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LUMBER MERCHANDISING ASSISTANT
Summary
To seek and acquire a position where I can assist in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of its operation while allowing me to utilize and expand my existing leadership and interpersonal skills. Twelve years of experience in accounts payable, six years in merchandising, four years in operations. Highly driven and self-motivated team player with the ability to handle a wide variety of tasks under serious deadlines. Particularly effective in creative thinking and innovative problem solving.
Highlights
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Accomplishments
Led the development of special buy reporting to measure performance of 113 special buys valued at $18M. Increased personnel productivity to 200% by eliminating redundancies and optimizing existing technology.
Experience
Lumber Merchandising Assistant
January 2011 to CurrentAllied Global Services － Olathe , KS
January 2011 to CurrentAllied Global Services － Olathe , KS
- Responsible for ensuring all siding, hardwood boards, composition, melamine and wood shingle SKUs are set up, accurate and available for all Home Depot stores.
- Responsible for placing all host and special buy orders for roll out of new and existing SKUs to select stores for product initiatives.
- Single point of contact for vendors and stores for any lumber related issues.
- Updating all pricing for all fixed cost SKUs as well as through Random Lengths.
- Ensuring all board service hours are captured and invoiced correctly and on a timely basis.
- Tracking sales for all special buy programs as well as following up with vendors and MET for under-performing stores.
Tool Rental Merchandising Assistant
January 2006 to January 2011Xima Software － South Jordan , UT
January 2006 to January 2011Xima Software － South Jordan , UT
- Responsible for ensuring the successful day to day operational status of over four hundred tool rentals in the northwest United States.
- Created databases to allow the individual to access diverse and detailed information on all levels of tool rental.
- Responsible for ordering tools to replenish worn fleet or areas for new growth.
- Kept all repair parts selections up to date and available for all stores upon request.
- Resolved vendor relation issues for tool rentals and vendors alike.
- Ensured all purchase orders were delivered to vendors on a timely basis or were removed as needed.
Project Data Management/Merchandising
January 2004 to January 2006HOME DEPOT － City , STATE
January 2004 to January 2006HOME DEPOT － City , STATE
- Ensure the proper pricing of all merchandise pertaining to carpet, area rugs, and appliances in the Home Depot Expo division.
- Also responsible for the collection of all new merchandise product specifications to be loaded into the Expo in store special ordering system for the above listed categories.
- Created database to track all departmental metrics and generated reports to senior management.
- Led special project investigating the validity of the Graphic Ordering Computer (GOC) images and in- store usage.
- Assisted in the development and testing of the Job Request Form (JRF) database.
Accounts Payable/Finance
January 1993 to January 2004HOME DEPOT － City , STATE
January 1993 to January 2004HOME DEPOT － City , STATE
- Responsible for the processing of install and out for repair invoices as well as return to vendor (RTV) deductions.
- Analyze and correct store detailed purchase journals for initial mark-up (IMU) reporting and publish findings to merchants as well as Home Depot management.
- Balance Home Depot statistic (stat) entries on a monthly basis.
- Correct errors, on the class and sub-class level, pertaining to store inventory.
- Investigate and correct discrepancies in customer, vendor, or store processing of at home service installs.
- Created database to track significant transfer errors and their impact on store and regional level IMU and stat reporting.
- Developed training manual and taught a class on "Retail Method of Accounting" for several departments in finance.
- Compiled figures of dollars retrieved by the Audit Recovery department and created a spreadsheet forecasting potential recoveries over a four-year period based on previous audit results.
- Assured y2k compliance of RTV system by creating test scenarios covering all main frame applications associated with the RTV process.
- Achieved two hundred percent production in RTV department.
- Enhanced existing voucher request form for Payroll Garnishments department to expedite check requests from the Expense department.
- Demonstrated strong leadership capabilities in RTV department by assisting in training, distribution of workload, and addressing vendor and store issues for associates.
- Tracked and reported group production during the absence of a supervisor.
- Researched and corrected all vendor, customer, store and store support center issues for the three largest At-Home Service installers within a seventy two-hour time frame.
Store Associate
January 1992 to January 1993HOME DEPOT － City , STATE
January 1992 to January 1993HOME DEPOT － City , STATE
- Responsible for front end customer service, load merchandise into customer vehicles, run cash registers, Return desk, and stocking merchandise received nightly as well as maintaining departmental overheads.
Sales representative
January 1991 to January 1992JIM SCOTT PIANO － City , STATE
January 1991 to January 1992JIM SCOTT PIANO － City , STATE
- Responsible for the sale of electronic as well as traditional pianos and accessories.
Education
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook as well as basic accounting. : 1 1990Clayton State College
Interests
Habitat for Humanity
Food for the Poor
Atlanta Union Mission
Achieng Foundation
Skills
Accounting, basic accounting, Balance, cash registers, customer service, databases, database, senior management, finance, forecasting, frame, Graphic, inventory, leadership, mark, Access, Excel, Outlook, Microsoft Word, Payroll, pricing, reporting, Retail, sales, spreadsheet, supervisor, composition, y2k
Additional Information
- COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Habitat for Humanity Food for the Poor Atlanta Union Mission Achieng Foundation
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School Attended
- Clayton State College
Job Titles Held:
- Lumber Merchandising Assistant
- Tool Rental Merchandising Assistant
- Project Data Management/Merchandising
- Accounts Payable/Finance
- Store Associate
- Sales representative
Degrees
- Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook as well as basic accounting. : 1 1990
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