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Provided creative and innovative packaging solutions to some of Central California's most important industries. Worked to identify new revenue streams in existing businesses, marrying profitability with practical solutions, guaranteeing my customer's products are protected throughout the delivery cycle. Provided field technical support to my clients, ensuring customer trust and minimizing lost productivity.

Directed all operations for Bee Thinking; Contributed to record growth in both 2015 and 2016 Led an increase of 174% in gross sales for 2016 versus previous year, as well as an increase of 288% in units shipped direct to consumer in a highly competitive e-commerce environment.Assisted in New Product Development. Designed innovative new beehive box joint - Bee Thinking Comb Joint. Sourced new wood species for production - Sugar Pine, effectively doubling the number of product SKUs and increasing hive sales by nearly 60% in 2016.Introduced CNC design and manufacturing to Bee Thinking, helping to establish a new milling division in 2016; responsible for sourcing advanced woodworking machines and equipment which resulted in an investment of nearly $1MM.Directed the fulfillment of over 35,000 units for the Flow Hive Project, the most successful Indiegogo campaign in history; units were shipped globally, both direct to consumer and via 3PL - Shipwire.com. Oversaw procurement and vendor relationships for both manufacturing and retail operations; managed RFPs and RFQs; responsible for vendor selection, supplier auditing, and analyzing relationship viability in terms of cost and reliability.Improved the product development process by incorporating tenets of Lean Manufacturing.

Led a team of twenty-four direct and indirect reports. Primary responsibilities were to ensure best in class social media support for Microsoft customers while maintaining industry specific KPIs. My team actively monitored multiple social media channels with approximately three billion monthly impressions. Additional responsibilities included managing the client/vendor relationship between Blueprint and onsite Microsoft representative, as well as functioning as onsite human resources manager for Blueprint. • Streamlined and documented policy and process for social media engagement, high influencer engagement, and consumer escalation resulting in 20% increase in agent productivity. • Implemented new quality measures and leadership roles that drove significant change in overall engagement quality.• Restructured existing team to better-fit company profile. • Increased consumer outreach by developing proactive engagement initiatives.• Regularly produce new and insightful deliverables through data mining research and trend analysis.

Responsible for Fort Worth market operations including: recruiting, employee engagement, sales management, business development, and proactively monitoring market KPIs. Led a team of highly successful field managers and forty field technicians inside of a union office (CWA). Utilized data mining in new and unique ways to identify efficiencies in productivity, as well as opportunities to increase revenue. Produced quantifiable improvements in sales, safety and overall efficiency resulting in significant budgetary savings. •Managed a 30-thousand square foot office space employing 50 workers.•Increased technician productivity 22% by enhancing on employee training, mentoring, and coaching. •Improved overall customer satisfaction in Fort Worth market by 30% by establishing a ‘boots on the ground' engagement initiative for management team.•Boosted office national ranking by over 75%, which was recognized by Dish Network as a significant achievement in a union staffed office.

Functioned as a business development manager for local and national accounts of varying sizes. Supported customers by providing national onsite analysis of operations and business planning. Consulted with individuals at all levels of organizational hierarchy on the development of sales, management, and marketing strategies, as well as employee and stakeholder policy creation and adoption. Consistently provided field-training expertise in automotive service technology, petrochemical knowledge, managerial and customer service skills. Frequently functioned as a brand ambassador and product knowledge expert at national trade shows and industry specific conventions. • Managed a portfolio of over 50 accounts totaling $10MM in sales.• Developed competitive comparison tables of automotive chemical pricing, fees, ratings, category and product performance to use for account sales calls.• Identified and qualified customer needs, developed sales strategies and negotiated and closes profitable projects with a 85% success rate.• Reinvented how team interacts with prospective clients by developing innovative and creative sales pitch that was implemented into sales team strategy in 2010.• Monitored market activity and quoted pricing to maintain healthy profit margins.• Negotiated prices, terms of sale and service agreements.