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Florida Gulf Coast

Since 1996, Filta has been providing cooking oil micro filtration service around the world to restaurants and other food establishments. Filta’s “Green” services naturally preserve the environment by extending the life of cooking oil with the FiltaFry service, turning waste cooking oil into biodiesel with FiltaBio and reducing energy consumption and food waste with FiltaCool. Filta services over 5,000 customers every week and has recycled over 1/2 billion pounds of oil… and counting.

Greater Denver Area

Career Life Academy is the first virtual career and life support service providing the ultimate career transition experience.Specializing in recruiting, corporate outplacement and personal marketing. Combining expert support and methods to help professionals find their next job.Our capabilities have been specifically designed to help bring greater speed and convenience to the career transition process... and to also relieve professionals of much of the anxiety and stress of career transition.Specialties: • Branding • Career coaching • Career transition coaching• Talent incubation & development• Executive career management and coaching• Life coaching• Social media marketing and personal branding

VP Corporate Sales / Managing Partner, Advanced Career Technologies. Led corporate strategic planning and successful implementation of new company direction and initiatives. Oversaw business development and client relationship management for corporate sales initiatives. * Aggressively pursued and closed deals with Fortune 1000 companies including BMC Software, Baker Hughes, Lockheed Martin, Dow Chemical, Assurant, etc. in an industry dominated by 3 major players with no existing clientele to reference.* Managed sales, client relationships and strategic planning for several new divisions. Including competitive research, market analysis, product development and pricing.* Coordinated the actual outplacement service delivery between the client and our internal support management.* Managed sales teams that regularly led the company in sales and unit volume in the retail division.* Mentored 6 team members who were offered Partnership status as well as the best retention rate in the company.

Founded and managed this startup providing IT consulting services including staff supplementation and project outsourcing to small and large companies (Janus Funds, Siemens Business Services, Time Warner Telecom and many others).I was responsible for all management, sales and operational duties for the company. Including but not limited too: SEC filing and reporting, state and federal filing and reporting, client acquisition and retention. Took the company public and it traded on the OTC bulletin board (Stock Symbol TCPS). The company was then reverse merged into Techno Concepts of California.

Co-founded this national IT consulting company. Aggressively pursued and closed deals with large organizations including Qwest, Boeing, Kraft Foods, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, RR Donnelly as well as small companies.Grew company from 0 to 175 employees and revenue to $70M total in four and half years and was a key player in driving company recognition in INC Magazine’s top 500 fastest growing businesses.Increased sales with key accounts, Qwest to more than $10M a year and ServiceStar to over $750K a year based on the hiring, management and culture practices implemented to acquire, develop and retain the best consultants. Created a talent evaluation process that founded our reputation in the industry for the some of the best consultants. Largely responsible for establishing the core principles under which the company would operate and creating the corporate culture that allowed DataTrend to have a retention rate for employees of over 95% in the first three and a half years. This rate was 25% higher that industry averages.

Drawing on five years of experience within the IT industry, implemented a method that evaluated client technical requirements in conjunction with their overall environment for effective integration of the proper technical consultants. This in turn established long-term relationships between the client, the company and the consultant. The method led to quick success not only in the volume of consultants placed but with the satisfaction level of the clients and the consultants.

President and Partner in the Creation, Launching and Growth of the Company. The Company was an Internet Service Provider that we bought online as AOL was getting popular. I Managed Support, Installations and Training for all clients as well as of Business Internet Solution projects.