Ceo & Co-Founder
The Woodlands , Texas, Us
The areas I led were the creation of new products, systems or business processes. I would create a strategy, build the team to execute, manage deadlines then celebrate the wins with the team. Below are some areas that I had tons of fun building with an awesome team: ⢠Led the creation of the company vision, values, company mission⢠Designed short and long range planning systems, quarterly planning sessions, weekly accountability meetings⢠Created profit sharing plan⢠Designed IT infrastructure⢠Banking relationships⢠Call Center: created territories, customer service and inside sales job duties, compensation agreements, sales training programs, weekly sales meetings, real time dashboards for each sales rep, phone system configuration, bonus plans⢠Designed and led development of in house custom website to run the business and integrate with ERP and CRM systems⢠Created Recruiting Dept: job posting procedures, integration of the Topgrading system, a Talent Management System and various job boards.⢠Designed various in house application servers⢠Negotiated and sourced employee benefits⢠Creation of the marketing department: SEO campaign, PPC campaigns, collateral, online newsletters, promotion systems, trained employees to grow department⢠Product Development: negotiated volume pricing, sourced 90% of the products needed at launch, led the packaging design team, ensured proper labeling to meet government requirements, created design specifications for products to be manufactured⢠Real Estate: site selection, negotiated lease agreements, designed 10,000 sq ft of office space, custom build out to meet various department needs. Sourced contractors to build out space⢠Purchasing: created processes and negotiated agreements⢠Shipping/ Warehousing Infrastructure: Rack system, efficient picking processes integrated with IT, automation for domestic and international orders between custom website and FedEx⢠Design and build Xtreme Lashes Studio