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Creating win-win opportunities for home buyers and sellers through creative deal-making, rehabs, and lease-to-own homes.

Designing custom solutions to solving important problems.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Lake Worth, Fl, Us

Recognized for my cross-functional expertise and successes, I was specifically recruited to capture growth opportunities for this leader in pharmaceutical consulting. With critical industry contacts and an established reputation, I have been instrumental in supporting the growth of this $30M annual revenue operation through innovative initiatives and campaigns, streamlined and process improvement opportunities, and training and development opportunities.With quick promotions that included increased leadership and accountabilities, I deliver an open-door leadership style to maximize the contributions of 20 direct reports that include identifying and implementing training initiatives that streamline client operations, improve ROI tracking, and improve PDS reporting across business development, client onboarding, and financial reporting. Our notable results include delivering 10X ROI per membership investment across 1,200 pharmacies. My client-centric focus and collaborative skills have reduced client report development from 6 weeks to 3 through template development structures that enabled accountants to improve commenting and increased client satisfaction. Strategized campaigns have also resulted in improving client engagement by 70% while delivering 40% savings through simplified on-screen sharing utilizing video conferencing for client coaching calls. Internally, I was able to save our CFO 4 hours on each new hire while also improving the candidate onboarding experience and setting the standard of the application-to-decision timeline to 30 days. These campaigns further served to improve the team fit of candidates, increase the quality of hire, improve the cultural fit throughout the organization, and raise the bar on overall team performance.Consistent and repeated successes have also resulted in securing $30K in annual funding to implement our SaaS Learning Management System (LMS) that fosters short- and long-term team growth and overall organization success.

Lake Worth, Fl, Us

Lake Worth, Fl, Us

Etobicoke, Ontario, Ca

Leveraging my business and financial entrepreneurial expertise, I launched, grew, and managed a digital marketing operation serving multi-million-dollar companies with web development, search engine marketing, social media, and mobile marketing solutions for small- and mid-sized businesses. While driving sales, marketing, project management, and the budgeting and finance projections required for ongoing growth and success, I distinguished Digital Edge Marketing as a leader throughout a highly-competitive, dynamic industry with constant changes in technologies, processes, and expectations by working closely with industry leaders to manage web development campaigns, drive search engine marketing rankings, grow social marketing presence, and boost mobile marketing engagement.Engaging clients to understand their mission and vision, I collaborated with leaders across various industries and through various stages of business lifecycles to deliver 10%+ in new customer growth that typically exceeded their industry’s national average. I have been instrumental in increasing client site traffic by 60% through innovative and lucrative campaigns that improved their online communications and facilitated through growth. My extensive knowledge further reduced advertising costs through complex negotiations that were possible because of my grasp of industry developments and projections. Of particular note, I was instrumental in filling the schedule of an additional provider with new patient counts while simultaneously reducing advertising costs and increasing site traffic.Finally, aligning my entrepreneurial skills with my relationship development, sales, customer engagement, project management, and branding skills, I developed and executed numerous communication and branding campaigns that captured internet opportunities for streamlining processes, distinguishing services, and increasing bottom-line sales.

Greenville, North Carolina, Us

My initial focus on assessing existing operations resulted in identifying and capturing opportunities for cost savings, growth, and an optimized customer-centric environment. The results of streamlining delivered $90K in direct and indirect cost savings while improving revenue by 15% just within the first year. Further, restructuring DME billing incorporated changes in the billing service, billing software, and ordering processes for recurring patient orders that resulted in reducing the significant 3-month backlog to less than 2 weeks! My commitment to continuous process improvements included replacing outdated equipment and systems that led to reducing billing expenses by 3% and improving cost of goods by 2%.Improving employee satisfaction also served as a key driver, so implementing a pay-for-performance incentive plan delivered an improved work environment and increased overall employee satisfaction.Finally, I protected stakeholder interests by ensuring compliance across operations, affirming proper accounting reporting, and maintaining documentation to complete change of ownership for NCBOP, DEA, ACHC, Cardinal Health, AAP, RX30, BCBSNC, CVSCaremark, Express Scripts, NC Department of Health Regulation, NC Medicaid, CMS, etc.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Driving customer and revenue growth for this $4B retail hardware cooperative comprised of 4,600+ global independent stores, I was recognized for my expertise and, specifically, my results with multiple, quick promotions with progressive opportunities and accountabilities. Leadership’s expectations and trust in me culminated with the honor of filling a newly created role during the company’s reorganization that required retail developments throughout 21 states across the Northeast and Midwest U.S.Leading a cross-functional team of 9 PMs and 15 service vendors working directly with the leadership of 1,700 stores, we successfully executed retail development plans that required 30+ new store set-ups and 60+ retrofit remodels that captured consumer interests and maintained the corporate vision and brand standards. I was able to effectively collaborate to develop and direct innovative store merchandising plans that incorporated KPIs on individual store custom inventory performance analyses reflecting Category Role Matrix and SKU performance. I also created and implemented improved processes synchronizing category management plan-o-grams incorporating an innovative store planning template.My results delivered double-sales successes within 12 months, increasing profitability from loss to $250K on $2.5M and exceeding our corporate goal by 9%. I was also instrumental in delivering an average retail sales increase of 14% and an average retail transaction increase of 7% across the remodeled stores. Finally, I contributed my negotiation skills to save 15% of our nationwide cellular plan supporting 350 field staff.Early Roles with Ace Hardware include Retail Assistance Manager, Retail Operations Project Specialist, and Retail Consultant.

Certificate, Sales Operations Science

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Human Resources Management And Services

Morning Brew Accelerator

Certified Digital Marketer