Plan, organize, direct all operations of the organization, including; program objectives, organization purpose, public relations, membership, finance and staff.

I serve on the board of directors for the Cottleville-Weldon Spring Chamber of Commerce. We serve over 200 businesses in the area. We provide a comfortable environment for networking, business education and community involvement. I co-chair the annual Food Truck Frolic in partnership with St. Charles Community College, a series of family movie nights with food trucks for our local community.

Vision St. Charles County Leadership is a diverse education program, sponsored by the local chambers of commerce, to provide business, organization, and community leaders an interactive platform to discover opportunities and challenges in St. Charles County, MO. Focus areas include tourism, healthcare, government, education, and manufacturing, as well as the County’s court system, law enforcement and civic organizations. Each of the monthly program days provides education and experiences to increase awareness, and the motivation to promote the County’s assets along with opportunities to develop solutions for local challenges. One of the many perks of Vision is networking and relationships that last far past graduation.

Social Media marketing company specializing in helping small businesses engage with their customers in a variety of social media platforms. Develop e-newsletters and social media campaigns to build relationships between our clients and their customers, potential customers, vendors and other business partners as appropriate. We will create/update accounts and create the content, making social media marketing easy and pain-free for businesses that don't have the resources, inclination or know-how to do it themselves. Recognized as "Small Business of the Year" for 2012 by the Cottleville-Weldon Spring Chamber of Commerce.

Planet Fun is an indoor children's play center in St. Peters, MO. It is a favorite spot for birthday parties, field trips, fundraisers and walk-in play everyday. We have a restaurant where we make our own pizzas & salads and have plenty of other kid friendly snacks. There is a toddler area for our friends 3 and under, and we have a game room with a redemption center with lots of fun prizes.

• Responsible for the overall financial performance of the store. This includes merchandise sales, credit and other miscellaneous revenues, expense management, and achievement of profitability goals. • Nov 2007 – Feb 2008 responsible for performance of home store and Crestwood Mall, 7 managers, additional 21 million dollars in revenue.• 2007/2008 District Training Store - oversees all training for Store Managers and Assistant Store Managers hired into the district. • Accountable for customer satisfaction and associate morale of 130 – 150 employees. • Responsible for the management of 7 Assistant Store Managers, ensuring consistency of merchandising and operations of the store.• Proactively lead the store to ensure achievement of business goals in revenue, expense, profitability, customer satisfaction, inventory shrinkage, and associate morale• Select, coach, and develop effective management staff in the store. Develop a diverse, high performing team.• Ensure consistency of merchandising execution and operational processes within the store.• Actively manage the customer experience within the stores.• Chosen for Lands End Store inside a store and tested new appliance concept in 2007.• Chosen for The Great Indoors inside a store in 2008. (1 of 4 stores company wide)• Annual Revenue – 20 Million Dollars

• Partner with fellow district/ store managers to ensure business results are achieved on a daily/ monthly basis, ensure our employees opinions are heard to ensure we are giving them the tools they need to do their jobs everyday, as well as listening to our customers to make sure that we are their retailer of choice when making consumer electronics buying decisions.• Responsible for the operational processes and results for a 12 store market.• Responsible for coaching and training General Mangers and Operations Managers on policies and procedures, developing employees for promotion, P & L responsibilities for district as well as managing payroll budgets for 12 stores. • Responsible for cash office standards, cash handling, and accounts payable for 12 stores.• Responsible for developing and maintaining shrink (inventory control) culture throughout the store• Responsible for driving specific sales initiatives through the operations team.• Responsible for recruiting management talent into the company.• Selected to head Harvest program for District. Harvest is a developmental program for high potential employees ready for promotion within the company.• Selected to assist with developing standard operation platform for store operations.• Received awards for people development labor management, customer loyalty and district profitability and top rated DOM in the company.• Top District Operations Manager in Region for 12 periods in a row.

Dillard’s is one of the nation’s largest fashion apparel and home furnishing retailers.Area Sales Manager – Chesterfield, MO – April 1994 to March1996Women’s Ready to Wear Manager• Departments included Juniors, Women’s World, Ladies Dresses• Annual area volume 3.5 million dollarsArea Sales Manager - Fairview Heights, IL – April 1993 to March 1994 Home Store Manager• Departments included China, Housewares, Bed and Bath, Bridal Registry and Trim a Tree• Annual area volume 1.7 million dollars