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Lead, protect and grow branch staffing business to record levels in top line sales and profitability. Responsible for branch P&L, leading a team of professionals plus temporary employees, cultivating customer relationships and creating jobs, managing branch operations, B2B sales and marketing, branding, customer service, talent acquisition, recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, training, disciplining, scheduling, dispatching, pricing, invoicing, collecting, weekly reporting, budgeting, forecasting, customer marketing statewide, employee payroll, customer certified payroll, workers’ comp claims, safety inspections, defending unemployment claims, purchasing, facility management, networking, teambuilding, coaching, and community service for temporary and temp-to-hire manpower. Wildly successful in building teams and growing branch sales to $2.2 million.

Home loan sales and value creation for homeowners, builders, realtors and corporate employees. Propelled corporate profits via closed loan sales volume approaching $20 million annually. Envisioned, created and implemented preferred builder marketing programs and employee benefits marketing programs for 9,000 public school employees plus 14,000 corporate employees designed to promote entire value offering at SunTrust and reduce costs for end user customers. Drove dramatic sales growth for Construction-Perm loans and catapulted branch sales production while making a positive difference in other people's lives.

Responsible for channel management at executive level for US licensed partners of KEVLAR® cut resistant fibers in industrial worker protection applications. Marketing lead for all aspects of customer value chain management including product marketing, pricing, advertising, sales promotion, selling and distribution, customer service, branding and licensing for the KEVLAR® brand. Member of a Global Business Team.

Balanced short-term and long-term supply and demand and optimized supply planning across multiple manufacturing assets for world's largest polyester films business with global sales of $2.0 billion while transitioning through a business acquisition and a joint venture. Member of a Global Business Team. Reduced customer lead times and improved on-time, in-full customer delivery and interfaced with all business cross-functions. Achieved "Class A" Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) certification for Business Excellence. Led two Six Sigma Green Belt project teams and was a contributing member of multiple Black Belt project teams. Earned MBA (4.0 GPA) while working full-time.

Served in multiple operations management roles plus value creation to capture and sell waste film led to customer account management/sales assignments. Boosted business revenue and asset utilization and reduced operating costs by optimizing MRP & MRP II processes for $1.4 billion polyester films business operating in continuous (24/7/365) manufacturing environment. Member of a Global Business Team.

Bachelor Of Science, Marketing Management And Business Management

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor SocietyGraduated with honors and earned a 4.0 GPA while working full-time at DuPont.