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Kurt Schrock

Congerville,Illinois

Summary

Seasoned professional with a robust background entrepreneurial management and cross-cultural Missions , notably as a part-owner and Operations Manager at Premier Garden Design as well as a three year tenure as a Missionary with A.C. HarvestCall serving in Haiti.


Throughout my career, I've enjoyed the challenge of building relationships with both customers and employees, integrating a balance between exceptional workmanship, operational efficiency, adaptability and financial acumen, we consistently delivered a product that exceeded the customers expectations while striving to uphold a high level of integrity. Our mission field experience gave us the opportunity to serve, equip, enable and support our Haitian team to do their job far better and more successful than we could do it independently.


With our shifting out of missionary service along with the sale of our business, I feel it's time once again to step back, explore other options to support our family of 7 best, and use my skillsets and experience to work in an environment that is challenging, rewarding, and aligns well with the values that we have strived to live by and excel in.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Cross Culteral Missionary

Apostolic Christian HarvestCall
01.2021 - 01.2024
  • Built lasting cross-cultural relationships with Team members and neighbors through genuine empathy, compassion, and active listening skills.
  • Achieved a conversational level of the local language by working and ministering alongside, interacting, and worshiping with the natives in a local indigenous community/church context
  • Served alongside a talented local team using my own small business experience to enable and empower them to perform their jobs well building and furnishing churches and schools
  • Helped to lead and implement a saving-retirement program that matched and incentivized our team member's saving potential.


Operations Manager (Co-Owner)

Premier Garden Design
01.1999 - 01.2021
  • Company Founder of a Landscape Construction-Maintenance Firm (Established Jan 1999 and sold March 2023 to another successful firm)
  • Worked alongside Co-Owner to Onboard, Train and Mentor Employees and was partially responsible for the yearly reviews and compensation
  • Worked alongside Office Manager in AR/AP and Payroll to insure that Accounting was entered in accurately in real-time
  • Established and maintained a Company Dashboard that effectively monitored Margin Profitability and Cash Flow metrics
  • Engaged well and worked toward building a relational rapport with our customers while assuring that expectations were meet or exceeded
  • Ran the Sales and Operations of the Turf Care and Maintenance Divisions

Landscape Construction Skilled Laborer/Foreman

Pheasant Ridge Landscaping
08.1995 - 10.1998
  • General Landscape Construction/Construction Laborer
  • Mentored by Owner/Entrepreneur Roger Gramm

Education

Associate of Arts - Landscape Horticulture

Illinois Central College
East Peoria, IL
01.1996

Skills

  • Operational Efficiency
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Cultural Adaptability
  • Relational Ministry
  • Discipleship Training
  • Customer and Employee Relations
  • Entrepreneurial Personality
  • Performance Improvement
  • Construction/ Maintenance and Building Trades
  • Financial Profitability and Margin Analysis

Timeline

Cross Culteral Missionary

Apostolic Christian HarvestCall
01.2021 - 01.2024

Operations Manager (Co-Owner)

Premier Garden Design
01.1999 - 01.2021

Landscape Construction Skilled Laborer/Foreman

Pheasant Ridge Landscaping
08.1995 - 10.1998

Associate of Arts - Landscape Horticulture

Illinois Central College
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