Chris Marks Email & Phone Number

Independence, Mo, Us

♦ Responsible for Business and Brand development in the Outdoor Specialty market for entire United States for BBQ Smoker/Grill line including charcoal, sauces, rubs and flavored woods. ♦ Develop strategy and tactics for moving bbq products in to and out of dealer’s stores. ♦Created and maintained all social networking aspects of business through Face book, twitter, constant contact and blogging sites. ♦Taught BBQ Specialty dealers on how to get BBQ Grills/Smokers to the cash register and out the door by making the dealer the “Expert” in BBQ in their area. ♦Experienced instructor on Charcoal Smoker/Grills, Komodo, and all forms of Pellets smokers including gas and electric smokers and grills. ♦Worked directly with Smoker/Grill, Charcoal, and Seasoning manufactures on ordering, pricing and quality.

♦ Responsible for Business and Brand development in the Outdoor Specialty market for entire United States for BBQ Smoker/Grill line including charcoal, sauces, rubs and flavored woods. ♦ Develop strategy and tactics for moving bbq products in to and out of dealer’s stores. ♦ Developed and managed new line of sub-$1000.00 smokers with Chinese manufacturing from Cad drawing to completed and shipped product. ♦ Improved manufacturing process of current BBQ smoker line with new manufacture. ♦ Created (5) New BBQ Specialty rubs-seasonings for the BBQ Specialty Channel. ♦Responsible for the Promotion of the entire Good-One Smoker Line including the Three Little Pig’s Sauces and Seasonings. ♦Developed a complete BBQ Smoking and grilling class and training curriculum for dealers, manufacture reps and students, taught over (35) classes with over 1000 students in 2012. ♦Created a New Line of All-Natural BBQ Sauces and Seasonings for the grocery channel, now into over 1400 grocery stores across the United States. ♦Manage and acquired Manufacture Reps (BBQ Specialty) and Brokers (Grocery). ♦Created and maintained all social networking aspects of business through Face book, twitter, constant contact and blogging sites. ♦Taught BBQ Specialty dealers on how to get BBQ Grills/Smokers to the cash register and out the door by making the dealer the “Expert” in BBQ in their area. ♦Experienced instructor on Charcoal Smoker/Grills, Komodo, and all forms of Pellets smokers including gas and electric smokers and grills. ♦Worked directly with Smoker/Grill, Charcoal, and Seasoning manufactures on ordering, pricing and quality.♦ Designed a new Charcoal BBQ oven as a drop in for the Outdoor Kitchen sets for 2013.

2005-2008 General Manager IT Services:♦ Manage IT services for (3) manufacturing companies.♦ Develop long term budgeting and technical planning for current companies.♦ Install and configure server and network monitoring systems.♦ Develop outside consulting practice.♦ Mentor and train IT staff in account development.

Endicott, New York, Us

1996 -1999 Network/Storage Consultant: ♦ Research & Development of special projects involving software/hardware and implementation. ♦ Design & Implement WAN using IBM, Ascend & Cisco Routers. ♦ Design & Implement Microsoft and Novell Solutions. ♦ Call out support for Cisco and Microsoft clients ♦ On-site Consultant for Sprint Enabling Technologies. ♦ Network Administrator for Sprint Executives 1999- 2004 Network Solutions Design Architect: ♦ R & D of projects for Voice/Data/Internet local service pricing, forms, proposals and project costing. ♦ Engineering Consultant & Sales Support of WAN design: ISDN, FR, ATM, DSL, VPN’s. ♦ Develop Hardware and software solutions and create scopes of work to fit customer’s needs. ♦ Custom proposals, presentations and training. ♦ Project Manager for local & remote, multi-vendor projects. ♦ Architect for IBM Hardware including xSeris,FastT SAN solutions. ♦ Solution Architect for VMware, Microsoft, Veritias, Symantec and other applications. ♦ Sales Account responsibility for 48 SMB customers. ♦ Worked on a team that developed a Security and IDS managed services solution. ♦ Developed affiliate relationships with hardware and software venders. ♦ Supported 5 Account Representatives.

1983 – 1988 Field Service Engineer:♦ Installation and maintenance of mainframe dasd and tape systems. ♦ Consultant and Sales Support for IBM3270 equipment and solutions. ♦ Supervise multiple Engineers in testing, and installation of large system integrations. 1988- 1996 National Tech Support: ♦ Supported 5000 Field Engineers across the United States. ♦ Work with Engineering and Design departments on development of new features related to the market. ♦ Managed critical projects across the United States.

Eetd, Computer Technology

Business Administration