Qualifications and Skills

· Energy Industry Skills – Deep understanding of Supply Side solutions (deregulated energy, fixed/market/hybrid strategies, tariffs, etc). Third Party Supply of Natural Gas and Electricity. Sales, team building, marketing, brokerage, bill analysis, etc. Demand side Skills – Sales marketing, development of sales tools, ROI analysis and proposals, degree day analysis, etc.

· Leadership Skills – Skilled at empowerment and motivation of employees with high levels of employee retention. Use of clear, consistent communication of objectives to achieve goals.

· Business Process Skills - Developed numerous tools to improve business processes. Pay plans and bonus plans, internet applications, relational database applications, excel spreadsheets, legal and business form conversion into plain English, etc.

· Turn around Skills - Turned around a retail operation from an average loss of $40,000/month to a profit of $60,000 month.

· Customer Satisfaction Skills – Took business from a terrible reputation in the community to one with award winning customer satisfaction.

· Analytical Skills – Development and utilization of business metrics for profitability, management, compensation plans, etc. Advanced numerical and spreadsheet skills. Website analytics.

· Marketing and Advertising Skills – Event and advertising based marketing campaigns, both on and off-site. Internet, email, direct mail, newspaper, TV, radio, billboard. Event coordination with community groups, shopping malls, etc. Use of on-site promotions. Intensive, managed follow-up of customers. Google AdWords campaign development.

· Computer System Level Skills - Installed, designed, and administered a database system to manage inventory, sales, profitability, commissions, and customer follow-up. Also administered servers for robotics departments at University of Florida and University of Texas. Programming in a variety of languages.

· General Computer Skills - Highly proficient in Word, Excel, databases, Powerpoint.

· Internet Skills - Website development (this site, www.neecons.com, etc) shopping carts, web analytics, advertising, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.