As a Partner with VA, I've spent much more time focusing on internal growth strategies, establishing various subsidiaries, and enabling clients to break through their ceilings to achieve great things. I've taken on a major leadership role managing a team of consultants, taking the lead on various client engagements, and pushing to solve some of the biggest issues that companies face today.

At VargasAndrews, we exist to transform businesses and business owner's lives. During my time as a Senior Consultant with VA, I learned everything from HR policy creation to financial forecasting and analysis. I worked side-by-side with companies in the cannabis, SaaS, manufacturing, and professional services industries. I created a 5-year financial forecast for a SaaS company that helped to secure $2M in funding, put together strategic plans for a post-merger integration project, and created an in-depth feedback process for executive level leaders.

Co-founded VTS with the partner team at VargasAndrews to help businesses find exceptional talent for fractional costs.

Investments in:Oil/Gas ProjectsCryptocurrency Mining OperationsB2B SaaS Platforms

I help people get what they want from their businesses. I do that by providing a complete system with simple tools to help you do 3 things we call Vision, Traction, Healthy.Vision simply means getting your team 100% on the same page with where your organization is going and how it is going to get there.Traction means helping your team become more disciplined and accountable, executing really well to achieve every part of the Vision.Healthy means establishing a functional, cohesive, fun-loving team.

-Worked directly with the Founder/CEO to create a 5-year 3-way financial forecast utilizing embedded assumptions and historical analysis-Produced a 40+ page deck including product level financial detail, CAP table, and various OPEX forecasts-Provided basis to aid in the capture of a multi-million dollar investment from a venture firm

-Led the post merger integration team on a $5.8M acquisition-Managed 50+ projects over the course of 6 months-Reduced overall potential liability by over $2M

I am still working hard, having fun and making history, but I'm in a brand new building. In January of 2018, I was pulled to join a brand new team to launch the largest building in the Amazon Operations Network with the capability of storing over 35 million units. It has over 20 miles of conveyance, enough steel to build the Eiffel Tower twice, four floors of over 3,000 autonomous robots and the capability to process over 1 million customer shipments in a 24 hour period.

Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History. This is the overall motto earth's most customer-centric company lives by. As an area manager at a new Amazon Robotics Quick Deploy facility, I have experienced all three of these facets during my tenure here. On a day to day basis, I am responsible for more than 50 associates' productivity and quality metrics, ensuring planned volumes are met and fulfilling customer experiences. This means coaching bottom performers to succeed, auditing quality defects to eliminate process barriers, structuring staffing to meet volume needs and utilizing a multitude of tools to track shipments as they move throughout the facility. These, combined with the rest of the responsibilities I have on a daily basis, make for a fast-paced environment that requires the ability to properly prioritize tasks and react quickly to major changes. Customer centricity doesn't always mean focusing on the end customer. It is also important to ensure the front line employees, the associates, are in an environment where they can succeed. This means ensuring all processes are safe, standardized and easy to follow. It also means constantly engaging the team to identify barriers, successes and talent that can be developed. Being a part of a leadership team at a new ARQD (Amazon Robotics Quick Deploy) facility is in itself making history. As a team, we are traveling a path in Amazon Operations that has never been travelled before. There are many nuances and challenges we encounter along the way that require a sense of creativity to overcome. This has provided me the opportunity to create new standards and processes that have been established building wide.

PhatRice Limited is a start-up e-commerce venture located in the heart of Hong Kong. They focus on connecting inspirational product developers with inspired buyers all over the world, enabling these developers to make a sustainable positive impact in these three areas: social good, environmental good, and design creativity. I worked under the product manager, researching and contacting various product developers and distributors to possibly add their line of products to the company's product catalog. I also assisted in editing and uploading product information using the Magento e-commerce platform. In addition, I attended various events and trade shows to aid in data collection and marketing. Throughout all these experiences, I gained a vast amount of knowledge concerning specialized B2B partnerships, entrepreneurial strategy and e-commerce marketing tactics.

During my time as a RZ Specialist at the Apple Retail Store in Syracuse, NY I assisted the sales team in attaining over $1,000,000 in product sales as well as created connections with many business clients in the central New York area. I have also assisted the inventory team in doing stock counts, delivering merchandise to customers, and creating merchandise return lists. Apple is dedicated to providing the best retail experience for it's customers and has taught me many customer service techniques that I use on a daily basis to increase overall customer satisfaction. My interactions with customers have also led to creating full solutions for their personal lifestyles or their professional business needs.

I was hired at the Philippine Seven Corporation as a summer intern to aid in their e-commerce project research. While interning for this company I did domestic and international e-commerce research with a team of interns to develop possible e-commerce opportunities and tactics within the Philippines. At the end of the internship my team and I presented our findings to the CEO and the lead MIS manager with information for surrounding countries' e-commerce platforms and possible modes of entry into Philippine e-commerce. It was a very enriching experience to conduct research on e-commerce in a developing country. To see different social patterns and lifestyle decisions that the general population made and how it differed from the normalities in the United States. Our research also shed light on how different other cultures and societies can react to business decisions made internationally.