Gil Garza

Hard-driving business leader offering skill in strategic business planning and team development. Skillfully recruit and train employees at all levels to meet customer and business demands. Articulate, forward-thinking and resourceful in meeting unique needs. Talented Owner with excellent marketing, customer service and facility oversight skills and more than 28 years of experience. Highly effective and comfortable working with people at all levels in organization. Enthusiastic business leader with dynamic experience planning, leading and improving activities to support successful business operations. Strategic in developing policies, managing staff and developing new revenue streams. Focused on motivating staff and working with diverse personality types to drive improvements.

While working for Apeco Photocopy Machines in San Francisco, Ca., got a letter of commendation for being the only one in the whole company that sold over one million sheets of photocopy paper reams.

Worked for fifteen years for Gordon's Jewelers, while being hired, I was required to take a test. I was told by Mr. Hampton, the head of credit and collections, that I was the only one, that had ever aced the test in all the years he had been with the company. I was also credit and collections manager for Gordon Jewelers over 29 of their Houston stores.

I took Spanish in College to learn how to read and write correctly. I am a little stale, since I have not used it, since I was a paralegal with my Father's Law Office.

I have been speaking English, since early childhood, by Father was an English major and insisted that we learn English first, since it was paramount to earning a good salary. I have also taken all the English and Literature classes required for any degree in College.