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"Customer obsessed, triumphant"
WORK EXPERIENCE
Outside sales, Premium Quality Lighting
March 2017 - Present
o Built a $750k/year book of
business from home in 9 months with nothing but a
laptop and access to the inventory.
o Grew my business 50%-100% YoY
o Adopted new technologies and lead the department in innovation.
o Built an app to replace myself
Joseph Clarke
Founding Partner, Homestead Market CSA
CTO, Homestead Market
March 2021 - March 2022
o Connected local businesses including an adjoining organic farm to a neighborhood market o Increased margins and migrated the inventory and transactions to a cloud based solution o Cut costs and enhanced customer experience
o Passed off leadership role seamlessly and stayed on as a consultant Sales manager, Brazos Walking Sticks
January 2020 - March 2021
o Sold $6.5M in one day during the height of the pandemic: Shifted focus to PPE (our parent company was a DME with massive storehouses) and business consulting via multimedia production, capturing massive sales in an environment totally hostile to our primary product. o Created new and innovative sales approaches during the pandemic which severely threatened our company.
o Re-imagined our customer focus and helped to transition company for change in leadership. EDUCATION
AWS - Certified Cloud Solutions Architect, Certified Cloud Practitioner, Terraform Associate 2024
o Intensive night school and mentor-directed program; working my way into IT career (ongoing). Gonzaga College High School (Washington DC)
2003
Diploma
o Jesuit college preparatory school in downtown Washington DC. Over a 250 year reputation for turning out young men with character, knowledge, drive, and a heart for people. Voyager Outward bound/Walk Across America
2003-5
o Completely off grid 75-day excursion in Manitoba, CA and Montana; leadership training in extreme environments. Survival Leadership Cert, Alpine Survival o Walk across America the following year from San Diego to Washington DC Waco, TX 76705