Objective
Seeking a position with long-term career opportunity in the Maritime industry with national or international outreach where my past business experience can be best utilized.
Experience
GREAT LAND EXCURSIONS, INC. 2000 – Present
Guiding Wasilla, Alaska
OWNER/MANAGER of a mid-size international fishing/hunting guiding service within Alaska and booking agency for 50+ other tourism/hunting/fishing enterprises world-wide. Charter boat captain of 26-45 foot fishing and tour boats providing transportation and water taxi to clients for hunting, sight seeing and fishing trips. On the average, serve 150+ international clients per year either or conducting hunting/fishing expeditions in Alaska or booking excursions, safaris, guided hunts and fishing trips in other locales. Bookings valued up to $20,000 each with gross revenues of $350K per year. Responsible for arranging to/from travel, lodging, transportation within destination, permitting, licensing, game importation/exportation across international borders, insurance, client safety and satisfaction, complaint handling and resolution, language interpretation when necessary, among numerous other on-call support services to upscale international clientele. Ninety-percent of business comes from word-of-mouth referrals by satisfied clients. Supervise work force of seven full-time and fifteen seasonal employees. I was a Guide and Captain for vessels in Alaska’s lakes, rivers, and ocean. Business management responsibilities include scheduling, supply and logistics, hiring, termination, payroll, taxes, licenses, regulatory compliance, Coast guard compliance and responsible for profitable operations to corporate stockholders.
Wholesale/Retail
H & C FEED AND PET SUPPLY 2000 – 2003
Palmer, Alaska
OWNER/MANAGER of sole-proprietorship retail/wholesale distribution pet and farm supply company with revenues exceeding $600K per year with fifteen employees. Business housed in 22,000 sq. foot warehouse and retail store. Retail responsibilities included hiring, termination, training of retail floor personnel, customer service, complaint handling and resolution, payroll, taxes, licenses, regulatory compliance and other tasks required of self-employed business owner. Wholesale business required procuring and retaining new retail outlets, introducing new product lines, warehousing and inventory, product quality and rotating livestock feed items sensitive to time and environmental conditions, scheduling of deliveries utilizing a fleet of five wholly-owned delivery trucks, and employee safety. Sold business at market value.
Boarding GREAT LAND KENNELS, LLC 1995 – 2005
Kennel Wasilla, Alaska
OWNER/MANAGER of mid-size kennel and pet-care business with boarding capacity of 133 animals per day. Kennels employed eight to twelve persons and boarded on average 1,200 dogs per month and served approximately 225,000 clients statewide per year with gross annual revenues exceeding $500K. Services included grooming, field training of hunting dogs, and breeding champion-line black Labrador retrievers. Personally participated in national field trials and demonstrations and published articles in national trade magazines. Awarded contracts with Alaska State Troopers and Anchorage police canine departments for training at canine academies and housing of police dogs when police handlers were out-of-town. Sold business at above market value.
Sales ALASKA DISTRIBUTORS, Anchorage, Alaska 1992 – 1995
Outside sales for wholesale distributor in adult beverage industry.
Restaurant FOOD SERVICES, INC. Anchorage, Alaska
1985 – 1992
Ever-increasing restaurant management responsibilities in facilities owned or operated by Food Services, Inc:
• Assistant Manager for Red Robin restaurant in Eugene, OR
• Assistant General Manager for Chi-Chi restaurant,Colonial Heights, VA
• General Manager for Garcia’s restaurant, Anchorage, AK
Education
Graduated from West High School in Anchorage in 1981
University of Alaska Fairbanks; 30 credit hours
University of Alaska Anchorage; 22 credit hours
Glendale Community College; 18 credit hours
Certification
State of Alaska Registered Guide License
Merchant Marine License- 25 Gross Registered Tons OUPV (6 pack)
Ordinary Seaman Rating
Successfully completed 100 Ton Master’s Class need Coastal and International Ratings (Need ~40 hrs sea time for new rating)
CPR
First Aid
Skils
Born and raised in Alaska
Navy 1982
Microsoft office
REFERENCES Available upon request