Parker Tortorello

Growing up I was always around my father’s own business or hearing his sales pitch over the phone each day, this lead me to venture towards sales. I knew I was right for sales when I entered my undergrad at Cardinal Stritch University and did such things as: start Greek Life, play collegiate men’s volleyball, and work as an admissions tour guide. Yes, I started Greek life at my school. Starting from one (me) I recruited over 35 members and became an official colony. Our goal in this year is to become brothers and install service, leadership, scholarship, and fellowship into our incoming freshman. Playing collegiate volleyball has taught me the biggest asset every business professional needs, time-management. My schedule is balanced and structured each day so that I can meet the needs of my studies, my athletics, campus jobs and my on campus activities. As a tour guide I am selling a $30,000 a year institution to individuals or large groups over 60 people. Not many students can say what I have already said while also maintaining a 3.5 GPA. I also demonstrated this recently in my internship doing outside sales with FedEx. At the end of 9 weeks I was the overall number one intern nationwide and led the sales intern program in all three categories: average calls per day, opportunities made, and closed businesses. I am a very hard worker that can accept failure but can push for success in anything I am challenged at.From being around business at a young age to now living it, I am excited to see how much more I can progress and succeed.