Geoff Dutton
Looking to major in Entrepreneurship Management, dream lifestyle is becoming a serial entrepreneur, always looking for new start-ups and help current ones
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.ceomakers.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Retail |
| Skills: | Design, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, HTML / CSS, Languages and Platforms, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Sales, Software Engineering, Web design, Web Development, Windows applications |
| Location: | Minneapolis Minnesota USA |
| Groups: | The University of Minnesota Entrepreneurship Club |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Getting press, Helping friends, Internships, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Trading services |
| Tags: | entrepreneurship club |
| Schools: | University of Minnesota System - Twin Cities |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Entrepreneurship Club |
| Position: | Database Administrator |
| Time period: | September 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Implemented new, more efficient database keeping procedures and practices
Put together marketing for the club, including t-shirt design for the board members Contributed to growth and expansion of the club, about 20% growth and more diverse major snapshot |
| Employer: | Seize The Moment Entertainment |
| Position: | Chief Technical Manager |
| Time period: | August 2005 - Present |
| Description: | Co-founded an event/party planning business; gained real-life entrepreneurship experience
Built a complete PA sound system for the company with a $5000 budget, saving the company $2000 Oversaw and managed events with 800-plus people with the biggest event being the New Years Eve 2008 Party, Downtown Rochester, MN; a budget of $7000 and over 1000 in attendance |
| Employer: | City of Rochester |
| Position: | Building Permit Plan Reviewer/Software Implementation |
| Time period: | May 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | Reviewed construction plans and applied building code knowledge, issued building permits
Implemented new building permit software for the 20 person Building Safety Department Developed various calculation spreadsheets to increase efficiency throughout the department such as beam size calculation, permit cost estimates |
| Employer: | BizPitch Competition |
| Position: | Contestant |
| Time period: | April 2007 - April 2007 |
| Description: | Ninety Seconds to pitch a business idea to a panel of real venture capitalists
Gained practical experience in pitching/selling ideas to real venture capitalists and angel investors |
| Employer: | University of Minnesota Housing |
| Position: | Computer Lab Administrator |
| Time period: | August 2006 - May 2007 |
| Description: | Managed and optimized lab of 18 computers, including both PC and Mac
Advised residents/administration in technical procedures such as software updates and virus removal Coordinated educational presentations for the residents about safe computing and system optimization |
| Employer: | Menards, Inc. |
| Position: | Building Materials Sales Associate |
| Time period: | August 2005 - August 2006 |
| Description: | Sold $40,000-plus building packages to large building contractors
Collaborated on product placement/layout to maximize impulse purchases in the Building Materials Dept. Self-taught basic accounting/managing, such as tracking sales, inventory, and payroll |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Minnesota System - Twin Cities |
| Time period: | 2010 |
| Degree: | Entrepreneurial Management, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Clubs: | Board Member of the Entrepreneurship Club at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, USA. |
Geoff's Startups (1)
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Geoff is Following (10)
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Webbing
Webbing is a close-knit team of 5 who enjoy managing projects and seeing our clients smile. We also believe that knowing us as humans with interests helps clients to get to know us. We enjoy our work as a web team.
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Hitchsters
Hitchsters operates a service that connects travelers going to and from airports so that they can share a cab and split the fare. Users can indicate a preference for the gender of their co-rider.
Geoff's Contacts (3)
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Adam Beardmore
Management Information Systems graduate from University of Minnesota. Currently working at Apple Volt Technical Services, at La Crescent Fine Arts Center and at BeardmoreWeb.
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Nathan Boublil
French, 22, co-founder of Ad4Good Ltd
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Paul Joseph
Indian 23, Grad in Computer Application. Been with Web design and dev for 6yrs.