Robert Brogdon

***Grassmeade Cove

Memphis, TN **018

901-***-**** Phone

901-***-**** Cell

E-mail: ad2sdx@r.postjobfree.com

I am the owner and operator of Bob’s Appraisal Service, Inc., and Investor Rehab Service, Inc., which are locally owned and operated businesses in Shelby, Tipton and Fayette counties. EXPERIENCE

Investor Rehab Service, Inc.-Memphis, TN 9/2008 To Present Investor Rehab Service, Inc., is a residential and commercial roofing and remodeling company assisting investors and home owners with insurance claims for the repair of their homes and investors seeking to restore investment properties to various degrees of condition.

STATE CERTIFIED RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE APPRAISER CR-3224 I AM A STATE CERTIFIED RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE APPRAISER SERVICING SHELBY, TIPTON AND FAYETTE COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE.

Bob’s Appraisal Service-Memphis, TN 6/1/2006 To Present. Bob’s Appraisal Service is a residential real estate appraisal firm assisting mortgage lenders, attorneys, real estate agents and individual home owners establish fair market value for real property in southwestern Tennessee. Eddins Appraisal Service-Memphis, TN, 10/2003 to 6/1/2006. Eddins Appraisal Service is a residential real estate appraisal firm assisting mortgage lenders, attorneys, real estate agents and individual home owners establish fair market value for real property in southwestern Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi. Registered Trainee-Assisted the certified residential real estate appraisers in preparing appraisal reports. This includes all aspects of the appraisal development and reporting. Frisby Appraisal Service-Memphis, Tn, 7/2003 to 10/2003. Frisby Appraisal Service is a residential real estate appraisal firm assisting mortgage lenders, attorneys, real estate agents and individual home owners establish fair market value for real property in southwestern Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi. Registered Trainee-Assisted the certified residential real estate appraiser in preparing appraisal reports. This includes all aspects of the appraisal development and reporting. Homeland Security Corporation-Nashville, TN. July 2002 to December 2002 Homeland Security was contracted by Lockheed Martin to train the new federal screeners at the airports as part of the beginning of the Transportation Security Administration. Basic Screener Trainer-I trained the screeners on the procedures used for physical pat- downs, Hand Wanding, Explosive Trace detection and Walk-Through Metal Detectors. I also trained screeners how to interpret X-ray images to detect possible and obvious threat items.

IMT Trainer-Once basic screeners completed their 60 hours of On-The-Job training, they have to pass an additional X-ray interpretation test which I proctored. I trained screeners for this Image Mastery Test.

Site Coordinator-As site coordinator for Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport, I coordinated training at the airports with the Airport Managers. I managed the daily activities of the trainers and resolved any logistic or human resource issues. CIMA Telecom, Inc., Miami, FL. August 2001-June 2002 Private company located in Miami with additional operations in Spain and Venezuela. The company offered prepaid calling card service, International wholesales services and local and long distance service in LATA 460.

Director of Carrier Services

I was responsible for the profitable operation of the Wholesale division as well as supporting the network requirements for the commercial divisions. I reported to the CEO.

Established QOS standards for each route and I established a mechanism for evaluating the performance of our vendors.

Responsible for the negotiation of all fixed and variable cost contracts.

Performed the buying and the selling for the wholesale division which was the only profitable division in the company.

Co-located the switches with Versa, got them redundant and got battery and generator backup with my co-location agreement.

Negotiated 23 Bi-lateral Service Agreements with a combination of domestic and foreign telephone companies. Some of those included IDT, BTI, Sprint, Conecel

(cellular provider in Ecuador), COLT, Iberian, Primus and Tricot in four months after getting the switches ready to do business.

Consistently generated in excess of 15% gross margin for the wholesale division with no bad debt.

Bought a carrier grade billing system.

Ursus Telecom Corporation, Sunrise, FL. February 2000 - March 2001. NASDAQ-listed international long-distance carrier providing VoIP, long-distance, direct-dial, value-added, and Internet-based services.

VP - Carrier Services

Responsible for growing carrier revenues through adding new domestic and international accounts as well as negotiating vendor contracts for private line or switched services, creating rate plans, providing profit analysis of carrier business, and monitoring and improving quality of network. Report to Executive VP - Sales.

Started up division, including developing and implementing strategic growth plan, growing monthly revenues to $3,000,000 level within 4 months after deployment of Carrier grade switch in NY.

Developed relationships and negotiated contracts, including switch partition agreement that generated over 10% of total company revenues within first 120 days of operations.

Personally negotiated 12 Bi-Lateral Traffic Exchange Agreements in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Represented company at all trade shows and association meetings. IXC, Inc., Boca Raton, FL. 1993-2000

$35 million company engaged in business of assisting facility-based long-distance carriers sell excess capacity in their networks. Company sold services of smaller international carriers, enabling them to be facility managers and concentrate on expanding their networks.

Founder / General Manager / Sales Director

Conceived of company, wrote strategic business and sales plans and then grew annual revenues to $35 million.

Personally performed all sales activities, including contract negotiations and coordinating facility installations. Worked closely with owners, presidents, vice presidents, and high-level politicians, establishing outstanding relationships built on trust, in-depth product/market knowledge, and superb service.

Negotiated 17 Bi-lateral Traffic Exchange Agreements in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

LDDS (MCI WorldCom), Memphis, TN. 1984 - 1993

$4 billion long-distance telephone company and third largest in the country. Director of Carrier Sales - Southeast, 1992 - 1993

Maintained revenue base of $18 million a month while adding $400,000 a month in new revenues. LDDS VP - Operations, Tennessee, 1991 - 1992

Responsible for making revenue goals for the state. Managed all aspects of the business including Sales, Customer Service, Installation, Collections, and Accounting and bore the responsibility for Profit and Loss in the state of Tennessee. Maintained bad debt of less than 1% kept SG&A at less than 17% and exceeded all New Billed Revenue requirements. LDDS Director of Operations, Tennessee, 1990 – 1991

Responsible for making revenue goals for West Tennessee. Managed all aspects of the business including Sales, Customer Service, Installation, Collections, and Accounting and bore the responsibility for Profit and Loss in the state of Tennessee. Maintained bad debt of less than 1% kept SG&A at less than 17% and exceeded all New Billed Revenue requirements.

LDDS Director of Major Accounts, 1989 - 1990

Grew sales in my region from zero to $4.8 million per month level before being promoted. Oversaw 4 Major Account Executives while personally producing 30% of total volume.

Landed leading accounts, including major banks, hospitals, colleges and universities.

Co-authored in conjunction with Memphis State University marketing professor the company’s first relationship sales training program. LDDS Major Account Manager, 1988 - 1989

Selected by Bernard Ebbers, then President/CEO of LDDS and now CEO of MCI Worldcom, to start up Major Accounts Division.

Grew personal revenue base from zero base to $4.8 million before being promoted. MCI Major Account Representative, 1987 - 1988

Responsible for winning back high-profile accounts that had canceled service.

Delivered revenues of $32,000 a month versus $15,000 monthly quota, re-establishing relationships with Consolidated Freightways, SAIA Freight Lines, Caterpillar, Firestone Tire and Rubber, and DuPont.

MCI Senior Full Lines Sales Representative, 1985 - 1987

Performed extensive prospecting, calling on medium to large businesses.

Generated sales of $11,000 per month in new-billed revenue versus a $7,500 per month quota.

MCI Full Line Sales Representative, 1984 - 1985

Great Southern Corporation, Memphis, TN. 1978 - 1984. Major Account Manager EDUCATION

Liberal Arts Program, Memphis State University, 1974-1976 AFFILIATIONS and CERTIFICATIONS

United States Judo Association, 2nd Degree Black Belt (Nidan) United States Judo Association - Level Two Rank Examiner United States Judo Association Life Member

Miyamaryu Judo Instructor and Coach

Miyamaryu Jujutsu, Black Belt (Mokuroku)

Miyamaryu JuJutsu Instructor

Memphis Area Association of Realtors

Mid-South Real Estate Investors Association, Inc.

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