Lisa Upton

Hi, I'm Lisa Upton. Welcome to my profile!

Lisa Upton's Bio:

Lisa Upton's Experience:

• Advertising Sales Representative at Shelby Shopper

  January 2004 - November 2004

  Advertising sales for weekly newsprint shopping paper.

• Advertising Sales Representative at Republic Newspapers, Inc

  December 2002 - January 2004

  Find creative advertising solutions for business of all types in the Upper Piedmont area. Calculated cold calling with ready mock art and target mailings resulted in business growth. Referrals also played a part in monthly sales increases. Responsibilities included first rate communication and customer satisfaction. Researched and developed original co-op ideas and possibilities prior to approaching a new client. Increased monthly sales by 25% monthly through out 2003-2004.

• Asst. Mgr. at Employment Staffing,Inc.

  June 2000 - November 2002

  Assist the Food & Beverage manager with day to day operations. Inventory control, staffing bar and wait staff, Ordered food, oversaw food preparation, banquets and special events.

• Accountant/Credit Manager at Staffing, Inc

  December 1999 - November 2002

  Assist the Vice-President of Finance though numerous departments within the accounting department. Administration of health insurance and benefits, processing payroll for 40 employment branches. Reconcile payroll tax reporting for various states and electronically submit payment. Collection on past due accounts. Perform reconciliation of various general ledger and maintained excel spreadsheets. Responsible for A/R and A/P in absence of personnel.

• Controller at Cleveland Country Club

  November 1994 - November 1999

  Responsible for all accounting functions, including G/L, payroll, A/R, A/P, inventory control, monthly financial statements, year-end procedures, budgeting, working with auditor, company property and employee health insurance. Additional duties include food ordering, membership, human resources, maintaining, telephone and voice mail systems, computer hardware and software updates, assisting the Board of directors, food and beverage director and general manager.

• Finance Manager at Triple D Publishing

  1984 - 1993

• Account Manager/NC Education SPOC at Procter & Gamble

  November 2004

  Grow distribution of the Wella, Sebastian and Nioxin product lines. Cultivated salon programs by assisting salons owners in the development of their business. Continue to achieve sales targets and goals through out the fiscal years. Continue to partner with salon owners to consistently reach a better business solution and strategy through joint business planning. Maintaining and developing effective sales route to services the salons and grow overall salon sales. Responsibilities also include cold calling, promotional events and conducting in-salon education. I am accustomed to a home office environment, with polished time/task management.

• Sales Consultant at Wella

  November 2004

Lisa Upton's Education:

• Cleveland Community College

  1999 – -