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Commerce, Tx, Us

Paris, Tx

Handle the day-to-day operations that include: Determine goods/services to be sold; create a pricing model for the services. Hire and train all staff. Negotiate with vendors to secure equipment and pricing. Monitor financial goals and review financial statements, sales reports, and other performance data to assess productivity and determine business areas in need of cost reduction/program improvement. Monitor the industry for advanced network options and determine the viability of deployment… Show more Handle the day-to-day operations that include: Determine goods/services to be sold; create a pricing model for the services. Hire and train all staff. Negotiate with vendors to secure equipment and pricing. Monitor financial goals and review financial statements, sales reports, and other performance data to assess productivity and determine business areas in need of cost reduction/program improvement. Monitor the industry for advanced network options and determine the viability of deployment to our customers. Negotiate with Home Owners Associations for the right to be the exclusive provider of services. Work with cities and other entities for ROW rights, tower rights, etc. Show less

Northeast Texas

Train all sales staff for selling AT&T wireless products. Target and acquire new locations to expand the territory. Oversee 15 stores in Texas and 3 in Florida. Establish sales compensation model based on revenue from AT&T. Handle all IT work for all 18 locations including implementing a WAN to connect all locations back to one cloud server.

Commerce, Texas

Operational leader of company aimed at providing internet access and local phone service to residential and business customers. Defined vertical markets and constructed strategic marketing overview for market penetration. Modeled complete network infrastructure market by market. Applied depth of professional experience to creation of trial system and establishment of initial agreements with service providers and equipment vendors. Negotiated with Sprint, Sprint PCS, Telica, Brightpoint… Show more Operational leader of company aimed at providing internet access and local phone service to residential and business customers. Defined vertical markets and constructed strategic marketing overview for market penetration. Modeled complete network infrastructure market by market. Applied depth of professional experience to creation of trial system and establishment of initial agreements with service providers and equipment vendors. Negotiated with Sprint, Sprint PCS, Telica, Brightpoint, Cisco, Nortel, TalkSwitch, and local businesses for proprietary equipment, leased lines and services. Recruited and positioned highly talented professionals in key roles for corporate start-up process.Played key roll in negotiating original Interconnection Agreement with Sprint for the purpose of offering competitive services in the State of Texas.Assisted in the procurement of a $500,000 TIF Grant from the State of Texas for the purpose of creating the Commerce Community Network.Grew revenues from $420,000 annually to over $1,000,000 annually within 2 years. Show less