Contact email: srwest@comcast.netMobile: 651-373-7466Vice President, Sales / OperationsHighly Successful Strategic Executive | Remote National Leadership Experience | Partnership TrailblazerHigh-performing executive leader with proven success developing and managing sales and operations teams. Led complex matrixed sales processes with an emphasis on collaboration, coaching, mentoring and leadership. Successful history of overseeing operations and client engagement activities with key clients in a distributed business that consistently achieved year-over-year unit financial increases. Demonstrated ability to develop and model a positive rapport with our clients and teams which has led to continual improvements in client expansion, retention and new business referrals that became new clients. • Engaging presentation skills with the ability to develop and deliver with clients of all levels and complexity• Client and partnership management skills to upsell additional services • Facilitated roll-out & implementation of Salesforce which provided the high team adoption and utilization rates Foundation of Managerial Experience• On-site operations leadership roles including training/development and mentorship programs• Business Development/Sales Director and Leadership growth development• Managing Director (recognition as highest ranking executive) of two regional food service management companies• 15+ years of negotiation and renewal process of multi site contract services• 15 + years Budget development and P&L oversight• Spearheaded assimilation of 2 distinct Minnesota regional companies as Managing Director• Key leader in start-up company which grew tremendously over 10 year process and assisted in M&A activities