Manager Sales

DavidJ Simmons

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

Address: **** ** ******* **

City: The Colony

State: TX

Zip: 75056

Country: USA

Phone: 214-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: $100,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Job History / Details:

David J. Simmons

3733 St. Andrews Dr. 469-***-**** Home

The Colony, Texas 75056 214-***-**** Cell

*********@********.*** http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-simmons *****.*.********@********.***

Objective To acquire a position of leadership with a progressive organization that is growth oriented, people driven and team based.

Profile * Extensive background in customer service operations and business development, including sales, advertising, promotions, and cost control.

* Ability to communicate effectively with guests, staff and vendors.

* Ability to control cost while exceeding sales and profit expectations.

* Extensive knowledge in all phases of restaurant operations from new unit development, to company wide operations.

* Catering and Event planning. Events that range from 25 to 4000 encompassing major corporations as well as full service weddings.

* All aspects of financial responsibility.

Employment Two New Millennium Corporation, Dallas Texas 5/98-Present

VP of Operations

* Responsible for up to 400 employees.

* Menu development and cost analysis.

* New unit development / Concept development / Team development.

* Daily analysis of all facets of our operations from accounting to Guest service.

* Preparation and execution of annual operations budget.

* Hiring, Training and continued development of all management

* Responsible for the daily operations of 5 restaurants in Texas and Oklahoma.

* Financial responsibility, P&L responsibility for each location.

Planet Hollywood Nashville, TN 1/97-5/98

General Manager

* Hired as General Manager of the Nashville location.

* In conjunction with standard operations, this opened the door for me to become knowledgeable in public relations as related to celebrity promotions.

* Each Planet operated as its own company, accounting, sales, public relations, advertising, all-inclusive to each unit.

* Sales and cost analysis provided to me daily for evaluation and redirection.

* All public relation events, sales activity, merchandise, cost, schedules and weekly P&L`s were directed to me for approval.

* Large scale catering and PR events.

* Management development and Team development.

Two New Millennium Corporation, Dallas Texas 3/94-1/97

Multi Unit Supervisor

* Operated Nick`s in The Colony and opened Nicks in Rowlett.

* Oversaw daily operations of Johnny Miguel`s.

* Responsible for day-to-day operations of all units.

* All phases of F&B management, entertainment, marketing, staff development, management hiring, training and development.

* Created benefits and bonus package for management.

* Exceeded expectations in sales and profit goals each year.

* Developed Teams, in turn experienced great success.

Black-Eyed Pea/Unigate 1/91-1/94

General Manager/Multi Unit Supervisor

* Hired as General Manager.

* Allowed to move a different direction with basic operations.

* As a Team, we showed great success in a short period.

* We hired the best management we could find, we built the best Team that showed growth in sales and profits.

* Within 90 Days, I was promoted to District Manager of south Texas. Austin, College Station, San Antonio, Corpus, and Brownsville.

* I relocated to San Antonio to be in a more central location to all units.

* We experienced a drastic decrease in management turnover, a drastic increase in moral with the result being sales and profit growth.

* A strong focus on day-to-day operations, food quality, cleanliness and excellence was the standard.

* Financial responsibility for 7 units in South Central Texas.

Chili`s / Brinker Dallas, Texas 6/86-1/91

General Manager

* Brinker has proven to be instrumental to the success I have experienced. Leadership and management development was the essence of their success.

* We developed the basics many of the training tools used today.

* I developed a strong Team that was motivated by success, by breaking records, by being the very best.

* Sales growth, profit growth all exceeded expectations due to the Team.

* We took the Redbird unit and successfully turned it around.

* My next challenge was our Mesquite location.

* Cost controls, staff efficiency and effective management allowed us to achieve record profits.

Pizza Inn Austin, Texas 1/81-4/86

Owner/Operator

* Started as a manager while attending school

* Bought first unit via a BFL (Business Facility Lease) through Pizza Inn Inc.

* Had tremendous success with sales growth by investing into community activities.

* Built a strong customer base that allowed me to pioneer the Pizza Inn delivery system.

* I opened the first delivery only location. After a very successful year, I expanded to a full service location and expanded my delivery to both locations.

* This was my first venture into business, I learned a great deal about local advertising, local politics and at the same time accepting different levels of failure.

* With my Team, we achieved great success for approximately a 5-year period. I then decided to bring in partners to allow growth

Summary

While I have covered a great deal of information I have to stress I feel there is much more to learn. I owe my success to my ability to know when to listen, show patience, teach and more importantly continuously learn. I have a record of accomplishment and success and while in no way would I attempt to take credit for everything, I have created successful teams of individuals who possessed the same drive, dedication and goals as me. I appreciate you taking the time to review my resume and look forward to meeting with you.

Training * TABC Certified

* ServSafe Certified

Associations Colony-Lewisville-Durant- Mesquite Chamber Member-TRA

Education

Bryan Adams High School

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