Brian C. Baker **** Samuel Wait Court

Wake Forest, N.C. 27587

919-***-**** / ablq05@r.postjobfree.com

Key Achievements Production Control with Technical Skill

Grew a start-up brewing

company from zero to Persuasive, smart and successful identifying, efficient

$14.2M in annual sales. pathways to production and process gains. Designs

innovative strategies in scheduling the meeting of raw

Secured major clients materials and human resources. Stresses efficient

including Costco, Sam's production with the highest quality. Pinpoints company

Club, Durham Bulls needs quickly and provides creative and efficient

Baseball Park, Total solutions. A natural leader with the unique ability to

Wine, Applebee's, lead a team in ensuring every encounter is a win-win,

Harris Teeters, Lowes effectively building long-term relationships.

Foods, and 800+ retail

locations in North Career Accomplishments

Carolina

Built a home-based

apparel business into Clinical Trial Manager, VB Pharmacom Inc. 2006 to present.

five retail sites and Cost control and development for manufacture method of

$12M in annual revenue. surgical staple device. Wrote and illustrated the patents

of this and several other marketable products for

management. Designed and managed clinical trial of a

Value Offered non-surgical cosmetic product RevivifEye and subsequently

Employee Management managed production and packaging.

Clinical Trial

Experience Managing Member, Edenton Brewing Company (EBC), Inc.

Patent Writing Edenton, NC, 2001 to 2006. Joined this start-up brewing

Contract Negotiations company at zero and grew to $6.7M in sales revenue in one

Product Design year. Established its brand as one of the top three

Distributor Management selling premium beer labels in North Carolina within three

Product Development years. Grew the company to what eventually became North

Brand Carolina's third largest brewery. Attended Weihenstephan

Identity/Marketing University in Berlin Germany and completed courses in

Marketing Strategies yeast cell microbiology and chemistry as it applies to

Advertisement food products, namely beer. Overcame large start up costs

Packaging/Product by repairing and installing many pieces of non-operable

Expertise or damaged equipment as much of the equipment was

Internet Campaign purchased used. Sold product concept to, negotiated and

Marketing signed contracts with distributors throughout

Corporate Sales/ Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,

Networks and Georgia. Represented EBC at tasting parties, events,

Financial Acumen/P&L and beer competitions. Created all print ads, labels and

Operational Leadership packaging targeting price point.

Government Procurement Created digital art packaging for labels, six pack cartons

Graphic Design / and case boxes.

Publications Grew annual sales from zero to $6.7M in year one, $14.2M

Media/Public Relations by year three.

Russian Language Managed distributors and launched an effective grassroots

Ability marketing and sales campaign that grew the company

Spanish Language exponentially.

Ability Responsible for testing sugar content of grains, alpha

acid content of hops, ph of water and adjusting the timing

and quantities of each to produce batch to batch

consistency.

Made initial sales contact with many major beer resellers.

Sold full product line and millions of dollars of beer

under contract to Costco, Sam's Club, Harris Teeter,

Lowe's foods and Total Wine.

After U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturned the necessity

for three tier post prohibition alcohol distribution,

devised a direct shipping system to major retailers. EBC

was the first brewery in the U.S. to legally ship direct.

Grew Costco sales from zero to $80,000 per week, Sam's

Club to $87,000 per week and Total Wine to $50,000 per

week through direct to store shipping method.

DirectShip cut handling and fuel costs dramatically. Most

importantly it greatly increased profit for EBC and

reduced price to the consumer.

Served as an industry leader instrumental in overturning the

Awards NC law limiting alcohol by volume (ABV) to 6%. Hosted events

for key politicians (Senators and House Representatives),

U.S National Beer lobbied effectively and gave speech on House floor the day

Tasting Championship of vote.

Best India Pale The new law increased North Carolina sales and significantly

Ale-Big Boss IPA, cut production costs.

2005 Within days of the law passing, major beer producers

Honorable Anheuser-Busch and InBEV (the two largest beer producers in

Mention-Horniblows the world) approached EBC for possible distribution deals,

Tavern ESB, 2005 resulting in sale of EBC in June 2006.

Best Nut Brown

Ale-Uncle Nut's, Nut Owner/Operator, Decathlon Athletic Apparel, Inc., Raleigh,

Brown Ale, 2005 NC 1986 to 2000

Managed 25 full time employees at Decathlon's 25,000 sq. ft.

American Brewers textile printing factory. Scheduled labor and materials for

Association ten separate printing jobs per shift day, during two shifts

normally and occasionally three.

Best Extra Special Created and analyzed digital art photography and graphic

Bitter, Horniblow's works for print media.

Tavern, EBC, 2004 Managed schedules for labor, materials staging and printing

plates, on 9 robotic printing presses operating two shifts

Screen Printing per day.

Association of Advanced detail printing analysis and capability.

America Fulfilled U.S. Army and Air Force print orders as a

subcontractor, often involving millions of pieces and months

Best four-color of production.

process, screen Created websites- GoState.com and GreekStuff.com.

print, and design in UniversityKid.com.

U.S., 1986 Concurrent with Decathlon Athletic Apparel position:

Technical Consultant, iMagic Studios, Inc., 1997 to 2001.

Performed digital enhancement of photographs, still life

Notables art, and video for advertisements, product packaging,

branding identity. We sold our rights to a proprietary and

Successfully restored patented process to EnMassMedia of Canada.

5- story Edenton Managing Partner, UniversityKid.com, 1996 to 1999 -Part time

Peanut Mill in with Decathlon's Owners, created this spin-off in

Edenton, N.C. The partnership with Kingsford Texfi, Inc. (the world's largest

building, listed on textile producer). Manufactured and marketed licensed

the National Historic collegiate apparel in infant/youth sizes for every major

Register, was in college and university in the U.S.

derelict condition. Technical Consultant, TUF Products International, 1995 to

The restoration 1998 - Identified several serious design defects in several

process lasted new models of printing presses produced by the company.

several years and was Designed, developed, and built prototype of design

the subject of many improvements for high speed robotic printing presses for the

published articles in company, which they later patented. Co-designed and built

newspapers and prototype of new, on-press drying system attachment for

architectural automatic printing presses.

magazines, 2001 Worked under A/P at a Certified FAA Repair Station,

1993-1999. Duties included installation of avionics, GPS,

Worked under several Radio and intercom systems, stripping and repainting

A/P mechanics at a aircraft with graphics design, taping and operating the

certified FAA Repair spray gun, drilling rivets and re-skinning aluminum panels

Station. on damaged and corroded aircraft, fuel tank replacement, and

engine/prop repair/rebuild/replacement at a facility which

Pilots License with specialized in General Aviation Aircraft.

2732 hours of flight

time.

Successfully Education and Licenses

prosecuted copyright

infringement against

Wal-Mart Stores, 1993 BA, Accounting, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,

NC, 1986 (initially attended NCSU for entry into the College

of Veterinary Medicine and completed a high concentration of

life science and biology classes.

Weihenstephan University, Master Brewer.

Agents Licenses, Long-Term Care/ Life&Health Insurance, NC

Department of Insurance,

U.S. Coast Guard Captains license, 1993; FAA Pilots License,

IFR rating, 1993

North Carolina Commissioner of Banks loan officer license

current through 2010.

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