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Brandon Young
Brandon was born and raised in Wichita Falls, Texas. At the age of 15, he was introduced to the workforce within the fast food industry. While in his senior year, he relocated to Union City, Georgia and conclude his 4-year term at Creekside High School. Upon graduating, Brandon continued his education in Computer Information Systems at Clark Atlanta University. During his junior year, he was recruited to work for a Fortune 500 retail company.
At the start of a span of 13 years, Brandon began his career at the bottom of the corporate ladder, but rapidly worked his way up. One major step up the ladder was being promoted to a developmental team that was rolling out a new program called Quality Assurance (Q.A). After a few years of participating in the development, other companies began to enforce Q.A. As Brandon continued to take steps to better his career and the production of companies, he assisted with the improvement of morale, customer service, leadership, etc.
As he continued to gain knowledge in the work force he took the ultimate step within his career and stepped out on faith to start his own business. J.D. Harvester Investments was founded on the desire to help people, entrepreneurs, enhance their dreams. Specializing in better business development, marketing, and promotion, J.D. Harvester Investments is a growing empire that is here to serve. They believe if you can dream it, they can breathe life into it.
You can reach Brandon via email byoung@jdharvester.com.
Chas Vales
Chas grew up just outside of Chicago Illinois, moved to Georgia in 2007. His first passion was videography which lead him to becoming a developer. Shortly after moving to Georgia Chris wanted to pursue his passion of videography. He got his first real gig recording and editing a wedding video, the video turned out great and there was a demand for copies. Chris thought was, the best way to sell these copies would be online because the requests came from different states. However he felt he was computer savvy enough to make a simple website himself and did using a wysiwyg editor. Once Chris sent people to the site to purchase the DVD he started to receive requests to make websites. With that he began teaching himself HTML and CSS. He has been have been learning and teaching myself ever since.
Chas has created an innovated approach to post and search jobs within a community. His product, Doboki is a job search website that covers many different types of jobs. Where we are different is we don’t thrive or seek for big business or corporate jobs we serve as a platform to find a job for supplemental income. The concept is simple, for this example we will use Starbucks. Lets say you’re going to get your morning cup of coffee at Starbucks. As you’re waiting in line you see a now hiring sign on the counter. You can go to doboki.org and post that Starbucks on Peachtree Street is hiring.
You can reach Chas via email cvales@jdharvester.com
Tara Oliver
Tara is he owner of T Oliver Hair Studio. Tara has over 10+ years of styling experience. Specialty training received at Dudley’s University, Farouk Systems, New Concepts Hair Goods, Affinage, Redken and H2Pro.
Tara’s focus on hair health and proper care has propelled her in the hair care industry. “I am committed to helping educate women with the proper knowledge on caring for their hair and preventing long term hair issues.”, says Oliver. The T Oliver Hair Studio has gained the reputation of being called the “Hair Doctors” because they have helped so many women over the years to achieve healthy beautiful hair and a healthy scalp, while keeping them fashion forward. Tara’s approach to developing her stylists and training her employees makes her a leader in the industry.
Tara’s hair styling has been featured in Sophisticate’s Black Hair, Hair Atlanta, Hotlanta Hair Directory, Hype Hair, Best Self, Mazza, Skirt Magazine and Creative Loafing’s Best of 2006 list. Tara has been honored to work with some of Atlanta’s best photographers such as Frantz, Sean Cokes, Johnathan Martin, Reggie Anderson, The Horne Brothers and Drexina Nelson. Tara has styled for R&B recording artist Keri Hilson and I am an H2Pro Platform Artist.
Tara’s Story
Being a hair stylist is her true passion. She looks at styling as an artform. The hair is a canvas and her styling tools are her medium. Each client brings a new experience and allows Tara to share my art and be creative each and every time. She breaks all the rules when she styles. Nothing is generic. Evolution and contrast is the key. Tara uses texture like an accessory. She believes adding contrasting textures to any style can completely transform it. When designing a look, Tara considers every aspect of her client’s lifestyle and self image.
Tara is inspired by seeing women be transformed by her styling. Not only in appearance, but in spirit by helping them develop a new self image and boost their self confidence. It gives Tara a feeling of accomplishment when her clients feel better about themselves because of the look she created for them. Tara also finds great strength and inspiration in the personal trials that have gotten me to where she is today.
Just a little over 4 years ago Tara was in the process of transforming a very successful salon, she and her husband were blessed to have a 9 month old son Kingston and another son on the way and it seemed like nothing could stop them. Then the unthinkable happened. Six months into the pregnancy, their doctor informed them there were serious complications with the pregnancy. Tara was unable care for her 9 month old at the time and had no other means of income other than her salon. Three weeks later, on her birthday June 30th, Tara gave birth to her son Chandler. He was born at 28 weeks weighing under 2lbs. and dealing with his own medical complications. Chandler was such a fighter, however he lost his fight for life after 17 days. Chandler died in Tara’s arms. Words can’t describe the tremendous void she felt and continues to feel. It touched her soul and life without him will never be the same.
However, Tara remains encouraged. Always reminded of Chandlers fight for life! Although Chandler only lived for 17 days, remembering him goes beyond his short time. Tara misses Chandler terribly, but the strength she gained from that experience has allowed her to carry on and inspire others. Tara honors Chandler with every step she takes in my career and living a fulfilling life.
T Oliver Hair Studio is located at 3867 Holcomb Bridge Rd Suite 100 Norcross, GA 30092 and they are currently taking new client appointments. Their phone number is (770) 209-0299.
Dr. Sally Jamara is a partner and the Leadership Practices Leader in the Atlanta office of Traversa Consulting. She has been consulting and leading major organizational change in global organizations for over twenty five years. Sally is retained to assess and consult with CEOs, senior executive team members and high potential leaders. She has extensive experience in supporting hiring to meet the culture of the organization. She works with executives as a trusted advisor to align their teams to support the efficient and effective delivery of the corporate strategy. Sally provides the road map to make executive development and organization change successful for both the organization and the individual. After listening to clients’ struggling to building a culture for innovation, she developed a validated and unique assessment series that focuses on bringing awareness and specific development tools for innovation to individuals, teams and organizations.
