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FOUNDER/PRESIDENT
Executive Profile
Mature, Ambitious, Visionary, Leader, utilizing Executive Business Management skills, in accomplishing numerous exceptional Logistics and Sales results. Effective communicator developing ideas and concepts that influences others, gained by listening to customers and team mates input and made recommendations to improve overall operations. Create employee job satisfaction, improving teams self-worth by establishing a winning work place team environment. Energetic, productive, employees contributes to increased self-esteem, intensifying productivity, profitability and employee retention. Showed how utilizing several changes could benefit their client through improved cost effective and marketing ideas. Satisfied customers lead to referrals and future sales and establishment of long term relationships. 20+ years of military service ingrained in me leadership skills, creating trust, and successful operational accomplishment through strategic planning, Developed logistic plans for preventive maintenance, safety awareness and compliance and critical document control,.
Skill Highlights

Effective communicator, negotiator, motivator, trainer, team leader/player

Achieved outstanding sales results through product knowledge, organization, creativity, integrity, honesty, determination to excel

Goal oriented, sales driven, at company, customer, and industry levels.

Established long term business relationships, exemplary customer service leading to sales, referrals and company profitability

Teach "SMILE" concept (simplify-manage-input-lead-exemplify)

15 + years' experience with alternative fuels & renewable energy projects, wind, solar, propane, and natural gas


  • Committee experience at local, state and federal levels
  • Created safety programs to insure safety of employees customers, reliability of vehicles which lead to receiving numerous Safety Awards from Lancer Insurance Excellence in Safety
  • Created Sales to fuel the fire, that drives the train, that delivers our goods or services to our customers which creates the proficiency to meet and exceed sales, performance and profitability expectations expectations referrals, company our service leading to sales,
Core Accomplishments
  • Founder - President of "Full-Service" Vanpool company (ABS Vans, Inc.)
  • Developed concepts, enhancing commuter benefits by improving dependability, flexibility, commute time
  • Contributed to project successes as a committee member on many boards at the local, state and federal levels, Assisted in the development of the first dedicated (HOV) high occupancy vehicle lanes during the rebuilding of Springfield Interchange Project

  • ABS Vans full service concept improved efficiency and utilization of vanpooling for our customers by providing the vans, fuel, insurance, maintenance, tolls, parking, back up vans, full time dedicated staff and loyalty perks while additionally saving customers money, stress and time.
  • Over 24 years, ABS VANS eliminated over 8,736,000 SOV (Single Occupant Vehicle) trips, saved over 873,600,000 commuter miles,
  • Reduced reliance on foreign oil by over 43,680,000 gallons, saving for over $141,960,000.00 in fuel expenses.while removing millions of tons of harmful auto emissions from local airways.
  • Provided exemplary, courteous, dependable service to over 20,000 commuters on the worst congested highways in the U.S without a FATALITY!!
  • Added additional company profit centers including a Daily Van Rental Division through creation of a niche rental market. This
  • move also allowed ABS Vans to maintain extra vehicles that could be pulled from Rentals put into Vanpool service immediately.
  • Acquired Auto Dealers License which reduced our procurement cost of vans by over 20%, allowing complete control of vehicles from point of acquisition, though life-cycle use then allowing the opportunity to sell our used inventory without a middleman.
  • Implemented Stringent Preventive Maintenance Program increasing Reliability, Dependability and Safety for our customers.
  • These 3 moves combined improved Profitability by over 32%.

  • VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
  • Procuring cause behind identifying the need and development of a new source of Commercial Vanpool Insurance.
  • Worked with VDRPT, VDOT, and VA Department of Risk Management in the development, shaping, concept creation, necessary to improve upon existing insurance coverage..
  • ABS provided 5 years of company insurance documentation, loss runs and other critical areas for consideration, while providing a voice for small independent owner-operators to help improve their liability coverage for both owners and customers.
  • Increased Liability limits from $1M up to $15M per occurrence, Accepted the role as the Pilot Company to roll out new AdVANtage Insurance Program.
  • Recommendations and provided data lead to the 1st Vanpool Insurance Program of its kind, funded by a state, providing a self-insured captive insurance program.
  • Program grew by over 500% since inception in 2008.

  • Stakeholder in Virginia Clean Cities, ABS Vans was a committee member working with groups from Virginia and 6 other states for the conversion over 1000 vehicles to operate on both gas and propane in 7 states to establish a Propane Development Corridor Infrastructure. ABS Vans provided a Ford E 350 van with 5.4L engine that was converted to operate on Propane Auto gas and was used by Rousch Industries for EPA testing and received EPA Certification allowing for participation in the program
  • Propane provides the best alternative fuel solution over Natural Gas for many reasons and represents tremendous growth potential for many years to come.
  • Possessing the vehicle experience, the conversion company contacts, concepts and implementation plans to expand the use of Propane Auto-Gas across the U.S.
  • by successfully fielding a Pilot Project in Spotsylvania and Stafford Counties to provide a badly needed solution for programs that have a never ending life cycle.
  • I am a motivated, compassionate leader, with outstanding achieved results in numerous industries to include areas not mentioned in this resume, but that can be easily validated.
  • My goal is to constantly strive to represent products or services in order to develop and expand opportunities currently in use, while looking for other uses for the product or service that I represent.
  • Available to start on 1 July, 2015.
Professional Experience
Founder/President ABS Vans Inc Stafford, VA
  • Founder - President of ABS Vans started in 1988 and operated 24+ years.
  • Developed a "Full-Service Vanpool Company".
  • to assist in removing cars from highways, while reducing harmful automobile emissions, traffic congestion and commuting times.
  • Provided commuters with more options, servicing more areas, destinations and work schedules than any other form of.
  • Mass-Transit.
Vice President Sales/Logistics Quantum Prime Communications, Inc
  • Designed, developed, implemented and installed Satellite Communication Solutions for areas where land line infrastructure had been destroyed or did not exist.
  • 2 largest contracts were designing the disaster communications hub at the American Red Cross Headquarters complete with 10 mobile workstations that could be transported anywhere in the world since they were built using Mil Spec, 2 man lift, ruggedized cases that withstood almost any shock to the cases.
  • We were in New York on 9/12/2001 with the NY Chapter of the ARC supporting dedicated communications requirements after the attacks of 9/11/2001.
  • Developed communications solutions and installed communications Hub for DOD in Mons, Belgium.
  • Built and installed numerous ruggedized workstations to support requirements in 26 Non-NATO countries consisting primarily of countries of the former Soviet Union.
  • Solution included communications, data and video teleconferencing capabilities enabling ability to communicate in areas where landline infrastructure never previously existed to allow for long distance learning and medicine communications.
  • Aviation, Electronics, Logistics, and Special Operations U.S.
  • Army Worldwide Assignments Career included Transportation coordination, Avionics, aviation electronics, Electronic Warfare Equipment Repair.
  • Supervised 25 soldiers providing support to over 3000 Military Intelligence soldiers.
  • Lead teams in government testing and acceptance of new equipment before procurement while assigned to 3 Depot Maintenance assignments.
  • Wrote and taught logistics plans to include, property accountability, life cycle cost analyst, document control, established preventive maintenance requirements and created safety plans based on core needs.
Founder - President 12/1987 to 04/2012
 ABS Vans, Inc Stafford, VA
  • Developed concepts, enhancing commuter benefits by improving dependability, flexibility, commute time Contributed to project successes as a committee member on many boards at the local, state and federal levels, Assisted in the development of the first dedicated (HOV) high occupancy lanes during the rebuilding of Springfield Interchange Project ABS Vans full service concept improved efficiency and utilization of vanpooling by providing the vans, fuel, insurance, maintenance, tolls, parking, back up vans, full time dedicated staff, and loyalty perks.
  • Eliminated over 1400 Single Occupant Vehicle (SOV) trips daily, 364,000 SOV trips annually, saved 36,400,000 commuter miles per year, saving 1,820,000 gallons of gas per year, reducing fuel costs by over $5,915,00.00.
  • Over 24 years, ABS VANS eliminated 8,736,000 SOV trips, saved over 873,600,000 commuter miles, reducing reliance on foreign oil by over 43,680,000 gallons, leading to savings for commuters of over 141,960,000.00 in fuel expenses.
  • Provided exemplary, courteous, dependable service to over 20,000 commuters on the worst congested highways in the U.S without a FATALITY Added additional profit centers including a Daily Van Rental Division by creating a niche rental market.
  • This move also allowed ABS Vans to maintain extra vehicles that could be pulled from Rentals put into Vanpool service immediately.
  • Acquired Auto Dealers License which reduced our procurement cost of vans by over 20%, by buying and selling at auctions.
  • allowing the opportunity to sell our used inventory at end of life-cycle use without need of a middleman.
  • Implemented Stringent Preventive Maintenance Program increasing Reliability, Dependability, Safety for customers and drivers.
  • These 3 moves combined improved Profitability by over 32% annually.
Education
Associate of Arts: Business/Arts City Colleges of Chicago Business/Arts
Skills
analyst, Army, benefits, concept, contracts, creativity, customer service, dependable, designing, drivers, Electronics, Equipment Repair, government, Hub, Insurance, inventory, team leader, Logistics, market, excel, natural gas, negotiator, communicator, oil, procurement, profit, receiving, Safety, selling, Sales, trainer, Transportation, video
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • ABS Vans Inc
  • Quantum Prime Communications, Inc
  • ABS Vans, Inc

School Attended

  • City Colleges of Chicago

Job Titles Held:

  • Founder/President
  • Vice President Sales/Logistics
  • Founder - President

Degrees

  • Associate of Arts : Business/Arts

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