Royal Goods exists to bring gifted authors, musicians, and artists into the Christian marketplace. Royal Goods will bring retail knowledge, channel intelligence, and marketing savvy to the creative to help establish a strong retail presence for Christian artists who may have need for help in getting their goods to the marketplace. Royal Goods offers Christian retailers a chance to offer unique and limited edition products for their store that differentiates them from chain stores and other national retailers.

GENERAL MANAGER: Oversee all business aspects of a multi-store retail franchise. Responsibilities include all accounting, human resource, and marketing functions within the position as well as supervisory control over sales, store operations, social media, and inventory control.FINANCE MANAGER: Oversee all accounting functions for a multi-store retail franchisee including Profit and Loss, Balance Sheets, sales taxes, budgets, accounts payable, sales reports, and cash and bank management. Also oversee Human Resources functions including payroll, employee service management, and benefits.

Manage church facility to include cleaning the building, hosting and managing events, ordering supplies, and building inspection.

Homeschooling father who manages the care and education of five children. Responsible for all aspects of operating a home to include budget management, grocery shopping, meal planning and cooking, cleaning, and caring for five children. This role has also allowed me to work on starting a business and coach kids in basketball and other sports.

CBA is the trade association for Christian retail and products. I worked with stores to help them improve their bottom line through member benefits, training, and events. I worked with suppliers to help them access all the wonderful stores CBA advocates for every day. I helped them navigate the industry and put their best foot forward at CBA signature events. On the side, I got to brandish some social media skills, marketing expertise, database experience, finance abilities, and I was able to utilize my retail experience to partner with my team mates to build the best trade association possible for Christian retailers all over the country.

Responsible for all aspects of departmental budgeting, purchasing, inventory control, sales, marketing, merchandising, and finance while I also managed a direct staff of four in addition to 90 volunteers across several departments.• Doubled sales despite flat growth in the church.• Grew sales by at least 4% in seven of nine years even during difficult economic times.• Founded Journey Event, a collaboration of four local stores partnering with 60 authors.• Created a satellite store. • Coached two separate stores resulting in improved marketing and inventory control.• Published author in Christian Retailing and quoted in several other publications.• Success in inspiring, mentoring and directing staff and volunteers to their success.

• Expanded my background in various business environments while providing accounting support to the sales teams.• Outbound sales including cold calling potential clients.

• Created a Sales Department in this IT & Technical Support business growing the staff support by 200% in less than one year. • Managed the Call Center, Telemarketing Center, Fulfillment, and Web Store simultaneously while serving a database of over 6,000 members, which included a majority of the Fortune 500 companies.

• Licensed to sell automobile and home insurance in nine states.• Completed the extensive training program for phone sales and the unique aspectsof outbound selling.