Luminous

Founder | CEO

Qualtry

Chief Executive Officer

Director of Supply Chain

SourceFix

Founder

Made-in-China.com

Director of Product Sourcing

Global Sourcing Manager

Viatek Consumer Products Group

China Sourcing Manager

Multiple Companies

-Oversaw operations of all international clientele 
-Trained all new employees 
-Closed out contracts totaling over $500,000
-Consulted international clients how to build an online business in the United States through eCommerce, specifically focusing on Amazon, Ebay, and Etsy
-Hosted public webinars on 4 topics: Amazon Private Label Products, Etsy/Handmade, Retail Arbitrage, International Sourcing

Ecommerce Consultant

Learning Systems

-Helped clients choose suitable products for their e-commerce businesses
-Helped clients efficiently manage their marketing campaigns
-Worked within a team to build a supplier directory

Product Niche Specialist

SP Foundation

Care Specialist

Nu Skin Enterprises

-Spoke directly to distributors about their products and business
-Took calls for the entire Chinese market (Cantonese and Mandarin speakers)
-Translated product support calls, sold and introduced new products to distributors

Cantonese/Mandarin Sales Representative

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Taught Mainland Chinese people desiring to learn about Christianity
• Provided weekly community service
• Served as a missionary leader in charge of 20+ missionaries
• Organized missionary activities and trainings

Volunteer Representative

Founder | CEO at Luminous | Changing Software for Ecommerce

Passionate about all things supply chain, e-commerce, and operations. Helping companies transform their operations through better supply chain data. 

A bit about me: I started my first e-commerce company when I was 23. Back then, it was selling baby gates and barn door hardware across a couple Etsy shops and on Amazon. While continuing to grow my e-commerce business on the side I got a job as a sourcing manager at a distribution company to learn more about high level supply chain with major retailers (HSN, QVC, Walmart, etc.). 

Years later, after helping countless DTC brand optimize their supply chain through running Made-in-China's sourcing division, I noticed major issues in the way e-commerce companies used software in operations. I built and sold an RFQ management system that helped DTC brands optimize their purchasing.  Then, I moved on and became a CEO of a DTC brand at 28. My experience running Qualtry showed even more the gap in the market of software solutions in e-commerce that address the entire supply chain.

Luminous is helping e-commerce companies gain visibility in their data from source to sell. If you're not happy with your software (inventory management, purchasing, RFQ, WMS) then talk to me.

Jared Ward

&Collar

-Created and leading a diverse team of 15+ with various backgrounds; assigning specific roles tailored for individual skill sets.
-Built new supply chain to sell 1M+ units with 98% correct fulfillment.
-Reduced cost of goods sold by 50%+ through volume increase and supplier negotiation.
-Facilitated 330% YoY revenue growth over first four years. 
-Achieved a 71 Net Promoter Score (NPS) through implementation of best customer service practices.

Flight

Co-Founder

Utah Valley University

-Assisted in 100%+ revenue growth in 12-month time span for Men's Basketball program.
-Secured 90% GRN Club member renewal rate through development of personal relationships with season ticket holders and Athletics donors.
-Oversaw and managed all game day operations for GRN Club, Utah's premier court side sporting experience, including during the Club's inaugural season.

Director of Basketball Marketing and Sales

API - American Petroleum Institute

-Identified $10B in uneconomical subsidies and tax credits for competing energy industries across 1000+ bills. Presented weekly to directors team.
-Built a statistical regression analysis and model to forecast potential production output and costs from fracking activities in Utah shale fields.
-Coordinated congressional outreach for an API event; 15 Members of Congress attended.
-Developed client relation capabilities while frequently engaging directly with senior client leaders in problem solving and strategy development. 

Federal Relations Intern

Boncom

-Analyzed 1000+ live customer chat-room experiences and aggregated this data to provide suggestions for improved conversion rates of up to 15%.
-Produced SEO content on 10 landing pages for client.
-Conducted market research, identifying 3 competitors' go-to-market strategies in client's target market. 
-Created a customer persona for the client through 200+ past customers' social media activity.

Marketing/Analytics Intern

Soccer Reviews

-Boosted content production to over 70 unique articles per month by recruiting a team of 18 writers from 7 countries. Trained contributors to use WordPress and Google Analytics to improve SEO.
-Increased traffic figures to over 290,000 visits per month with 600,000+ views on YouTube channel.
-Maintained profitability by building an affiliate network and establishing relationships with manufacturers, retailers, and other content producers; featured 10+ times on ESPN.
-Sold the LLC to a competitor for 1250x value of domain at website conception.

Founder at &Collar

Started a dress shirt company because I hate dress shirts. 

Ben Perkins

1,000,000 Range Shirts Sold.

The 1st shirt (he bought 10) was to my best man on Kickstarter. 

The first retailer to buy 1,000 at one time and then 100,000+ was Mr. Mac, the best partners out there. 

The 1,000,000th shirt went to some stranger in Ohio whom I will never meet.

Genuinely grateful to and for every single &Collar coworker, agency/partner, customer, friend, and family member - particularly my wife whose college house garage stored some of our first several thousand shirts - who has supported along the way. We can't wait for when we sell 1,000,000 in a year!

Utah's #1 shirt!

&Collar is competing with every blanket brand on planet earth as well as the amazing Julia Reagan for billboard space, but as part of our Utah blitz, we are back on I-15.

Here are our comeback three designs with more in the hopper.

Any Utah-isms that every commuter deserves to see for the second half of our contract?

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