Experience

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Neighborly®

Franchise Business Coach

March 2024 - Present (11 months)

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BrightView Landscapes

Business Developer

January 2022 - March 2024 (2 years 3 months)

Loveland, Colorado, United States

BrightView ranked #1 in Lawn and Landscape’s Top 100 list in 2021. Responsible for growing relationships and creating new maintenance and enhancement opportunities in a highly competitive market.

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Machination Mead Works LLC, DBA Mechalore MeadWorks

Small Business Owner

May 2018 - December 2021 (3 years 8 months)

Loveland, Colorado

Built business from ground up. Performed many roles including business management, government compliance, both business to business and direct to customer sales, marketing, mead making, packaging, website design and management and label design.

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Leo Landscape Inc

Account Manager / Business Development Manager

April 2021 - October 2021 (7 months)

Brighton, Colorado, United States

Responsible for helping division manager in growing a new commercial landscape maintenance department. Developed contracts, estimating formats, business plan, and budgets. Managed existing equipment and purchased new equipment to ensure daily crew operational success. Interviewed and hired new employees to grow department. Managed crews in day-to-day operations. Connected with new clients to grow relationships and create new sales opportunities for maintenance and enhancement work.

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Metco Landscape

Account Manager

September 2014 - April 2021 (6 years 8 months)

United States

Metco ranked at #22 on Lawn and Landscape’s Top 100 list in 2020. Served as account manager managing up to 94 accounts at one time including management of snow removal crews. Managed both in-house crews and subcontractors to ensure maintenance quality to contractual obligations. Responsible for enhancement sales and design work to bring in additional revenue for company. Continually ranked among top enhancement sales. Developed enhancement bid format that was adopted by the company. Improved irrigation repair bid format to eliminate redundancy and improve accuracy of bids. Took on additional work above and beyond my position to aid coworkers and ensure cooperation among management to improve success of operations.

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Yellowstone Landscape

Account Manager

May 2011 - September 2014 (3 years 5 months)

Yellowstone was ranked #14 in Lawn and Landscape’s Top 100 list in 2014. Account management of single family and multi family properties as well as government property. Responsibilities primarily within Reunion Resort and surrounding areas in Orlando. Developed and served as primary trainer for a new hire safety and training program for the company that resulted in increased employee retention and satisfaction. Took on additional role of branch landscape designer to expedite our ability to better serve our clients.

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Cornerstone Solutions Group

Assistant Manager of Residential Landscape

August 2010 - February 2011 (7 months)

Polk City, Florida, United States

Cornerstone Solutions Group was #72 on Lawn and Landscape’s Top 100 list in 2010. Served as assistant landscape designer working with home builders and residents for tract and custom landscape design and sales. Additionally managed residential landscape installation crews to ensure adherence to design and quality of installation.

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Vila & Son Landscaping Corp

Estimator/Purchasing Agent

May 2009 - August 2010 (1 year 4 months)

Orlando, Florida, United States

Vila and Son is now defunct but was #14 on Lawn & Landscape’s Top 100 list in 2010.Started as intern, working through field operations through summer and was hired for a full time position as a Landscape Construction Estimator at the endof the internship. Personally responsible for RFP qualification, measuring, and estimating for landscape and irrigation projects up to one million dollars. Worked with Sr. Estimator for projects over one million dollars. Served as branch health officer and led safety meetings for crews. As branch struggled with recession I took on additional administrative and management roles including taking on the role of Purchasing Agent, responsible for sourcing materials for operations in an increasingly challenging market. Managed two truck drivers for pickups and deliveries for efficient and timely deliveries across the state of Florida to meet budgets and supply crews with materials. Took on additional role as Construction Project Engineer, visiting suppliers and construction sites to source materials and serve as support on construction sites as Project Manager became overburdened. Worked on commercial, resort, and theme park projects including work at SeaWorld Orlando and Walt Disney World.

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75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army

11C Indirect Fire Infantryman

July 2001 - July 2005 (4 years 1 month)

Fort Benning, Georgia, United States

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Education

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Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

B.S., Landscape Design and Management · (2007 - 2009)

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Tallahassee State College

A.A., General Transfer; Business Admin Focus · (2005 - 2007)

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