Melanie Adcock: Summary of Professional Skills
Technology Reporter and Technical Writing Summary
Adept interviewing capabilities asking knowledgeable questions regarding technical programming, profitability, funding, and business models in the high tech industry for creation of news articles and marketing collateral. Savvy, proven outreach to get the story, opinion, analysis, verification, and f
acts checked to give ethical coverage while conveying worthwhile information to the industry expert. Terrific team player with the ability to distill information, create and proofread materials as a team, and ensure outcomes are aligned with business objectives. Creativity in producing fresh innovative content that aligns with current events that can be pitched to media or used for content marketing.
-Consummate consideration for deadlines, branding guidelines, and needs of the client. Gives eagle-eye attention to spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, and voice of the brand. Skilled in creating clear design specifications for print and web complete with color scheme, font, content, and look & feel. Special ability to photo-document environments, events and people in beautifully composed, candid stills artfully capturing the human-interest angle of any story. Quick study of software functionality in numerous industries and can present it to and/or train an average person or group of people with excellent presentation design, and public speaking skills. Valuable expertise in creating sales writing, persuasive marketing content, and case studies for software that can illustrate a business case, and reliably close new meetings with C-level executives. Telecommunications and Sales Summary
Experienced inside sales professional with significant success ramping new territory for enterprise accounts. Accomplished in enterprise sales cycle management, territory stratification, building legitimate pipeline, delivering compelling sales presentations, sales messaging, public speaking, sales leadership, and sales process training. Excellent communication skills in appointment setting, customer service, problem solving, sales consulting and internal collaboration. High level of personal accountability. Specialties: Sales Leadership, Sales Training, Salesforce.com Administrative User, Excel, PowerPoint, Social Software, SaaS, Hoover's, Jigsaw, Writing, Editing, Targeted sales content creation, Participatory and Interactive Presentation Skills, Focused Dialing, Cold Calling, and Sales Research.
