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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

A holding company that helps to develop and cultivate it's portfolio of game industry companies and partners. Primary role is to coordinate the day to day activities, reporting,and develop the long range planning to achieve the goals set out by the ownership.Work to develop a productive forward thinking culture within the company so that it cancontinue to grow.• Helped to develop the companies one year plan, five year plan, and ten year plan.• Guided ownership to focus on growing within and achieving growth through simple changes tocompany culture.• Continue to expand the use of analytics throughout the company and teaching key members howto use that information to move forward.• Works to expand the holding portfolio of the company and create new partnerships that will cultivate the gaming industry.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Consulting to grow the Tabletop gaming community for Sidequests Game Lounge & Bar in Raleigh, NC. Worked with ownership to create strategies for the cultivation of an active gaming community with the parameters of being profitable while maintaining a non-judgmental safe game space for everyone.Within the first six months, developed a healthy gaming community of over fifty players, 60% having never played prior, and eight Dungeon Masters. We have just started a Dungeon Master's 101 class to teach the basics of running the game to many of our new players so that we can continue to cultivate the growth of the community and the hobby in Raleigh.

Apex, Nc

Launched in 2016, Project Game Hunter was initially a supplemental eCommerce division of Dropzone,Inc. Today it is an independent operation that focuses on selling new and used gaming and hobbysupplies to a Global audience. Focused the company on the idea of treating our online clients as wewould expect to be treated, or better!• Developed the PGH Packing system to streamline the speed and efficiency of packing and shipping orders to maximize profits through improving client relations.• Oversees Google Analytics to maximize our reach to new clients. Identified, negotiated, and nowwork with several Social Media Influencers to help spread our brand to other hobbyist globally.• Systems and Marketing has resulted in a sustained net growth of 83% over the last 2 years.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Hired to help develop the direct to retail business for the manufacturer. Worked with Ownership and it's Board with best practices advisement, as well as introduced them to various standard business concepts, KPI's, SOP, etc. Worked to bring this Mom and Pop organization into becoming a corporate leader in its industry. ● Helped develop the direct to retail business model with the Director of Sales. ● Provided consult to the Director of Sales in the day to day operation.● Worked with Independent Retailers to develop their businesses to either introduce their clients or grow their Privateer Press sales within their store.● Provided analytics of sales and offered financial guidance and recommendations to the Ownership. ● Developed systems with the Director of Sales that increased overall sales and profitability.● Identified and began the negotiation process to improve shipping costs that resulted in over 80% savings of overall shipping charges.● Identified some key weak points within the business and advised plans of action to correct.

Maryland

Developed the EZ Ventures method of identifying, acquiring, rehabbing, and reselling distressed houses. Found win/win situations in which we could buy ugly houses to make them beautiful new homes for families. Streamlined the entire process of buy, fix and sell to maximize profits. Coordinated and worked with up to 200 employees to accomplish turning over our products as quickly as possible.● Negotiated with homeowners, creating win/win scenarios that allowed for maximum profits● Worked with business partners to create a plan of action for rehabilitating the property for resale.● Coordinated and negotiated contracts with Contractors and Installers to maximize profits and logistics● Created and executed Project Timelines, Gantt Charts, and Budgets for each project and for the overallbusiness.● Grew business from the initial $3000 investment into over $2m in assets within first 5 years with overall Sales of $25m

Maryland

Orchestrated daily operations as well as long term planning for a premier hobby and game shop. Offered space for gaming, painting and hobbying of toy soldiers and other games. Became one of the largest Game Shops in the Mid-Atlantic region within 3 years of launch. In addition, innovated the change to the classic Hobby Shop into a full on Community by creating full service hobby supply, "place to play", and hobby stations. Our model has been copied by stores across North America and as far away as Australia and Europe.● Attracted Investors in order to launch the business.● Cultivated relationships with suppliers to maximize profits and improve supply chains.● Built daily sales team of specialized members who could maximize the growth of our community.● Helped to develop the gaming community through strategic planning of events, staffing, and environment.● Created monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets for the business

Offer wide-ranging consulting services to clients in the retail, wholesale, web development, and realestate investment markets. We also provide virtual assistant and 24/7 Live Operator Phone services to private investors and small to mid-sized businesses. We developed relationships with Real Estate Investing Educators to help them provide training online and through social media.● Developed business support products for small businesses such as 24/7 phone services, virtualassistants, and automated websites for lead capture.● Helped to create an SaaS program for Real Estate Investor Educators, allowing them to sell theironline courses, programs, and training through our system.● Worked with local businesses to help improve their store layouts, staffing issues, and onlinepresence.● Offered Real Estate Investors and Realtors real time private property leads.● Offered education in maximizing SEO and Social Media in business development.

Pioneered daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual sales and profit for North American business reporting function, including synchronizing a complex network of sales and accounting systems to ensure accurate data. Acted as liaison between the sales division and accounting departments. Researched and identified growth and streamlining activities, directing 3-15 people as needed for projects. Met with company CEO to present sales breakdowns and offer insight on data.● Identified $2.5M in unaccounted for sales in company's accounting system.● Formulated Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to enable regional businesses to monitor success.● Helmed project to create and implement a data warehouse system to facilitate reporting and understanding of business after making initial proposal to CEO.● Created an informational dashboard for use by executive management to monitor business divisions.● Reconciled the general ledger to match sales figures.

Orchestrated daily functions of regional sales division, including inside sales, outside sales force management, and the coordination of regional retail store operations. Supervised 5 direct and 63 indirect employees. Won approval of a proposal to regionalize company business, writing the business plan, assembling telesales and outside sales teams, and building an effective retail business. Expanded into Latin America market, writing annual business plan for and directing the daily operations of company's trade division. Re-organized trade business to maximize sales and personnel potential. Motivated, trained, and mentored 4 regional managers. Met with factory managers, brand managers, and design studio to determine releaseschedules, projected supply quantity requirements, and promotional schedules for new products. Submitted daily,monthly, and quarterly reports to the board of directors. Accountable for divisional profit and loss.. Conferred with inside regional managers to review day's objectives and conducted training twice weekly. Monitored daily sales, handled warehouse and shipping issues, and assisted outside salesmen with scheduling and other concerns.● Generated $2M in profit through the Latin American market.● Boosted sales growth by 18% through the identification and negotiation of a deal with the one of the largest hobby store chain nationwide.● Tripled division's annual sales revenue up to $80M from $25M.● Developed an outside sales "strike" force to fuel sales in declining region, achieving a net positive 23% growth.● Upped sales and production by organizing self-development training camps to improve staff skills.

Overachieved sales goals through sales staff management and evaluations and the successful creation and fulfillment of a comprehensive sales plan. Supervised 5 account managers. Ensured timely product shipping in collaboration with the accounting and shipping departments. Originated a “daily sales” tracking system to enable sales team to track sales. Created weekly training schedule subsequently adopted by other regional managers. • Grew east coast sales by 35% over previous year.• Transformed sales team into motivated, high-energy, competitive workforce.