Caryn Case
Export Manager at Verde Wood International, Inc.; Certificate in Non-profit Management, Duke (2010); Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology and Geophysics, UCONN (1984); Founder & Managing Mentor at gotoMentor, LLC (2009).
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Education, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle |
| Skills: | Business, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Public Relations, Public speaking, Retail, Sales, Writing |
| Location: | Raleigh, NC |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments, Trading services |
| Tags: | advice, advisors, business, capital, consulting, conversation, education, for-benefit, intelligent, mentor, mentoring, mentors, protege, raleigh, rtp, school of life, start up, talkers, transition, unemployed |
| Schools: | Duke University, University of Connecticut |
FEATURED STARTUP
gotoMentor™, LLC
gotoMentor™, LLC
To improve labor market opportunity by spirit of entrepreneurship in an environment that promotes a positive personal transformation to incite new business ideas that may one day be funded w/profits & pecuniary resources grown on investment.
- Startup type: Social Enterprise
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Verde Wood International, Inc.; Carrboro, North Carolina |
| Position: | Export Manager |
| Time period: | July 2010 - Present |
| Description: | Synchronizes sales of kiln-dried hardwoods in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey, and Italy with purchases from domestic suppliers.
Directs and expedites export correspondence and credit collections. Assures conversion of product data to foreign standards and specifications producing load summaries and tallies to ensure efficient documentation. Arranges shipping details, such as bill of lading, certificate of insurance, certificate of origin, phytosanitary certificate, notice of shipment, packing, stamping, shipping and routing of product. Reconciles a growing 6 million dollar annual budget in QuickBooks and executes other business management responsibility. |
| Employer: | gotoMentor™, LLC; Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Position: | Founder & Manager |
| Time period: | October 2009 - Present |
| Description: | Organizational conduit between your project and a great result; provider of The Social Mentor Network™.....
..... to improve labor market opportunity for the 4.2% educated (The Economist, February 2011) unemployed workforce by spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in an environment that promotes a positive personal transformation that will incite new business ideas that may one day be funded with profits and pecuniary resources grown on investment. With the success of this initial target market, participation will expand to include educated individuals whose professional livelihoods have been compromised by other 'accidents' in life, altering one's physical and mental well-being, i.e. health, death, divorce, relocation, etc ..... |
| Employer: | Angels Among Us |
| Position: | Volunteer |
| Description: | Fundraising Committee, Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke Hospital, Durham, NC. “ANGELS AMONG US is a celebration of life, strength, courage and commitment. It has become a national event, with thousands coming from all across the country to volunteer, participate, and make a difference. The 2010 event was host to over 4500 people and raised $1,636,530!” ~ www.angelsamongus.org |
| Employer: | McCollister’s Transportation Systems; Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Position: | Relocation Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2005 - December 2009 |
| Description: | Initially hired to sell residential relocations in the local market. Job responsibilities broadened to include international and corporate relocations, national account sales, quality assurance management, commercial relocations, and a sustainability initiative to support a re-branding effort and other corporate objectives on environmental and corporate responsibility.
Served on a committee to plan and execute a conference on Quality Assurance through the discipline of Appreciative Inquiry for approximately 200 of my colleagues. My area of contribution: writing conference curriculum and presentation. Improved the company visibility by 172% through alternative and social media networks, as well as the procurement of access to a pertinent market resource and business club presence. Improved gross line-haul revenue by 120%. Maintained a closing ratio of 58% for household goods relocations prior to onset of real estate demise. Achieved “Best in Class” recognition from United Van Lines for sales process. |
| Employer: | Magnum Moving & Storage; North Eastham, Massachusetts |
| Position: | Outside Sales Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2003 - December 2005 |
| Description: | Established relationship with Habitat for Humanity to provide complementary moving services to families earning their first new homes.
Set new baseline on gross sales potential for household goods relocations in my first year. |
| Employer: | Compass Rose Book Shop, Inc.; Orleans, Massachusetts |
| Position: | Owner, President |
| Time period: | January 1989 - December 2003 |
| Description: | The Compass Rose Book Shop had been credited as being one of this country’s oldest independent bookstores as acknowledged by the American Booksellers Association for its 40+ year history; the Compass Rose closed in 2003.
Amazon.com’s presence in the mid-1990’s forced this independent bookseller to re-evaluate strategy, coupled a few years later by the discount wars between Borders and Barnes & Noble. The Compass Rose Book Shop responded, implementing measures congruent with the interest of community, procuring the prestigious Lucile Micheels Pannell Award for excellence in children’s programming and earning nomination to the American Bookseller’s Association, Board of Director’s. During my tenure annual sales grew from $285K to over $600K. Organized book signing events to include Mary Higgins Clark, Sebastian Junger, and Peter Manso. Published “Quest”, a monthly newsletter distributed to nurture readers in local schools. Wrote the “Compulsive Reader”, a daily radio program featuring a cantankerous bibliophile. Developed a low-cost book acquisition program for schools and public libraries. Structured a buyback program to re-cycle and re-sell quality used books. Built a B2B marketing campaign to include my Chamber of Commerce colleagues distributing over 25,000 catalogs during peak business season on Cape Cod. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Duke University |
| Time period: | 2010 |
| Degree: | Nonprofit Management |
| University: | University of Connecticut |
| Time period: | 1984 |
| Degree: | Geology and Geophysics, BSc |
Caryn's Startups (1)
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gotoMentor™, LLC
To improve labor market opportunity by spirit of entrepreneurship in an environment that promotes a positive personal transformation to incite new business ideas that may one day be funded w/profits & pecuniary resources grown on investment.
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Mutimba Mazwi
Freelance journalist, blogger and affiliate marketer
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Prashant Garchar
working with Bharti Airtel as a TM, MBA in Marketing & Information System, Interned at Tata Chemicals Ltd.
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