Classic Doors of Louisiana LLC manufactures and sells cabinet doors and drawer fronts for the home building industry. I am actively working to take the business to the next level and I am inspired to help Southwest Louisiana rebuild after the horrendous Hurricanes LAURA and DELTA left a devastating path through our community.We service cabinet shops and builders throughout Louisiana and Southeast Texas. We currently operate a 13,800 square foot shop equipped with precision machines for the manufacture of custom cabinet doors, exterior shutters, custom arch work, carvings, specialty mill work and custom CNC created products. Classic Doors was founded in 1997 and all of our doors are custom built-to-order by master craftsmen in our shop located in Iowa, LA. The team is happy to bring you the finest doors for your home at a price you can afford.

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It started with an idea that came out of a duck blind conversation near the Lacassine Wildlife Refuge and some local sugar cane fields. Since Louisiana is the birthplace of sugar cane farming in the "new world," is the home of the biggest Mardi Gras party in America, has some of the greatest (and spiciest) food on earth and a place where our fiercely loyal citizens live every day to the fullest, we wondered why isn't someone creating a home-grown, high-quality Louisiana rum?Louisiana Spirits LLC, founded in 2011, operates the Bayou Rum Distillery in Lacassine, LA. The distillery was awarded the 2016 Attraction of the Year honors by Louisiana Travel and Promotion Agency. The world class distillery is located just east of Lake Charles on a 22 acre parcel on Interstate 10 south frontage road at Exit 48 Lacassine. BAYOU RUM is the #1 craft rum in America available in 44 states and shipping to over 50 countries after a successful launch in Louisiana in 2013. Bayou Rum won 116 awards (and counting) in tasting competitions in its first 3 years on the market. Check out www.bayourum.com for info and come visit the distillery and the visitor center. The team is distilling and bottling an authentic American rum from Louisiana sugarcane molasses and raw sugar. Bayou Rum is America's Rum!

Leading the sales and business development efforts for Softeq specializing in custom software development, systemintegration, product development, and assistive technology services for Fortune 500 companies. Growing the opportunity for: • Strategic Outsourcing with our offshore development center in Minsk, Belarus• Mobile Software Development - iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile platforms• Hardware Solutions – customer driven design services for Walt Disney Company and others.• Assistive Technology – stadium captioning, theme parks, and public venue content delivery for people with disabilities• Cowboys Stadium – sold, sourced, integrated and delivered the first real time mobile captioning, assistive listening, and audio description service at an NFL stadium.• US National Park Service - identified, sold, delivered, and became preferred standard for assistive listening and audio description technology for NPS. Built relationships with numerous IDIQ vendors to serve this important public customer.

• Leading the Durateq hardware division as VP and General Manager• Managing assigned team, business formation and turnaround plan• Delivering agreed upon revenue goals and profit & loss targets• Leading Durateq product marketing efforts and roadmap decisions• Define and execute appropriate go to market strategy • Recruiting appropriate ODM partners, channel partners, dealers, and ISV alliance partners• Managing resources and delivering P&L

Managing 3 direct reports and 5 contractors to deliver “pure marketing” function for the business notebooks product management team. Responsible for WW marketing strategy, communications, competitive intelligence programs, and launch process. • Revamped marketing approach to reposition product line to better differentiate and compete• Launched 5 new platforms on May 9, 2006 and launched HP Professional Innovations driving differentiation and premium in the competitive notebook market• Responsible for regional tie out on go-to-market programs with EMEA, APJ, and Americas• Provide leadership for customer councils, and international product marketing events • Business notebooks contribute ~38% of WW PSG gross margins

Managed one direct report and multiple cross functional core teams responsible for distribution strategy, pricing, promotion, P&L, and lifecycle management of all iPAQ Pocket PC Consumer Products sold through US Retail Channel. Drove cross-channel promotional programs and launch process including financial modeling, P&L approvals, execution, and results tracking.

Responsible for driving the segment marketing, go-to-market plans, and launch process for HP’s North Amercian handheld computing products. Responsible for creating and launching US national promotions for iPAQ sold in all channels – responsibility for offer strategy, financial modeling, P&L approvals, execution, and results tracking.

Delivered $45M in Revenue (+35%) and $12M Gross Margin (+21%) contribution to iPAQ plan in 2002. Responsible for distribution strategy, pricing, promotion, P&L, and lifecycle management of iPAQ Pocket PC Accessories and bundled solutions sold at retail, direct, and commercial channels. Responsible for exploiting market opportunities for applications by aggregating solutions consisting of HP branded, 3rd party, or OEM hardware and software.

Led 2000 Internet Services strategy for US Consumer marketing and helped to deliver over $150M in Revenue and $33M in Gross Margin up from 1999 Internet Services which delivered $75M in Revenue and $16M in Gross Margin. Responsible for driving marketing plan development and lifecycle management of new iPAQ consumer product line and bundled Internet Services sold at retail and direct. Managed multiple cross-functional core teams and one direct report.

Responsible for integrating marketing communications programs for North American Server & Options businesses. Managed team of 5 marketing communication professionals.Developed plans and managed tactical execution of Advertising, Public Relations, Web Advertising, Sales Communication, Direct Mail, and Events for all Compaq enterprise computing products.

Team Leader of Marketing responsible for company revenue objectives and subscriber growth. Managed a team of 6 people that created programs for new customer acquisition, retention, and upgrades for cable TV, high speed Internet, and paging services. Responsible for branding, pricing, internal & external communication plans which included TV advertising. Grew 256,000 cable TV subscriber base by 3%

Introduced “The world’s first draft cola” in NY and LA. Lead member of cross-functional launch team that developed new product from concept to market in four months. Responsible for coordinating internal R&D, Production, Finance, Sales; and directing agencies for Packaging, Advertising, Public Relations, Promotion, and Consumer Research.

BACARDI Black, Reserve, Anejo and CASTILLO rums, BACARDI Mixers. Directed and motivated one brand assistant, and four marketing coordinators. Reported to Marketing Director and Senior Management on national brand strategies and plans. Oversaw all aspects of brand management – P&L, pricing, budgeting, promotion, public relations, research, business analysis, and field sales execution. Responsible for managing development and delivery of materials to field, and achieving brand goals, volume and profit objectives.

Distributor responsibility for Heritage Wine & Spirits. Motivated and directed one sales manager, two assistant sales managers, ten sales reps, one merchandising manager and seven merchandisers. Program responsibility for main warehouse and four satellite branches. Achieved product portfolio quotas & sales growth in a down market

Sales and Field Marketing manager for new product introduction. Responsible for Arizona, California, and Nevada. Developed and implemented plan for $2.5MM local brand investment, regional chain store authorizations & schematics, sales incentive programs. 712,000 cases sold April - December 1990, exceeded objective by 15%. Built brand into fourth largest selling spirit in California (#3 in US with 4.1MM cases sold)

Key member of salesforce preparing & presenting business reviews, market research,and strategic analyses. Developed regional business plans and local promotion budgets. Pioneered framework for new role and spearheaded "fact-based selling"

Contributed on numerous client projects assigned in marketing strategy, engineering management, information systems, and marketing the firm itself.