Experience

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  Sonus

  Jan 1998 - now

  Vice president operations

  Oversees SONUS' operations and serves the role of production manager on certain projects ensuring that the agency is scheduling, producing and delivering, on-time, all the agency's work to the client. He also manages the contracts and budgeting process to ensure that all billing is accurate.James joined SONUS after working in the mortgage banking, real estate and personal property appraisal industries. His background in economics solidified his talents in balancing large-scale projects requiring numerous layers of financial administration and communications resulting in the desired assignment completion.Whether it's managing the distribution of 500,000 CDs to 1,800 JCPenney stores or opening nearly 100 Home Depot stores, James' focus is on the details and he never misses a beat. In addition to his role in operations, he served as lead account manager for SONUS' grand opening program for The Home Depot in the company's Central Division. He traveled and personally directed the opening of more than 75 stores from March 2003 untilApril 2005. Stores opened throughout communities in the South, Midwest and up North, and in addition to supervising logistics, he also sustained the program with art direction of photography for the FSIs. He was instrumental in developing and managing the Home Depot Hot Air Balloon program, a highly successful ambientmarketing program used as a component of the grand opening program to create awareness in all size communities. From December 2004 to December 2005, he managed Ace Hardware grand opening program on the west coast. In addition to grand opening programs, he also managed the logistics for three holiday events for JCPenney with attendance of more than 6,000 people.James follows and manages job costs by applying his resourceful multitasking skills to the latest technological tools for gathering, amalgamating, analyzing, tracking and balancing the client's budget to ensure efficiencies. Show less

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  Shaklee

  Sept 2010 - now

  Independent distributor

  A Healthier Life for Everyone and a Better Life for Anyone™Maybe you’re looking for a way to get healthier. Or a way to make a healthier income. Maybe you’d like both. Maybe there are things that matter more to you than money.We get it. Life can be better. You can live healthier, you can make a healthier income, and you can do it by making people and the planet healthier too.Naturally safe, proven effective.For over 50 years, generations of families have counted on us to do what no other company can do quite like Shaklee—make products that are naturally safe AND proven effective.Every product that goes into every Shaklee bottle is designed to improve health, work without compromise, and be gentle on the planet. Show less

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  The health & prosperity project

  Feb 2011 - now

  Marketing & recruiting coordinator

  the health & prosperity project: in pursuit of a better lifehelping those in pursuit of a better life learn how good health and increased prosperity contributetenets for pursuing a healthy and prosperous lifeawareness – exist in harmony with all living beings and the planet we share with themnutrition – nourish our bodies with healthy foods and supplementsaction – take part in exercises and activities that strengthen our bodiesemotion – take care of our minds through academic and spiritual endeavorsincome – acquire residual sources of funding to finance life’s activitiesproducts and philosophies that go hand-in-hand with the hpp’s tenets for pursuing a healthy and prosperous life – Shaklee Show less

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  Jim ned volunteer fire department incorporated

  Jul 2020 - now

  Volunteer firefighter

  Volunteer Firefighter

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  Jim ned volunteer fire department

  Jan 2023 - now

  President / volunteer firefighter