Michigan Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

Wayne State University

Founder at Growing With Girls. Team Lead at ClubExpress

Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States

One half of the Hey Emma! Podcast team.  Founder of <a href="http://Growingwithgirls.com">Growingwithgirls.com</a>.  Podcast producer and content creator.

Growing With Girls

Founder

Club Express' mission is to take the drudgery out of running and growing a club or association. Using the powerful technologies of the Internet, we make it as easy as possible to create, manage and sustain a strong, vibrant club, one that people join because it's fun, because it helps them, and because it adds to their communities.

ClubExpress

Support Team Lead

Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce

Board Member

Managed daily operations including Marketing,  Sales,  recruiting,  hiring,  payables,  receivables,  and budget management for a 10,000 sqft corporate owned early childhood education center.   I increased enrollments by 300% while maintaining control over my budget.  I created new marketing avenues and developed collaborative relationships with local business owners to co-market our businesses.

The Learning Experience

Business Manager

Run daily operations and staffing to meet the math education needs of the students in our center as well as managing the profitability of the business. Responsible for growing the business as well as hiring and managing the instructors to deliver incredible results in changing the lives of those students who want to get better in math.  Responsible for much of the local marketing efforts.  Involved with business networking, collaboration with Parent Teacher groups, and community events.

Mathnasium of St. Charles &  Algonquin

Center Director

I provide a consultative approach to delivering commercial real estate solutions to my clients.  Through sales, investments, leasing, property management & development, I work closely with my clients to achieve their investment performance goals.

Cornerstone Commercial Partners, LLC

Commercial Property Consultant

I specialize in Investment grade commercial properties in the Chicago area.  We have a variety of methods of creating value-add opportunities for property owners and investors.

DevCom Realty Investments

Investment Specialist

Currently developing a 3 story (36,000+/- sqft) medical office building in Northwest suburbs of Chicago.  For more details or to inquire about investing in the project, please contact me.  I also have a number of opportunities for investors to take advantage of growth along the Route 31 corridor.

Confidential

Real Estate Developer & Investor

Past President of Algonquin Chapter of BNI. We meet at Colonial Cafe every Friday from 7:30 am to 9:00 am. Our chapter has a heavy business to business component and we have generated a wealth of referrals through our contacts in the community and our business dealings. For information on joining our chapter, please contact me. We are also looking for B2C members who can fill out that component of our chapter.

BNI - Business Networking International

Founding member and past President

I specialize in Commercial and Investment properties in aquisitions, sales, leasing and consulting.  Technical analysis is one tool I use to ensure investment and operating goals can be met using any particular property.

Real Living Now - Formerly GMAC Real Estate

Commercial Real Estate Agent

Reported to District Manager.  Randstad North America is the U.S. arm of Randstad Holding, a Global staffing company based in Amsterdam with worldwide revenues of $5.9 Billion.  My responsibility was the operation and profitability of a branch in Chicagos Northern Suburbs staffed with 2 Senior Agents, 1 Agent, and 1 Associate Agent and FY 2004 revenues of $3.41 Million.
- Increased revenues by 64% for FY 2004 over FY 2003
- Increased number of people working by 56% over FY 03
- Increased revenues 73% over FY 04 sales targets
- Overcame staff reluctance and reorganized the teams to better serve existing business and grow new business.  Resulted in growth of 20% in revenues from existing customers and growth of 3 new customers with potential revenues near $400k
- Negotiated new bill rates with 65% of our retail customers  coached staff on negotiating new bill rates for balance of customers
- In a branch budgeted to lose money in FY 04, turned in an Operating Profit of $87,000

Randstad North America

Branch Manager

The Sisters of St. Joseph is a faith based educational organization that operated several schools and educational facilities throughout the U.S.
-  Designed, installed, and configured their Information System for managing daily work and tracking Donor information.
-  Stabilized system to minimize interaction and management from the user base.
-  As a member of the Advisory Council, I help plan the direction and needs of the Information System and how that system fits into the Organizational Mission

Sisters of St. Joseph - Third Order of St. Francis

Advisory Council Member

Managed a variety of regional teams toward the achievement of sales goals.  Geographies covered Western, Central, and Southeastern United States.
-  Developed many teams of sales support staff to become the most successful regions in our product line in achieving quota
-  Maintained employee turnover at levels well below the industry average
-  Designed and delivered numerous training programs for internal staff and external customers.
-  Teamed up to create new product training program and aggressively managed my team to achieve certification 3 weeks ahead of schedule
-  Developed and trained Sales Support Engineers and Product Specialists on the best methods to provide technical support of the sales process
-  Managed teams of 2 to 16 Sales Support Engineers and Product Specialists in the achievement of up to $30 Million in Sales
-  Improved close rate from the proof step from 11% to 31% with potential for much better numbers
-  Delivered 500+ presentations to audiences sized from 2 to 1000 people
-  Delivered hundreds of product sales engagements handling the technical aspects of the sales process with clients and sales reps.
-  Exceeded sales quotas my first year
-  Designed and Delivered customer training on-site

Compuware Corporation

Geography Sales Support Manager, Regional Sales Support Manager

Reported directly to the President / Owner CCSI is a small, private computer company selling value-added hardware and services to primarily government customers.
-  Project management position where I Installed, configured, and managed city-wide LAN/WAN project involving multiple platforms, communications methods and locations.
-  Co-developed and delivered the training to 50 end-users in multiple locations.  Project was funded by, and reported to, Federal, State and Local Governments.  Brought project in on time and on budget.
-  Only contractor selected to fly with Director to Washington D.C. to discuss our successful implementation.
-  Second project involved stabilizing and managing an Armament Tracking System for the U.S. Army TACOM in Warren, MI.
-  Developed and implemented disaster recovery plan that required no additional expenditures and utilized surplus and underutilized equipment and facilities.

Capital Computer Solutions, Inc.

Technical Support Services Manager

Director on the Board of the Economic Development Corporation for Belleville and Van Buren Township, MI.  Brainstorm and develop new ways to bring new companies to the area including tax break proposals and other incentives.
-  Designed and developed their first business directory

Economic Development Corporation of Van Buren Township

Director

Reported directly to the owner. Leader Design was a small, private design firm providing manufacturing designs to Ford Motor Company.  I managed the IT Department including multiple platforms and design stations and were managed to 98% uptime - a challenge with ancient mainframe equipment. Company closed in 1995.

Leader Design, Inc.

IT Manager

Owned and Operated a small computer company  Value added reselling of computer hardware, software, and consulting services to home users and small businesses.

Fisher Desktop Products

Owner, President

R.L. Polk & Co. is a large private company that has been operating since the 1880s.
-  As Programmer, I designed a system around dBase III to take mainframe data and publish the company's first Cross-Reference directory using a PC.
-  I was key in implementing the USPS Z4Plus system for standardizing address data in our systems.
-  As Operations Lead, was responsible for 2nd shift operations and staff
-  As Help Desk Lead,  I created a number of tools to help our customers more easily access our online databases.

Michael Fisher

Michael Fisher