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Texas, United States

Tustin, California, United States

Prospect and cultivate new vendor partners. Provide vendor customers with commercial financing options for their business equipment acquisitions. On board vendors into AFG's vendor program and provide exceptional customer service to both the vendor and the end-customer.

United States

The Dalles, Oregon Area

● Launched and scaled a foreign-entity-owned Pacific Northwest startup fresh cherry program with no presence in U.S. prior to 2017, resulting in $480k Annual Revenue in 2017 to $12MM Annual Revenue in 2020. Directly in charge of the U.S. market expansion, a part of the Giddings Fruit Holding plan to expand into the U.S. market across several categories (Blueberries, Citrus, and Cherries). ● Sourced, Qualified, Captured, and Onboarded all of our high valued, high quality cherry growers. Grew our grower base from 2 for our 2017 Pilot-Program to 16 growers in 2020.● Every year met and conducted PowerPoint presentations during our largest grower’s annual board meeting. An 18-member board consisting of outside investors and the landowners.● Manage all P&L, capital management, and budgeting while identifying partnership and joint venture opportunities for our long-term goals.● Actively driving on-target growth to $50MM AR in 2025 by securing bank financing, buying orchards/land, negotiating contracts, securing commercial land to build a packing house, identifying future clients. ● Expanded production volume by 10x and increased the net earnings for our growers by 25% per pound● Captured new business through presentations and closing with stake holders regarding their future crops. ● Secured our service packer, ensuring facility SOP’s and capacities meet our requirements. ● Expand cherry availability for international buyers and increased our brand exposure in the market.● Partner with attorneys and accountants to assess risk, reduce liability, maintain compliance, and manage licensing. ● Led a team of multi-national (Chilean) managers and supervisors to streamline and support harvest and packing operations.● Oversaw all temporary staff hiring and training to maximize harvest yield and maintaining critical hydro-cooling equipment.

The Dalles, Oregon

● Hired to lead the modified atmosphere (MA) packaging division and bring it to profitability following 2 consecutive years of manufacturing problems and high customer attrition before coordinating and negotiating the sale of the business in 2017.● Managed strategy, P&L, budgeting, cap-ex requirements, and goal setting as part of the executive management team.● Improved our clients line efficiency and throughput by 600%, reduced labor costs, and decreased end-customer prices by inventing a patented MA bag to eliminate the need for bag sealing machines. Named as inventor on patent. ● Increased targeted territory (Chile) MA bag sales from 2MM and 20 clients to 12MM+ and 85 clients.● Increased sales revenue from $650k to $4M+ by launching new product lines for kiwis, plums, and blueberries. ● Sourced & visited international suppliers in China to ensure product quality with manufacturing partners.● Created marketing materials and branding for the Spectrum-Slider bag. https://youtu.be/y7jNRllw2s8● Defined a product recall strategy to maintain regulatory compliance, support crisis management, and mitigate losses.● Designed post-sale service, logistics, and accounting processes to streamline operations and maximize customer ROI.● Developed a post-sales service mobile app to collect and deliver MA bag sales performance data to clients in real-time that increased data integrity and reporting accuracy by replacing an entirely manual pen & paper process.● Improved shipping capacity and team efficiency by implementing a packing house inventory control system.

Irvine, California

● Funded $15MM in annual equipment value by building a book of customers requiring project funding.● Engaged with CEO’s, COO’s and stake holders, pitched products and closed deals. ● Effectively communicated with clients throughout the deal cycle until funding. ● Cold calling● Partnered with & maintained business relationships with 8 banking/funding sources.

● Exceeded targets and sales goals by leading cold calling initiatives.● Established relationships with Presidents, Vice Presidents, CEO’s and Business owners, generating repeat business.● Closed deals and led team of 5 sales representatives.● Recognized as salesperson of the month 2 times in 12 months.

Newport Beach, California

● Managed staff of 25 personnel across the Front Desk, Concierge and Valet Departments● Worked closely with Sales Team and Banquets Team to ensure flawless events, valet and catering services are met. Possess a deep knowledge of the interconnectedness across all departments. ● Met and greeted high-level CEO’s, CFO’s, COO’s, and Celebrities upon arrival.● Engaged with high-net-worth guest and ensured a flawless experience.● Followed up with all VIP guests throughout their stay.● Resolved guest issues and followed up with guest.● Blocked rooms and worked closely with Reservations Team and Housekeeping providing exceptional check-in processes for both individual guests and large business group check-ins. ● Deep understanding of the front-of-house and back-of-house accounting procedures. ● Responsible for training of five-star service, its execution and providing deliverable (Up-Selling) results.● Provided Monthly ‘Up-Sell’ earned revenue report to the Director of Finance.● Prepared and conducted the daily morning meeting with the hotel GM, and all Department Heads.● Coordinated across departments to ensure banquet events and VIP guests stays were extraordinary.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Speech Communication And Rhetoric

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Theater, English as Second Language, Ceramics, Intramural SoftballStudied Speech.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Lived and studied in Seville Spain for academic year.Lived in Sevilla Spain for an academic school year. Studied.