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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Hillsborough, North Carolina

Decorative table top and giftware focusing on handcrafted Italian product.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Led 7 direct reports, 7 VPs, and 14 regional leaders and 8000 total associates in this $1.2B Division of Belk. Aligned division organization to excel at driving top-line sales in focus areas and initiatives while controlling expenses to exceed profit expectations. Engaged teams to implement with excellence item locator (search and send) rollout, $27.2M.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Responsible for all aspects of merchandise and marketing for men’s, home, and kids’ demand centers for Belk, totaling 315 Stores with volume of $960M. Direct reports included four vice presidents/DMMs and 16 buyers. Led by example; moved rapidly on performance, good and bad; and energized organization by encouraging change and creativity. Grew men’s.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Oversaw 59 stores with volume of $645M. Built a strong management team through developing high potentials, effecting positive turn and recruiting top talent. Drove sales while controlling expenses to plan rate delivering lowest expense rate in company 2004 at 18.61% achieving net store profit of 13.64% exceeding plan by $1M. Led company in customer.

Hudson, Ohio

Manufactured, and sold device networking and connectivity solutions for a broad market. Customers included OEM’s, value added resellers (VAR’s) and System Integrators, as well as end-users in many industries, including banking, retail/POS, access control, building automation and security, and energy management. Company sold in 2011.