Matt Copeland, MBA

Experience

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  Off Limits Paintball Inc

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2016

  Referee

  Lead Groups of people ranging in size from 2-100 to ensure players enjoyed themselves, players remained safe and followed all rules, and ensured groups rotated at appropriate rate to maintain park schedule.Advised customers on purchase, maintenance, and repairs of equipment.Helped organize and manage special events.

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  Louisiana Paintball League/ South Central Paintball Association

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Partner ~operations, marketing, human resources~

  Raised awareness among the target audience by utilizing marketing techniques and organizing events. Engaged vendors and secured sponsors as well as hosts for the largest paintball league in northwest Louisiana (South Central Paintball Association). Sustained optimum staffing levels through recruitment and selection drives. Formed sound financial decisions for monthly events based on forecasted cash flows. Fostered solid relationships with customers by resolving all queries, concerns, and complaints.● Revived a competitive sport not present in north west Louisiana as a Partner for Louisiana Paintball League.● Organized largest event in Louisiana since a decade prior and generated gross income of $50K for a single event. Show less

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  The Shape Place

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Head of production and design

  Contributed towards the continuous expansion of the company’s portfolio through ideation and development of new designs. Introduced new design standards and considerably increased the overall production rate. Oversaw production activities and implemented measures to achieve production targets and timely ship products.● Planned, strategized, aligned all resources, and increased sales by 400% in the startup year.

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  CGS ENGINEERING

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2019

  CAD Drafter
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  Hyundai GLOVIS Europe

  May 2019 - Jan 2020

  Operations Efficiency Analyst

  Updated management on facility status and daily production through the preparation of detailed reports. Sustained productivity and ensured proper documentation through reconciliation of the previous day’s production with databases. Built, tested, and evaluated integrated systems for managing production processes.● Delivered annual savings worth $1.1M by providing a new and improved employee arrangement.● Designed calculators to accurately estimate required staff headcount and daily hours to achieve production quota.● Initiated project in which I developed efficiency calculators to track production as well as employees’ operational efficiency subsequently utilized as the basis for national-level models to track monitor operational efficiency of all ports.Proposed new employee arrangements saving the port a potential 1.1 million annually. Show less

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  CDS Dental Studio

  Jan 2020 - Oct 2021

  Financial Analyst

  Evaluate cost structures and revenue streams, analyze business trends, and prepare financial forecasts. Design and develop the report to track product remakes and the impact on income. Assess the financial performance of five different locations by developing comprehensive end-of-month reports to track income and expenditures. Formulate breakeven analysis, manage all aspects of the budgeting, and prepare profit and loss reports.

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  MB2 Dental

  Oct 2021 - now

  Underwrite possible mergers and acquisitions.

  • Senior Business Development Analyst

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Business Development Analyst (M&A)

    Oct 2021 - Jul 2022