Experience

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  Staples Advantage Canada

  • Red Deer Alberta

  • Account Manager

    • Sep 2001 - Present
    • Red Deer Alberta

    I have been fortunate in building a rewarding sales career with the support and services my company offers to business. Being in Red Deer for 13 years has allowed me to develop lasting relationships with many of my customers and establish myself as the point of contact for multiple lines of business and different buyers within those companies.. Having home office autonomy but reporting to someone 100's of kilometers away honed my independence and shaped the ability to manage myself and my multimillion dollar territory without the need of close supervision.

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  MetLife

  • Branch Sales Manager

    • Sep 1984 - Jun 2001

    Hired, trained and supervised 14 life insurance salesmen

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  Toys for Boys and Pearls for Girls

  • Calgary

  • General Manager

    • Sep 1997 - May 1998
    • Calgary

    I created a unique trade show and coordinated the entire production, selling advertising space for, managing sales men, printing, show layout and setup. The show was called Toys for Boys and Pearls for Girls. I and 2 minor partners raised some money, rented the 50,000 square foot Round Up Center at the Sadledome and had 100 companies buy space at the show to put on display the toys that "we all want to smuggle past our bank managers and spouse". We had cars, hummers, boats, hot tubs, watches, knives and many other cool products including aerial stunt flights, girls in bathing suits and a Bell Jet Ranger Helicopter. This without doubt was the best 9 months of my working life....

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  RCMP

  • Peace Officer

    • Oct 1969 - Nov 1974

    General detachment duties in rural Manitoba