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JEFF READ
Po Box 8981
Newport Beach, CA 92658

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508.627.xxxx home

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TELECOMMUTER / TELE-WORKER / VIRTUAL WORKER

INTERNET / TECHNOLOGY
CUSTOMER SERVICE
SALES / MARKETING
DATA ENTRY
LEAD GENERATION
BUSINESS ANALYST
RESEARCH / ANALYSIS
INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES

EXPLANATION FOR JOB CHANGE AND RELOCATION:

After many years in the mortgage industry I was laid off multiple times along
with thousands of others. Moved from West Coast to East Coast to be with family.
Currently residing in Edgartown, MA. There is little work on the island and
because of the distance and cost of travel, I am pursuing telecommute work online
and by phone from home. Ready to start employment immediately.
 
DESIRED POSITION:

Seeking challenging position in sales, marketing, customer service, internet,
news / media, banking, financial, management, and/or other opportunities.
Especially interested in telecommuting, tele-work, virtual work from home to
worldwide market.

INTRODUCTION:

Tele-worker. Telecommuter. Virtual Worker, Sales. Marketing. Internet. Customer
service. Business analyst. Twenty (20) years in real estate and mortgage banking
industries. Twenty-eight (28) years in sales. Professionally trained and
experienced in sales, marketing, negotiation and closing deals. High energy
motivated self-starting go-getter. Performs well in competitive environments.
Motivated by helping people, loving what I do and a good compensation plan.
Qualified to work entry-level consumer sales to advanced level senior executive
consultative selling. Personable, out-going people person. Ability to speak with
and gain rapport with anyone, from top to bottom of society. Roll up the sleeves
and do whatever it takes to get the job done. Cooperative. Hard worker. Team
player. Ethical, honest, high integrity. Self-starter. Motivated. Excellent
promoter. Experienced in PR – public relations. Represented company at major
trade shows and business events. Increases sales and grows businesses by lead
generation. Converts targeted prospects to customer client sales. Successful
seller without high pressure. Tech savvy. Experienced in the internet world:
online and offline sales, marketing. High conversion rate of prospect to
customer. High customer retention. New and existing account management. Problem
solver. Trouble-shooter. Dissatisfied customer turn-around specialist. Presence
of mind. Focused. Attention to detail. Organized High quality work. Completes
work on time. Meets deadlines. Business research and analysis and customer
profiling. Uses the latest in software, hardware and technology to facilitate
online business, such as internet, web, email, instant messaging, internet phone,
web cam, video conferencing, tele-conferencing. Domestic, national and
international business. Excellent writer, speller and communicator in English.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1989-Present.	JR & Associates, Bellevue, WA, Newport Beach, CA & Martha’s
Vineyard, MA. Sales / Manager. (dba Read Financial Group / Global Capital
Research.) Corporate office and tele-worker, telecommuter, virtual worker,
internet marketer, personal success coach, business mentor, consultant and 1099
independent contractor.

1988-2007.	The Mortgage Industry, Seattle, WA & Newport Beach, CA. Independent
Contractor / Senior Loan Consultant. Management. 20 years in mortgage. 1099
independent contractor with several companies. Tele-worker.

1979-2007.	The Sales Industry, Wenatchee, WA, Seattle, WA & Irvine, CA. 28 years
in sales. Retail, direct mail, inside, outside, telemarketing, online, web,
internet, email, telecommuter, tele-worker, home based office, etc.

TELECOMMUTER / TELE–WORKER / VIRTUAL WORKER / INTERNET MARKETER / SALES &
MARKETING:

Experienced tele-worker and full time telecommuter. I have experience with and
am knowledgeable with all facets of online sales and marketing. B2C and B2B. Up
to date with the latest methods used by internet marketing gurus. Familiar with
marketing by direct in person, face to face, direct mail, internet, web, email,
fax, opt-in email lists, email database management, blogging, blog blast
technology, message boards, user groups, affiliate marketing, ebooks, home based
business opportunities, turn key automated web based marketing systems, flash
instructional videos, web based automated telephone dialers, etc. Familiar with
the basics of SEO, web ranking, Google, Yahoo, PPC, etc. Low cost and no cost
marketing online with websites like eBay and Craig’s List, etc. Online payment
processing such as PayPal. Recruiting with job websites. Have worked from
corporate offices and home based office since 1986. Self-motivated, disciplined
and experienced in working alone in a home based office environment. Does not
need supervision. Mature. Have owned my own businesses. Have advertised,
recruited, hired and managed my own staff and projects. Have organized events and
projects and have promoted and marketed them and invited guests and managed the
whole event and people 100% by phone, fax, email, online and by using a contact
management database called Maximizer similar to ACT. A one man rock and roll band
of sorts. Creative, resourceful, ingenious in implementing modern technology to
expedite normally slow manual processes. I prefer to work from up to 100% of the
time by phone and online doing sales, marketing and or internet technology
related projects. Will interact face-to-face and travel whenever necessary. I am
good with people and projects in person and while working remotely by phone and
online. I am a virtual worker. I save owners, management and companies time and
money by not commuting, not traveling, not using up gas, not jamming up the roads
and freeways with needless travel and traffic, not needing a company car or desk,
by cutting costs and expenses and pollution, by using my time and resources
wisely. I have more time to work and get jobs done faster. More productive. This
directly makes a positive impact on a company’s or project’s bottom-line –
meaning lower costs, better cash flow and greater profit. “Green minded worker.”
“Green”, as in environmentally aware and dollar savings budget conscious. 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

•	Early adopter of modern technology for personal and business use.
•	First started using computers with an Apple computer in 1984, and later PCs.
•	First began using email with CompuServe in 1992.
•	First went online with Mosaic in 1993 and Netscape in 1995 and later Internet
Explorer and Firefox.
•	Created, founded my first online business in 1995, hired Unix programmer,
graphic artist, funded, managed project.
•	Raised private angel money venture capital for various internet start-ups
during dot-com boom 1998-2001.
•	Since 1993 have clocked an estimated 10,000 hours or more online for business
purposes.
•	Fifteen years of online business / consumer research and analysis – since
1993.
•	Sales of tangible and intangible products and services. Cold calling,
telemarketing. High ticket items in the multi-million dollar range.
•	Sold online subscription services and advertisements to mortgage brokers and
banks nationwide for search engine/database company.
•	Sold yellow page advertisements to local businesses in the greater Seattle, WA
area. Leads, prospects, cold calls, appointments, sales.
•	Sold to business owners, CEOs, founders, executives, chairman, and other top
level key decision makers.
•	Managed new and existing accounts and exclusive territory in various sales
capacities, products, services and industries.
•	Creative and resourceful in introducing and implementing new technology into
old legacy type businesses to expedite sales and business.
•	Financial trouble-shooter. Solved financial problems for clients. Business,
real estate, mortgage, defaults, foreclosures, bankruptcy, debt consolidation,
financial and credit counseling..
•	Jumbo loan mortgage loan officer and broker. New & referral business
origination. Processing. Closing. Customer follow-up.
•	Money broker. Mortgage broker. Financial broker. Business Development.
Dealmaker.
•	$650,000 creative emergency financing structure for $3.2 million dollar water
front estate in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the U.S.
•	R.E./Business finance. Consulted with owners and developers of $30 million
project on private resort island in the Bahamas.
•	R.E./Business finance. Consulted with owner, developer for $2 billion major
industrial park and city development project in Tianjin, China.
•	Angel investor & private venture capital consultant. Private stock market
investor.
•	Real estate investment and renovation. Recruited, hired, managed, fed and paid
over 25 Mexican day laborers speaking in Spanish only. 
•	Worked in “Dot-Com” boom & bust, raising money for start-up founders, CEOs,
internet and hi-tech companies around Seattle, WA.
•	B2C and B2B. Business to consumer and business to business sales. Top
performer and income producer.
•	CEOs / companies paid thousands of dollars to attend my private invitation
only money raising events.
•	Planning, organizing, structuring, marketing, promoting of business events and
workshops. Inviting guests. Host. Greeter. Entertainer.
•	Advertising, promotion, marketing, internet marketing. Networking, contracts,
negotiations.
•	Consulted with CEOs and senior execs of hi-tech start ups and wealthy
millionaire investors on doing deals during the dot-com boom.
•	Responsible for public relations, spokesman for business news and media with
coverage in local and national major newspapers & publications.
•	Recruiter, major account sales rep and business development for major U.S.
publicly stock traded international recruiting firm in L.A. and O.C.
•	New customer builder of the month out of 600 sales reps nationwide for the
sixth largest printing and office products company in U.S.
•	Professional new business prospector. Cold called by phone & in person. Closed
sales with small to major corporations in exclusive O.C. territory.
•	Negotiated and sold one of the largest mark-ups on a job contract at 144%
between employer and employee for major employment company..
•	Financial sales. Sold and closed over $800,000 in investments in less than 30
mins. between various financial institutions, buyers and sellers.
•	Represented and consulted private start ups and private angel investors on
projects worth millions of dollars.
•	Business networked with private investors, top lawyers, top CPA’s, top
consultants, top VCs, and other top industry professionals at business events.
•	Bank drive-thru teller, bank computer operator, bank proof machine operator
for bank clearings, bank mailroom department, bank supplies ordering, bank
recycling, bank courier, etc.
•	Street work, investigative reporting, writing, journalism for my own books and
literary projects, personal memoirs, narrative non-fiction.
•	During my years of business activities, I have either met with, spoken to or
corresponded with people such as, billionaires Bill Gates & Paul Allen
(co-founders of Microsoft); Jeff Brotman (co-founder of Costco); Jim Nordstrom,
Nordstroms; Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers; billionaire Richard
Branson, founder of The Virgin Group of Companies, UK; billionaire Walter
Annenberg, Industrialist, Philanthropist & U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St.
James, U.K.; Casper Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Government; and other
renown domestic and international entrepreneurs and business professionals.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Over the years I gained experience in many different aspects of business from
working for many different companies and industries individually as well as an
independent contractor and consultant. Such as sales, customer service, business,
retail, computers, software, data entry, database management, restaurant, baker,
construction, farming, tractor operator, truck driver, furniture moving, fishing,
maintenance of over 400 units of apartments, professional executive chauffeur
driver, internet sales, web design, mortgage, banking, finance, mortgage, event
planning and organizing, real estate, telemarketing, promotion and marketing for
restaurant, management, recruiter, etc. I also spent over a year going thru the
process of probate and was the administrator of an estate and all real estate,
financial, investments, banking and other assets associated with this.
Entrepreneur-minded. Not just an employee but thinks like a businessman and
proprietor-owner. Performance based work-compensation. Results oriented. I draw
from the knowledge and experience from exposure to many different people,
personalities, companies and industries. I can relate to and communicate with
consumers and business owners of all kinds. Build friendship, relationship,
rapport, bond with customer, gain trust. And close deal. Excellent at new
customer lead generation prospecting, research and investigation. Success coach,
business mentor, teacher and trainer.

SPECIAL RESEARCH & INVESTIGATIVE SKILLS:

Worked on special private confidential assignments as well for a bank and was in
charge of data processing, ran mainframe computer that controlled bank, money
transfers of millions of dollars of business customers, micro fiche and online
research for police and court ordered requests on fraud and embezzlement
involving innocent and corrupt bank customers. Experienced in locating difficult
to find people using tools of the trade, powerful offline and online databases.
Experience at identifying, exposing and busting scams and fraud. Skilled in
information gathering, research, logic, critical thinking, personality profiling,
analysis and putting the pieces together to solve the puzzle and problem, 

EDUCATION:

•	University of Washington Business School, Seattle, WA. Negotiation. 1993.
•	Stanford University School of Law, Palo Alto, CA. Negotiation. 1993.
•	Karrass Institute, Los Angeles, CA. Negotiation. 1992.
•	Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA. Real Estate Appraisal. 1992.
•	Crafton Hills College, Yucaipa, CA. Business Law & Contracts. 1986.
•	Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA. Business Administration. 1979.
•	Cashmere High School, Cashmere, WA. Graduated. 1978.
•	Duarte High School, CA. (Los Angeles, CA) 1975.
•	Bell Gardens High School, CA. (Los Angeles, CA) 1974.

CLASSES / WORKSHOPS:

•	Mortgage Boot Camp, World Savings Bank, Costa Mesa, CA. Mortgage Skills.
2006.
•	Countrywide Mortgage, Irvine, CA. Workshop. Loan Programs. 2006.
•	Wells Fargo Bank, Irvine, CA. 2006. Workshop. Loan Programs. 2006.
•	Chase Bank, Irvine, CA. Workshop. Loan Programs. 2006.
•	Appraisal Basics, World Savings, Hollywood/Los Angeles, CA. 2006.
•	How To Navigate The Internet (Unix and Mosaic), Kirkland, WA. 1993.
•	The Mortgage School, Seattle, WA. Certified Mortgage Loan Officer. 1992.
•	The Real Estate School, Kirkland, WA. Wash. State Real Estate Sales Agent.
1989.
•	Dale Carnegie Sales Course, Bellevue, WA. Certificate. 12 weeks advanced
training. 1989.
•	Xerox Sales Training Course, Atlanta, GA. Three weeks intensive training.
1986.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

•	Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce, Newport Beach, CA 2007.
•	Bellevue Chamber of Commerce, Bellevue/Seattle, WA 1988.
•	International Society of Financiers, Ashland, NC 1989.
•	International Real Estate Institute, Scottsdale, AZ. 1992.

VOLUNTEER WORK:

•	Youth Mentor, City of Bellevue Youth Program,  Bellevue, WA. 1996.
•	Youth Mentor, City of Duarte Youth Program, Duarte, CA. 2001/2002, 
•	Youth Mentor/Founder, Help The Youth, Los Angeles/Orange Counties, CA
2001-2007.
•	Volunteer/Founder, Help The Homeless, Los Angeles/Orange Counties, CA.
2001-2007.
•	Volunteer, Habitat For Humanity, Martha’s Vineyard, MA 2008.

OTHER INTERESTS: 

Digital photography, music, reading, writing, hiking, backpacking, camping and
travel. Volunteer youth mentor to poor at risk teens and the homeless in L.A. and
Orange County, CA. Motivational programs on personal development, sales, business
and negotiation. Volunteer at the www.tasteofnewport.com annual food and fund
raising event promoted by the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce, CA.

RELOCATION AND TRAVEL:

Willing to relocate anywhere in the U.S. or the world IF the pay and benefits
are attractive enough. Willing to travel up to 100% of time IF the pay and
benefits are good enough. Otherwise, prefer to tele-work and tele-commute 100% of
the time and work from home based office or from a laptop on the road
periodically.

COMPENSATION PLAN:

I prefer a guaranteed base plus commission and bonus incentives based on
performance.

INCOME RANGE:

Negotiable. Seeking best compensation commensurate with my job skills, ability,
tenure and experience. $120,000 - $400,000+ base plus commission range.




EAST COAST USA ADDRESS:

Jeff Read
Po Box 2351
Edgartown, MA 02539

 [Send email to request phone number] 55.0253 mobile
508.627.xxxx home

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WEST COAST USA ADDRESS:

Jeff Read
Po Box 8981
Newport Beach, CA 92658

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508.627.xxxx home

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Revised: 02-19-2008 – 2.43pm