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SANDRA PATTERSON

12 OLD TOWN WAY HOME: (607) 555-8977
PITTSBURGH, PA 56332 CELL: (607) 555-5892

EMAIL: SANDRAPATTERSON@XXX.COM

Armore Foods, Subsidiary of Flastern Soup Company, 1981–Present
Vice President, Business Planning & Development, 2000–Present
• Created planning process to improve participation, input, and timeliness of strategic
and operating plans.
• Developed direction for reducing short-term and long-term costs by more than
$35 million annually. This plan contributed significantly to a 49 percent increase in
earnings in fiscal year 2002.
• Evaluated and pursued acquisition candidates up to $100 million annual sales volume.
Vice President, Marketing, 1996–2000
• Developed professional management team and refocused department for integrated
marketing programs.
• Achieved $6 million annual savings in nonproductive trade support by supervising
development of scanner databased trade promotion evaluation systems.
• Key player in the evaluation of successful acquisitions with total sales volume of
$175 million.
Group Brand Manager, New Products, 1988–1996
• Reduced potential cash flow losses by discontinuing several inherited projects.
• Launched product that used new manufacturing process to convert refrigerated
products to dry shelf entry.

Marketing Manager, 1982–1988
• Developed a new product introduction that achieved $145 million in sales in its first
year of introduction.
• Repositioned existing products resulting in a 23 percent increase in market penetration
and sales.

Sales Representative, 1981–1982
• Successfully marketed company products in the Midwest and Eastern regions of the U.S.
• Developed an innovative sales training process still in use by the company.

EDUCATION

J. L. Kellogg Graduate School, Northwestern University: M.B.A., 1981
University of Chicago, B.A. Philosophy, B.S. Business: 1979

References available upon request.