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Dubuque, Ia, Us

Peosta, Ia, Us

Hosted by Northeast Iowa Community College the NICC-Iowa Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provide free, confidential, customized business advice to a 7 county area in Northeast Iowa. • Responsible for overseeing America's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in Northeast Iowa, offering personalized and confidential business counseling to small business owners and entrepreneurs in Iowa who are looking to start or grow their businesses. • Manages, directs, and supervises the activities and personnel of the Small Business Development Center, maintains budget, and markets and promotes SBDC business services. • Provides an integral part of the efforts and activities of economic development in Northeast Iowa, along with municipalities in the nine counties it serves.• Coordinates entrepreneurial programs and partners with key stakeholders throughout the nine-county region.• Created Dubuque’s first co-working center for entrepreneurs through Startup Dubuque.

• Elected official leading the Dubuque County Government as part of a 3-member board. Voted Chair of the Board in the first year of service.• Established and executed a shared vision for the County. Developed initiatives and plans that resulted in unprecedented accomplishments and results for the community.• Responsible for establishing, reviewing budget requests, appropriating funds, setting county tax levies, enacting ordinances, filling employee vacancies, and supervising the day to day activities of the county. • Supervised over 20 county departments, a workforce of 400 county employees and managed a $70 million annual budget.• Initiated new projects, both infrastructure and service based each year resulting in significant improvement in the experiences of the public.• Numerous public appearances and public speaking roles on behalf of Dubuque County.

Dubuque, Iowa, Us

• Co-founder of software start-up company Cartegraph, which grew to become an industry leading software provider. Cartegraph was acquired by OpenGov in 2022 and continues to serves the local government market.• Collaborated with co-founders to create a business plan, go-to market strategy, create software products and assemble a talented team. • Responsible for leadership of sales and marketing divisions who organically acquired over 2,000 clients in the state and local government markets; Established and executed sales and marketing plans and objectives resulting in over 75 million dollars in revenue.• Managed and led a team of 20 plus sales professionals, marketing managers and administrative employees.• Created and co-managed CarteGraph Partnership program. Provided lead account management of partner relationships.• Fostered an open, creative environment, consistently providing mentoring and professional development of employees.• Executive authority of multi-million dollars in divisional expenditures.

Dubuque, Ia, Us

• Provided sales management and leadership expertise resulting in rapid growth in client acquisition and sales revenue. During five-year sales management period, Eagle Point employee count increased from 7 to 160 and revenues grew from less than 1 million dollars to 14 million dollars annually, resulting in an IPO on Nasdaq.• Responsible for managing sales team that included 5 direct reports and 70 down-line employees.• Provided technical software demonstrations nationwide to management, engineering, IT and CAD professionals.

Waterloo, Ia, Us

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