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Houma, Louisiana

District Manager South Louisiana

Southwest

Territory Sales Manager SW involving extensive contract sales, brand conversations, product demonstrations, end user application recommendations throughout six southern US states involving brush, maintenance, and abrasive products.

Atlanta, Ga

In 2004, I managed and expanded territorial sales for the regions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas as a Territory Sales Manager. This includes calling on and product demonstrations jointly with distributors in the oil field, fabrication, plant refinery, and river related stevedore end user operations. I was promoted and operated as National Sales Manager from 2006 to 2008 with fourteen territorial direct reports within the United States, while maintaining the Louisiana and Mississippi welding/industrial safety markets. From 2008 to present, as a member of the executive team, I am responsible for establishing, executing, and report coordinating all southern United States regional sales and marketing programs; which includes new product development, joint end user presentations, attending national conventions, special contract distributor initiatives, customer rebate incentives, sales goal analysis with projections, and territorial management of up to ten or more direct report sales professionals. While maintaining a personal block of business, I also manage a sales staff for multiple states throughout the southern region promoting welding alloys, MRO industrial products, hand tools, gas apparatus, safety supplies, consumables, and equipment.

Laplace, La

As owner and operator of a retail welding, compressed cylinder gas, safety, janitorial, and MRO industrial supply distributorship, I achieved contracts with shipyard fabrication companies, D.O.D., Louisiana Power, and multiple petrochemical/oil field refinery corporations. This entailed completing sales distribution of compressed gases, medical gases, gas manifolds, specialty cylinder gases, various supplies, and equipment to the refinery, petro chemical, and metal fabrication industries. I worked jointly with National Welding Supply and Capitol Welders Supply in the compressed, bulk, and specialty cylinder gas sales arena within the Baton Rouge, LA market. Initially, this corporation was founded with $20,000.00 capital and I sold the business in 2004 with $2.6 million in yearly sales at a 37% true gross profit average.

Kenner, La

This position involved managing and growing Energy fossil/nuclear power plant contracts. My responsibilities included branch operations, distribution, and operational profitability. I received contract awards for Department of Defense along with multiple refinery operations including Motiva and Dow chemical. My team and I exceeded all new branch operational sales and profitability goals ($1.5 million per month) established by corporate management.

Harahan, La

Initially, I was hired as a warehouse shipping/receiving clerk during high school prior to 1990. Promoted to inside sales full time in 1991 and became the youngest branch manager in company history by 1992. As manager, I was responsible for all personnel, sales, profits, inventory control/purchasing, and product distribution of a 50,000 square foot welding industrial supply wholesale operation serving distributors throughout the gulf coast region, surpassing branch sales goals($4.9 million per year) established over the previous fifteen years prior. I accomplished a $7.2 million per year average by the end of 1992 and received the national sales achievement award for surpassing sales and profitability goals as compared to seventeen other national locations. From 1992 through 1998 I maintained constant double digit sales and profit growth by creating, implementing, and executing specialized promotional marketing strategies for the sales region.

Welding Engineering Technology/Technician

Associate’S Degree, General Welding/Cutting/Safety, Passed All Certified Stress And Impact Testing/Safety Requirements 1992.