My expertise is in analyzing business opportunities for start ups and funding, real estate investments, B2B technology product performance, sports and leisure consumer markets, restaurant businesses, furniture businesses, demographic markets, industry analysis, and advertising markets. I'm experienced at mining customer data using Access, Excel, Business Objects, Cognos and SPSS. I can streamline reporting by building databases with auxiliary dashboards to monitor products and evaluate markets. I am able to work with a variety of data tools, and am resourceful at gathering data, building relational tables, and developing analytics to inform decisions on strategy and tactics. By providing actionable data I have helped companies save money, deploy sales forces more efficiently and reap high margin returns on investments.In the past, I've worked as an Entrepreneur, Real Estate Agent, Real Estate Investor, Financial Analyst, Securities Investment Advisor, and language teacher. My professional work experience includes jobs at the US and Brazilian corporate headquarters of Tyco International, The Professional Golfers Association of the Americas, Cox Media Group (The Palm Beach Post), Bluegreen Corp., NCR Corp., Avery Dennison and Spherion.As a member and board trustee for a real estate investment group, I've served as a mentor to beginning investors and received the Ohio Professional Housing Provider Award in 2005. Additionally, I have co-founded and managed 3 start-up companies in furniture, restaurants, real estate, 2 of which were successfully sold.Specialties: My specialty is in consulting, research and data analysis. I have very good interpersonal skills and experience in working with management at all levels and with people of various cultural/ethnical backgrounds.SQL, MS Word, MS Excel, Access, MS PowerPoint, Hyperion, Oracle, SPSS, MapInfo, MS FrontPage, Microstrategy, Business Objects, CognosI am fluent in Portuguese and conversant in Spanish.
Listed skills include Market Research, Competitive Analysis, Analytics, Management, and 46 others.