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Summary of specific skills: * CEO of several media and start-up companies. * Executive Director: Economic Development Council of Tillamook County, OR * Executive Director: Tillamook Small Business Development Center * Community and economic development programs and principles * Expansion, recruitment and retention of businesses * Strategic planning & marketing on international trade issues. * International media and business consultation. * Working with public, private, non-profit and governmental organizations. * Corporate communications, media campaigns & production. See attached media resume. * Developing & writing business plans. * Ability to work with diverse cultures to accomplish complex tasks. 2015 - Present: President, Dan Biggs Productions, Business and International Trade Consulting and Project Management. 2011 - 2014: Executive Director of the Economic Development Council of Tillamook County (EDC) and the Executive Director of the Tillamook Small Business Development Center (SBDC). EDC Activities: Mr. Biggs served as the Enterprise Zone manager for the County and manage a $300,000 revolving loan fund. In 2013 he served on the committee that successfully passed a $15 million County Road Bond and also led the committee that developed the strategy and passed a ballot measure that created a Transient Logging Tax (TLT) that will bring in more than $2.5 million per year of which 30% will be used to fix roads and 70% used to promote tourism. The measure passed by a two to one margin and carried all precincts previous attempts to pass a room tax failed. A tourism marketing organization has been created with the objective to double the current destination spending of $180 million per year in the County to $400 million by the end of the decade $400 million in destination spending will bring Tillamook County in line with Coastal Counties to the North and South and will be a game changer in the tourism sector of the local economy by generating over a billion dollars worth of economic impact when considering a three to one multiplier effect. Tourism is the front door to recruiting business because people want to work where they want to live. SBDC Activities: As Executive Director of the SBDC he turned around the organization and surpassed every metric required by the Oregon Small Business Development Center Network. There are nineteen SBDC throughout Oregon and the Tillamook Center is the smallest with a County population of only twenty-five thousand people. The most important metric that Congress measures when looking at funding the SBDC is capital formation by businesses within the States. Last year the Oregon SBDC network generated $36,601,000 of capital formation by the nineteen Centers under the leadership of Mr. Biggs, Tillamook County accounted for more than 10% of that total with $3,729,000 in capital formation jobs were created and jobs were saved. A major driver of sustainable economic development (70%) comes from the expansion and retention of existing businesses and local entrepreneurism and 30% comes from recruitment. Non-Profit Economic Development in Portland - 1989 to 2009: Co-founder, Board member for ten years and President for three years of the Portland Creative Conference a non-profit organization. The mission of the PCC was to create an awareness of Portland and Oregon as a great place to shoot feature films and television programs to an international audience of creative production people and studio executives. In addition, the objective was to inspire and educate the local creative work force by exposing them to world class Writers, Directors, Producers, Composers and Actors. The strategy was to create an annual conference that brought these speakers to Portland for a three day symposium held at the Performing Arts Center. The Conference has drawn more than six hundred people each year from around the world and has helped put Portland on the map as a creative and business friendly environment for the film and television industry. During his tenure as President he managed more than 50 volunteers to produce the three day event. Each year Portland has been the location for several feature films and television series. Mr. Biggs brought in twenty USA Cable Movies of the Week to Portland generating more than $40,000,000 dollars in economic activity to Portland.
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