Christopher Trout Email & Phone Number

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

As the General Manager, I am responsible for the business development and growth of the company. My duties include but are not limited to, marketing, vendor relationships, new product development, and growth.SoundHorse Technologies manufactures and sells a specialized glue-on horseshoe for the equine industry. This horseshoe can be used in all equestrian disciplines at all levels - show-jumping, eventing, dressage, driving, cutting, endurance, reining, barrel racing, and sport racing.

Lexington, Ky, Us

Acting role as the Senior Project Manager and the Program Service Manager for Amazon Corporate

Lexington, Ky, Us

five years' experience as an acting global project management with field experience, covering over twenty foreign countries and projects in North America.Senior Project Manager for a global multi-million-dollar Department of Defense projects with the U.S. Marine Corp. and other projects for the U.S. Armed Forces.Program and Project Manager for a Multi-million-dollar Amazon Corporate relationship for Preventive Maintenance Progam and multi-million-dollar projects that covered Corporate initiative projects across 100+ Amazon locationsPM with global automotive manufacturing companies. (Toyota, Kia, Jaguar Land Rover, Ford)Experienced in all phases of workforce management and global contractor contract negotiations.Oversaw budgets for projects, tracked expenses, and timelines and communicated with key stakeholders on milestones.Maintained close connection with project personnel to quickly identify and resolve problems.Spearheaded project meetings with team members to discuss ongoing, planned, and recently completed projects.Forecasted, scheduled, and monitored project timelines, and cost-efficiencyMitigated site risks, auditing permit-to-work processes to ensure conditions adhered to regulatory compliance protocols.Built strong community relations with subcontractors and vendors to optimize cost savings and ensure timely completion.Reviewed contractor scope, material estimates, and pricing take-offs to optimize competitive bidding processes.Conducted technical and customer meetings to increase communication and strengthen internal and external relationships.

Lexington, Ky, Us

As an International Customer Advocate, my key role is to ensure that our company is fulfilling our commitments and promises to our customers and distributors in our international territories. As a cross-functional role, I resolve troublesome customer issues while identifying the root cause and at the same time balancing the financial realities and strategic goals of our companyMy goals are to address the immediate customer and distributor issues in a highly responsive manner, proactively identifying the root-cause while providing recommendations for resolution to prevent future issues from recurring. These goals are achieved by working with our team locally to resolve the issue and if required, a site visit is performed by me to meet our customers and address, correct, and resolve the issue while maintaining our relationship with the end-user. Additional, onsite training would be conducted to the customer and or distributor to help eliminate future issues that can be resolved.

Lexington, Ky, Us

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

•Responsible for assisting the project team, assigning responsibilities, and managing project schedule. Use resources to ensure timely completion of assigned projects.•Responsible for ordering and tracking a project's BOM along with ensuring the delivery and accuracy within the projects schedule. •Being the bridge of communication among team members, suppliers, vendors, and customers.•Forming supplier and vendor relationships to meet the project's budget and pricing on parts deliverable.•Developing the project schedule and plan to ensure timely completion of the project. Obtain management and client agreement with the project plan and timeline, and advice of any obstacles or resource needs that may affect completion of the project as planned.•Communicate project goals, monitor project progress, and adjust resources as necessary to keep a project on track.•Apply project management tools and tracking systems to manage all aspects of project process.•Tracking changes throughout the life of the projects and monitoring the gross profit. •Being a site presence to ensure status of projects and document project development.•Prepare and/or edit meeting minutes, presentations, schedules, and tables.•Responsible to track project changes and produces updated site based schedules as agreed with engineers, management, and customers.•Responsible for assisting and closing out each project while submitting the project's profit for invoicing.

•Act as Executive Manager to the owner and as a sales representative •Conduct measurements for price estimates and project quoting •Mediate and negotiate price estimates with real estate agents, contractors, builders, and home owners•Responsible for employees, accounts, inventory, and daily operations of business while maintaining customer satisfaction•Develop and implement marketing and sales strategies for continuous growth of the company •Responsible for payroll, insurance, company assists, and scheduling•Assist and oversee installation and completion of projects

Lexington, Ky, Us

Served on a team that provides an unbiased perspective of system installation, operation, and performance, and monitors all specified system service and training events for the construction industry. • Assists in engineering and construction projects totaling over 600 million dollars• Responsible for drafting, creating, and implementing tests on project-specific equipment to ensure proper installation and operation of systems• Extensive experience in testing equipment per ASHRAE, ACG and AABC standards and design intent• Routinely conducts phase completion inspections, factory service and off-season mode testing enforcement, observation and digitally recording of owner training• Mediates and resolves conflict between the Owner, Design Team, Construction Team, and Vendors• Attends progress and coordination meetings along with project scheduled events

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Entrepreneurial And Small Business Operations

International Business