CPG Consultant 2011 – 2016
- Training Manager Cal Pacific Medical Center – hospital based psychotherapist intern program
- Sr. Insights, National Customer Marketing, Sales Strategy Consulting
- Consulting services that allow for seamless vacant position transitions.
- Provide interim skilled category management, customer marketing and other sales role services.
- Provide advanced large account insights based business reviews and selling decks
- Support brand managers on rationale for brand strategy and tactics
- Enable the business planning process via best practices, planning roll-up & strategy setting
- Team sell with large account managers insights based initiatives
- Plan and reconcile planning process with finance team
- Recent assignment: Clif Bar, Plum Organics, Ruster Bar both Club Mass CDM role, Sr. Insights
- Manager, NCMM, Demand Planning
Pepsico Pleasanton, California 2000 – 2011
- Sr. Manager Field Sales and Strategy West Division – Quaker Foods & Snacks Business Unit
- Sr. Category Manager Beverage – West Division
- National Account Manager/Manager of Business Development – Safeway Corp Team
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
- The Quaker Oats Company
- Senior Account Manager, Safeway Portland
- Customer Marketing Manager – Nile Spice, Near East Business Unit, Pleasanton
- Customer Marketing Manager RTE Cereals, West Business Center
- District Manager of Nor Cal Direct Sales Force
- Western Region Gatorade Broker Field Manager
- Western Region Gatorade Sales Planning Manager
EDUCATION
- California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California
- Masters Degree in Psychology Counseling, 2003
- Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
- B.A., Business Management, 1986
PERSONAL
- Volunteer training ride leader for AIDS Lifecycle – Avid bicyclist
- West leader of EQUAL, a Pepsico LGBT ERG
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT) in Private Practice 2005-Current
- Certified Clinical Intern Supervisor – Volunteer for The Pacific Center health clinic, Berkeley
- Past board member of Nor Cal Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapist Assn. (GAYLESTA)
- Meaningful history of volunteer work with children developmentally disabled and HIV affected persons