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At BRES, LLC, my leadership has been pivotal in steering diverse commercial and vacation rental real estate ventures, as well as driving various portfolio-owned small businesses towards success. Previously, as the Executive Director at the Blind Center of Nevada, I was able to convert one of Las Vegas' oldest charities into a modern, successful organization. My team and I saved this wonderful, but bankrupt organization by using sound business principles. We revamped both community and member relations. Transformed in-house businesses into profitable entities--doing so while employing members of the blind community. We reinvented member programs including creating a blind Rock Band--Broken Spectacles--creating a culinary school for people who are blind and an associated event and catering business. Our team's work transformed the charity into a self-sufficient entity and significantly advanced the center's visibility and mission. Both Blind Center membership and "donorship" grew exponentially. Prior to the Blind Center of Nevada, I was part of an executive team at Axius--a consumer product company which we had grown and sold. This small group of company leaders left Axius to found a real estate development company--Blue Marble Development. I served as the Sr. Vice President of Blue Marble Development with a focus on marketing, product design, financing, construction and so forth. Our main project was a $350M mixed-use community in Las Vegas we called Paxton Walk. This amazingly designed 38-acre community consisted of condos, townhomes, office and retail. When the real estate market crashed we were forced to moth-ball Paxton Walk and turned our efforts to buying and completing half-built multi-family housing projects.At Axius Consumer Products, I played a lead role in turning a small $12M company into a $186M industry leader. In the position of VP, Marketing & Product Development we grew the company with a disruptive, new, break-through strategy and drove the company to amazing heights by working fast, creating excellent, fashion-forward new products, and fighting off foreign competitors.Starting on the Sales Team at Axius, I helped build relationships with Wal*Mart, Target, Kmart, and others. When I was tasked with creating and running a Marketing Department I continued in my role with the Sales Team and together we drove amazing growth through creative strategies, innovative new products, analytics, target marketing and strong retailer relationships. We delivered!

Listed skills include Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Budgets, Leadership, and 34 others.