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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Extracted and presented actionable insights that delivered business value from common data sources including Excel, CSV files and SQL databases.
• Developed mastery of Excel (advanced), PowerPoint, PostgreSQL, Tableau, and Python for data analysis.
• Participated in over 800 hours of instruction, mentorship and coursework.
• Produced professional projects and presentations from concept to completion focused on business forecasting, price modeling, and statistical analysis.

Oregon, Wisconsin, United States

• $1.13 million in new and upgraded membership sales at The Legend at Bergamont facility.
• Increased net membership by over 32%.
• 39.1% of the membership were members I signed while at the club.
• Worked directly with the Owner and Director of Membership to increase club opportunities to members and create membership packages for potential members based on market research compiled by me.
• Created 100% of all marketing materials and streamlined the sales and on-boarding process.

Oregon, Wisconsin, United States

• Responsible for the daily management of a single facility that averaged over 12,000 rounds annually. Employed and trained over 20 indoor and outdoor member and guest services employees.
• Responsible for the purchase, pricing, inventorying, and merchandising of over $200,000 of hard and soft goods merchandise annually.
• Created, planned and oversaw the direction of Men's, Women's and Couple's Golf programming.
• Contributed to the financial and entertainment success of over 20 outside group golf outings annually. Coordinated the logistics of each event with the Food and Beverage Director, Events Coordinator and Golf Course.

Wales, Wisconsin

• Responsible for receiving, inventorying, pricing and displaying all merchandise in a Golf Shop with over $400,000 in annual sales. (#1 Golf Shop in sales in the club.)
• Assisted in managing over 10 employees in Outside Services. Responsible for training the inside Golf Shop interns on Golf Shop operations and expectations.
• Assisted in facilitating the organization and execution of over 50 member events annually. Events could be daily, weekly or even season-long events.
• Assisted the owner in managing the daily tee sheets and ensuring that event sign ups were correct and coordinated at three of club's golf courses each season.

Wales, WI

• Daily activities included business planning, merchandising and retail management, customer (member and non-member) relations, instruction, and tournament operations.
• Assisted in creating and was the champion of the initial PGA Junior League program at the club. The program involved over 40 junior golfers, their parents and coaches.

• Responsible for maximizing the profit margin of three of the company’s largest profit centers. (Logistics, paper and scrap revenues.)
• Developed and implemented a partnership with a major strategic supplier. This three-year partnership deal provides annual savings opportunities in excess of $500,000 in logistics spend, extended payment terms and.
• Given charge of nine employees and annual spend in excess of $45MM. Awarded Arandell Corporation Outstanding Achievement Award in January 2010.
• Worked directly with sales, suppliers and customers to achieve cost savings and enhance the overall value of their printed piece.

• Working directly with manufacturing employees, consolidated non-paper production consumable suppliers from 15 to 6, and initially reduced consumable pricing year over year by $842,000. Employing continual improvement.
• Proactively completed the Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Certificate Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Responsibilities included all facets of professional sales: potential account lead generation and qualifying, print project quoting, customer order tracking, and product quality complaint resolutions.
• Consistently listening to customers so as to understand their current and evolving needs and partnering with paper mills to achieve superior customer needs resolution.
• Number one merchant supplier to (at that time) the fifth largest web offset printer in North America.
• Partnered with a major global mill supplier and customer to create and acquire new business that had previously been direct mill business from a competitor for over 15 years.
• Averaged in excess of $10.3 million in gross sales in 2005 and 2006.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Evaluated various chapter operations through individual and group interviews and documentation analysis at universities across the United States. Complied findings, reported conclusions and supplied action plans to the.
• Analyzed and advised on operations such as financial management, organizational management, campus and community image and involvement, membership recruitment and philanthropic event planning.
• Facilitated the creation of two new chapters at Syracuse University and Northwestern Oklahoma State University.
• Associate editor of the 2003 edition of the fraternity's annual publication.

• Evaluated credit applications of call-in and walk-in customers. Had full turndown authority, approval on loans up to $3,000 and made recommendations on anything larger. Responsible for financial services such as.
• Recognized as regional Top Ten Award recipient out of 130 sales associates for exceeding monthly sales goal.
• Met or exceeded bad debt reduction goals in five of the last six months.

Purchasing & Supply Management Certificate Series

Certificate series through the Univertisy of Wisconsin - School of Business Executive Education Series. Completed and received continuing.

Economics

Activities and Societies: Acacia Fraternity