User:Stephanystp


 * Stephany Tay Szyszlo is a working wife and mother living in Charlotte, North Carolina. After staying home for several years to raise her children, she returned to work in 2012 transitioning to a career in analytics.

Childhood

 * She was born Stephanie Sze-Ming Kok on July 19th 1974 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her ethnic background is Chinese, by way of Singapore.  Her father, Eric Kok, moved himself, her mother and two older sisters to the U.S. from Singapore in the early seventies and settled in the suburban town of Weston, Connecticut where Stephany grew up for most of her childhood. In 1983 to 1987 her father was transferred to the Philippines for a job at Del Monte Foods, where the family lived in  Makati.

College

 * Upon graduating from high school, Stephany legally changed her name to, Stephany Ming Tay, and attended college at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the Spring of 1993. In the Fall of 1994, Stephany moved to Key West from New York City. After three of years she moved to Pompano Beach, Florida and attended Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton where she completed a Bachelor's degree in 1999.

Career
After graduation Stephany began working for TEAM Enterprises in Hollywood, Florida as a contracted market representative for Miller Brewing Company and project manager for Asahi Beer USA. Aside from managing sales and distribution in Fort Lauderdale and Miami other responsibilites included:
 * Increasing Miller priority brand volume by 25% in Q4’99 over Q4’98
 * Hiring and managing over twenty-five promotional specialists for Asahi Beer USA
 * Organizing, planning, and negotiating B2C price discounts for promotional events

In 2000, Stephany was recruited by a beer company called Key West Brewery; they wanted to expand their products into the Fort Lauderdale and Miami markets. In the Area Manager role, she performed tasks which included:
 * 1) Cultivating business relationships through heavy distributor and retailer interaction
 * 2) Synthesizing sales data to create monthly distributor incentives
 * 3) Conducting product training via high-impact PowerPoint presentations to large groups

In 2002, Stephany began working for Scottish and Newcastle Importers, performing similar tasks as in her previous roles, but with a considerably larger territory. In 2012, she returned to the workforce to join a marketing reporting and analytics company.

Personal Life
In 1999, Stephany met her future husband, Walt Szyszlo, at a bar on Fort Lauderdale beach. They became acquaintances and saw each other around the town frequently. After a chance encounter in late 2002, Walt asked Stephany out on a first date. In 2004 they got married on the beach in Islamorada, and Stephany legally dropped her middle name to become, Stephany Tay Szyszlo. In 2007 they welcomed their first child, and another in 2010.

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