Stephanie Barneburg

CEO

Stephanie Barneburg is the CEO of Sparkle Freshness, an innovative cleaning company that specializes in sustainability. Sparkle Freshness is a local family-owned and operated small business in Carlsbad, CA. Stephanie has also established the Jim Dunston Foundation, a nonprofit working directly with underserved communities to create jobs by improving the environment through cleaning, education, and mentorship programs. Her commitment to making global change is the reason Sparkle Freshness is taking the industry by storm. Stephanie is committed to Sparkle Freshness’ Mission of making the world a better place, using non-toxic chemicals, planting trees to offset their carbon footprint, supporting the community, and developing outcomes so that everyone across the globe has drinkable water. Under her leadership, Stephanie has also collaborated with businesses and communities to offset their footprint by providing educational resources and planting trees in their names. Stephanies’ dedication to the company’s mission is her promise to her children, her clients, her employees, and to the world.

Stephanie credits her early years working with Hyatt Hotel & Resorts as a Senior Front Office Manager for developing her strong work ethic and putting herself in the customer’s shoes. Stephanie would then spend 6 years in several management positions, including Regional Trainer with Fortune 500 companies. Stephanie spent 11 years with Bank of America as a Senior Mortgage Loan Officer helping individuals with their financial independence by assisting them in the pursuit of their dream of homeownership, with a focus on low-income areas. Stephanie created Sparkle Freshness when her needs were not being met in corporate America. Her passion for creating a better place to live while using non-toxic chemicals to clean came when her youngest son was born 3-months premature and his livelihood depended on his clean environment.

Mark Barneburg

COO

Mark Barneburg is Chief of Operations at Sparkle Freshness Commercial Cleaning, and he works with business owners and facilities managers that want to work in a clean and healthy environment. He knows that there was a better way to provide a clean space to his clients without endangering their health and the health of the people he works with. He works tirelessly to provide extraordinary service and a healthy environment for his clients.

Mark is an avid surfer and ocean water sports enthusiast, and a father of two. He is passionate about being responsible for the natural environment around us and preserving it for future generations.

Mark holds an AS in Electronics and Computer Technology from DeVry University and worked in his early career for luxury brand hotels and as an Electronics Field Engineer for multimillion-dollar companies for over a decade, and saw that the processes that he learned to deliver great service in the electronics repair industry worked equally well to effectively deliver the services that Sparkle Freshness provides to his clients.

Mark believes that personal development is essential to deliver reliable business solutions, so he has sought extensive management and leadership training to ensure that his vision of extraordinary service is effectively communicated to the employees at Sparkle Freshness so that every employee is trained to give the same high level of service and performance. He also has multiple floor care certifications through ISSA and a passion for finding effective processes to ensure proper cleaning methods.

Naomi Herrera

Connection Liaison

Naomi serves as Sparkle Freshness’ Connection Liaison; networking, connecting, and creating new relationships. Naomi is a leader and managerial professional with over ten years of military service. As a female combat veteran with a sunny disposition, Naomi brings a lot to the table and wears many hats.

Successful in connecting with others, planning, operations, and team leadership. Experienced in workload planning, daily assignments, employee training and development, budgeting, and logistics. Learned conversational Arabic during combat deployments in support of the Operation Iraqi Freedom campaigns.

While serving in the United States Army on deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Naomi was in charge of over twenty soldiers tasked to the multi-national coalition access point. Naomi and her subordinates were responsible for searching and protecting over 5,000 soldiers, contractors, and civilians that came through the access point and occupied the forward operating base of Q West. Naomi learned conversational Arabic in three different dialects to be able to meet and negotiate with hundreds of multi-national civilian contractors. Back in garrison, Naomi was in charge of her unit’s coordination for redeployment with a new division.

In her civilian life, Naomi was the controller and bookkeeper for a maintenance company. Naomi created contacts and established reports with several high-rise apartment homes in Downtown San Diego, earning their business. Also, Naomi created a three-way coding and new job costing system practically eliminating all errors. Under her management, Naomi went on to increase profit by more than $2.6million a year.

Nicole Herrera

Business Administration Coordinator

Nicole is a Human Resources professional experienced in managing and leading the administrative function of HR, along with partnering with business leaders in an authentic, meaningful, and value-added way. With 10 years of progressive HR experience, she is passionate about communicating HR policies and best practices, along with continuously implementing process improvements, to ensure strategic alignment with the organization and to ensure an exceptional employee experience.

As Business Administration Coordinator, Nicole supports the running of our day-to-day operations. She touches all aspects of our business administration and keeps Sparkle Freshness focused on moving towards its strategic mission and goals. Utilizing her more than 20 years of administrative, client, and customer service experience, she directs her passion for overseeing organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

Nicole supports the business operations for Sparkle Freshness, including technical and administrative support to our valued clients and employees. Nicole and her husband Robert, are parents to three happy, very energetic children. They all love relaxing outdoors and playing outdoors. Living most of her life in large cities, she now loves living in the country where the family plants sweet corn, watermelon, and pumpkins for Halloween.

Before joining the Sparkle Freshness team she worked in air transportation, consulting, and manufacturing organizations.