Chad Montgomery Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

Civil Pour is a combination specialty coffee shop, great beer bar, sandwich shop, and growler-filling station. If we offer something, we've tested it in-house relentlessly. We pride ourselves on offering the best of everything we carry, including our panini sandwiches and pastries.Selected accomplishments:• Concept ideated during studies at The University of Texas at Dallas’ entrepreneurship program. Dallas’ first combination coffee shop and beer bar. Operations began in August 2018.• Created 15 new living-wage jobs for North Texans, including paid time off, company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits, and a company-matched 401(k).• Successful and profitable operation within 18 months of opening, a rarity in the food and beverage industry.• Added location for 2nd shop, with a projected opening of September 2024.• Manage, write content for, and maintain 4 company-owned websites between both companies, enhancing for SEO and other important aspects

Dallas, Tx

As the owner of Brewvolution, LLC, planned, managed, and executed Dallas' first craft beer festival. Big Texas Beer Fest is the largest indoor/outdoor craft beer festival in the state of Texas. In total, we have attracted over 50,000 people in 8 years to our events.Cumulatively we have raised over $60,000 for the North Texas Food Bank, providing nearly 200,000 meals to hungry North Texans.Selected accomplishments:• Founded company, responsible for ideation and execution of 5 different festivals (15 in total). Manage operational aspects of the company including marketing, finance, accounting, customer service, and vendor management.• Grew our largest event from 3,800 attendees to 8,000+ and 2-days over time.• Expanded social media channels independently from 0 to 50,000 followers across various channels.• Grew revenue >300% comparing year 1 to date.

North Texas Beer Week is a 10 day celebration showcasing the people, places and brews that make up the region’s booming craft beer scene with events overseen by local business owners and enthusiasts who seek to support the growth of craft beer across North Texas. The mission of NTX Beer Week is to provide a platform for those involved in the craft beer space, to help further educate about craft beer.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

As the Operations and Service Manager for Qoverage, managed, and maintained client satisfaction for SMB clients in DFW. Based in Dallas, Texas, Qoverage (pronounced kuhv-er-ij) provides complete IT support services throughout the DFW area. Qoverage specializes in utilizing technology to increase the productivity of your business. With our unique support methodology, Qoverage streamlines business processes and reduces your overhead costs.My role included: • Implementing operational policies, procedures, and best practices. • Actively maintaining client satisfaction. • Hands-on management of our service team of engineers. • Sales and marketing functions, serving existing clients as well as new opportunities. • Human resources and vendor management, as well as day-to-day business operations. • Recruiting, hiring, and training of all new team members.Selected Accomplishments:• Oversaw company growth from 2 employees and $300k annual revenue, to 7 employees and nearly $1 million in revenue.• Implemented all policies, procedures, and day-to-day operational processes, including training and documentation.

Dallas, Tx

Co-Host of the weekly radio show, Beer for Breakfast. Takes place at 8am every Friday morning, on 102.1 KDGE-FM in DFW, or it can be streamed live via www.kdge.com.Each week, Vydra and I talk craft beer, local events and happenings, and give our review on one craft beer.

Addison, Tx

Providing outsourced IT solutions and technology strategy to growing businesses ranging in size from 10 to 200+ employees. Specialized in B2B Sales to C-level executives, cold calling, prospecting, hunter mentality, generated my own pipeline and maintained quota throughout my tenure. Last month of employment I was 280% of quota. Salesforce.com and Sandler solution-sales trained, specialize in forming long-lasting relationships, closing the sale, and finding relevant prospects.Our focus is on strategic direction through technology, increasing sales per employee, productivity improvement, workflow process development, implementation of sales tracking tools (e.g. Salesforce.com), proactive monitoring and maintenance of computer systems and lifecycles, telephony, disaster recovery and business continuity planning, hosted technology platforms, cloud computing, colocation, IT budgeting and minimization, and other technology areas relevant to C-level and VP level financial decision makers.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration, Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta KappaFinal GPA: 4.0

Entrepreneurial And Small Business Operations

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa honors society, Alpha Zeta Omicron chapter at Cedar Valley College.Final GPA: 4.0

High School Diploma