Ryan Schmidt

Background

About Ryan Schmidt

I have a passion for innovative building construction strategies with an emphasis on converting sales and turning customers into long-term clients. My sales success stems from the same principal that helped me become a 3X Canadian Rowing Champion - hunger and drive. • Over ten years of sales experience - business development, inside sales, retail management, organizational behaviour theory, online social marketing, and elite-level rowing competition • Consistently over-performing on sales goals both in B to B and retail sectors, worked independently as General Manager of a 1 million dollar/year bicycle store, reporting to satellite owner • Strong research and analytical skills evidenced by business development activities resulting in a greater number of qualified prospects and more focused sales strategy • Successfully wrote grant applications for provincial curling programs raising over in a single year for new program grants that will support over in overall revenue for these initiatives • Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills advanced through MBA projects, a term as student assoc. president, and regular reports and communication to various members of executive leadership • Instrumental in planning and executing a semi-annual fundraiser event supporting efforts that raised over 80 thousand dollars annually for early cancer detection research • Ability to quickly integrate and optimize new software and operation techniques developed through the use of integrated CRM and technical demonstrations of software platforms Specialties: Driving sales, asking the right questions, B to B prospecting and Fit Determination, Business Networking, Sales and Marketing Liason, Retail Team and Event Management E-Mail: rjs.rschmidt at gmail dot com (Written this way to protect from spam)