
Business Management Consultant
Portland, Oregon Area

Business Management Consultant
Portland, Oregon Area
· Extensive diversified experience managing Financial, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Manufacturing, Technical Service and Customer Service.
· Innovative problem solver that consistently drives improvement.
· Multiple successful turn-around situations. Dramatic results in very short periods of time.
· Documented long standing reputation for leadership, team building, motivating, resource and people management, coaching skills, customer satisfaction and highly efficient system design.
· Proven success in business plan development, P&L responsibility, defining and communicating goals and objectives, creating strategic and tactical action plans, designing and utilizing metrics.
· Proven people skills communicating a defined vision, with team oriented, shared recognition and value driven leadership, effectively accomplishing problem solving and communication within diverse team members to create positive change.
Turn Around Expert
Profit Maximization
(Management Consulting industry)
July 2003 — Present (6 years 5 months)
Analysis of all aspects of business, creation and implementation of strategic and tactical solutions. Examples:
Business Management Consulting Company
Problem: Owner working over 70 hours per week, low income, unable to grow business.
• Acting as CEO, successfully grew a “one consultant” company into a 35 consultant, growing corporation during the worst recession year in recent history, with no capital investment.
• Designed unique consulting model, business plan, compensation plans, operations plans, sales plan, contracts, interviewed and hired consultants and salespeople.
• Built team of local experienced consultants (about 35) with wide variety of expertise.
• Doubled revenues while decreasing working hours of the existing owner by over 40%.
Software as a Service Company
Problem: In business eight years, no profits.
• In less than 3months, designed, tested and initiated new profit center with minor modifications to the software.
• Constructed business plan to drive company profitable in 10 months, one million in profits in second year.
• Designed and tested multiple successful marketing and sales plans to demonstrating the feasibility of the above business plan.
Point of Sale (POS) and accounting software company.
Problem: Company sales averaging under 25% of quota.
Convinced President to modify administrative procedures to allow more flexibility for sales techniques resulting in 11% increase in sales the following month.
• Developed and implemented sales and product training programs that increased sales by over 400% in 5 months.
• Reduced customer service management time by 60% while significantly increasing sales-service communication and customer satisfaction.
• Designed alternative use of existing software to allow immediate expansion into related market.
(Management Consulting industry)
June 2003 — June 2008 (5 years 1 month)
Medical Document Management software company.
Problem: Marketing yielded low volume and poorly qualified leads.
· Increased Trade Show leads from 10-15 per show to over 120 per show, while greatly improving the quality of the leads.
· Initiated, developed and implemented an innovative marketing campaign achieving the highest record of new accounts sales since 2004.
Automotive Aftermarket Distribution company, $80 million dollar/year, 60 employee,.
Problem: Company outgrew current infrastructure
· Dramatically improved morale, efficiency, and assembly production (300%-400% with no cost increase) in 6 weeks.
· Organized four warehouses, brought up to fire and safety standards, decreased order to ship time from three days to twenty-four hours.
· Redesigned computer system significantly reducing operator time, capturing thousands of dollars of lost backorders and smoothing workflow.
· Installed and trained the sales force, office staff on a CRM package
(Wholesale industry)
March 1987 — May 2003 (16 years 3 months)
Responsible for successfully managing a commercial coffee roasting and equipment manufacturing company.
· Achieved start up direct business sales to one million dollars/year within three years.
· Designed and programmed CRM telemarketing software, and created innovative advertising copy for trade magazines, trade shows and local consumer advertising.
· Designed Point of Sale (POS) materials, brochures, advertising and websites.
· Known for sound judgment, professionalism, sense of humor, and dependability in communicating with staff, clients, and business associates.
· Developed local, U.S and international distributors.
· Engineered the CIMA espresso machine (still on the market); the fastest and most efficient espresso machine available.
· Maintained 95% same day field service with an average of thirty calls per day and a staff of five technicians.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ELRC; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
April 1985 — March 1987 (2 years )
Managed sales for a company that rented and sold Electronic Test Instruments and computer equipment.
· Successfully managed turn-around branch of fifteen sales professionals (inside, outside and telemarketing) resulting in an increase in quarterly sales from $285,000 to $717,000.
· Known for creative problem solving, excellent Customer Service skills, reliability and dependability.
· Successfully trained several inexperienced sales representatives, one who outsold the entire state of Texas from his territory, (about one tenth of Los Angeles), in his second year with the firm.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MCIP; Telecommunications industry)
March 1983 — February 1985 (2 years )
(Machinery industry)
March 1982 — February 1983 (1 year )
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1979 — February 1982 (3 years )
BSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1971 — 1974
1968 — 1971
Medical, electronic, electro-mechanical, automation, robotics, software, MRI, Imaging, scan, Instrument, Home Care, Dental, OR, operating room, software, device, radiology, x-ray, equipment, GM, General Manager, Branch Manager, Sales Manager, representative, sales, marketing, manage, director, regional, area.