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Denver, Co

Responsible for all precast and tilt-up sales of General Shale thin brick products throughout the United States. Focus on providing precasters, architects, formliner manufacturers, and distributors with the advantages of our unique precast thin brick. Thin brick embedded into precast and tilt-up concrete panels reduces construction time, material and labor costs, and is more efficient than traditional full bed or thin brick walls laid on site. The result is a beautiful and realistic brick panel indistinguishable from field laid brick and mortar walls. General Shale offers four distinct styles of thin brick, ranging from rustic tumbled edge looks to antique styles and straight edge contemporary designer color products.

Denver, Co

National Sales Manager for paperboard concrete column forms, temporary flooring, and other construction products for nine converting plants throughout North America. Supervised 12 sales representatives with responsibility for profitability and sales of all construction products by partnering with hundreds of distributors in the US and Canada. Direct involvement in new product development, national marketing and pricing strategies, trade show representation, and employee training and motivation. - Drove sales from $10.3 million in 2010 to $14.5 million in 2014, a 41% increase.- Increased sales of largest national general construction supply distributor from three branches and $150,000 in 2004 to over 70 locations and $1.5 million in 2014.- Grew concrete column form national market share from 26% to 31% in the past three years, 2 1/2 times the annual increase of competitors.- Spearheaded company sales strategy and training for new product launch of reusable light pole template and temporary paperboard flooring.- Concrete column form segment contributed to the highest dollar per ton (60% more than average of all other tubes and cores) largest percent increase, and highest gross margin of any major Newark tube and core segment over the past five years.- Two time TALK (Teamwork, Accountability, Leadership, and Knowledge) company-wide Core Value award winner.

Denver, Co

Development of brand name, logo, market strategy, and literature for Newform Weather Shield, Newark's moisture resistant concrete column forms and primary construction product.- Serviced 130 construction product accounts in 20 states with sales totaling one out of every three NewForm concrete column forms sold by Newark.- Increased Newark Oshkosh, WI plant column form sales from $900,000 to $1.6 million in three years, a 74% increase.- Responsible for booth strategy, product displays, personnel, and logistics for annual World of Concrete, Concrete Canada, Green Build, and BUILDEX Vancouver trade shows.

Denver, Co

Grew Denver, CO plant tube and core packaging business from $2.9 million to $4.8 million, a 166% increase, adding customers in six additional states.- Acquired over 120 new customers for five different Newark plants representing more than $4 million in annual sales. - Brought in 75% of current total customer base and 80% of profit for Denver facility.