Education
Texas McCombs School of Business
BBA, Management, Marketing & Psychology 1987-01-01 - 1992-01-01CM Russell High School
High School Diploma, 1983-01-01 - 1986-01-01Wilson Jr High
, -Work Experience
TravelAbundance
Current
TravelAbundance
Merchant Broker Services
Current
Merchant Broker Services
Merchant Broker Services & TravelAbundance
2007-01-01 - 2017-01-01
Merchant Broker Services & TravelAbundance
EVO Platinum Services
2011-03-01 - 2013-12-01
EVO Platinum Services
Texas Child Safety
2010-08-01 - 2012-08-01
Texas Child Safety
BNI - Leaders
2009-01-01 - 2010-01-01
BNI - Leaders
Wind River
2004-01-01 - 2008-03-01
Wind River
Vytek
2001-01-01 - 2004-11-01
Vytek
Stellcom
2000-01-01 - 2004-10-01
Stellcom
CALAMP
2001-01-01 - 2004-01-01
CALAMP
Skills
Summary
Owner of Merchant Broker Services, an Independent Consultancy working to help SMB and national franchise businesses select the commerce solutions that deliver best in class. From Merchant Services, to Point-of-Sale solutions to Loyalty/Reward and Mobile commerce platforms. We work with businesses to identify needs, and broker & negotiate on behalf of the business owner to achieve competitive contracts. Owner and Travel Counselor of TravelAbundance, a full-service Travel Agency. CLIA, ARC & IATAN certified. We love to spoil our clients with special amenities only available thru our Agency. We are certified Disney TA, Sandals, Carnival, Princess, NCL& AM Resort Master Agen, Sandals t. Incentive Group & Destination Wedding speciality with Costa Rica, Mexico, Hawaii & Europe certifications. Deal Maker for Fortune 100 companies - Providing Collaborative Business Development in identifying immediate value to each party - designing relationships that deliver win/win results. Strategic Creative Alliance Design - Building Channel Partnerships, Strategic Marketing - Defining Go-to Market strategies, Product Marketing launch kits, bringing together collaborative deals involving NRE, Advance against royalties models Developing internal program processes and best practices to manage commits/de-commits and critical success factors through cross-functional divisions of Prod. Mgmt, Eng., Marketing, Sales, Support. Direct Sales - sold enterprise software to Fortune 100 companies: Coke, Thales, IBM, etc. Specialties: Strategic Program Development from concept to execution. Business Development, Consultative Sales, Sales Mgmt, Contract Negotiation & creation, Value Proposition Def., building buy-in. Defining, developing and delivering Strategic Executive Relationships as well as growing grass-roots adoption of Strategic Initiatives. Devloping and closing critical deals with partners which have defined metrics and results.