Daniela Pedersen JD, LUTCF San Francisco, CA Phone: 415-676-9058 Email: danielapedersen1@comcast.net Connect with me on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.

com/in/danielapedersen

Resume
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
A challenging and responsible management position in the Insurance/Financial Services industry, utilizing my experience, education and personal abilities.

CAREER HISTORY:
Bankers Life & Casualty, Sales Manager from January 2012 to September 2013 Recruit, train, develop and manage a team of 23 insurance advisors. Conduct sales presentations for individuals, small and medium size businesses. Increase productivity in 2012 by 28% on life and health benefits. Manage and build broker/client relationships to ensure high level of satisfaction. Focus on individuals, groups, small and medium size businesses. Win a Mediterranean cruise for meeting and exceeding productivity goals. American General Life and Accident Insurance Company, Sales Manager from 2009 to 2012. Recruit, manage, develop and train a team of 20 insurance advisors. Participate in joint team work, sales presentations for individuals and businesses. Develop and maintain professional associations with different organizations to recruit quality individuals from diverse multicultural communities within the bay area. Build new relationships within different professional organizations in the bay area to promote insurance agent career path. Increase productivity by 25% from last year on life insurance, annuities individual retirement accounts and health insurance. Lead the management and development of benefits. Identify opportunities to engage local, regional, and national subject matter experts and coordinate delivery of expertise to clients.

Manage and build broker and third party relationships to ensure high level of satisfaction. Focus on individuals, groups, small and medium size businesses. Win 2010 sales manager award for recruiting and productivity in the Bay Area. Prudential Financial Services Insurance Company, Manager of Financial Services from 2007 to 2009. Recruit, manage, develop and train a team of 15 experienced financial advisors. Participate in joint team work, sales presentations for individuals and small to medium size businesses. Develop and maintain professional associations with different networking organizations to increase recruiting from diverse multicultural communities within the bay area. Conduct recruiting seminars to promote financial advisor career path in the bay area. Increase productivity by 15% from the year before on life insurance, annuities, long term care, health and supplemental health and disability insurance. Focus on individual and small to medium size businesses. Win a trip to Jamaica for meeting and exceeding recruiting and productivity goals on 2008. AAA Insurance Company, Insurance Consultant from 2000 to 2007. Develop new individual life insurance sales and retirement accounts. Manage and provide excellent service to existing accounts. Establish 360 new clients a year. Cross sells within the organization, develop and maintain strong relationships with insurance professionals. Develop new referrals through my existing clients. Focus on individuals and small businesses. Generate 20 new life insurance sales monthly and 10 annuities and individual retirement accounts. New York Life Insurance, Sales Manager from 1998 to 2000. Build a team of 10 financial advisors within my first year. Develop new sales ideas, conducting sales presentations to agents and their clients. Increase productivity by setting high monthly goals. Networking within professional organizations to develop new sales and getting referrals from existing clients. Provide estate planning consultation to highly net worth clients. Focus on individuals and small size businesses within Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley. Generate 20 new life insurance sales, 10 groups sales, and 10 individual retirement accounts sales monthly.

Data Communications Consultants, Sales Manager from 1996 to 1998. Develop & implement new marketing techniques for new products. Conduct interviews and hire new sales agents. Conduct sales meetings and perform sales presentations. Increase monthly production goals by providing new tools to help agents meet their goals. Marketing the products to new potential clients. Networking and develop new business relationships to get new sales, and provide excellent customer service to existing clients. Focus on computers and software programs. Target small and medium size businesses. Generate 30 new monthly sales.

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

Jurist Doctor, Law Degree from Southern California College of Law, 2004. Business Continuity LUTCF 301 course, 2001. Disability Income course, 2001. Basic, Intermidiate and Advanced Estate Planning courses, 2000. Life/Health Agent license 1999 to present. Series 6, 63, 26 and life licensed. Southern California College of Law, 2000 to 2004. Jurist Doctor, Law Degree 1994 from University of Sciences & Arts Gheorghe Cristea, Faculty of Law, Bucharest, Romania: 1990-1994. College Vasile Alecsandri, Bachelor Degree, Bacau, Romania: 1986-1990.

OTHER SKILLS:
AIRS training Human Resources Training Languages: English, French, Romanian. Ambitious, bright, team player, willing to travel