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Management Quality Control

Location:
Ozark, MO, 65721
Posted:
March 09, 2010

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Dennis K. De Priest

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**** *. **** **** **. Residence: 417-***-****

Ozark, MO 65721 Mobile: 417-***-****

Email: ***************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRECISION EQUITY PARTNERS, LLC Sep 04 – Present

Ozark, MO

Managing Member

Business consulting – writing complete business plans, strategic planning, market evaluation, marketing

strategy, manufacturing efficiency, lean manufacturing, personnel evaluation, training, cash flow

management, debt and equity acquisition, debt refinancing, work outs, restructuring, construct UDD franchise

filing and write operations manual, secure debt and equity financing.

Appointed by the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Oklahoma to manage cash flow, provide

management consultation and attempt to secure post petition financing. We reduced labor cost by 40%, I

secured several offers for 364 financing and executed a loan commitment for $1,000,000.

THIRD MILLENNIUM INDUSTRIES, INC. (TMLL) Feb 03 – Mar 04

Rogersville, MO

President and CEO, Rogersville, MO

Responsible for executive functions, strategic planning, acquisitions, public source financing and investor

relations.

• Directed management team in acquiring three operating companies, merging them into one entity and

implemented an A-B Reverse Triangular Merger with the public company X-NET Services, Inc.. This

process resulted in Third Millennium Industries, Inc. becoming a publicly traded company with

beginning trailing revenue in excess of $22,000,000.

• Within four months of the Reverse Merger Third Millennium Industries had a market cap of more than

$30,000,000 and its stock have moved from $.25 per share to $2.60 per share.

• Secured funding commitments of $3,000,000 in bridge financing and $10,000,000 in equity financing.

SPRINGFIELD VENTURE CAPITAL, LLC. 1998-Feb 2003

Springfield, MO

Partner

Responsibilities include: strategic planning; identifying and evaluating potential acquisitions; due diligence;

negotiating acquisition contract terms and employment contracts; market research; hiring, training and

supervision of office personnel; identify and contract with dealers to sell and service subsidiaries products.

Dennis K. De Priest

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METROPOLYMER LABS, INC. 1983-1998

Ozark, MO.

President & CEO

Responsible for: strategic planning; market research; research and development of Polymer Coatings; design

and development of plural component application equipment; interact with state government bureaucrats and

elected officials nation wide; hire, educate and manage lobbyist’s in several states; E.P.A. compliance

reporting; product production; packaging and shipping. U. S. Patent #5,897,914 issued.

Significant Accomplishments

• Developed industrial polymer coating based on modified isophthalic polyester thermoplastic for use

in high corrosion and high abrasion environments.

• Designed and developed a product to eliminate infiltration and inflow of fresh water into sanitary

sewers through and around the manhole cover.

• Invented a sprayable, fiber-reinforced, plural component coating to be used as an insitu sewer system

liner, eliminating fresh water infiltration and inflow. Functionality required the product to demonstrate

significant structural integrity, ability to bridge inch gaps in the substrate, chemical attack

resistance, bondability to a damp substrate, curable at low temperatures.

• Invented a miniature turbine sprayer for application of fiber reinforced sewer lining. Functionality

required the unit to be small enough to negotiate 45-degree turns in a 4- inch diameter pipe spray

viscous, heavily filled material evenly and without clogging.

• Invented long wear retroflective spray applied traffic marking product trade marked and sold

nationally under the name Metromark Copolymer. Product was licensed to Metro Polymer Labs, Inc.

and Amerace Corporation. Functionality required the product to be applicable with existing

equipment, bond to asphalt and Portland cement substrates, cure in less than 90 seconds, bond to glass

spheres imbedded at their diameter in the coating in order to maximize retro reflectivity and be highly

abrasion resistant.

• U.S. Patent #5,897,914 issued for the process of applying an enhanced retro reflectivity traffic

marking.

• U.S. Patent #5,782,706 issued for a golf putter, components thereof and methods of manufacture.

Other Accomplishments:

• Written and taught several parenting seminars.

• Conference speaker on Home Education

CONSULTING PROJECTS SAMPLING

Directed management team in acquiring three operating companies, merging them into one entity and

implemented an A-B Reverse Triangular Merger with a public company. This process resulted in the

surviving entity becoming a publicly traded company with beginning trailing revenue in excess of

$22,000,000. Within four months of this reverse merger the company had a market cap of more than

$30,000,000 and its stock had moved from $.25 per share to $2.60 per share. I also secured funding

commitments of $3,000,000 in bridge financing and $10,000,000 in equity financing.

Aluminum stock trailer and horse trailer manufacturer – annual revenue $12,000,000.

Managed cash flow, evaluated production process and flow to identify and eliminate constraints, implemented

new quality control standards, evaluated and allocated labor, reduced labor cost by 40%, supervised inventory

and purchasing management, directed prioritization of marketing efforts.

Industrial tool and supply distributer – annual revenue $40,000,000.

Evaluated business model and market for growth opportunities through acquisition.

Community wireless broadband internet – start up.

Evaluated and selected the best technology to address the targeted application of community wide wi-fi in

rural communities, found and structured financing through debt and equity, negotiated and executed contracts

with various city counsels to provide wi-fi service, negotiated collocation agreement with a major utility

supplier to allow installation of transmission equipment in five states.

Real estate development - market evaluation, project financing.

Family entertainment center – annual revenue $8,000,000. Responsibilities included:

Evaluate macro demographic and market trends to determine the best theming, games, attractions, buffet

menu items, marketing packages for the emerging family entertainment center industry, conduct local market

demographic study to help determine site selection, design games and attractions layout to maximize

customer involvement, negotiate purchase and installation of $2,000,000 of games and attractions, negotiate

broadcast and print advertising, create media ads, design personnel plan, direct team to develop interactive

web site.

Dance club / sports bar / restaurant

Restructure and refinance debt, develop new marketing strategy, reduce total bank exposure by $300,000.

Charcoal manufacturer

Prepare business plan and SBA loan support documents for $1,500,000 loan.

Structure relocation company

Corporate structure, business plan, marketing plan, financing.



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