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OWNER - WOOD SCIENCE EXPERT
Summary

Highly motivated professional with 37 years of entrepreneurial, sales, marketing and management experience. Skillfully create and maintain professional and loyal relationships with co-workers, staff and clients while effectively managing employees. Comfortable working independently as manager and leader and as collaborative team member. History of applying business acumen and experience and exercising decisive judgment to meet and exceed organizational goals.

Skills
  • Great knowledge of a product cycle; manufacturing, sales and marketing, distribution, and retail.
  • Strong ability to develop and implement sales strategy through strategic alliances
  • Manage sales reporting in a useful manner to include sales updates and price discovery
  • Great at research and planning to maximize sales revenue and profits
  • Leader in creating, building and maintaining relationships
  • Proven track record of sales and marketing achievements
  • Excellent at developing and executing sales strategies and goals to meet the desire objectives
  • Product branding and sales leadership champion
  • Skilled profit and loss analyst through forecasting, market trends and inventory performance
  • Proficient at using excel, word and power point
  • Strong oral and written skills
  • Very competitive
Experience
Owner - Wood Science Expert
Rosemount, MNDiamondKingSmoker/Jun 2016 to Current
  • Launched DiamondKingSmoker business from ground up
  • Created and performed hands on every step to take a product from an idea on paper to national distribution
  • Creating a niche on a value proposition of why DiamondKingSmoker should be their company and product of choice
  • Presented products at events and trade shows to increase brand awareness and education
  • Provided organizational leadership and established business vision to achieve sales and profit goals
  • Grew the business from ground up to current placement in National and Regional retailers
  • Creating relationships and being recognized in the industry as the most knowledgeable forest products person in the business
  • Developed favorable relationships with vendors and contractors, facilitating contract negotiation and implementation of marketing and sales strategies
  • Monitored market conditions to set accurate pricing structures and take advantage of emerging trends
  • Honed sales pitches and presentations to create committed base of clientele
  • Assessed, optimized and elevated operations to target current and expected demands.
  • Created and implemented marketing and advertising strategies for strategic growth and to support company's revenue goals.
  • Established business vision to achieve sales, profit, and revenue goals.
  • Developed and implemented promotional strategies to drive business success and maintain budgetary guidelines.
  • Monitored supplier operations to verify quality, delivery schedule and conformance to contract specifications.
  • Identified operational weaknesses and developed improvement plans to correct problems.
  • Outlined detailed business plan, drafted mission statement and defined corporate vision.
  • Established strategies to keep the business agile and responsive to changing market conditions.
  • Developed strategies for building income, including distribution model.
  • Worked diligently to maximize customer satisfaction, streamline procedures and improve bottom-line profitability.
Senior Forest Products Trader
Minneapolis, MNAgMotion Inc./Sep 2007 to Jun 2016
  • Management of Sales List and Product offerings of lumber products; which included price, tallies and delivery time
  • Financial reporting including but not limited to market risk volatility and opportunities
  • Extremely knowledgeable of lumber use, grades, rules and regulations, varying mills strengths and weakness
  • Great ability to seek new customers, very persistent with a positive attitude, very strong work ethic and driven to compete and win with integrity
  • Created a very loyal following for the highest quality lumber in the industry
  • Actively managing account base with strong sales and marketing skills
  • Analyze market trends and risk management
  • Grew business from ground zero to $15 million annually in sales while managing and creating the best profitability back to the business
  • Skilled lumber futures trader
  • Pioneered many lumber grades and quality levels within the grades to the market
Forest Products Trader
St Paul, MNNorth Star Forest Materials/Oct 2001 to Sep 2006
  • Daily Lumber Trading
  • Purchasing, Sales and Risk Management
  • Receive an account base and did 15 times the business the company did with the same account base in the previous several years
LumberProduct Manager
Minneapolis, MNBoise Cascade/Jul 1995 to Oct 2001
  • Started business up from ground zero to $25 million annually
  • Learned and performed all duties required of a lumber product manager
Education and Training
Bachelor of Science: Marketing, Statistics And EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - River FallsRiver Falls, WI
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • DiamondKingSmoker
  • AgMotion Inc.
  • North Star Forest Materials
  • Boise Cascade

School Attended

  • University of Wisconsin - River Falls

Job Titles Held:

  • Owner - Wood Science Expert
  • Senior Forest Products Trader
  • Forest Products Trader
  • LumberProduct Manager

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science : Marketing, Statistics And Economics

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