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Nashville, TN, US

Dubuque, Iowa, United States

Market Director for this high-growth ISP providing fiber to the home and premise for residential and commercial customers throughout key markets in eastern Iowa. Responsibilities include aggressively growing customer base, executing on increasing brand-awareness strategies, and coalescing disparate operational functions around "win-as-one" culture.

Evaluate sales and operational processes for acquisition targets of contract hardware holding company

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Responsible for all aspects of this turnaround exclusive distributorship (with the intention of acquiring it) of Pella Windows & Doors for the state of Alabama. Acquisition did not go to fruition.- Improved on all of the customer metrics that Pella measures- Evaluated all employees for go-forward potential in a customer-centric environment - Relaunched.

Orlando, Florida Area

Dispenser Beverages is a "turn-key" supplier of dispensed beverages for the foodservice industry, providing product, equipment, and service to customers, primarily distributed by broad-line distributors. Dispenser Beverages produces, markets, and distributes innovative beverages under the Anthem, New World, and Bacolini brands.- Restructured sales team to.

Kansas City, MO

Diversified privately-held organizations with 5 distinct business units. - Developed metrics for specialty foods business to better track performance. - Developed new sales compensation plans to increase retention and better reward exceptional performance- Led divestiture of logistics business unit working closely with Houlihan-Lokey

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Midwest Wholesale Hardware is a national wholesale distributor of commercial door hardware operating out of six (6) strategically located facilities. Became President during economic downturn for non-residential construction. Accomplishments include:- Reorganized and restructured management team to better leverage individual's strengths- Implemented new.

Citrus Belle

Led the foodservice sales and business development for this $60 million subsidiary of agricultural giant, A. Duda & Sons. Primary responsibilities/accomplishments included:- Direct and manage relationship with Citrus Belle’s exclusive foodservice sales and marketing agent- Maintain strong relationship with SYSCO Foodservice corporate personnel, and ensure.

Southeast Region August 2002 – May 2006 Vitality Foodservice (currently Nestle-Vitality Professional) is a large ($250M) foodservice company engaged in the sales, distribution, and service of dispensed, non-carbonated beverage products and equipment. Took over under-performing Southeast Region after successfully leading the turnaround of the Midwest.

Assigned to turnaround Midwest Region, which had become beset with low morale, acute customer problems, and poor results.- P&L responsibility for $30M, 45 employee region, including sales, operations, and admin functionsWorked closely with region’s key distributors (14 SYSCO operating companies, Reinhart Foodservice, etc.) to improve critical, but damaged.

Recognized as “high-potential” employee, and moved from V.P. Human Resources into a line position to better prepare as business-unit head.- P&L responsibility for Mexican subsidiary - Evaluated and selected new distributors; managed existing distributor relationships- Evaluated product offerings for market-fit- Developed market penetration strategies in.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Finance

BS Finance