Amedeo(John) Corona

• Cultivated strong relationships with clients, vendors, and partners to ensure long-term success and loyalty.
• Monitored financial performance, set budgets and controlled expenses to provide financial stability and long-term organizational growth.
• Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules, and contract negotiations.
• Managed budget implementations, employee evaluations, and contract details.
• Managed budget development, forecasting, and financial reporting processes to track progress towards organizational objectives accurately.
• Formulated policies and procedures to streamline operations.
• Developed and implemented strategies to increase sales and profitability.
• Brand New Point

• Manage New and Pre-owned departments
• Pricing of Inventory
• Sales and Lease Training
• Desk Deals
• Primary Closer
• Coached sales associates in product specifications, sales incentives, and selling techniques, significantly increasing customer satisfaction ratings.
• Identified, hired and trained highly-qualified staff by teaching best practices, procedures, and sales strategies.
• Developed and implemented comprehensive salesperson training program.
• Applied established sales techniques and persuasive communication skills to meet personal sales objectives.
• Cultivated a positive work environment that motivated staff members to exceed individual and team goals regularly.
• Upheld company policies and implemented standards fairly.

• Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
• Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
• Implemented business strategies, increasing revenue and effectively targeting new markets.
• Highest gross profit in the organization on a Per Retail bases.
• Currently No.3 in the country in Customer Satisfaction.
• Managed to move the store from a 65% to 95% on Subaru Love Promise program(Measures dealership metrics) increasing end of year bonus from 2% to 8% return.
• Moved F&I per car average $400 per vehicle.
• Managed New car Inventory

• Processing finance transactions including lender approval and ensuring 100% compliance with all state and federal laws and regulations
• Setting and achieving targeted sales goals
• Oversee dealership customer loan origination and approval process
• Secure and finalize transactions in legal and ethical manner while maintain high level of productivity
• Accurately prepare all federal, state, and dealer paperwork related to transaction and submits to dealership's Accounting Department in timely manner
• Setting and achieving targeted sales goals
• Identified improvement changes regarding key processes for internal controls and accounting procedures.
• Executed core financial processes, including vendor setup to expedite contracts in transit.
• Implemented E-contracting
• Installed Maxim-Trac menu presentation
• Increased profit over 28%
• Trained and evaluated Finance staff to support department growth and achieve goals.

Asked to return to Honda of Abilene by Lithia corporate after the store took a major downturn in Customer satisfaction, Social media reputation and more importantly profitability

• Reimplemented and update processes in all departments
• Created culture of accountability
• Hired and trained new management staff
• Motivated team members to meet and exceed objectives by setting goals, tracking performance on daily basis and implementing improvement strategies.
• Observed each employee's individual strengths and initiated mentoring program to improve areas of weakness.
• Motivated team members to meet and exceed sales targets.
• Masterminded highly successful digital strategies for various platforms to attract customer engagement.
• Assisted with marketing strategy creation and advertising initiatives to better promote facility to public.
• Complete overhaul of New and Pre-Owned inventories
• Terminated excessive vendor contracts
• Upheld all company policies and implemented standards in fair manner.
• Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules and contract negotiations.
• Designed modern employee recognition program which boosted productivity and improved morale.
• Applied performance data to evaluate and improve operations, target current business conditions and forecast needs.

Signed nine month contract to turn around a seriously under performing store, and create new sales culture.

• Restructured entire Sales, Finance, Delivery and follow up Process
• Primary Pre-owned acquisition and Wholesale of Inventory
• Oversaw inventory by ordering precise quantities of stock and executing corrective actions to drive profitability. Very important for High Line store.
• Primary closer
• Restructured Management team
• Coached and trained sales techniques, word tracks and closes.
• Motivated team members to meet and exceed objectives by setting goals, tracking performance on daily basis and implementing improvement strategies.
• Assisted in creation of digital strategy. away from traditional media outlets.
• Monitored social media and online sources for industry trends.
• Developed team communication, established core processes for effective sales results
• Reestablished relationships with manufacturers to achieve common goals and objectives
• Increased Customer Satisfaction in all manufacturers, some as much as 75% in 6 months.
• Upheld all company policies and implemented standards in fair manner.
• Was able to reach profitability after second month. Store had not made a profit 5 years prior

Took over under-achieving Honda store for Lithia Automotive.

• Steadily grew sales and sales effectiveness
• Achieved 33% increase in sales department gross profit
• Drove retention to 47% from low of 33%
• Increased service gross over 25%
• Raised CSI to 102% of Zone
• Primary Closer
• Primary Desk manager/Deal structure
• Rehash loan structures with lenders
• Pre-Owned acquisition/Auction online and in person/Wholesale
• Merchandising New and Pre owned Inventory
• Advertising strategies and budgets
• Planned and led training sessions to promote sales team professional development and sales goal reinforcement.
• Expense control
• Planned client relationship cultivating events to promote growth, resulting in expansion of clientele base/retention.
• Monitored budgeting, forecasting, expenditures and performance for all accounts.
• Advertising
• Delivered business strategy and developed systems and procedures to improve operational quality and team efficiency

Amplified dealer participation in Toyota sales, service and customer satisfaction processes. Product introduction/ Sales and Lease training

• Provided Value added Services-Specializing in retention
• Trained sales and service staffs on processes for improved customer satisfaction, employee engagement, time management, productivity for a better return on investment
• Educated through demonstration and roll playing
• Initiated and organized large scale training events
• Performed continuous evaluations of content and plans in order to enhance delivery and improve effectiveness.
• Gathered and organized supplementary material to support structured lessons.
• Ensured long-term staff excellence by implementing updated and continuous training initiatives such as online modules, interactive programs.
• Obtained a 98% salesperson educational attainment level
• Increased leasing percentage by over 10%