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Mountain View, Ca, Us

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Santa Clara, California, Us

Our mission is to connect the diamond, gemstone, and jewelry industry on the CaratX platform, while reducing the costs for stakeholders. We save businesses more of their hard-earned cash by giving sellers, brands, retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, dealers, brokers & independents a technology-packed marketplace to buy and sell to customers around the globe.

Iowa City, Us

Chico, Ca, Us

Built a supply chain with a select group of diamond/gem manufacturers in India and imported jewelry products into the US. Connected with local jewelers, designers and independents to set, design and sell products.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

SUMMARY: Manage sales of the company’s core products and services within a defined fgeographic area. Ensure consistent, profitable growth in sales revenues through positive planning; deployment; management and support of sales/support personnel.Identifies objectives, strategies, and action plans to improve short and long-term sales and earnings.Key Successes: Grew B2B customer base 3000% in first 12 months. SaaS revenue to $1M0-$10M parts products through network. 981 software sales to SMBs over 5 years. Instrumental in securing Series A. Created a full-scale sales and support team from the ground up, sales/support strategy & go-to-market, post-sales training and support, customer retention and subscription freemium to paid model. Go-to between software product and development project managers. Strategized with Head of Marketing to establish early stage value propositions for supply chain stakeholders, mission statement, sales and support messaging, and B2B supply chain marketing content. Worked with Marketing Head and support direct reports to create SHIFTMobility University and learnings for auto repair shops. Onboarded 981 customers. Reported directly to CEO.

Operated a small company that contracted vehicle reconditioning and detail services to dealership sales and service departments. Gained specialty knowledge in paint touch up color matching, wheel restoration, deep scratch removal, headlight restoration and color sanding.

Directly controlled all high level panning, forecasting, purchasing and operations for dealership sales and service department operations. Created/Implemented a successful retail business model for consignment and pre-owned sales departments. Maintained vehicle inventory through purchases, consignment and off-site vehicles. Performed necessary service and repair requirements timely through key strategic relationships with local repair centers and their constituents. Maintained a profitable dealership with an inventory ten times what it was in it's beginnings.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Started as a general porter- Service lot attendant and vehicle washer. *Ask me what I did for work before this for a life event Easter Egg, few know about*Service drive porter- Responsible for vehicle walk-arounds, check-ins and coordinating with service advisors for shuttles and front/back lot coordination. Service coordinator- Managed all service appointments by phone, web and walk in. Coordinated with service director and service advisor to ensure weekly calendar is filled to capacity. Filled in for front and back lot porters when short staffed. Sales and service coordinator- Responsible for monthly vehicle allocation factory builds (I created and ordered the option packages and build sheets for all the new MINIs direct from the factory) and managed the shipments to off site storage lot. Coordinated between trucking companies and new sales department. Maintained and updated new/used vehicle storage lot through monthly inventory examination. Wrote and Dispatched PDIs from new vehicles to the service department. Wrote and dispatched accessory installs for custom MINI builds. Appraised trade ins and got approvals from sales managers for potential deals. Created, organized and filed all new/used deal packets. Sold, managed customer pre-orders and matched the orders to MINI factory spec sheet for future MINI new car builds.