Founded this local and national, award-winning restaurant and bar concept. Oversaw all aspects of the company’s business including maintaining all books, overseeing all staff, managing payroll, overseeing vendor relations and developing all advertising, marketing and promotions for the concept throughout the life of the venture.Hired, trained and managed the Front-of-House and Back-of-House staffs of over 50, unique individuals for all of the 5 years of business.➤ Returned the investor’s start-up capital within the 1st year of business, well ahead of industry standards.➤ Guided the restaurant and bar to annual revenues of over $3.5 million for each of the 5 years in business.➤ Grew restaurant unit sales over 9% annually over the life of the company.

Hired as a Project Manager for this provider of strategic, internet development services that focuses on web design and development, strategic planning, feasibility studies, online media, marketing and implementation.Promoted to Senior Project Manager within 4 months of joining the company due to the overwhelming growth of this company and its commitment to employing a highly refined and flexible process to build and develop web projects that fit around the client, rather than the project.Guided a diverse clientele that ranged in size from corporate giants (AT&T and Ingersoll-Rand) to midsize groups (Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and Shoney’s Restaurants) down to small companies (Dovetail Music and Curb Records).➤ Served as liaison between the client and the various Digital Dog teams to ensure seamless project development.➤ Led design and administrative teams through the development and delivery of over 80 web design projects.➤ Managed the design and development of over 25 client projects at any given time.