Corinne Sands

Project manager with more than five years of experience delivering custom signage projects from concept through fabrication, permitting, installation, and closeout. Coordinates budgets, schedules, materials, documentation, vendors, field crews, clients, and municipal stakeholders while managing compliance, change orders, risks, and competing priorities. More than doubled company sales through strong project execution, customer retention, referrals, and recovered accounts.

Project Manager and Sole Sales Representative - Rapp Signs, Inc. - Greene, NY

(2019-11)

• More than doubled company sales by strengthening project execution, customer retention, referral business, and recovery of former accounts.
• Lead cross-functional coordination among clients, designers, manufacturing teams, installers, skilled trades, landlords, suppliers, and municipal stakeholders to align scope, approvals, specifications, and deadlines.
• Maintain project controls through quotes, site surveys, permit packages, construction drawings, change orders, and closeout records, supporting zoning, electrical, UL, and local sign-code compliance.
• Manage multichannel stakeholder communications and prioritize incoming sales and service requests across email, phone, chat, and messaging to maintain visibility, prevent backlogs, and keep projects progressing.
• Apply working knowledge of low-voltage LED systems, sign electrical components, NEC requirements, UL standards, QuickBooks Enterprise, Microsoft Office, CorelDraw, and Adobe Photoshop.
• Use AI-assisted research to identify local code requirements and understand customer businesses and support designers in developing current client concepts while validating outputs against authoritative sources and project requirements.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects using independent judgment, urgency, clear written communication, and structured problem-solving to resolve risks, production delays, and changing priorities.
• Serve as sole sales representative and project lead for client and vendor communications, manufacturing and installation scheduling, scope changes, production delays, and issue resolution.
• Draft estimates, proposals, sales pitches, meeting minutes, and product documentation; created pamphlets for job fairs; and edited sales and proposal contracts.
• Manage custom signage projects from client concept through fabrication, permitting, installation, and closeout, coordinating timelines, budgets, materials, documentation, vendors, and field crews.
• Perform accounts receivable and accounts payable tasks, input purchase orders, and draft invoices in QuickBooks Enterprise and QuickBooks Online.

Independent Retail Merchandiser - Lawrence Merchandising - Vestal, NY

(2018-03 - 2019-03)

• Completed independent retail merchandising assignments using planograms while maintaining timely communication with store managers and supervisors.

House Manager and Family Assistant - Home of Naomi Pizarro - Lorton, VA

(2007-11 - 2009-10)

• Managed household, scheduling, tutoring, documentation, communications, and administrative support for a private family office environment.

Child and Youth Program Assistant - School Aged Services - Ft. Huachuca, AZ

(2004-06 - 2005-06)

• Supervised youth programming, safety, daily activities, reporting, parent communication, and special events for military community children.

Voluntary Work Study Office Assistant - Methodist College - Fayetteville, NC

(2002-08 - 2003-12)

• Provided front-office support including phones, copying, mail distribution, visitor assistance, classroom materials, and administrative coordination.

Customer Service/Pharmacy Technician - CVS - Binghamton, NY

(2001-08 - 2002-06)

• Supported customer service, cashiering, merchandising, pharmacy counter transactions, telephone response, and pharmacist referrals.

Community Liaison Support - US Embassy Dublin, Ireland - Dublin, Ireland

(2011-11 - 2014-01)

• Supported three successive Community Liaison Officers by maintaining continuity across community programs, communications, and resources for embassy personnel and families.
• Documented and updated pet importation guide for the Dublin CLO.
• Created an American products procurement guide for the Dublin CLO.
• Volunteered to assist at CLO events to include holiday parties, welcoming events, fundraising events, morale-enhancing events, and other embassy related functions.
• Assisted the CLO in researching and informing Embassy staff and families about local events in the host nation.
• Authored an article featured in the Embassy Newsletter in support of the Shannon CLO.
• Regularly assisted the CLO in brainstorming new ideas for fundraising and morale-enhancing events.

Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies with concentrations in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Math and Science - Marymount University (2008-08)