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Orlando, Florida Area

Expanding cost-effective marketing through multiple channels in multiple markets with concentration on Luxury and other vacation accommodation markets

Orlando, Florida Area

I am working with Professional Property Managers and other Vacation Accommodation Companies, who have the need to rent vacation inventory and improve their total revenue and yield. I am bringing their rental inventory into new non-traditional online rental channels, like HomeAway, Booking, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Expedia, Ctrip and others. These are exciting.

Orlando, FL

Collaborating with the Customer Solutions Group to expand the depth and breadth of advisory services available to the resort, vacation, and travel industries.

As consultant, helped in developing global marketing and sales strategies.

Three-year Contract position. Process Reengineering of entire marketing and sales process and operation.

Designed and Executed marketing programs with emphasis on win-win-win campaigns with partners that had no incremental cost to any of the parties and delivered large increases in sales revenues for all parties.

Leadership of Sales Operations, IT, In-house sales, telecommunications and contract processing, billing and collections and securitization of notes.

Work-out situation: Leadership of marketing, sales, finance, accounting, IT, and contracting for five product lines across two geographic areas.

Led the design and development of computer applications, networks, and system implementations including J.D. Edwards deployment, acquisition of the equipment for customers services, and the design and development of the Disney Vacation Club processes, systems and legal structure.

Orlando, FL

Started-up major new business for Disney. I developed a stream of alternative uses for Club Points including negotiation of major arrangements with the Disney World and Euro-Disney management teams.

Led the entire redesign and development of the company's core operating system and deployed that system globally from Japan to South Africa. Served as largest AT&T customer in the Midwest and one of the largest buyer of IBM mainframes. Led 160 programmers and an IT operating budget of $8Mil.

Manager over 13 reservations offices, 90 ticket offices, and related sales. One of the lead designers and developers of APOLLO, one of the two major industry reservations systems used by airlines and travel agents.

Leader of the only standing committee in the airline wih members representing every area of the airline. Job was to improve the operating performance of the airline and my team achieved the highest three years of operation performance in the history of the company. Reported directly to the President of the company and reported on airline issues and.

Mba, Marketing & Economics

Had some of the greatest learning experiences of my life - top professors, pragmatic applications of the latest theories of economics and.

Bs, Math

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, intramural football and softball, various volunteer projectsPhi Kappa Sigma.