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Executive Director with verifiable year-after-year success achieving revenue, profit, and business growth objectives within turnaround and rapid-change environments. Successful in building relationships with upper-level decision makers, mitigating risk and problem areas, continuously improving process efficiencies and employee ROI, and delivering on customer commitments. Customer-focused and performance-driven. Managed P&L and Capital use for business divisions exceeding $10 million revenue with a focus on long-term profitability.Operations Management | Sales Management | Organic and Structured Business GrowthPerformance & Quality Standards | Continuous Improvements | P&L Management | Business IntelligenceCustomer Satisfaction | Military, Commercial & Customer Support | Strategic PartnershipsHighlighted Achievements:Turned around an underperforming $7 million company, reversed losses and negative EBITA by restoring profitability, expanding market share, entering new markets, delivering triple-digit EBITA growth and strategically positioning the company for controlled directed and organic growth.Increased the company’s value over 5 times, by reducing expenses collectively saving $14.7 million over 10 years and growing commercial and military sales by $3.0 million annually.Facilitated over $21 million in sales comprised of over $19 million in government sales. Negotiated contracted sales worth up to $50 million.Integrated multiple independent systems and processes into a coherent single ERP by programming the UI and backend in SQL Server and vb.net, promoting standardization, efficiencies in time and processes, and integrated business intelligence to make informed metric based decisions.Facilitated Six Sigma and lean techniques to lead A3’s and Kan Bans and programmed genetic algorithms to reduce variance for preventative maintenance tasks. This program became a Six Sigma black belt certification project and saved $5,000 per week as an Intern for Harley Davidson.Exceptional ability to learn and understand new products, designs, and especially software. I learned Adobe Flash and Photoshop in 2 weeks as an Intern and developed a kiosk with animated paintings of the Man at Work Collection. The kiosk is currently on display at the Grohmann Musuem.Specialties: Increasing efficiencies, reducing waste from products and methods, Adobe Creative Suite 3, SolidWorks, Driveworks Administrator, Microsoft Office and Project, VB.Net, Multi-function Integration, Visual Studio professional 2010, HTML, XML, XAML, WPF, project management, VBA.

Listed skills include Solidworks, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, C++, and 23 others.