John Watkins Jr

Senior level position working directly with Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and his executive leadership team, in the Brooklyn DA's Office of Public Engagement. Position is tasked with leading multiple Project Management assignments, that involve intensive outreach and communication to Brooklyn and other New York City corporate, nonprofit, and community-based advocacy agencies.

Business development, sales and account management projects with long established firms, and new start-up enterprises in: Banking, Legal, Information Technology, Publishing, Training, Executive Education, and Government Business Services.

Conference Delegate Marketing & Sales *Vendor Recruitment *Professional Training Seminars *Corporate Licensing * Education Advisory Services *Sponsorship Sales.

• Held one-on-one meetings with sales team members to identify selling hurdles and offered insight into best remedy.
• Collaborated with advertising group to create uniformity between advertising messages and retail incentives.
• Organized promotional events and interacted with community to increase sales volume and exceed goals.
• Demonstrated products to show potential customers benefits and advantages and encourage purchases.

• Worked directly with NPG publisher on Nature Magazine, Nature Medicine and Nature Bio-Entrepreneur Magazines as well as related internet websites.
• Created and negotiated internet contracts with new sponsorship partners.
• Worked with Nature Magazine editors to create co-branding strategies with Big Pharma companies, Biotech start-ups, Intellectual Property law firms, major universities, and private grant giving foundations.

• Reported to Admissions Director and Yale MBA School Dean. Led diversity outreach efforts to underrepresented and targeted groups. Planned candidate Campus Day visits.
• Coordinated recruitment and admissions efforts with Yale Law School, and Yale School of Medicine Admissions Offices, for candidates seeking joint JD/MBA or M.D degrees .
• Traveled nationally and internationally to interview and recruit vetted candidates.

Sales & Marketing of American Banker Conferences and Special Events to C-Level decision makers, as well as cross-sales to The American Banker, and specialty research finance newsletters such as the Bank Mutual Fund Report.

Junior position in U.S. Government intelligence agency, responsible for collecting, reviewing, categorizing, disseminating, and controlling cables and reports to senior level agency officers. Employed in this agency pre-college.