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Bruce D. Knight <br /> bruceknight10@gmail.com <br /> 50-32nd Avenue NW, St Paul,MN 55112 cell:612.968.0980 <br /> Honest and Direct.Entrepreneurial. Strong interpersonal and team leadership skills.Wide breadth of business <br /> experience in management,sales and manufacturing. <br /> General Business Experience: Industry Specific Experience: <br /> • Finance—Accounting • Advertising Sales <br /> • Management • Life Insurance Sales <br /> • Operations • Home Foreclosure-Rehab and Resale <br /> • Production • Precision Metal Fab.—All aspects <br /> • Sales • Retail Displays—All aspects <br /> • Trade Show Exhibits - All aspects <br /> • Tool&Die Mfg.-All aspects <br /> Intrepid Mfg.&Eng.,LLC: Sept 2008--April 2011 <br /> GM <br /> • Began as Sales Manager <br /> • Promoted to GM in March 2009. <br /> • Overall responsibility for bottom line performance at precision metal fabrication company—tooling, <br /> stamping,metal forming and assembly.Clients included Polaris,Arctic Cat,3M and Ingersoll Rand <br /> • Strategic and hands-on role in 2 acquisitions <br /> • Company revenue increased from$1.8M in 2008 to$4.7M in 2010 <br /> • Reduced payroll and fixed expenses <br /> MailSouth,Inc.:February 2006—September 2008 <br /> Account Executive <br /> • Sales and account management for national direct mail producer <br /> • Promoted to National Account"Strike Force Team";2008 <br /> Knight Enterprises,Inc.:November 2002-Present <br /> President <br /> • Knight Enterprises has purchased,remodeled and sold distressed and foreclosed homes from 2008 to the <br /> present <br /> • Knight Enterprises performed the sales,marketing and business functions of Explore Minnesota Television <br /> in 2004 and 2005 <br /> • KEI currently serves as the sales arm for several different manufacturers—powder coating,rotational <br /> molding and laser cutting <br /> • KEI also performs business consulting for small companies <br /> Headwater Systems:April 2003—October 2003 <br /> Independent Consultant <br /> • Led sales effort to secure funding through strategic partners in specialized markets for start-up RFID <br /> locating system manufacturer <br /> • Re-wrote business plan,executive summary&created Power Point presentation <br /> • Prospected,contacted secured presentation meetings with 23 "angel investors",venture capital firms and <br /> potential strategic partners <br /> • Arranged,set stage for financial and marketing alliance with$140M strategic partner <br />