,
Spiff
program, Designer Action, new communication tools for more comprehensive product
positioning
- Coordinating
external marketing communications by building communication
strategies and by creating materials
such
as brochures, catalogues and ads for magazines.
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| 199942001 |
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Business PC Division - Future product marketing for corporate PCs (Grenoble,
France)
Junior Product Marketing Manager in working internship with the Grenoble
Business School
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Product
Marketing |
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Launching of a low cost business PC (xe310) 100K units a month worldwide.
Identifying customer needs, defining product specifications and
coordinating product introduction plan with regions
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Investigating market and cultural factors that leads to poor quality
perception of a PC in Asia Pacific. Creating
and implementing a quality marketing plan directed towards HP sales force
and customers
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Project
Management |
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Inventing and implementing a new concept of worldwide product introduction
training (worldwide intro meeting) through the web, while effectively reducing the
cost of the event from $250K to $75K
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Redefining the internal communication process to support big customer
accounts on component lifecycle (Component change roadmap)
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Web creation and web tool |
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Designing of an Intranet section for services and programs that enhance
HPs PC value (stability programs)
- Creation of a web tool
for corporate customers to help them troubleshoot hardware issues
(Consistency checker) Customers included: State Farm, Delta Airline,
Fidelity Investments
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| Jul.19974
Nov.1997 |
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Small-sized healthcare business specialized in
dental products (Turku, Finland)
Outside
Sales
and Marketing |
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Contacting customers across Europe to promote products and develop
profitable business relationships
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Analyzing and improve the sales model structure of the company
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Creating of brochures for corporate and medical product communications
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| internships
& projects |
| July
1998 |
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Operator
on production line in the Maybelline factory (Orleans, France) |
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| April
1998 |
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Organization
of Forums and lectures about the “internationalization and jobs in the
food distribution Industry” in the universities of Turku (Finland) and
Grenoble (France)
- Head of the organization staff |
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| June
1997 |
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Sales
office (Paris, France)
Setting up of credit files and sales of derivative services
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| education |
| 199942001 |
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Masters
of Management at the Graduate School of Business, Grenoble (France)
Specialization
on Marketing
and Technology Management
+
2
years apprenticeship
in product generation/marketing for Hewlett-Packard |
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| 199841999 |
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Bachelor
of Business
at the University of Northumbria
at Newcastle (UK)
International
Business Administration
Specialization
on International
Marketing |
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| 199641998 |
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Bachelor
of Business
Administration
at the University of Grenoble
(France)
Main
courses: Finance, accountancy, project management, strategy, purchasing, human resources |
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Languages |
Computer skills |
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French:
native language
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English:
fluent
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Spanish: conversational level
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MS Office : Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Access
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CAD: PhotoShop, Illustrator,
Publisher
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Web design: Dreamwaver,
FrontPage |
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| interests |
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National league volley-ball player and team captain in 1997&98 -
Water polo, snowboard
Leader of a group of 18 “Scout de France” boy scouts
Oil painting and sketching
Accomplished guitarist
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