Butch Porter

Current

Principal at Goose Creek Financial

Past

Sr. Communications Consultant at ATX Communications
Organizational Manager at Varsity Company

Education

University of South Carolina - The Moore School of Business
University of South Carolina
Louisiana State University

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Recommended

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Connections

455 connections

Industry

Insurance

Websites

Butch Porter’s Summary

Goose Creek Financial was formed in order to provide families and businesses with the resources to help them better manage their health and health care costs.

Butch Porter’s Specialties:

Health insurance, Employee Benefits, business-to-business and consumer sales, recruiting, sales training, and team-building.

Butch Porter’s Experience

Principal

Goose Creek Financial

(Insurance industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Health Insurance consultant. Helping families and small- to medium-sized organizations better manage their health care costs through consumer-driven health insurance and supplemental policies. Certified in CDHC by the National Association of Health Underwriters.
Sr. Communications Consultant

ATX Communications

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 9 months)

Prospected, developed, and called upon hundreds of leads throughout the Metropolitan DC area. Met with IT Directors, CFOs, and business owners to determine communications needs from the technical, financial, and marketing angles.
Interfaced with marketing, sales engineering, provisioning to:
· Formulate financially viable proposals which fill the needs of the customer
· Present technical proposals to both technical and non-technical audiences and close the sale
· Coordinate with phone vendors and IT vendors to ensure customer satisfaction
Organizational Manager

Varsity Company

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

May 1993 — August 2002 (9 years 4 months)

· Taught and developed student managers to lead sales teams in Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and South Carolina.
· Organized and implemented weekly sales meetings to improve production.
· Taught multiple sales training sessions in national sales school in Nashville, TN.

Butch Porter’s Education

University of South Carolina - The Moore School of Business

MBA , Business , 2001 — 2003
University of South Carolina

MBA , Marketing, Operations , August 2001 — May 2003

Broad class schedule including Supply Chain Management and Telecommunications

Activities and Societies:

Alumni Representative for MBA Student Association
Louisiana State University

BS , Physics/Astronomy , August 1992 — May 1998

Additional Information

Butch Porter’s Websites:

Butch Porter’s Interests:

politics and policy, space exploration, kayaking, college football, American and world history, used and rare books, movies

Butch Porter’s Groups:

LSU DC Alumni, Moore School of Business Graduate Alumni, Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce, Last Tuesday Club, Leadership Loudoun-Class of 2008, National Association of Health Underwriters, The Federalist Society