Cynthia is a specialist in development and marketing and a volunteer in nonprofit fundraising and development strategies.

Experience

STRATEGIC ACCOUNTS MANAGER – US WEST 1994-2007
Expand business volumes with large market customers, such as P&G, Smuckers, Kraft Foods, and Abbott Laboratories
Managed relationships between customer facilities and our manufacturing plants.

ACCOUNT MANAGER –BELL TELEPHONE, US WEST 1990-1994
Collaborated with customer plants on just-in-time shipping project that allowed the customers to reduce inventory held in their plants without adversely affecting US West facilities. Introduced opportunities to reduce costs by utilizing new paper technologies for use in making shipping containers.

Education

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE – IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY 1971
Major in education with minors in history and mathematics.

GRADUATE DEGREE, MBA – UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 1990
I studied for graduate degree while employed full time at US West, during which time
I traveled regularly to customer sites around the US.

Activities

YMCA – Supporting development (2 yrs)

Immanuel Lutheran Church – Treasurer (3 yrs), Council/President (4 yrs and presently)

Ridges Sanctuary – Board (6 yrs), Development Committee (3 yrs and presently) Rotary Club of Door County North – Member (11 yrs) of which 5 was secretary, 2½ served as president, and 5 served on the board.

Peninsula Music Festival Sustaining Committee – Member (8 yrs), serving as secretary for 4 years, as 2nd VP for 3 years and now 1st VP. During that time, I was 2nd violin in a quartet that performed for 4 years at Sustaining Committee meetings. (I started playing in grade school and continued through the years, including participating in the pit orchestra in high school for the musicals, and ending when I graduated from college. The PMFSC quartet was the first I played again in almost 40 years.)

Midsummer’s Music – Development Committee (1 yr)

Colin & Friends – Founding Friend (new)