A graduate of the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Kirk brings with him years of self storage brokerage experience in the Midwest USA markets.While ensuring his clients achieve the maximum sale price for each transaction through his work ethic and deep market knowledge, Kirk takes pride in developing relationships that go beyond the profit and loss statements.

Invited representatives from reputable financial companies to UW-L campus as an opportunity to interact with some of UW-L's young, bright finance students in addition to presenting advantages of working at their company.Prepared students for upcoming career fairs by offering resume tips and interview preparation.

Provided valuable support in tax return preparation, bookkeeping, and basic auditing functions.

As an Accounting/Finance intern with Kohler, I was given the opportunity to learn and thrive in the accounting department of Kallista. During my three month internship, I showed an eagerness to learn, willingness to take on projects, and made numerous contributions within the organization.Performed a Product Post-Audit Review:• Compared 110 new products to the aggregate business to discover if the products had been additive to the business• Calculated net sales, standard gross margin, and vitality index as performance measures• Utilized several excel functions such as sum if, v-lookup, if error, if, pivot tables• Organized raw data into useful information and presented findings to the group presidentCreated Kallista’s first monthly SKU Productivity report:• Outlined 20+ individual products that were underperforming in each of the previous three years• Proposed recommendations as to what products should be discontinued and what products should be pushed more through promotions and displaysCrafted an Authorized Corporate Transaction:• Purposed to realign product hierarchy set up for all Kallista Products• Interviewed six associates in four different departments to gain insight into key manually driven reports affected by Kallista’s current product hierarchy• ACT will streamline reports, eliminate associate work time, and reassign products to new, relevant categories to allow for a deeper analysis of the business as a wholeCosted and released 200+ products in SAP:• Adjusted existing product costs in SAP to reflect new components added to comply with new regulations• Costing allowed previously quoted projects to be realized and executedIn addition to these projects, I undertook the following:• Assumed responsibility of seventeen June monthly close functions after a Senior Accounting Analyst accepted a different position within Kohler• Mentored new accounting associate for two weeks to ensure he was confident and prepared in his new role

As a college student, my two summers as a landscape technician at River City Lawnscape taught me the importance of hard work and persistence in accomplishing the task at hand.