Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
References
Certification
Timeline
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Blair H. Somers

Jamestown

Summary

  • Seasoned foster parent with experience in supporting children, families, and schools through challenging circumstances with experience in community non profit board membership and PTA board membership.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Marketing Support Specialist

Flint Trading, Inc
Thomasville
03.2007 - 11.2009
  • Design and maintain trade show exhibits.
  • Plan company hospitality receptions and sales meetings in New Orleans, San Jose, and Blowing Rock, NC.
  • Finalize and mail/fax/email all government and private product bids after pricing approval by VP Sales.
  • Compose and mail bid correspondence letters or sales strategy letters as instructed by marketing manager.
  • Collaborate closely with outside sales representatives to provide product samples and vendor applications for new customers.
  • Maintain promotional items and storeroom.
  • Maintain training material for all employee training.
  • Created competitive literature database.
  • Photograph product application for marketing brochures.
  • Organize market information into useable databases.
  • Maintain electronic and print version of photo library and distribute as needed.
  • Coordinate printing and distribution of advertisements and literature.
  • Maintain sufficient inventory levels of all marketing materials.
  • Mailing list maintenance for all direct mail to customers and prospects.
  • Printing and distribution of all special mailings (i.e. contract awards and product mailings).
  • Responsible for entering all tradeshow, advertising, newsletter and web leads into Sales Control and fulfilling all product literature requests from sales leads and prospects.
  • Responsible for obtaining approval and processing all product failure reports.

Receptionist

Flow Saab/ Hummer of Greensboro
Greensboro
03.2005 - 05.2006
  • Interacted with and welcomed customers upon entrance.
  • Organized tags and service paperwork.
  • Complied all customer information into one company database.
  • Answered 15 line phone system for four companies.
  • Operate paging system.
  • Assisted sales consultants with delivery of vehicles.

Education

Long Term Care Education - North Carolina Adult Care Home Administrator Program

UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC
07.2012

Bachelor of Science - Human Development and Family Studies, Child and Adolescent Development

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
05.2006

Skills

  • Behavior management
  • Team collaboration
  • Resource allocation
  • Record keeping
  • Community outreach
  • Experience with at-risk youth

Accomplishments

  • Sigma Alpha Lambda Honor Society
  • National Dean’s List
  • Dean’s List

References

References are available on request.

Certification

  • First Aid and CPR certified

Timeline

Marketing Support Specialist

Flint Trading, Inc
03.2007 - 11.2009

Receptionist

Flow Saab/ Hummer of Greensboro
03.2005 - 05.2006

Long Term Care Education - North Carolina Adult Care Home Administrator Program

UNC-CH

Bachelor of Science - Human Development and Family Studies, Child and Adolescent Development

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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