Who I Work For

I work for start ups, small businesses, and creative entrepreneurs, doing short to intermediate projects.

I usually work offsite, from in my own office, but I can come and work onsite, as needed.

I work in the circle around Tacoma, from Gig Harbor, to Federal Way, Sumner, Fife, Puyallup, down to Lakewood.  I am also available for work in Seattle, Bellevue, Renton, Kent by arrangement.

I have industry specific knowledge of:

• AEC (Architecture-Engineering-Construction)
• Financial sales and financial management
• Building Materials manufacturing, retail, and distribution
• Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing
• Logistics, in particular inventory process and software, including enterprise systems, special orders
• Warehouse safety and power equipment (fork lift, reach truck, order picker), shipping and receiving.
• Technology, Cloud, IT.

I am very experienced with:

• Creating, refinement, and implementation of CRM, Customer Resource Management
• Prospecting, selling at a C level, inside and outside sales.
• Business planning and organizational development
• Project management, coordination, full cycle project delivery
• Design, from architectural, to interiors, to all major engineering disciplines
• Construction contract administration
• Databases, from the point of view of a strong end user.
• Creating events, generating outreach.
• Strategy:  taking what we already know, but making it clearer, stronger, more alive.
• Creating a unified approach to social media, outside the mash up of endless choices.

I am best at:

• Communicating, explaining, persuading, advising.
• Both creating then executing a detailed process
• Organizing very dissimilar things or backlog into structured sets for stability.

I am known for:

• Being able to understand a very wide range of very different things and experiences
• My honesty
• Being reliable and timely
• Disciplined in work
• Accuracy, being thorough
• Detail, and fast while I do it
• Idiosyncratic humor
• Personal warmth, being engaging
• Creativity, vision
• Visual memory and computational skills

I enjoy:

• Helping others, pleasing others, being of service
• Clarity, order, system making
• Prediction, computing, calculating hard to see things.

I love:

• Planning and coordination.
• Analysis, study, creating structure.
• Patterns.

I am comfortable with:

• Presenting in front of large groups, even without time to prepare (I do).
• Talking to major media, business, and governmental leaders
• Asking top decision makers, and business leaders for help.
• Bidding, estimates, specifications, interpreting and creating product data.
• Negotiation, recruitment, mediation, representation
• Multiculturalism, diversity in all ways.
• Emotions.  Who needs another robot.  You can talk to me about anything.  I don’t like everything, I am human, but am open and will always try.  Its me.

I can:

• Read, create, interpret financials.
• Generate complex schedules
• Write short business summaries
• Elaborate basic ideas into detailed business plans.
• Model complex data in spreadsheets, whether it be customer or sales data, investments, assets, contacts, inventory, comprehensive business process
• Pass a detailed background check including drug and driving.