Jack Costanzo

Facilitated shoe fittings for runners, walkers, and on-their-feet professionals by assessing needs and functional requirements.

• Discussed current/prior injuries, previous purchases, and future goals.
• Performed feet scans and gait analyses to break down walking/running biomechanics and size measurements.
• Identified the best shoes and insoles per their needs.
• Assisted customer with product selection to get sales!
• Coordinated with management to maintain accurate inventory, an organized sales floor, and the occasional trip to track meets and public events to represent DPA.
• #1 in sales out of all non-managers in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 at H.E. location.
• Assisted in training new hires.

• Established merchant services for businesses, integrating credit card payment processing, merchant accounts, payment gateways, and terminals to enhance transaction capabilities.
• Developed strategic business plans to enhance service offerings and customer engagement.
• Oversaw daily operations, ensuring optimal resource allocation and process efficiency.
• Implemented innovative payment solutions, improving transaction processing efficiency, and securely, to merchant and customer satisfaction.

• Coordinated getting him in and out of bed, prepared medication and daily meals, managed healthcare routines and nurse/doctor visits, assisted with using the bathroom, maintained a clean-living space, and provided positive nourishment and companionship.
• Provided consistent care and support for daily activities, ensuring a safe environment.
• Assisted with meal preparation and nutrition management to promote healthy living.
• Maintained cleanliness and organization of living spaces, fostering a comfortable atmosphere.
• He was a 94-year-old with declining health and on hospice when I began taking care of him. My loving care improved his quality of life to the point he was eventually taken off of hospice. He passed away years later, peacefully, a month away from his 97th birthday.

• Transported equipment, actors, staff and supplies to and from filming sites.
• Assisted the setup and breakdown of each filming location.
• Coordinated with the Director and all other departments to complete various tasks.
• Assisted however was needed, including being an extra.

Sales Associate, 2010-2014

• Setup businesses across the U.S. in various industries with merchant services, credit/debit card and ACH payment processing capabilities.
• Oversaw lead generation, statement analyses, product demos, account sales, underwriting, account setup to implementation, training, and general account customer service
• Successfully achieved reaching quotas.

Agent Recruiter, 2014-2017

• With a background in software technology, we changed our company focus from direct merchant sales to being a strictly payment gateway provider with the focus of recruiting other merchant service providers and strategic partners to sell TRANSAX Gateway to their prospective merchants.
• Cultivated relationships with strategic partners through training and on-going sales support.
• Contributed as a core team member to a start-up software payment gateway company that eventually had over 4,000 merchants utilizing the system, processing over 1 billion dollars annually across the United States.

• 6-year Track athlete at Fremd High School and Carl Sandburg Jr. High.
• 15+ years combined as team captain for adult men's softball, and as intramural team captain for basketball and flag football teams during college.
• Marketing Intern at Arlington Park International Racecourse in Arlington Heights during summer of 2009.