James Allen

Experience

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  US Army

  Aug 1988 - Jul 1997

  Imagery Analyst, SSG

  1995-96 Commanded the A.S.A.R.S. (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System) team which evaluated field operation of surveillance equipment and debriefed higher chain of command on capabilities and weakness of various surveillance systems.1992-95 Stationed with the Joint Intelligence Central Pacific. Produced over 500 Field graphics and reports that were used in various stages planning for joint military operations. Also directed 300 company soldiers in their physical fitness and readiness program.1989-92 Worked in the European Theatre of operations on various teams that were responsible for assembling and disseminating information to over 400 forward units to be used for quick and decisive submission of foreign operating units. Show less

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  ProFit Professional Fitness

  Jul 1997 - Jul 2009

  Owner - Personal Trainer

  Construction and implementation of training programs to help clients achieve physique transformation goals in record time. Consistently maintained customer satisfaction and retention.Contacts with key media officials that which resulted in media exposure, new customer base and raised market awareness of the brand.Creates brand awareness through outside and inside sales campaigns.Maintains a database of over ,1400 for distribution and communication of new/existing product and service information.Architect of company website(s) for the purpose of marketing initiatives to include social media marketing strategies, and website imbedded online video commercials.Created and implemented surveys for marketing information purposes, client development, and client satisfaction surveys.Created and implemented course curriculum for skilled learning activities with a local health and wellness, faith based organization for the purpose of educating the community on health and wellness topics, issues and solutions.Planned, and executed health fairs, trade shows, product demonstrations connecting vendor to consumer services with local and regional communities, by the use of integrated communications and public relations channels. Show less

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  Bally Total Fitness

  Jun 1999 - Dec 2005

  Led the market as the highest producing store in personal training revenue, in the Arizona region. Supervision, staff recruiting, hiring, training, evaluation, discipline and development for the Personal Training department. Conducted monthly training meetings for the purpose of introducing new marketing strategies, and training of new and existing corporate policies to new and existing staff members.Trained several managers which help lead the company in gross personal training department sales. Created and implemented several customer service systems which were implemented in 400 of Bally Total Fitness stores. These customer service systems resulted in an increase of total company profits by 5% ($2,000,000.00 in personal training revenue). Show less

  • Operations Manager, Tucson, AZ

    Jun 2000 - Dec 2005

  • Personal Trainer

    Jun 1999 - Dec 2005
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  Arizona Technology Consulting

  Dec 2005 - Nov 2006

  Account Manager

  Created target list of $1,000,000.00+ annual budget for presentation of Client Track Case Management Software for Social Service organizations.Presented Client Track software capabilities to upper management at the city, county and state level officials for companies of 30-300 employees.Directed the organization sales effort toward new profit centers in print services.

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  Kaboom (Start-up Beverage Company)

  Jan 2007 - Aug 2007

  Regional Account Executive

  Opened new accounts with fitness clubs, health food stores, chain supermarkets, organic-and natural living supermarkets. Organized demo teams for sampling events at various trade shows and events. Supervision of multiple "for hire" product demonstrators, venues and sales efforts in various locations throughout Pima and Maricopa County. Established key relationships with distributors and store managers within the industry which led to new products being introduced to specialty markets nationwide. Produced written evaluations of product demonstration, sales efforts and suggestion reports for the purpose of evaluation and strategic planning for future events and achievement of company objectives. Participated in company strategic planning meetings where my direct input influenced the company's health and wellness objectives and brand identity. Show less

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  Vitamin World

  May 2009 - Oct 2012

  Store Manager

  Led a team to increasing previous levels of performance to become one of the top 3 performing teams in our district within 6 months. Increased sales revenue by 14% for the year of 2010.Led team of associates to top 3 performing stores in a district of 16 stores and top 20 in the region out of 120 stores Year to Date for 2010.Opened one of the company’s New Concept stores and exceeded the company expectations of performance for the year by 15% over projected sales plan.Developed 3 highly performing sales managers, 2 of which are currently exceeding company sales plan for their perspective stores.Consistently maintained my own personal sales average above company, region and district level averages. Show less

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  Intuit

  Oct 2012 - Jan 2018

  Account Manager

  I love helping small business owners thrive in the marketplace by providing them with the Intuit ecosystem of tools for small business management. Intuit's proprietary and integrated solutions for accepting credit card payments, Point of Sale for managing inventory, customers and vendors, QuickBooks for accounting, finances, and payroll for employees help small business owners with the heavy lifting so that they can get back to what they love, taking care of their customers. "Let me help your business grow!" Show less

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  Nextiva

  Feb 2018 - Jun 2018

  Account Executive

  Helping Business with managed cloud communication services.

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  Infusionsoft

  Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

  Small Business Consultant

  Helping small businesses manage their growth with the implementation of software to organize their customer contacts, and automation of their email marketing systems. These systems help them be more productive, create customer loyalty, win more business through referral based opportunities and follow up with personalized email automation.

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  Fitt Focus LLC

  Apr 2019 - now

  Podcast Host

  The Fitt Focus Podcast is hosted, produced, edited and mixed by James Allen. A passion project of mine to bring to the world inspirational stories of ordinary people doing extra ordinary things. I cover subject matter with my guest related to health and wellness in the areas of physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, social-economical well being and/or business related topics. Join me each episode and gain some inspiration to help you on your journey and to bring your fitness into focus.#fittfocuspodcast Show less

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  Quicken Loans

  Oct 2019 - Jul 2020

  Mortgage Loan Officer

  If Mom could only see me now! Helping people restructure debt, save money on their homes and purchase the home of their dreams. Licensed in Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Kansas, Texas, North Carolina.NMLS# 1916028

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  Watermark Capital, Inc.

  Sept 2020 - Oct 2022

  Senior Loan Officer

  Licensed loan officer helping people navigate home purchases, refinance and restructuring and leveraging debt to live their best life. Licensed in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia.Originated $40,747,038 in new business for 2021Originated $19,326,503 in new business for 2022. $10,037,296 of which were for purchase loans from January - July of 2022 NMLS# 1916028

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  Intuit

  Oct 2022 - now

  Business Consultant

  My daily role as a business consultant with the Intuit Pro Tax Group is learning what Tax Firms have in place and how I can help them with software services and tools to better help them serve their clients and meet their firms business needs in regards to saving time, improving processes, becoming more efficient and increasing firm value all while staying compliant with IRS tax governing policies. If your firm needs help in any of the above, lets have a conversation.