President / General Manager Resume Example

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina (2005) founded and spearheaded this company. Implementation of all aspects of this company including:

• Raised Capital to launch business... The company is made up of 5 equal partners, including myself.
• Traveled to the Mississippi Coast, to develop the management team, acquire real estate holdings (approximately 40 homes, small apartment building and commercial building with 80 doors/units).
• Negotiated all purchases, contracts, mortgages, and other functions necessary in developing a real estate holding and management company.
• Lead this young real estate holding company through the worst real estate and economic collapse in my generation.

Today I still act as the managing member and president but most of the operations are performed by our management team including a property manager in Mississippi, and a controller in CA.

• Co-Developed and directed strategy for launch of new product that became the # 1 line of our client, who was a leading manufacture within their industry. Until the development of our product, the only viable option for this industry was products manufactured abroad, mostly in Asia.
• We built this company in a short twelve months to employee a staff of 8 and product almost one million dollars in man-made stone patio furniture table tops.
• I no longer manage this company but still hold a stake in it.

As discussed previously, acquired a failing company and quickly turned it into a profitable business.

• Accountable for the management of the business including overall customer satisfaction.
• Created new revenue streams through 1)business to business marketing techniques, 2) developing/manufacturing/importing a new revolutionary product for our industry 3) raising the level of excellence offered by our company to a level never seen before in our industry.
• Increased profits by 20% by implementation of providing goods that we manufactured and imported rather than purchasing from local vendors.
• Managed a team made up of 18 staff and 3 managers.