User:Stephanystp/sandbox


 * Stephany Tay Szyszlo is a wife, mother, and student living in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is best known to her friends and family as "independent" and "strong-willed", which suited her well for a career in the beer industry.  After staying home for several years to raise her children, she returned to work in 2013 transitioning to a career in the IT industry.

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 years. 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 Summer of 1994, Stephany visited a friend in Key West, and relocated there from New York City in the Fall of that year. After three of years of partying, sunbathing, and attending community college, Stephany transferred to Florida Atlantic University 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:
 * Increased Miller priority brand volume by 25% in Q4’99 over Q4’98
 * Hired and managed over twenty-five promotional specialists for Asahi Beer USA
 * Organized, planned, and negotiated B2C price discounts for promotional events

In 2000, Stephany was recruited into a new beer company called Key West Brewery, who wanted to expand their flagship brand into the Fort Lauderdale and Miami markets. In the Area Manager role, she performed tasks including:
 * 1) Cultivated business relationships through heavy distributor and retailer interaction
 * 2) Synthesized sales data to create monthly distributor incentives
 * 3) Conducted product training via high-impact PowerPoint presentations to large groups

In 2002, Stephany went to work for Scottish and Newcastle Importers, basically performing the same roles as before but with a considerably larger territory. In 2012, she secured an internship with a marketing reporting and analytics agency to gain experience managing Big Data in the IT industry.

Personal Life
Sometime in 1999, Stephany initially 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 2002, Walt asked Stephany out on a first date. In 2004 they 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.

Websites
Final Project

Official Website