Dominic Javier

In his first book RETAIL is DETAIL - PASSION for EXCELLENCE, Dominic draws on his decades of experience as a field marketing and business development practitioner in the oil and gas' retail downstream industry. He has interacted with several business people from various walks of life and paved his way through in various corporate cultures in the realm of finance, marketing, sales, human resources development, operations both in local and global environments as an employee and consultant, until he decides to hang the globes of corporate life and start being himself as an entrepreneur and a part-time writer. 

The lessons in his book(s) are a result of his personal interaction over the years in his corporate career rooting from curiosities and insecurities and stemming to confidence and creativity realizing his full potential as a corporate-man and now as an entrepreneur.

This his first attempt to write a book and ambitiously hoping to cover its intended entirety of the retail business focusing in the oil and gas industry-downstream retail business as its environment, and given his profile summarized below, it shows he has earnestly earned a self-claimed reputation as a retail can-do spirit:

I) Marketing and Business Development - Loves growing the business as evidenced by successfully negotiating retail petroleum networks for national oil companies in Zambia, Africa with SGC Investments Limited (a Tanzanian family owned business growing its retail oil and convenient stores in its neighboring country, Zambia). Prior to SGC, a another national oil company in Indonesia with PT AKR Corporindo Tbk., TOTAL Oil Corporation in the Philippines, PTT Oil Corporation in Thailand and the Philippines, and Chevron Corporation (formerly Caltex Philippines, Inc) in the Philippines;

II) Field Sales Management - Acquired global acumen/competencies in Sales, Account and Project Management, Site Selection Processes and Strategies, Environment, Health and Safety Development, Contracts and Finance Management, Dealership Selection, Brand Management, Collections and Accounts Receivables Management, and Convenience Store/FMCG Management;

III) Architect-designer of Management Information Systems on Back Office, Point of Sales and Accounting system of Wet-stock and Dry-stocks products typical gas stations have staying competitive in retail environment it thrives in.

A solid and awesome career in the Oil & Gas with years of accumulated knowledge in Retail Marketing, Industrial Sales and Transport & Logistics Management faced with right after graduating from the College of Business Administration of the University of the Philippines in 1993, and right up to his last expatriate assignment in Zambia, Africa in 2017, and today, he is managing his own business registered as DEAJ Investments LLC, a vending machine and sales kiosk business established in October 2017 in the State of Texas. 

DEAJ Investments LLC (@ilovevending) has grown its vending machine business in various locations in Flower Mound, Lewisville, Grapevine, Carrolton and Denton City.  We are still growing the business to stay significantly in the DFW area.