Professional Overview
A dynamic leader with more than 12 years global experience. Provides exceptional management and sales leadership. Achieves accelerated and sustained growth while decreasing costs. Strong exposure to German and European markets. Demonstrating versatility to quickly transition across different sales and engineering sectors like Automotive Engineering, Real Estate, Fashion Design and Marketing. Available for relocation and high volume travel.
Key Skills
Exceptional Sales & Management
Expert Project/Program Management
Advanced Budgeting/Record Keeping
Extraordinary Negotiation Skills
Financial and Purchasing Leadership
Superior Start/Ramp Up Management
Unequalled Engineering, Design & Development
Quality Staff Development Leadership
Continuous Market Growth
Strong Analytical Skills
Fluent English & German, Intermediate French
Employment History
Corporate Mansions, Las Vegas Nevada February 2012 to Present
Senior Project Manager
Effectively managed a team of 12+ personnel in various departments including sales and marketing, building construction, interior design and event planners and increased productivity by over 25% while including additional properties. Increased sales by over 30% from 1.2 million to 1.62 million annually by managing the marketing, sales and events development of new properties in the highly competitive Las Vegas market.
Choix Fashion & Accessories, Greenville S.C. Jan 2009 to Dec 2011
Project Manager
Successfully created and developed an online retail fashion start-up by hiring and motivating the right team and directing these 10 global specialists located in different countries including the U.S., India, Romania, China and the Philippines. Launched a new garment manufacturing division and provided an optimised operational structure. Efficiently controlled all finances and purchasing activities in order to increase cash flow by 15%. The family patriarch passed and the business was closed.
Draexlmaier Automotive of America, Duncan S.C . August 2004 to Dec 2008
Sales Engineer/Account Manager
Achieved a 75% increase in sales volume from $90 million to 161 million in four years by negotiating and implementing over 250 engineering changes. The total increase of over $71 million included a 30% profit margin for the GM Cadillac SRX interior program. Demonstrated effective sales and commercial leadership in this program. Created and developed strong relationships with GM buyers. The program ended in Dec 2008 and no follow up project was available.
Peguform GmbH Ingolstadt, Germany June 2003 to July 2004
Program Manager
Successfully managed the implementation of the Audi A3 door panels interior program during start of production and ramp up phase. Inspired a team of up to 40 engineers by motivating and integrating all team members. Enhanced the project volume by over 4 million Euro in the first year plus 1.2 million Euro in additional development volume. Ensured constant delivery of all parts to the manufacturing plant in order to avoid expensive assembly line down time. Efficient project management with the result of costs sav...
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