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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Assist all customers with their decorating projects providing color consultations, window treatments, wall coverings, custom paint and stain matches, specialty finishes and paint sprayers. Aggressively identify in-store selling opportunities with compelling merchandising, cross selling complementary products and up selling to the best product for the project. Order store inventory to maintain levels that promote sales. Assist in training other sales consultants.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Implements accounting and CRM systems for companies, including customizing forms and reports to support internal accounting, financial reporting, and marketing policies and procedures using tools targeted at small businesses like QuickBooks, Salesforce.com, Method CRM and Insightly

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

In this position I was able to list and sell small businesses, prepare business valuations for legal proceedings, analyze business operational processes and financial conditions to recommend corrections and improvements to the business owner.

Maple Grove

Responsible for the Financial Reporting, Data Analysis, Financial Planning and Budgeting, Proforma Development for the Medical Center and Off-site Clinics• Prepared month end closing journal entries and reviews to assure accurate financial reporting, • Performed data analysis and Crystal Report writing for operational and financial transactions in the EPIC Software and Clarity databases to track trends for management decision support,• Prepared the Quarterly Rolling Forecast, Long Range 5 Year Plan, and portions of the 2009 Budget • Proforma development in support of capital request primarily for Radiology Equipment

Principal Areas of PracticeProviding financial planning, reporting, data analysis and pro forma development for clinic operations by extracting and validating data from ADP Payroll and other sources to assist in the making of sound business decisions.

Supervised all sales, merchandising, purchasing, accounting, customer service, marketing, advertising, and management while creating and implementing a website, complete with e-commerce, as the primary marketing tool; restored positive lucrative relations with customers, suppliers, and local artists.

Edina Minnesota, Santa Barbara California, Fremont California

Led the divisions through negotiation, transition, and integration phases as well as handled all general management and P&L while managing direct reports, including the vice presidents of sales, marketing, account management, professional services, customer services, financial controller, information technology, software development, and maintenance.

Managed customer relations P&L for the functional areas of customer account management, consulting, training, help desk, information technologies, and all website services while handling various aspects of general management, such as budgeting, strategic planning, implementation, process improvement, contract negotiations, customer dispute resolutions, facilities management, people development, motivation, and project management.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Created and implemented means to improve productivity process, while leading and supervising staff employees. Oversaw and managed the budget, sales, planning, and profit obtainment within various departments, including customer service, professional services, knowledge engineering, production, and information technology.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Served as the general manager for the PC software development, distribution, and support services as well as the author of the strategic and operational plans for the Data Management Group while directing data center, call center, and account management groups within several remote locations to focus on customer satisfaction, revenue retention, and profit improvement.

Mba, Marketing

Bsba, Finance & Accounting

Certificate Of Completion, Real Estate Sales Professional

Income Tax Preparation Certification, Individual & Business Federal & State Tax Laws