Nikolas-James Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

My wife and I have built the premier Strength-Forward group training facility in Chicago & Milwaukee over the past 3+ years. In a line Train Moment is "a personal training approach in a group setting". We launched our first location at the end of 2019 just 4 months before the Coronavirus Pandemic. Despite the timing, Train Moment has refined and grown into 3 locations (2 Chicago + 1 Milwaukee) with a 4th location on scheduled for Spring 2024.www.trainmoment.com

Chicago, Illinois, United States

We built a premier 1-on-1 and small group strength & conditioning training facility focused on high achievers pushing themselves mentally and physically.This was my first concept to start from the ground up. This process came with tremendous learning opportunities from conceptualization, funding, construction, equipment sourcing, team building, HR, etc all while building a profitable concept.

Greater Chicago Area

I supported the growth of Chicago's premier Bespoke Clothier for a 4 month period while I was preparing for the launch of Strive Village.

Chicago

I worked my way up from unpaid intern into overseeing the entire operation owning 25% off this company. HardPressed was a very effective and efficient training facility focused 30-minute personal training sessions. "Your time is your money; train like it." was the philosophy and tagline and the style of training allowed for great results via half-hour sessions.Within 12 months of earning the reins to this business I was able to double revenues and take us from the red to the black. Overall, this first taste and experience in ownership paved the way for me to build my first concept from the ground up (Strive Village) and provided an unparalleled training experience in entrepreneurship.

Livonia, Mi

Livonia, Mi

•Managed print and digital advertising programs from planning to final analysis for over 20 clients•Coordinated the expenditure of several multi-million dollar advertising budgets•Facilitated the flow of vital information from the client to various parties internally and externally to execute advertising programs•Resolved issues by working with internal and external contacts to help meet client requests

I was involved in several important projects during my internship. Most of these were involved with revamping and streamlining communication between the pricing center and the newly acquired sales force from ADVO (the Direct Marketing giant). The acquisition doubled the sales force to 600+ and united two distinct teams. My involvement in this process helped in my earning of Intern of the Year honors.

This internship was very much "promotions oriented" which involved organizing events at various bank branches as well as implementing and monitoring a couple of customer promotions. A large part of my time was involved with overseeing a company wide employee incentive program which awarded individuals for going above and beyond their responsibilities. One of my biggest initiatives in this was revamping the awards process which was being taken advantage of. This was costing the company $1000s of dollars a year, but this problem was resolved with my initiative.

In this position, I was responsible for directing two sessions of 40 high school athletes in a seven week workout program. The major benefit I received from this was the leadership and delegation experience. I was in charge of three junior trainers an had to oversee these camps at 2 different high schools. It was enjoyable to see both my junior trainers and the kids better themselves in this short time. I actually did this during the summers of 2005 and 2006.