Post on 10-Jul-2015
BENJAMIN J. CIRILL
O, MBA
VISUAL RESUME
ABOUT
I’m a recent MBA graduate with a focus on branding, innovation management and new product development.
I have experience in building relationships, managing people and the overal l structure of business, as you’ll see from the following slides.
Born here
Now I live here
WHILE IN SCHOOL
Loyola Quinlan Net Impact is one of more than 300 chapters globally committed to making positive change through business.
Association of Loyola Entrepreneurs
I like to keep busy
This year-long project reformatted the annual business plan competition to focus squarely on social enterprise: for-profit ventures dedicated to social good. Three student leaders (myself included) set the guidelines, arranged the event and launched the marketing campaign.
Not all who wa nder are l os t
2000-2003
• Downers Grove Reporter
• Liberty Suburban News• Plainfield Enterprise
Out of college, I knew I wanted to write. So I went to work for the local paper, transferred to a different paper after a buyout, then kept on writing for yet another paper.
I spent my days in city council meetings, police stations, school board functions and courtrooms. It was a ground-level view of how the world runs, and a good place to practice relationship-building skills.
2003-2009Journalism was fun, but not my passion. So I left to follow another interest: Music. In December 2003 I joined Guitar Center as a sales associate. I was promoted to department manager, then assistant manager. In 2006 I changed locations and continued on in pure sales for three more years.
Guitar Center is based on an old-style relationship oriented sales strategy. As a result, sales associates end up working with marketing, inventory, and supply chain issues. As a manager, I also dealt with basic HR issues like hiring and scheduling. I went there to learn about the music industry, and ended up learning how to run a business.
2009-2010
I led 4 operations as a crew leader, running teams of 5-20 people. We completed our tasks in a fraction of the expected t ime, despite the challenges of working in a high density area where most people live behind locked gates.
As a recruiter, I administered the Census Exam to hundreds of applicants. I was then chosen as part of an elite team sent to help out another district that was having trouble filling quotas.
2011-PRESENT
After all that, I had management experience from the Census, relationship skil ls from the papers and a top-down business view from Guitar Center. It was time to put that together in a graduate degree, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Marketing.
But mostly I focused on finishing school while
raising this one
In school I had an internship at Plumtree, and I wrote marketing plans for real world clients Gibson’s Steakhouse and Tanzanian Children’s Fund
And then these two
NEXT STEPS
Now that school is over, it’s time to move in a new direction.
I’m focused on brand management and new product development, using the relationship, management and business skil ls I’ve developed over a career.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
CONTACT
Linkedin.com/in/bencirillo
ben.cirillo@gmail.com
773.297.3579
Portfolio/blog at: engineofideas.wordpress.com