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Award winning breakfast and lunch cafe in beautiful Cape Cod featuring locally sourced, fresh and organic ingredients, skillfully prepared and presented.

-Product placement in national and regional retail chains-Product development; from conception, sourcing, packaging, branding, and distribution.-Customer acquisition and retention-High level negotiator with key buyers and principals-Sales closer with strong decision making skills-Experienced in development of creative merchandising and planograms.-Complete marketing and advertising strategist, both creative and analytical brand development

-Complete bottom-line responsibility running multinational consumer products distributor.-Grew sales and shipping output from under $2.5 million to over $14 million in less than 10 years.-Manage 90+ person workforce and 90 independent sales representatives across four industries.-Responsible for the creative design, development and retail placement of 90% of of the top selling 40 items (out of 500).-Improved work place safety record by 88% reducing workman's comp costs by over 50%.-Increased net probability by over 40%-Proven decision maker and problem solver.

-Total bottom line day-to-day responsibility of specialty electronics multi-unit retailer-Oversee growth from a small, 3 store operation to a 14 store regional chain with a resulting sales growth of over 570%.-Develop sales training program for store managers and sales force-Proven negotiator ; purchasing all inventory, advertising, store leases, and capital equipment.-Develop and implement annual marketing and advertising plan.-Produce creative visual merchandising displays and planograms.-Lead customer service problem resolution.