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Responsible for establishing and managing a sales network across multiple outdoor markets with a combination of manufacturer representatives and direct sales team. Developing a market for a new product category technology with OEM partners to help them differentiate their product offerings.

Digital wide format printer specializing in promotional decals for manufacturers in the outdoor market and wildlife conservation groups.• Increased sales by over 250%, company has been operating since 2000.• Expanded to new outdoor market categories by attending industry shows and acquiring databases.• Oversaw modernization of equipment and operational processes to increase productivity by over 100%• Added a new product category that now accounts for the highest sales volume.• Responsible for facility move to location arranged for a more productive operational workflow.• Entered garment decorating industry and now makes up 20% of overall sales. • Implemented new garment decorating method that offers more material versatility and vibrancy of design. This method now makes up the majority of the decorating orders. • Joined ASI distributor to offer more promotional items to our outdoor manufacturing clients without adding any additional internal production. • Implementation of the companies first CRM software system - Salesforce

- Right hand man to owner and founder. Involved in all high level meetings and strategy planning on how to grow the company to be a significant player in the industry.- Positioned company for strategic sale by maximizing sales performance and exceeding sales and profitability forecasts.- Set up and managed manufacturer representative firms and regional sales managers to cover all of North and South America from scratch. This sales network was critical to achieve the $2M to $25M growth.- Managed sales, operations and finance for the Americas right up until sale to public company.- Involved in new product development by systematically gathering industry product needs and demands from sales channels then bringing them to the President and R&D. This process was instrumental in developing a particular product that became the high volume piece for five straight years as well as many other successful products.- After sale to public company was promoted from Vice President of the Americas to Global Vice President.- Directed global OEM accounts management and development that brought in the largest customer in company history.- Managed global sales force and distribution with locations on five continents.- Setup a new distribution and sales model for Asia that better fit the new management decision to close all Asian support offices. Resulted in better sales management performance and increased their ability to be proactive.

Oversaw a wide variety of tasks that include the computation of unbilled revenue, preparation of monthly operating business financial statements, review of the international business entries, posting of operating data to the companies data warehouse and recording of stock option activity. Responsible for the analysis of the monthly operating revenue and statistical statements. As well as the redesign and completion of the annual cost allocation studies. Member of the successful finance system consolidation team tasked with combining the financial systems of the merged utility companies.