Resume of

Jay Rome

Position Desired: Corporate President

email JayRRome@Hotmail.com

370 Avalon Forest Drive, Lawrenceville, GA., 30345

678.376.5669

 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

SKILLS and STRENGTHS

Business Personal Motivational Speaker. Extensive Automotive sales and Leasing management and marketing experience. Oral and written communications Marketing project management. Team building Sales Management Client relationship management. Whole business perspective. Self Motivated High personal expectations Strong sense of responsibility. Goal oriented, extensive Sales and Marketing management experience, a must see results personality. Experienced at budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning. Extensive experience interacting with client CEO's, CFO's and Senior Executives. Proven leadership ability.

Highly advanced website development skills Java Expert, HTML Expert !

Writer of Published Works : War Of The Gods! (the number one read online novel )

The Dot Com Conspiracy,  The Kristal Conspiracy (a high adventure novel)

The F& I Bible ( a motivation and operation manual for Auto Dealerships Sold Nationwide in Automotive News )

Composer of more than 100 Published Songs, Recording Artist acted as composer, producer, performer

TV Motivational Personality, Show aired on channel 11 Peoples TV, Atlanta, World Traveler, Traveled 50 Countries

Designer and developer of  the World Wide Website, FreeScape.com

PERSONAL DETAILS

Marital Status: Married, Born: Rutherfordton, N.C. Citizenship U S A, Education BSBA University of Colorado, MBA University of Colorado. 25 years Sales & Marketing Industry Experience. Leisure Interests: Coloring with my 8 year old daughter, Golf, Painting Fine Art, Reading.


Employment History


NOV 1995 TO PRESENT FreeScape Network PRESIDENT/ CEO

Objectives include:  The expansion of FreeScape Network an online company. Leading a focused marketing effort to maximize website traffic. Maximising sales and marketing development. Created a professional sales operation calling on corporate executives selling advertising and website marketing services nationwide. Creation and implementation of training schemes and actions for the companies network of dealers and agents.

  • Recruit and train the sales professionals of the company. (400 salespeople)
  • Develop and manage support services across all of the division's products.
  • Personally handle support issues that were time critical or had a very serious impact.
  • Investor relations provide feedback to all investors, obtaining funding for product development.
  • Provide technical information on the products to my senior management and sales staff.
  • Ensure communications of an online technical nature to corporate investors.
  • Create and edit website content, product documentation and training material.

These duties include: Marketing and Sales Internet corporate Web Sites authoring and maintenance, developing plans and strategies; implement and achieve traffic goals and objectives of our advertisers. Identify, recruit, and retain the sales professionals as a resource. Provide coaching & counseling for everyone corporate wide. Direct traffic flows between sites to maximize the hits and sales. Developing communications via reports, forums, actions, and incentives.
Nov 1989 TO NOV 1995 FIRST FIDELITY PRESIDENT/ MARKETING
Highline Automotive sales leasing, and financing company, that developed into a major finance company, in the Atlanta market. Sales of Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Volvo, As the focus of marketing and customer services it was my responsibility for:

Recruitment and training, analysis, conception, implementation of the entire sales and finance products (induction, advanced courses). Recruitment of sales and leasing-commercial teams. Operational experience involving training within the framework of commercial activities for diverse distribution financial channels (hypermarkets, traditional markets). Conception and teaching of training courses (sales techniques, management, how to run meetings, coaching…).

Account management of more than 50,000 customers of various auto related financial products. Product management system and supervision of staff. Management of both one off and on-going projects across a wide variety of financial products. Sales of warranties and services. Financial planning and investor reporting. My position was responsible for recruiting, revenue and margin generation for Motivation through leadership of direct Sales professionals in the accomplishment of Public Motivation speaking.

Automobile sales leasing, and financing, forty loan officers. Sales Training preparation and delivery Motivation speaking, recruiting management and sales control,logging, prioritisation and resolution reported to stock holders, writing product documentation and training courses, delivery of training courses, recruiting of sales and finance department personnel, management reporting on support activities, provision of sales and finance advice to auto dealers, documenting dealer requirements, writing of marketing plans and specifications, analysis and design of dealer relations, capturing market share and F&I penetration.

SEP 1988 TO Sept 1989                    Dealer Direct                                               Owner

Broker, buying and selling new cars to dealers nationwide by the truck load. Many clients across the nation. My ads ran in Automotive News, and resulted in sales in volume from  one to ten truck load of cars on any given sale. This was a small company, that gave me extensive experience working with many new car dealers across the country.

Sold Gray Market BMW/ Mercedes, VW : Germany To: Taiwan, Guam.

OCT 1987 TO SEP 1988

Charles Evans BMW. Leasing Manager

Recruited and trained sales force in a new car dealership that had no real leasing focus prior to my being employed in the dealership.

OCT 1984 TO SEP 1987

Dealer Express, President Jay Rome:  Training Sales People.

Travelled Nationwide CLIENTS: Selfeldt Mazda, Houston, Billy Barrett, Dallas.

ABC Nissan Phoenix. Sales Training!

OCT 1982 TO SEP 1984 POTAMKIN Chrysler Plymouth GENERAL SALES MANAGER
During this period I was involved exclusively with the sales of the dealership and several of the applications utilizing the Sales and Finance operations of the dealership. My duties included:

  • Recruiting and training all sales personnel for the dealership,
  • Delivery of training courses.
  • Recruiting of finance department personnel.
  • Management reporting on support activities to the dealer.
  • Provision of sales and finance advice to the dealer.

MAY 1980 TO NOV 1982

CAPITAL TRUST DEALER DEVELOPMENT
The duties of an developer included:
  • gathering and documenting dealer requirements,
  • writing of marketing plans and specifications,
  • analysis and design of dealer relations,
  • capturing market share and F&I penetration,
  • Marketing Plans,

OCT 1973 TO MAY 1980          International Production Corporation / DISCO Records

President A&R Director Headquarters London Lived in London and Paris Traveled Worldwide.

Developing new Artist and new Markets Worldwide

Traveled Worldwide fifty countries, set-up distribution and vendor deals, creating the hype. Development of artist image production development. Song writer, studio producer,

OCT 1968 TO MAY 1973


COURSE DETAILS

Year Course Title Duration Provider
1998 MARKETING MANAGEMENT 3 months GSU
A comprehensive coverage of all aspects of marketing management issues such as scheduling, costing, resourcing, team building and management , and reporting.
1995 MARKETING MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS OF THE EXECUTIVE IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE 3 months Sales & Marketing Seminars
This course covered the common problems faced by executives with a strong marketing background when they move into direct sales & management management positions. The course provided a good insight into coping with new roles, how to assist others making the transition and what to expect.
1995 BUSINESS WRITING WORK SHOP 21 day
By looking at the writing process in detail, this course explored ways to save time in writing tasks and improving the quality of the finished results.
1991 DEVELOPING STRUCTURED TRAINING PROGRAMS 30 days Emory University
The adult learning process was explored and used to create ways of creating and delivering courses that would ensure their content was well received. The requirements of the training guarantee levee were also covered.

References upon request