- Responsible for marketing, sales, supplier management, and select P&L for sizable automotive sales and leasing company serving four communities with dealerships throughout North Carolina.- Led the structuring of new North Carolina retail dealership; documented and streamlined sales and operational processes, resulting in scalable growth and expansion within the state of North Carolina.* Benchmark is an automotive service and retail dealership leasing vehicles throughout the state of North Carolina.

- Owned P&L portfolio of multiple domestic and international programs, totaling over $12 million in annual revenue.- Led Special Programs Division focused on growth and full-scale operations (sales, marketing, logistics, contracts, customer support, and safety) of multiple product lines.- Served on Senior Management Team helping to shape organizational strategy and policy.- Negotiated and managed multi-year contracts globally while leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality programs to B2B and B2C customers.- Led large scale events in US and the UK responsible for thousands of participants on the ground at one time while managing a joint staff of over 40 individuals.* WorldStrides is a private equity owned experiential learning company which provides domestic and international educational travel experiences to K12 and higher education students and participants. Previous PE investors included Carlyle Group, Metalmark Capital, Silverhawk Capital, and Eurazeo.

- Responsible for formulating the business plan for new wood biomass to energy start-up, including capital budget, operating costs, financing requirements, and raw material acquisition.- Spearheaded initial capital raise of $550,000 from angel investors.- Negotiated supply-side contracts.- Extensive contract negotiation involvement with large European utility for long-term off-take agreement.* TerraGen was a wood biomass to energy start-up focused on monetizing significant timber resources as a wood pellet producer supplying and exporting to large-scale European coal-fired power plants to burn to create energy.

- Served as Integration Specialist after Hathaway, Inc. bought Innovative Packaging, Inc.'s business unit and successfully coordinated the company integration, including physical location change, merging company databases, and transitioning all manufactured products to outsourced purchased items to be sold at Hathaway, Inc.- Served as custom packaging specialist, assisting outside salesforce by offering expert product design solutions, sourcing, logistics management, and quoting for new products.- Transitioned formerly manufactured products to fully outsourced inventory by cultivating new vendor contracts, maintaining partnerships, and negotiating all pricing and logistics contracts.* Hathaway, Inc. is a full-service supplier of industrial packaging products, tape, equipment, safety and janitorial supplies to industrial companies throughout Viriginia and Maryland.

- Developed business plan for new company start-up, hired and directly managed entire production and administrative staff. - Responsible for all internal operations - costing/pricing all manufactured products, forecasting demand, and procurement of all raw materials.- Established detailed database for production drawings, bill of materials, manufacturing processes, and operational procedures.- Supported the sales team as product design specialist.* Innovative Packaging, Inc. was a custom designed internal packaging fabrication business providing foam inserts, corrugated boxes, and shipping containers to high-end medical device and electronic manufacturers.