Work within the fastener product category managing inventory and relationships with over 60 suppliers carrying more than 45k individual items for 5 distribution centers. -Look to exceed fill rate goals while minimizing back orders and staying within an inventory budget. -Work with suppliers to return dead inventory to help reduce overstocks and increase inventory turns. Work within a cross-functional team creating synergy and helping each other achieve organizational goals and objectives.-Work as a team to develop and execute plans that drive sales and increase gross margins.-Work with demand planning to make forecast adjustments.

Plan & allocate inventory dollars on new SKUs based on historically trends, seasonality, and promotional events.Replenish acceptable inventory level across 6 warehouses from over 100 vendors carrying 2,500 individual SKUs; preventing stock outs and overstocks.Supplier Relationship Management -Work with vendors to increase gross margins on products carried.-Negotiate buy-in deals for new SKUs and discounts off month end purchase orders.-Setup monthly promotions to help vendors increase distribution and shelf space at the retail level.-Communicate issues with purchase orders between accounts payable and vendors to quickly resolve in order get POs paid during net terms.

-Coach, develop and manage players in position group and defensive unit as the defensive coordinator, defensive line coach, and linebackers coach.-Assisted in the development of game preparation and planning methodology that includes film breakdown, tendency reports, scouting reports and the defensive game plan against upcoming opponents.-Supervise and coordinate all off-season strength and conditioning programs.-Coached six all-conference and one all-county team selections along with a conference defensive player of the year selection.-Helped lead team to a 2009 conference championship, the first championship in over a decade.-Member of American Football Coaches Association.