Experience / Patrick Beach's Business Portfolio

Work Experience

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." -David Rockefeller

All Star Directories Seattle, WA

Business Development Intern April 2008- September 2008

Worked on the analysis and acquisition of companies who would aid the growth of All Star Directories. Ran daily reports on site performance for over 20 different web pages. Worked directly with Accounting department in closing the week and month end Business Development numbers. Helped create presentation material for board meetings. Created projections for up comings months on revenue, cost, gross profit, and growth of Business Development.

Washington State Legislature Olympia, WA

Policy Intern- 2008 Session

Worked directly for Senator Kastama, of the 25^th district, on pieces of legislation he was sponsoring. Did extensive research to build a strong foundation for bills, spoke with leaders of companies and corporations, helped create the senator’s Economic Development PowerPoint Presentation, built excel templates, wrote letters to constituents, wrote bill summary reports and answered phones.

All Star Directories Seattle, WA

Business Analyst Intern- Summer 2007

Assisted Finance, Marketing, and Sales departments in the development of business intelligence financial models and reports. Accomplishments include customer profitability analysis, forecasting tools, and translation of massive transaction data into usable information.

Pacific Lutheran University

Interview Transcription/ Research Assistant April 2007-Current

Transcribe interviews done by Professor Steve Woolworth on his research concerning methamphetamine use in Pierce County over the past 20 years and how it influences the community especially the children. Also created excel spreadsheets on data Professor Woolworth received from different community shelters such as Cedar House and Phoebe House.

Emerald City Basketball Academy Issaquah, WA

Trainer/ Office Management Summer 2006

Hired to work with kids aged 7-18 on basketball and life skills. Passed on my love for the game as well as helping kids achieve a fundamental base of basketball and sportsmanship proficiency. Also had office management responsibilities for billing and collections, payroll, bank account reconciliation and equipment acquisition.

PAAYS, Proud African American Youth Services Tacoma, WA

Excel Specialist/Computer Technician January 2006- May 2006

Created excel spreadsheets that used logical functions to help determine adoption suitability of prospective parents. Created timesheet that was used for all employees to log in hours for multi-dimensional job and rate structure. Also worked on malfunctioning computers and network errors in the office.

CSG Openline, Inc. Redmond, WA

Agent Winter 2004-June 2005

Hired as an Events Coordinator; duties included contacting senior level business executives to register for Microsoft seminars and business meetings. This encompassed presenting relevance and worth of these events to Microsoft certified partners. Had a very high success rate on this project and was promoted to Sales Agent with the Microsoft Action Pack Team; duties included selling the Microsoft Action Pack to small and medium sized businesses throughout the United States. The Action Pack consists of products such as Microsoft Office, Small Business Server, Windows XP, OEM software, and other ancillary products. Consistently was in the top 5 in weekly sales out of 120 members of the Action Pack Team, at one point selling 46 units in a ten hour period.

Cobalt Group, Inc. Seattle, WA

Help Desk Assistant Summer 2004

Duties included frontline personal computer support for internal Cobalt employees. Responded to employee issues and needs, built and deployed desktop and laptop machines, configured Microsoft based environments and set up conference rooms for meetings.