Tennessee and Alabama including Wal-Mart, B.S.E.D. Business Education graduate with record as an experienced business professional with a solid background in planning and executing sales and marketing plans. Hands-on manager with highly developed negotiation skills with over ten years experience as a respected leader. Proven ability to recognize and capitalize on developing trends through two corporate mergers in a three-year period while maintaining my management position. Decisive team leader with extensive experience recruiting and hiring sales/service teams, developing talent and creating effective training programs. Home Depot 84 Lumber Lowes Kmart PetCo Pet Supplies Plus Pet Supermarket and Tractor Supply Petsmart. * $60 million in annual sales associated with written orders product training classes and visual merchandising performed by field service associates under my direct supervision. Responsible for planning scheduling and implementing visual merchandising schemes for new and existing stores in Home Depot Wal-mart and Lowes Tractor Supply and 84 Lumber. Developed a strategic field service plan for Lowes Home Depot and Wal-mart related to installation of new products signage re-labeling and in store visual merchandising. Sales have exceeded forecasted budgets over 100% in my district since 2000. Developed and incorporated strategic marketing sales and customer service plans which resulted in enhance product knowledge of in store associates resulting in yearly increase sales. * Negotiated with chain store merchandisers and in Store Managers for product maintenance inventory location and visual display while instituting Plano gram set-ups within the companies associates * Persuasive communicator with well-developed presentation and negotiation skills. Able to develop productive relationships with associates customers and staff at all levels. and Kentucky including Home Depot Wal-Mart Lowes K-Mart Pet Smart PetCo and Pet Supplies Plus. Serviced by eighteen field service employees. $49 million in annual sales. * Controlled budgeting related areas in district encompassing employee overtime account call cycles supply expenses and overhead expenses while keeping cost to expense ratio below 8% of total district annual sales. * Coordinated selling-in and installation of company equipment in Wal-Mart Petsmart PetCo and Pet Supplies Plus and scheduled maintenance and service Responsible for, and Lowes in North Georgia and Eastern Alabama while managing total customer service needs and marketing of products. * $480,000 in yearly sales, averaging 3,000 miles per month while servicing accounts plus expediting orders and processing maintenance requests. * Atlanta sales marketing increased from 87% to 120% at the end of May 1993 by establishing key account contacts and expanding the territory through strategic marketing activities. supervising six hard-line sporting goods departments staffed by 32 employees $8 million in annual sales.

Highlights:

• Retail
• Customer Service
• Budgeting
• Mergers
• Sales
• Business Management
• Inventory
• Management
• Merchandising
• consumer products
• manage Route Service Field Reps
• Management Field Service Team