Accomplishment or Success
• Outstanding record in recruiting, training and motivating Yearbook staff.
• Consistently rank among the top 3 admissions assistants.
• Proven ability to get any individual into the best shape of his life.
• Successfully published photographs in regional magazines.
• Completed over 20 systems projects during 2 Summer internships.
• Successfully implemented a personal financial plan that generated 35% yearly growth over 4 college years.
• Number One ranked waiter for 7 straight months.
• Earned an Outstanding Achievement raise at MacDonald's.
• Designed and implemented highly successful teaching assistant training programs.
• Successfully transformed college newspaper, improving its appearance and readability while reducing costs.
• Planned, managed, and supervised school cultural events for up to 1,000 people.
• Succeeded in only 6 months, to educate myself in real estate and implement a highly profitable real estate investment.
• Proven track record of producing and directing award-winning video projects.
• Planned all aspects of Eagle Scout project, involving the participation of over 60 volunteers.
Background
• Lifelong exposure to family real estate business.
• Sharp insight into the subtleties of both Spanish and Portuguese, with extensive background in both cultures.
• Lifelong exposure to restaurant business.
• Over 10 years’ interest and in-depth involvement with programming.
• Grew up in a family business where selling is a way of life.
Commitment - values
• Committed to bringing about real, practical results in people's lives.
• Highly committed to Total Quality principles and eager to support them.
• Self-confident; committed to financial success in sales.
• Deeply committed to clients' health improvement through proper diet.
• Deep commitment to supporting the Scouting movement in third world countries.
• Committed to taking responsibility for personal decisions, actions and results.
• Sincere commitment to children's enjoyment of and skill in reading.
• Compassionate, professional approach and commitment to service-oriented work.
• Enthusiastic and committed to professional excellence.
• Committed to high quality education for young children.
Commitment - motivation and enthusiasm
• Strongly self-motivated, enthusiastic and profit oriented.
• Enthusiastic, creative, eager to assume responsibility.
• Effective classroom teacher who loves teaching.
• Strongly motivated by belief in power to change events.
• Highly motivated to achieve goals.
• Lifelong consuming interest in natural history research and photography.
• High energy coupled with enthusiasm and dedication to law enforcement.
• Strong motivation to help others live life fully.
Communication
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; effective negotiator.
• Skill in clearly interpreting and explaining processes and procedures.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Highly effective in presenting arguments in a convincing manner, and gaining acceptance of ideas and recommendations.
• Excellent communicator: able to draw people out and put them at ease.
• Communicate well with a wide range of personalities and organizational levels..
• Effective in public speaking and media presentations.
• Accomplished public speaker and presenter.
• Excellent mediator, moderator, facilitator.
Creativity or intelligence
• Creative idea generator.
• Innovative teacher, not afraid to try something new.
• Sharp, innovative, quick learner; proven ability to adapt quickly to a challenge.
• Sharp business acumen with extensive background in personal investing and financial planning.
• Exceptional talent for creating design solutions that are both artistically innovative and commercially successful.
• Creative flair in implementing events; thorough in handling details.
• Exceptional talent for drawing unusual connections from information and ideas.
• Demonstrated exceptional ability to integrate information from different fields and specialties.
Credentials or training
• Credential in Financial Planning at UT - Arlington.
• Trained by one of the area's most reputable portrait studios.
• Licensed clinical worker; extensive internship experience.
• Graduate degree in clinical psychology; training in drug dependency treatment.
• Solid theoretical grounding in public administration and law enforcement.
• BFA in Fashion Merchandising and Retail Management.
Culture and language
• Effective and knowledgeable in working with cultural/social differences.
• Excellent command of both English and Arabic languages.
• Readily transcend cultural and language differences.
• Familiar with European culture, politics and economy, through study, extensive travel and lifelong native residence on the European continent.
• Demonstrated sensitivity to different cultures and their needs.
Experience
• Extensive student broadcasting experience from internships and summer employment.
• 3 years' experience in investing and financial planning for self and clients.
• Extensive contacts in the arts/entertainment field.
• 2 years' experience as student counselor and advisor.
• Extensive student project experience; working knowledge of all phases of film production.
• Extensive experience as first-level supervisor of service staff in major restaurant chain.
Interpersonal Relations
• Work cooperatively with a wide range of personalities.
• Exceptionally adept at developing rapport with people.
• Demonstrated ability to forge links between diverse student groups.
• Able to build and use cross-functional networks.
• Sincerely enjoy helping people.
• Skilled in resolving and promoting harmonious relationships.
• Skilled in developing useful internal partnerships.
• Diplomatic and tactful with professionals and non-professionals at all levels.
• Skilled in handling the public with professionalism and sensitivity.
• Communicate with children and parents with warmth and diplomacy.
Leadership and management
• Ability to prioritize, delegate, and motivate.
• Consistently achieve objectives within time and budget.
• Adept at making good use of resources including staff, supplies, equipment, systems and computers.
• Successful in building and managing a highly effective publishing staff.
• Successful in managing a number of assignments concurrently.
• Sensitivity in integrating a wide range of program priorities.
• Effectively handled position of major responsibility on a continuous path of professional advancement.
• Inspires and supports others to work at their highest level.
• Talent for picking the right people for the job.
• Able to pull together and manage all aspects of a complex project.
• Effective in promoting a positive, productive work environment.
Professionalism and poise
• Poised and competent as a professional business representative.
• Skilled in handling clients with professionalism and sensitivity.
• Personable, articulate; professional in appearance and manner.
• Poised and professional with both management and support staff.
• Very sociable, able to put clients at ease.
• Project a professional, fashionable image.
Reputation and credibility
• Proven ability to gain customers' confidence and trust.
• Excellent professional reputation among stockbrokers, financial planners, investors, bank officials.
• Excellent references from past employers and professors.
• Industry reputation for professionalism and competence.
Self-management
• A decision maker; well organized, resourceful, work well independently.
• Extremely dependable in completing projects accurately and on time.
• Results-oriented professional; can be counted on to take calculated risks, and get the job done, without supervision.
• Strong belief in likelihood of own success.
• Equally effective working in self-managed projects and as member of a team.
Skills and effectiveness in a variety of areas
• Excellent organization, communication, and writing skills.
• Strong skills in organizing work flow, ideas, materials, people.
• Adept in organizing and integrating a number of documents into a coherent whole.
• Sharp and creative in problem solving and needs assessment.
• Outstanding skill in assessing clients' needs for rehabilitative services.
• Special talent for assessing and improving office systems.
• Able to accurately establish priorities and adapt quickly to changing needs.
• Adept to tuning in to clients' priorities to assure accurate needs assessment.
• Able to pinpoint problems and initiate creative solutions
• Effective in persuading others through my enthusiasm for good ideas and products.
• Special talent for motivating and influencing people.
• Successful in generating new business and enlarging client base.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new software and apply its full range of capabilities.
• Skill in refining and translating researchers' goals into computer systems.
• Effective in developing programs and reaching project goals.
• Special talent for inspiring creative excellence on a shoestring.
• Specialist in developing self-worth and self-esteem.
• Finely tuned sense of colors, textures, and fabrics.
Special knowledge or technical expertise
• Well versed in Texas State Insurance laws.
• Knowledgeable and experienced in restaurant staff management.
• Familiar with the scope and quality of college radio programming.
• Technical expertise in the applications of manufacturing materials.
• Working familiarity with the Harris and Montgomery County area.
• Extensive experience with new construction, remodeling, and housing rehabilitation.
Teamwork
• Easy to work with; a cooperative and supportive colleague.
• Able to inspire loyalty by setting high expectations and serving as role model for others.
• Skilled at encouraging participation and interaction and creating a positive, enthusiastic work climate.
• Strong support of quality approach, instilling commitment to quality and excellence.
• Able to work collaboratively in a team effort.
• Excellent at working in team setting to meet deadlines.
• Enthusiastic team member whose participation brings out the best in others.
Work style
• Take pride in achieving the best possible results.
• Dedicated, professional attitude; mature and willing to work.
• Sharp eye for details, while maintaining the project overview.
• Keen perception for extracting the relevant data.
• Help develop others to the best of their abilities.
• Thrive on organizing complex projects and following through to completion.
• Resourceful and committed, can be counted on to get the job done.
• Self-starter; highly motivated, ambitious and goal-oriented.
• Thrive in a dynamic and challenging environment.
• Able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure.
• Remain calm and work well under demanding conditions.
• Able to handle a multitude of details at once, meeting deadlines under pressure.
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