Financial specialists analyze financial information and develop financial strategies. They provide financial advice, develop financial models, and assess financial risk.

Provide professional personal finance support to Fort Carson service members and their families on active duty and reserve status. Coordinate key resource facilitators and deliver personal financial services through: • Face-to-Face financial counseling: Face-to-Face contacts to support and educate individual and families to help address specific needs, including provision of appropriate resource materials.• Financial Planning workshops: Facilitate workshops with approximately designed to promote awareness and educate Service Members and their families on various personal finance topics.• Resource Referrals: Provide additional resources through community relationships to provide appropriate resources on all areas of personal finance.

*Provided services to transitioning Service Members and their Family Members with resume assistance. *referred to job fairs/openings, and referrals to resources readily available to assist in their successful transition. * Workshop Facilitator *Assisted Service Members with referrals to both on-post and off-post service providers and employers. *Assisted in training of fellow team members.

Leadership role, responsible for representing Pioneer Services in the Colorado Springs market. Reintroduce Pioneer into the market after a 3-year absence. Goals are to improve the financial well-being of service members and military families, growing the company customer base with the products and services offered.• Driving business to office in doing so achieved 135% of target for 2 years in a row• Increasing customer base by 42%

Financial Coach: the coach is there to provide support, encouragement, accountability and resources as you define and move toward your goals. Financial Coaches provide regular one-on-one sessions in order to link your goals and value to your financial dream, create an action plan and track progress towards the goals mutually set by you and your Financial Coach.• Laid the frame work for the roll out of the program • Started with zero clients and ended with 87 in a 10-month period goal of 50 in 12 months.

Omni Financial of Colorado/Colorado Springs CO August 2014 – May 2015General Manager, direct operations in the loan production office with a portfolio in excess of $6 million and staffed by four employees. Establish an environment of teamwork, enthusiasm, and dedication to customer satisfaction. Oversee branch-wide compliance with industry standards, and company policies to grow to loan portfolio. Conduct collections activities as needed to maintain profitability of the office.

Maximize sales and expand market share to increase overall profitability of Merchant Business for the Company as related to the military customer being severed.• By researching, contacting signing up qualified merchants added over 55 new businesses to the company in a six month period.• By contacting existing merchants had an increase of 30% in applications and a growth of 6% in the portfolio for the company in a six month period• By training of current and new merchants in the application and booking process showed a drop of 35% in incoming calls to the center for assistant.• By analyzing the merchant enrollment process and making changes dropped the average time from 30 days to 10 days to complete the process.

Managed and provided overall direction for three retail loan production offices that have a combined loan portfolio of $40 million. Recruited and hired managers and team members, handled employee relations issues, evaluated individual performance, and resolved performance deficiencies.• Increased area debt protection sales by 20% in six months. • Coached Fort Drum Branch to achieve reducing the loan application error rate within the company target goal and coached the Fort Riley Branch to perform under the target error rate for the year.• Successfully completed compliance training for all three branches within required time limit.Directed operations in a retail loan production office with a portfolio in excess of $19 million and staffed by four employees. Established environment of teamwork, enthusiasm, and dedication to customer satisfaction. Oversaw branch-wide compliance with banking regulations, industry standards, and company policies. • Initiated personnel changes that replaced under-performing assistant manager and financial services representative with highly-qualified and productive candidates.• Discovered two programs (petty cash and referral gift cards) that were non-compliant with bank policies and procedures – immediately took steps to bring both programs into full compliance.• Recruited numerous new referral merchants who consistently referred customers to the branch

PFC in support of the yellow ribbon program for returning service members.

Develop and train employees in operations of a travel center with sales in excess of 15 million per year. Maintain store inventory to meet the demands of the customers and complete all store reporting and banking transactions per company policy.

Train over 600 employees in the South East region in new technology in the convenience store field. Completed rollout of computer based training to 210 stores under budget saving $50,000 and 45 days before deadline. Regional managers point of contact for all human resource and payroll needs.

• Director of Personnel for 120+ employees, including benefits enrollment, payroll 401(k) administrator and employee records management. Development of training material and employee handbook.• Setup drug testing program new to the company and completed gas cash and merchandise audits during the purchase of 8 stores

• Implemented training programs for Store Manager and Assistants Managers with the tools to succeed in the daily store operations.• Conduct Assistant Manager Certifications through classroom and hands on training.• Increase sales 15% in 12 months by eliminating out of stock conditions and maintained inventory levels over $250,000 with losses less than 1% adding $2500 per month to the bottom line.• Direct and supervise 23 employees with store sales volume over $1 million per month.

Quality Control Manager / Fort Rucker , AlabamaOverseeing 24 individual repair shops supporting over 800 fixed a rotor-wing aircraft. Liaison between US Army and Civilian contractor performing the work.Production Control Manager / Seoul South KoreaSupervised 45 military personnel in the completion of multilevel maintenance on 25 UH 60 (Blackhawk) helicopters valued in excess of $200 million. Maintained an operational readiness level of 87%, minimum Army standard requires 70%. Completed daily/monthly computer reports to superiors with zero deficiencies.Human Resource/Training Manager/TAC Officer Fort Rucker, AlabamaSupervised, evaluated, Counseled and provided for the welfare of over 1100 military services members.Pilot in Command/ Mainz GermanyAH-1S Cobra Attack Helicopter flying border patrol of East West Germany