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I'm eager to help SCORE clients by assisting and encouraging their growth to overcome obstacles. With 20 years of real world, day to day, experience of owning and operating an independent business I have the awareness and the knowledge to help support, grow and guide other business owners. Starting as a small showroom and, 20 years later, growing to a top destination design center for industry professionals I have the track record and credentials to help mentor others. I’m looking to share my time and help guide others through the process to success.

Assisting with establishing business accounts, what is needed for lending, and payment acceptance options

I am able to provide support in business development and start up

My experience as a small business owner and employee give me a broad and understanding perspective for small to medium size businesses. My career started off in agriculture as a producer. This led to a lengthy career in the trucking industry as a manager and owner. Following the trucking business, I owned a small convenience store with gas. Again, I operated it as the owner/manager. I rounded out my career as an advisor for the Small Business Development Center in Victoria, Texas, helping over 800 diverse clients and businesses.

I have 20 years of food service experience from the ground up. With my background in culinary arts plus business development, I can help any client obtain the resources necessary to start their own business. Currently, I have 3 companies focusing on school nutrition catering, baking, and real estate for a diversified portfolio. My catering company I took from a $3 million company to a $20 million within 4 years. I'm happy to advise any client on how to understand how to grow their business based on the market need for their product or company resources.

I can help your micro-enterprise grow, manage employees, manage finances, add technological solutions and guerilla marketing.

With 20+ years of business experience, I can help clients gain clarity on their ideas, establish processes to help them grow profitably, innovate better ways of serving customers and build skills to be stronger leaders. I love helping bring calm to chaos and 'untangling' complicated challenges.

I understand how to commercialize technology and bring new products to market. I am competent in business planning and strategy. I am financially literate and can help clients assess company finances, create budgets, and understand risks. I'm skilled in communication, management, conflict resolution, group dialogue facilitation, and negotiation. I am adept at identifying unfounded assumptions, gaps in logic, flaws in business plans, and uncertainties that increase liability and failure potential.

Retail, both bricks and mortar and e commerce, sales, marketing, management and strategy

Expert in Management in the service industry and financial industry with sales, business development and marketing, people development and coaching