Steve Brauer

Experience

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  NAPA Auto Parts

  May 1976 - Aug 1983

  Assistant Manager
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  Sizzler Restaurants

  Apr 1985 - Jun 1992

  General Manager

  My store was certified as one of only five Certified Management Training units within the US. My team’s corporate operational scores where consistently in the top ten of three hundred stores in the US. I was responsible for overall operations of the store along with training all new managers.

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  Applebee's

  Jul 1992 - Apr 1996

  General Manager

  As General Manager I was responsible for training, staffing and scheduling along with meeting forecasted sales and profits. Generated monthly profit and loss statements for each store and reported directly to owners. I was chosen to open three new stores for this franchise and maintained the highest customer service scores in the group of 13 stores.

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  AutoNation, Inc.

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2001

  Sales Manager

  I started with John Elway Toyota in 1996 and over the next 5 years moved from sales consultant to new car manager, used car manager, F&I manager and internet director. Helped grow this Toyota store from just over 200 units per month to over 700 new and used vehicles per month along with record setting monthly profits for a non-high line store of over $1,000,000 within AutoNation. Received presidents award 3 years in a row.

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  Phil Long Dealerships

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2005

  Sales Manager

  While with Saturn of Littleton & Saturn of Highlands Ranch I was responsible for maintaining CSI well above national average, exceeding new and used car forecasts and setting a store record of over 200 retail sales in one month. I was also asked to assist, as New Car Director, in the opening of the new store in Highlands Ranch in 2004. My team was praised by the owners of Phil Long Dealer Group for having the smoothest new dealership opening ever since starting business in 1945.

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  Aflac

  Sept 2005 - Dec 2006

  Independant Agent
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  Johnson Chrysler Kia of Durham

  Jan 2007 - Oct 2007

  Sales Manager

  Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep & Kia dealership delivering approximately 150 new and used cars monthly.

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  David O'Neal Chrysler Jeep

  Dec 2007 - Oct 2008

  Sales Manager/Inventory Manager
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  United States Department of Commerce

  Jan 2010 - Sept 2010

  Office Operations Supervisor for Quality Assurance
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  Mercedes Benz of Fairfield

  Aug 2011 - Jul 2018

  Sales Director

  My responsibilities include hiring, training and leading 10 - 12 sales managers within the floor sales & internet department to consistently exceed our new and used retail sales forecast for the store. I am responsible for most dealer trades, special orders and trade appraisals.My clients have remained loyal because of my high level of service and several have stayed in touch with me through my almost 20 years in automotive sales.

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  NapaValleyVegan.com

  Jan 2018 - Oct 2021

  Sales & Marketing Director
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  Mussomeli.di.Sicilia

  Jan 2021 - May 2023

  Marketing Consultant

  Community Consulting

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  ITS ITALY

  Jun 2021 - May 2023

  Destination Manager

  ITS ITALY supports the growth and future investments in ancient Italian villages. We have streamlined the buying, refurbishing and managing process, as well as all the unnecessary intermediaries, offering the opportunity to live an authentic Italian lifestyle while triggering a domino effect of investments with a strong social impact.Along with the regeneration of local properties we also support local businesses and projects within local communities, investible through the crowdfunding platform to be launched later this year. The first step in joining us would be to register you interest here, on our temporary website. www.itsfor.it Meanwhile we are working hard in developing the new platform, that will soon allow registered members to browse vetted properties, make their choice, customise them and even complete the purchase remotely.The process of buying has been engineered so that it's pre-authorised and monitored by the local authorities, certified by British-based professionals and already wrapped in with all the solutions on a fixed and guaranteed budget. Show less

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  Vegan Food Tour Ortigia

  May 2023 - now

  Chief Administrative Officer