Greater Toronto Area, Canada
In the business world, I've had the opportunity to sell industrial and commercial lighting, pipe fittings (brass, steel, copper, and plastic), industrial supplies, appointments with Technology Sales Engineers representing leading telecommunications and computer technology corporations, automotive dealership service visits, website development services, promotional products, sales premiums, safety awards, and promotional wall calendars. Across three decades, I enjoyed helping people, solving problems, and working with customers to find the right solution. In university, I studied Management, Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Computers, Communication, Statistics, Economics, Politics, Law, History, Human Resources, and Psychology; Production, Entrepreneurship, Business, Organizational Structure, Consumers, Decision-making, International Trade, State Socialism, Money and Banking, Investment Analysis, Common Stocks, Annual Reports; Common Law precedents and federal and provincial statutes which govern business practices and define legal rights and remedies in the commercial environment; Organizational behavior, Law governing business relationships, Law pertaining to secured transactions and bankruptcy procedures, Law of real property, Union-Management relations, Labor legislation in Canada; Legal protection of software, data privacy, trans-border data flows, computer crime, common law and statutory remedies, computer-based evidence and automated commercial transactions; Preparation of computer contracts involving the procurement of hardware and software products, services and systems; Policy formulation, Logistics, Multinational business corporations, Personnel and labor relations, Ownership, Stress, Contract law, Group dynamics, Leadership, Motivation, Job enrichment, Power, Quality of work life, Financial institutions, Capital markets in Canada and internationally, Export management, Innovation, Behavior, Persuasion, Selling, Personality, Personal Growth; Ethical leadership in dealing with customers, the community, employees, peers and the government; Liberal democracies, Operations management; Legal considerations affecting multinational corporations, small Canadian businesses engaged in importing or exporting as well as Canadian firms seeking to establish themselves in foreign countries; Management Consulting.
Account manager in the sales department of a Canadian advertising company whose business specializes in supplying custom-imprinted calendars and personalized promotional products.