PAPA & The Bandit RV Life Is a docu-travel production. This genre of video is called Nomad Life. The Bandit & I travel the Western US in search of 70° weather and interesting locales. We do this in our 32' class C RV, in which we live full-time, shooting video, editing and posting to YouTube & Facebook for the entertainment of those interested. Watch an episode or two and give me your feedback. Happee Trails!

Provided safe and secure ground transportation for the world's most important people. People like: King of Saudi Arabia, Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, US Defense Sec Robert Gates, Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon, US Treas Sec Timothy Geithner. And celebrities like Eddie Vedder, Dave Matthews, Kenny Rogers, Tim Robbins, and dozens more.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT: Founder of with full responsibility for this multi-media 6 year old publishing company; Created and published magazines in print, compact disk (cd), portable document format (pdf) and multiple websites reaching tens of thousands wanting social infrastructure information about Greater Seattle; Created and managed company vision, mission, organization, operations & performance, products & services, staffing & training, marketing & sales, client & community relations, synergy networks in social media and physical networking events; Represented company to clients, distributors and organizations including dozens of chambers and service organizations; Served 1200 companies, advertisers and/or distributors including Microsoft, Seattle Mariners, King County Libraries;MARKETING MANAGEMENT: Created and managed marketing staff of 5 with creative and production components; Responsible for corporate marketing including: Brand Development, logos, slogans, message; Image Development, web, cds, magazines; Media Management- strategy, implementation, market mix, channel emphasis, print, outdoor, broadcast, web, social media, public relations, networking; Company Advertising- architecture, campaign development, theme, image, message, and vendor contracts; Client Advertising- Performed and supervised consultants in program development of client advertising programs (see sales management);SALES MANAGEMENT: Created sales department including prospect database, sales strategy, presentation, sales visuals, rate card, contracts and media kit; Created, taught, managed and performed consultative sales process for developing comprehensive client advertising programs for web sites, cds and magazines; Included competitive analysis, multiple market integration, vertical and horizontal development, graphics design, message development and design, advertising contract negotiation, ROI tracking management; Created and managed a portfolio of 120 advertisers and $500,000;

GENERAL MANAGEMENT: Responsible for the overall administration of this $150 million, 157,000 member non-profit youth sports organization, along with the President and 1st Vice President of Administration; Member of the three person Executive Board and 14 person Board of Directors; WSYSA exclusive representative to the USSF authorized State Referee Committee; Sole responsibility for supervision of marketing, communications and special events departments including all aspects of image, branding, media, advertising, publications, print and electronic; Included total restructure of all information and communications vehicles, newspaper, web site and instructional manuals; Companies served include NW Ford Dealers, Washington State Dept. of Health, United States Soccer Federation; Asked to run for President;MARKETING MANAGEMENT: Responsible for marketing functions and 5 person marketing department with creative and production components including: Brand Development, logos, slogans, message; Image Development, print, electronic; Special Events- Soccer Fair, annual meetings, Communications- media requests, public service announcements; Publications- development & management, newspaper, web, instructional manuals; Media Management- strategy, implementation, market mix, channel emphasis, print, outdoor, broadcast, web, public relations, networking; Company Advertising- theme, image, message, architecture, campaign development, vendor contracts; Client Advertising- Performed and supervised staff in program development of client advertising programs (see sales management);SALES MANAGEMENT: Created, taught, managed and performed consultative sales process for developing comprehensive client advertising programs in newspaper, web site and instructional manuals; Included competitive analysis, multiple market integration, vertical and horizontal development, graphics design, message development and design, contract negotiation and ROI tracking management;

GENERAL MANAGEMENT: Founder of and full responsibility for the new Greater Seattle division of this $100 million, multi-national publishing company; Created and published three new highly innovative, multi-featured, major yellow pages directories; Created and managed district vision, mission, organization, operations & performance, products & services, staffing & training, marketing & sales, and client & community relations; Created and trained staff of 25 in 2 months including sales, office and creative staff; Represented company to clients and organizations including dozens of chambers and service organizations; Served Southwest Plumbing & Heating, Briggs & Briggs, Sherrif Insurance and more; Won International Association of Directory Publishers award for Best Small Market Directory for Gig Harbor with first issue; Surpassed all company goals to become most profitable division; Featured speaker national convention; Offered Regional VP; Offered National Sales Mgr;MARKETING MANAGEMENT: Managed all marketing functions including: Media Management- strategy, implementation, market mix, channel emphasis, print, outdoor, broadcast, web, public relations, networking; Company Advertising- architecture, campaign development, theme, image, message and vendor contracts; Client Advertising- Performed and supervised consultants in program development of client advertising programs (see sales management);SALES MANAGEMENT: Created, taught, managed and performed consultative sales process for developing comprehensive multi-media client advertising programs; Included competitive analysis, multiple market integration, vertical and horizontal development, graphics design, message development and design, contract negotiation and ROI tracking management; Developed & managed a portfolio of 1,000 accounts and $2,000,000; Created an award winning team of 20 that broke all company records for sales and profits in 6 months;

Performed consultative sales process for developing comprehensive multi-media client advertising programs for this Fortune 1,000, $1.6 billion, multi-national publishing company; Included competitive analysis, multiple market integration, vertical and horizontal development, graphics design, message development and design, contract negotiation and ROI tracking management; Quickly became the sales leader of my team and created over $1,000,000 in personal sales while pursuing a senior management position; Developed & managed a portfolio of 500 accounts and $1,000,000; Offered Regional Vice President of PDC;

GENERAL MANAGEMENT: General Manager responsibility for this 12 year old publisher; Created and managed company vision & mission, organizational & business development, products & services development, marketing-sales, client & community relations; Created and trained staff of 20 in 2 months including sales, office and creative staff; Developed and managed a portfolio of 500 accounts & $1,000,000; MARKETING MANAGEMENT: Brand Development, logos, slogans, message; Image Development, print, electronic; Publications- development & management, military yellow pages; Media Management- strategy, implementation, market mix, channel emphasis, print, outdoor, broadcast, web, public relations, networking; Company Advertising- architecture, campaign development, theme, image, message contracts; Client Advertising- Performed and supervised consultants in development of client advertising programs (see sales management);SALES MANAGEMENT: Created, taught, managed and performed consultative sales process for developing comprehensive multi-media client advertising programs for military directories and yellow pages; Included competitive analysis, multiple market integration, vertical and horizontal development, graphics design, message development and design, contract negotiation and ROI tracking management; Created and trained sales department of 12 in 2 months; Created record new business sales of $500,000 and more than 250 new customers;

For my ten years with this company I held several titles and many responsibilities simultaneously: sales, manager, trainer, marketing, public relations and more.GENERAL MANAGEMENT: Regional responsibility for the Western Region of this for this $250 million, multi-national company; Supervised a team and portfolio that managed $15 million annually; 8 managers, 7 secretaries, 100 consultants’ 6 markets and 100,000 businesses annually; Managed market vision, mission, operations, performance, infrastructure, process development of organization & business, products & services, staffing & training and marketing & sales; Represented company to clients and organizations including dozens of chambers and service organizations; Surpassed all company goals to become most profitable division; Offered Arizona Regional Manager;MARKETING MANAGEMENT: Responsible for regional marketing including: Media Management- Strategy, implementation, market mix, channel emphasis, print, outdoor, broadcast, web, public relations, networking; Company Advertising- Architecture, campaign development, theme, image, message; Client Advertising- Performed and supervised consultants in program development of client advertising programs (see sales management);SALES MANAGEMENT: Created and managed market penetration strategy, all marketing plans, compensation programs, territory management methods; Created, taught, managed and performed consultative sales process for developing comprehensive multi-media client advertising programs for district managers, consultants and for clients for yellow pages advertising; Included competitive analysis, multiple market integration, vertical and horizontal development, graphics design, message development and design, contracts and ROI tracking management; Daily supervision of a management team that created a portfolio of $15 million and 100,000 businesses annually; Surpassed all goals to be most profitable region; Promoted to National Test Pilot;

For 5 of my ten years with this company I was the all-time company sales record holder and six-time national sales leader of 300 advertising consultants. Annually sold 400-500 contracts and over $ 2 million, twice as much as the #2 sales person. Asked to pioneer a project to innovate a new method of selling yellow pages and Internet advertising to the company’s clients. Led a team of four senior executive advertising consultants with the responsibility to sell what fifty-five sales reps had sold the prior year. The team exceeded all company goals and the project plan was implemented company wide. Offered Seattle Area Regional Manager position.#1 National Sales Leader (2002) TransWestern Publishing. Purchased by Yellow BookWorld Pages.com. #1 National Sales Leader (2001) Purchased by TransWestern PublishingYP Tel. #1 National Sales Leader (2000) Purchased by WorldPages.comPacific Coast Publishing.#1 National Sales Leader (1993, 1994, 1999) Rookie of the Year Sales Leader (1992) Purchased by YP Tel