Customer Service Manager

Joel Legrande

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

Address: **** ********* ****.

City: Minneapolis

State: MN

Zip: 55421

Country: USA

Phone: 952-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: 32

Willing to Relocate

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Job History / Details:

Joel LeGrande 3927 Reservoir Blvd, Columbia Heights, MN 55421 952-***-****

Career Objective: Bringing the best customer service to a sales environment, engaging the customer in variable ways resulting in solutions to their problems and projects.

Related Employment Experience: Owner/Manager, Howard Prairie Resort: 4/2007 to 6/2012 Daily interface with hundreds of customers and managed 30 employees. Designed graphics, including web site, brochures, posters, and all related support materials.

Art Director/Designer, Best Buy Corporate Marketing Advertising Departments: 3/1997 to 5/2006 Designed interior store graphics while employed in the Visual Merchandising Department. Worked on teams to develop solid marketing solutions for variable markets.

Mover/Shaker, LeGrande household to Oregon: 5/2006 to 9/2006 (10 trips = 40,000 miles) Wife packed household belongings/I packed 16 enclosed trailer drove trips to Oregon. We lost our oldest son in a ski accident 6 years ago, and we have parted ways, so please do not contact her for verification. I will gladly show proof of my involvement there.

Owner, Maytag Just Like Home Laundromat: 8/2001 to 11/2006 Managed 6 employees, installed 16 cameras which we could manage store from Oregon.

Design Director/Designer, Deluxe Corporation: 4/1985 to 4/1996 Managed 9 employees, designed checks, directed 2 staff photographers nationwide for Scenic Americana checks. Designed for Disney(R), National Geographic(R),Harley Davidson(R).

Art Director/Designer, Minnetonka Incorporated: 1/1978 to 4/1985

Developed packaging and graphics, directed photo sessions, nationwide press checks. Designed logos for Softsoap(R), Check*Up Toothpaste(R), Obsession(R) for Calvin Klein(R).

Graphic Designer, Wanigan Marketing Incorporated: 1/1977 to 1/1978

Developed marketing and packaging for Watkins(R) Products of Winona, MN.

Weekly trips to interface with Watkins(R) Marketing Officers.

Education: UWGB - Bachelors Degree with 3.4 GPA in Communication/Action

Other work related experience:Designed and built 2 additions on home in MPLS, including plumbing, electrical, framing,drywall, insulation, 8 skylights, shower, toilet, hot tub drain system sewer connections to the Main drain. Full oak staircase and adjoining 3/4 oak stock floor, 2 garden windows, floor wall tile, wallpapering, shingle and metal roofing. On 83 year old family cabin, replaced hand hewn log under-structure with 2x10 trusses, replaced 32x8 floor boards each custom scribed up to each log face, replaced outside tongue groove siding, stained entire cabin.

Thank you ahead of time for your consideration of my employment!

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