MARK HYRE
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Extensive experience in sales, marketing, and management operations in real estate industry and animal rescue and shelter operations. Passionate about quality leadership, community impact, and social change for animals. Record of improving company efficiency, productivity, and profitability through employee training and process development. Strong, reliable work ethic, interpersonal skills, and creativity. Decisive, articulate, and diligent.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Strategic Planning Budget Planning & Cost Control
Teamwork Market Analysis
Project Leadership Visionary
Diplomacy Client Relations
WORK HISTORY
SALES AND MARKETING, Gaithersburg, Maryland 2014 - Present Freelance
Consult, develop, and write sales and marketing manuals for real estate businesses
DOGS DESERVE BETTER, INC., Smithfield, Virginia 2013 - 2014 Director of Operations
Managed daily operations while leading six onsite staff and over 200 representatives and volunteers nationwide
Created, designed, and implemented the process for each dog’s intake, rehabilitation, training, socialization, and adoption
Directed strategies and oversaw public relations campaigns, advertising, and grant writing to increase “forever home” adoptions
Dogs Deserve Better, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization, chartered to rescue chained and penned dogs nationwide and provide them with rehabilitation, vetting, socialization, and rehoming
MERCEDES HOMES, LLC, Daytona, Florida 2005 - 2011
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Managed sales and marketing operations for the Florida division of this national home building company
Led, trained, and developed 28 sales/mortgage/marketing and administrative staffs
2006 and 2009 Sales Manager of the Year
Company awards: Parade of Homes Award, National Housing Quality Award, The Best in American Living Award, and the People’s Choice Award DAVID WEEKLEY HOMES, Cape Coral, Florida 2000 - 2005 Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Managed sales and marketing operations for the Florida division of this national home building company
Trained, developed, and hired approximately 18 sales and marketing team members
Motivated and directed the sales and marketing team to exceed home sales expectations, leading to state, regional, and national recognition
Company awards: America’s Best Builder, National Housing Quality Award and two-time recipient of National Builder of the Year; several J.D. Power and Associates recognitions and FORTUNE Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For®”
TORREY HOMES, Atlanta, Georgia 1989 - 1999
Vice President of Sales
Served as Vice President of Sales during a key company expansion; Torrey Homes named the largest builder in Atlanta in 1995. Company growth continued in the following years
Motivated, trained, developed, and hired the sales team. Included a team of 74 during the 1991-1995 expansion
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, Lajes AFB, Azores 1977 - 1981 SSgt
EDUCATION
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 1982 Business Administration
VOLUNTEER WORK
Rescue and animal shelters, Gaithersburg, Maryland 2014 - Present