Experience in sales and marketing of vegetable, field, and flower seed. * Exposure to domestic and foreign markets, market research, product research, product testing, advertising, and product launch on wholesale, distributor, and retail levels. * Advance purchase and production planning of product to cover both anticipated and spot customer demands. * Employee selection and supervision. * Insurance administration/risk management, including worker's compensation, equipment, and product liability. * Set-up and implementation of a computerized inventory control program. * Introduction and management of proprietary artichoke, hybrid cucumber, onion, pepper, melon, squash, tomato, watermelon and additional specialty product seed trialing and marketing efforts for the specific geographical areas for which the products are adapted. * Worked closely with geneticists in major vegetable breeding programs to assist them in recognizing market needs for new products. * Geographical areas of market exposure and extensive travel include United States (all regions), Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Eastern Europe, Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan. * Traveled for management meetings with European company management annually to France and Switzerland from 1991 until 2001. * Proposed and engineered the acquisition of a U.S. based established company and merged it into Samen Mauser America to create new marketing channels for SM and to provide the infrastructure necessary to operate in the Americas. * Bilingual - English / Spanish * Computer literate - Microsoft Office Suite, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access.

Highlights:

• Management
• Advertising
• Purchasing
• Sales
• Customer Relationship Management
• Key Account Manager
• Key Accounts
• Business Management
• Email
• Research