Jim Stefan

• Built productive relationships with industry partners and competitors to support strategic business objectives.
• Managed partnerships and strategic business relationships by negotiating contract terms and handling conflicts.
• Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
• Reviewed individual department performance and worked with leadership to improve processes, procedures and practices.
• Maintained effective staff and resource utilization rates to balance financial and operational obligations.
• Cultivated forward-thinking, inclusive and performance-oriented business culture to lead industry in innovation and push progress.
• Prepared organization for forecasted demand levels through effective operational planning.
• Identified and capitalized on short- and long-term revenue generation opportunities to maximize bottom-line profitability.
• Drove implementation of new market expansion to propel business forward and adapt to market changes.
• Determined vision and strategic direction for [Type] area and coordinated resources to achieve targets within optimal timeframes.
• Increased company revenue by $[Amount] in [Timeframe] through aggressive new market strategies.
• Developed and implemented strategic updates to [Type] operations to solve issues affecting efficiency, profitability and production.

Enspire Group was an executive consulting firm that specialized in corporate development for existing and start-up companies in the Tampa Bay area. Served as interim COO for an online health insurance technology company that eventually went public on the NASDAQ exchange and was recently purchased by private equity. Worked closely with the founder and CEO to develop the company's corporate structure, web infrastructure for online health products, marketing/sales programs to launch the company and its products to the national health insurance broker marketplace. Engagements also included the COO position for FIT Systems, a Tampa based veteran owned software engineering company.