Company: Embarq (formerly Sprint)
Job Title: General Manager Sales
Job Function: Business Sales SW Florida (12 employees all leveraged quota bearing)
Expectation of professor: Create a better understanding of the material presented. Proactively inform the team and/or myself if we are not meeting expectations.
Learning experience: To be successful, an interactive team is needed; a team that is committed to the success of all.
General Information:
My boys are Gary, 22, who lives in Tampa and works as a cook and James, 18, who has his diploma as is trying to figure out what he will do going forward.
I have been in the process of a divorce for 2.5 years; the process is difficult and finding a new life after 26 years of marriage is a challenge.
I was born in Monroe Michigan, the fifth in a family of sixteen children; thirteen boys and three girls. Childhood included hard work on the farm where we grew all our own vegetables, fruits, and raised chickens, pigs and cows. The University of Detroit was great until after the riots and that ended my college adventure. Michigan Bell Telephone was a great place to work; as I went from operator services to circuit engineering design. A move to sunny Florida in 1985 (Winter Springs, Fla.) started my career with Sprint (then called United Telecom). In 1987, I was fortunate to be assigned to a two year project at corporate headquarters in Kansas City Mo; my youngest, James, was born there. I moved back to Florida in 1990, as product manager in Apopka and then a move to operations manager in Tallahassee Fla. In 1996 we moved to Fort Myers and we love it here!
Along with working 50-60 hours a week and school I love volunteering. I am in Rotary, the cham ...