Class of 2027 · open to roles now
I’ve produced revenue in every job I’ve ever held.
Door-to-door canvassing. An independent insurance book across four states. A startup’s first paying client. Three retail departments that run on time. I’m a bilingual marketing and healthcare administration student in Houston, and everywhere I’ve worked I’ve left the same thing behind: numbers that went up.
| $5,000 | Average annualized premium produced per week as an independent life insurance agent, across a multi-state client base |
|---|---|
| 1st | Paying client in company history for a digital health startup, carried from cold contact through signed contract |
| $25K+ | Company revenue produced in my first month of door-to-door canvassing at Leaf Home |
| 200+ | Client and prospect accounts managed in HubSpot CRM, with activity logged and follow-ups executed |
| 4 | States where I hold a life insurance producer license: Texas, Ohio, Virginia, and Louisiana |
| 2 | Languages I work in daily: English and Spanish, both fluent |
About
Sales taught me people. Operations taught me systems. I bring both.
I started in the hardest classroom in sales: strangers’ doorsteps. Two seasons canvassing for Leaf Home brought $25,000+ in company revenue in my first month, three or more qualified intakes a day, and eventually the job of coordinating the team’s daily assignments and coaching teammates until the whole team’s closing rates came up. Door to door is where I learned that the first ten seconds of a conversation decide the rest of it.
Then I bet on myself. I earned life insurance producer licenses in Texas, Ohio, Virginia, and Louisiana and ran my own remote book of business for nine months, averaging $5,000 in annualized premium a week while keeping my own client data, reporting, and documentation straight across CRM portals and Excel. No manager, no script, no safety net.
Give me a territory, a pipeline, or a store floor. I’ll organize it, work it, and hand back numbers.
Last summer, through the Blackstone LaunchPad × BASTA fellowship, I was placed with Tandem, a digital mental health startup, as its only field representative. I reached 200+ medical clinic accounts, ran the HubSpot pipeline end to end, wrote the FAQ guides and onboarding material the team trains with, presented at the AITX Software as a Service conference, and closed the company’s first paying client. On my own time I also built a small outreach tool, TandemReach. A nice cherry on top, but the summer’s real work was done face to face.
Today I’m finishing a B.S. in Marketing and Healthcare Administration at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (expected December 2027, Greater Texas Fund Scholarship recipient) while managing merchandising, ordering, and inventory-control workflows across three departments at Petco. I speak Spanish fluently, which in Houston is less a line on a résumé than a daily working tool.
Completed project · the cherry on top
TandemReach
The main event is the record you just read; this is the encore. Before applying to my internship, I built a command-line tool on my own time that takes a clinic name and a medical specialty, writes a complete four-touch outreach sequence, and hands back a HubSpot-ready contact record. I ran it live in my interview, and the offer came back the same day. When I want a job, I show up with the work already started. Pick a specialty and run it yourself.
Choose a specialty
Pick a specialty and press Generate.
Representative output: a simulation of the tool's real behaviour,
run against sample clinics so you can try it here in the browser.
- Four touches, timed
- Days 1, 3, 7, and 14: opener, fresh value, peer-clinic proof, then a graceful break-up. Every subject line unique; no “quick question” filler.
- Specialty-aware copy
- Prior-authorization burden, EHR friction, no-show rates, staff turnover, payer mix, MIPS compliance, all matched to what that practice type actually deals with.
- Schema-constrained output
- Every response is forced through a strict JSON schema across five nested objects, so the result parses on every run instead of most of them.
- Straight into the CRM
- Writes a 17-field HubSpot import CSV alongside the emails. Clinic name in, contact record out, one command.
- Built with
- Python, the Claude API with structured JSON output, and an argparse CLI. Roughly 380 lines.
What it earned. I demoed TandemReach live in my interview with Tandem’s CEO and co-founder: not slides, the actual tool running against a real clinic. The offer came back the same day, and the internship it won sits at the top of my experience.
Experience
Sales, operations, an independent book of business, and the numbers to show for it.
Field Sales & Marketing Intern
Jun to Aug 2026Tandem, Digital Mental Health Startup · placed via Blackstone LaunchPad × BASTA
Conducted door-to-door outreach across the Houston metro and closed the company’s first paying client. Managed client and prospect pipelines in HubSpot CRM across 200+ medical clinic accounts, presented at the AITX Software as a Service conference, and created the FAQ guides, one-pagers, checklists, and onboarding materials the team trains with.
Merchandise Operations Specialist
Oct 2023 to PresentPetco · Houston, TX
Manage daily workflows across three departments (merchandising, ordering, and inventory control), completing checklists, executing seasonal planograms and store resets with strict accuracy, and catching data discrepancies before they reach the floor.
Independent Life Insurance Agent
Feb to Oct 2025Remote · licensed in TX, OH, VA & LA
Produced an average of $5,000 in annualized premium per week across a multi-state client base. Maintained organized client data and reporting workflows in insurance-provider CRM portals and Excel, prepared structured documentation and performance tracking, and handled every client conversation with accuracy and confidentiality.
Sales Canvasser (Retail & Door-to-Door)
Apr to Aug 2024 · Nov 2024 to Feb 2025Leaf Home · Leaf Filter & Storm Tight Windows brands
Produced $25,000+ in company revenue within the first month of door-to-door canvassing. Engaged households face to face daily, completed 3+ qualified survey intakes per day with accurate customer records, and coordinated daily team assignments and meetings, with coaching that raised team closing rates.
B.S., Marketing and Healthcare Administration
Expected Dec 2027University of Houston-Clear Lake · Greater Texas Fund Scholarship recipient
Coursework in Quantitative Methods for Management, Healthcare Economics, Business Finance, and Money and Banking.
Licenses, certifications & tools
- Licensed in four states
- Life Insurance Producer License: Texas, Ohio, Virginia, Louisiana (NPN 21474578).
- Certified
- HubSpot Academy Social Media Certification, valid Jul 2026 to Aug 2028.
- Bilingual
- English and Spanish, both fluent, and both used at work every day.
- Tools
- HubSpot CRM, Microsoft Excel, Google Workspace, Canva.
Contact
Graduating December 2027. Happy to talk well before that.
Marketing, sales, operations, healthcare administration, or any role that needs someone who can win a stranger’s trust, keep a pipeline organized, and hand back numbers. I’ve done it door to door, remotely across four states, and inside a startup’s CRM. I answer email the same day.
© 2026 Manuel Lopez · Houston, Texas