I just may have found my new home.  At Unique thrift I'm responsible for hiring managing and training a staff of 50+ employees that perform a wide variety of duties for the store.  Ranging from picking up charitable contributions through Apogee Trucking LLC from a wide variety of contributors.  Then another division sorts the donations and prepares them to be displayed and sold.  Another group of employees handles merchandising and changing out the inventory on a daily basis.  The unsold merchandise is then disposed of through inventory reduction sales and through other means.  An additional staff is responsible for handling the customer's sales.   It has been challenging and rewarding thus far.  I was hand picked from over 500 applicants by Dave Kloeber.  You can find more about him, by clicking on his name above.  I assure you he's a very interesting person and working with him is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

    In my short time at Family Finance Mortgage I've taught myself a great deal about the mortgage industry.  Unfortunately, the training process was not quite what I needed.  I have built relationships with local real estate agents, land developers, landlords, investment advisers and accountants that will and to a degree already have, resulted in a network of referral business.  I have a number of marketing techniques that I have not exercised yet because I'm hesitant to associate my reputation with Family Finance Mortgage.  I'm searching for the company that can take full advantage of my unique marketing methods and and experience and hopefully in exchange can lead me informatively into my future success.

      During my time with World Finance I have handled all aspects of the office operations. We were left to run the office as if we owned it. World Finance does small consumer loans, some secured and some unsecured.  We were responsible for everything one would have to do with the loans.  Including, but not limited to, soliciting business, taking loan applications, performing credit analysis to determine credit worthiness, closing the loans and collecting the accounts.  World Finance is the 3rd largest tax preparing company in the nation. My office was one of the largest in the company and I had between five and seven employees directly under me at all times.  During my time as assistant district manager I guided 9 separate offices with an average staff of 4 employees per branch toward success through leadership by example or leadership by service if you would rather. I personally hired, trained and promoted 22 employees over the five years and many of them went on to manage offices or even entire districts.  Over the 5+ years that I was part of the World Finance team, me and my associates were continuously recognized for thinking outside the box by developing concepts to expand the size and improve the quality of the office operations through creative marketing and cooperative efforts with local business owners for reduced advertising expenses and improved referral business.  We were regularly recognized for being the first to do the impossible, leading to a number of awards for being the largest, (in total size, total customer base and the leader in taxes) for being the most profitable, for having the lowest delinquency and for being the best in overall operations.

       The operations at Security Finance were very similar to what I did at World Finance.  The main difference being that Security Finance made more use of my ability to create something from nothing.  I got the reputation at Security Finance for cleaning up problem offices that were on the verge of being closed down for a lack of profitability.  I would be transferred into the new office, spend some time (30-60 days generally) analyzing the office's weaknesses and then eliminating those weaknesses and replacing them with strengths.  With a strong staff and consistent daily routine in place the offices all quickly improved and became leading offices within their district and in most cases the state, the division and the company.  In a few instances I was parachuted in to an uncharted area with nothing but my unrelenting persistence, and my ability to create solutions before there were problems, as my only survival knife (figuratively of course)  I would then arrange the lease, promote the office as opening soon, hire and train an entire staff, furnish the office with all necessary equipment and within 30 days we had hundreds of customers.  Within 6 months the office was supporting itself and was in the black and making me and the company a healthy profit.  I included the title assistant manager, but frankly I was in that position for less than two weeks.

    While with Thorn Americas (Rent-A-Center Corporation) my duties involved creatively displaying merchandise in a way that encouraged customers to emotionally attach themselves to the products by using aesthetics and efficient use of space with placement to help them to feel at home and to envision themselves and the products in their homes.  My successes resulted from taking the individual's needs for a single item and developing those needs into a desire for a coordinated package of products.  Much of this developed into in home presentations and demonstrations.  As an account manager I was responsible for follow up with customers to make sure they have and received what they needed and to determine if there were any new and additional needs.  I was also responsible for all of the collections on delinquent accounts which was most effectively performed on the phone using creative methods of reaching the customer at work, home, and through references, bosses, creditors and landlords.

The following jobs were minimized for the purpose of efficient use of space and as a result of their being 10+ years ago.  More details about them is available at your request.

    If you have read this far, you must have found something in my history that peaked your curiosity, so I'll give you a little more personal background.  I've been working in one form or another since I was 10 years old.  I have an entrepreneurial spirit that has often lent itself to successful business ventures.  Over the years I've developed, managed and operated successfully a number of business ventures including, but not limited to:  import/export  -  real estate  -  a web site design company - a publishing/advertising company  -  a tax preparation/bookkeeping service  -  retail, ranging from teacher's supplies to sunglasses  -  auto dealership  -  auto repair  -  an automobile repossession company  and more.  If you want an employee to clock in and clock out, go through the motions, put in their time and leave their work at work, then I am not your guy.  If you want someone that will run your business like you would run it yourself and that you'll have to kick out of the office for working too much then we should probably meet so you can judge for yourself if I am everything that I say I am.

Business, Personal and Credit references available upon request. 

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P.O. Box 26
Festus, MO 63028

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