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Mesa, AZ, US

Realizing my entrepreneurial dream to start a company with my wife and two of my best friends. We are assembling a dream team of talent that wants to push the envelope with cutting edge window and door designs and service concepts. But more importantly, Awake is committed to being a second chance employer, and actively working to combat recidivism and the.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Responsible for creating, implementing, and executing the strategic vision for Western Window Systems, an international window and door manufacturer, by empowering managers, developing systems, and providing leadership to ensure aggressive and sustainable growth. General duties include the management of and decision making for the day-to-day running of an.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Responsible for creating, implementing, and executing the strategic vision for the Executive Team of Western Window Systems. General duties included the management of and decision making for the day-to-day running of.
• Successfully implemented a lean (Toyota Production System) transformation across the entire organization.
• Delivered revenue growth of 50% in 2013 and 60% in 2014 while also bringing lead times to record lows for customers.
• Improved on-time delivery percentages to near record highs.
• Increased employee retention by improving culture, systemizing raises, and measuring performance.
• Secured creative solutions within our supply chain that resulted in a lead time deduction from 8 weeks to 2 days with our largest vendor while also freeing warehouse floor space and lowering inventory holding costs.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Responsible for management and direct leadership of all marketing and corporate communications including branding, advertising, brochures, websites, press, social media, campaigns, new product launches, and market.
• Worked with Western’s design team to rebrand Western Window Systems and all collateral, including logo, website, product guide and all sales material.
• After rebranding, sales increased 43 percent in 2011, 54 percent in 2012, and 50 percent in 2013.
• Worked with Western’s IT Director to recreate the product guide brochure which was bestowed with a Crystal Achievement Award from Window & Door Magazine as “best in the industry.”
• Focused company culture around three core values and recast vision and purpose to improve customers’ lives, not profits.
• Developed a unique content marketing strategy that was thematically tied to the growing indoor/outdoor living trend dominating new construction projects and tied the Western brand directly to it.

• Responsible for increasing and developing the resource base of Helping Hands in Africa (a non-profit organization now known as Orchard: Africa) by enhancing the brand and developing new support partners (including.
• Developed and managed marketing and partner engagement items for the organization (fundraisers, websites, volunteer base, mission trips, leadership development, videos and newsletters.)
• Improved reach and success of (2) marquee fundraising events.
• Developed curriculum that allow new church partners to engage their congregation in the issues that Helping Hands deal with such as poverty and AIDS, while providing a tangible way to partner financially with the.
• Developed an organizational communication strategy that broke down a complex value stream into simple and measurable impact points that better helped potential donors gauge the impact of their investment.
• Developed a successful vision trip model that engaged many high profile/ high impact donors by connecting them to the mission (and the impoverished children that were effected) firsthand.

• Responsible for growing the window and door sales in the luxury department for the leading window and door supplier in Arizona via personal sales revenue and new product development for the company. Notable Achievements
• Project managed the complete integration of (3) new product lines (and vendors) into our distribution model, from research and development to full operational implementation.
• Instrumental in design, development, marketing, launch, and process fabrication of Paramount’s first private label door system, the Al Fresco bi-fold door.

Scottsdale, Arizona, US

Executive Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Marketing