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Fair Oaks, Ca, Us

Sacramento, California, United States

Designed and produced high quality proposals for large infrastructure engineering projects.

Sacramento, California Area

Played central role in the expansion of an independent provider of commercial kitchen equipment repair from $30M to $90M revenue and 9 to 30 US locations with 200+ highly trained technicians. Key figure in driving growth through savvy marketing, while also professionalizing the business and standardizing operations.• Initiated a brand update of the business to better differentiate the company, which included developing a new brand identity.• Promoted a storytelling culture through blogging, intranet, and social media.• Grew site traffic 275% by getting company ranked #1 on Google for keywords in 25/29 markets through optimization.• Managed web, email, social, e-commerce, SEO, and advertising.• Designed and created brochures, flyers, info sheets, billboards, trade-show booths, and other materials.• Launched Magento eCommerce web-store with 360,000 products and full integration with ordering and invoice systems.• Managed ad-agency relationships and $1M marketing budget, including $450K in Google advertising spend.• Developed reporting with IT that showed true ROI - ad spend to actual income.

Oakland, Ca

Responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day running of a $6.5M thirty-person facility that produced packaging graphics and flexographic printing plates for national/international food brands.• Implemented new team-working processes and broke down departmental boundaries to create a whole facility over-delivery attitude.• Interacted daily with both customers and the field sales team and created open channel 360° feedback to the plant.• Re-launched the quality control system including enhancements to the MIS system to deliver meaningful reporting to measure efficiency gains.• Rebooted the corporate health and safety program.• Increased productivity through workflow simplification.• Launched secondary packaging production.

London, United Kingdom

Reviewed all aspects of the existing HH Pre-Media (artwork and pre-press) resource and implemented plans and procedures for expanding this service to both existing and new clients internationally. HH Associates (now HH Global) is a UK headquartered Print Management Company delivering Market Communications graphics and printed materials globally for brand such as HP, Google, and Adidas.• Day-to-day management of all Pre-Media team members over three sites.• Promotion of Pre-Media services to both internal and external clients.• Identification and purchase of new production equipment to create an on-line quality control gateway for third party supplied artwork which reduced the supplied art file error rate to zero.

London, United Kingdom

Employed to deliver Tag’s strategy of extending new print management services to its existing client base. Tag is a creator and deliverer of advertising materials internationally. This new service was successfully launched with Absolut Vodka, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS Group), and H&M Stores generating margins of 25%.• Sourced and launched a pan-European supply base of large format outdoor poster printers, negotiated contacts and price.• Negotiated a joint venture with an external Print Management company for magazine and publishing work.• Training of account management associates in print buying principles.• Added the new print management service to all new sales tenders.• Profit and loss responsibility.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Throughout 20 years achieved success in every key aspect of the business. Watt Gilchrist is a designer and producer of high-quality graphic assets for the retail and packaging (flexo, rotogravure, litho and digital) industries.Managing Director 1999 to 2004• Identified the Watt Group as a future partner/owner of Gilchrist and then promoted and helped facilitate the sale of the company, resulting in a wider service and geographical footprint.• Opened a creative design office in Leeds with annual sales of $2.8 million.• Opened the Gilchrist office in Toronto, Canada, increasing capacity by 5% and ensuring a strong business presence in North America.• Personally Won $1M of business from Wal-Mart USA.• Conceptualizer / key member of the international development team which created/coded the company’s On-Line Digital In- formation Network (ODIN), the first full feature graphic packaging planning > concept > delivery CRM tool of its kind globally.Additional Experience• Associate Director / Account Director (Watt-Gilchrist) – Managed all aspects of Walmart UK account.• Sales Representative (Watt-Gilchrist) – Developed new business with industry leaders in Food Packaging. Grew $500,000 house account base to $2.5 million.

Bachelor'S (City & Guilds), Graphic Reproduction

Graphic Reproduction

Real Estate

Company Direction Program