A flexible and confident automotive professional dedicated to building brand awareness, solidifying customer satisfaction, driving revenue, and increasing consumer loyalty. A motivated team player and a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit, possessing over twenty years of automotive industry knowledge, including sixteen years of hands-on retail automotive experience gained through dealership operations, advertising, and marketingAn enthusiastic industry expert with a broad range of automotive industry experiences, including new technology implementation, vehicle sales support, consumer affairs management, fixed operations supervision, automotive marketing and advertising, vehicle repair and reconditioning, fleet administration, personnel/staff training, and industry experiential/trade show support.Prior direct dealership knowledge is enhanced through previous work experience gained as a Customer Connect Specialist for Hyundai Motor America, a Field Service Representative for Dunlop Tires, an Automotive Advertising Account Manager for Media News Group, and as a consultant for automotive advertising and sales event marketing.Specialties: Inside and outside sales, trade show operations, new business development, automotive service and parts (fixed operations) management, advertising sales-including print, direct mail, interactive, and online advertising, parts inventory management, customer service, consumer affairs, contract negotiations, social media marketing, introductory wordpress usage, website development, elementary SEO/SEM.Outside of work, I have been a life-long motorsports enthusiast and past competitor, having raced all over the Southwest and in Baja, California, Mexico, competing in both local amateur desert racing as well as at the highest levels of professional off-road racing as part of several championship winning teams.As well, I have deep interest in the zen-like sport of competitive target archery, as it is excellent example of the continuous pursuit of unattainable perfection, which is greatly experienced in the Olympic recurve discipline in which I currently concentrate, both in my own active participatin as well as in the coaching others in their own efforts.
Listed skills include Social Media Marketing, Advertising, Sales, Online Advertising, and 26 others.
