This is an ANTI-RESUME. Instead of the normal hyperbolic resume, I am simply going to put down what I actually did day-to-day.Since about 2002 I was the “Product Manager” - an all-encompassing term to try to describe what I actually did. Since Evertek dealt in overstock; end-of-life; used; refurbished; reconditioned; customer trade in; Chinese imports and other similar products, I was not a “product manager” in a traditional sense of the word. I worked in “carpet-land” – that is, the… Show more This is an ANTI-RESUME. Instead of the normal hyperbolic resume, I am simply going to put down what I actually did day-to-day.Since about 2002 I was the “Product Manager” - an all-encompassing term to try to describe what I actually did. Since Evertek dealt in overstock; end-of-life; used; refurbished; reconditioned; customer trade in; Chinese imports and other similar products, I was not a “product manager” in a traditional sense of the word. I worked in “carpet-land” – that is, the front office – with the purchasing group. I was also the “Alpha-Geek”. The go to person who had all the Geeky / Techy answers.Before I begin, some background.I started at Evertek / Computer Geeks in September 1997 and lasted until March 2020 (COVID lay-off) (Evertek was the wholesale part of the business and Computer Geeks the retail (end-user) part of the business - Geeks was pretty much closed down in 2013).Because I have been in the computer hardware industry so long, I have picked up numerous "computer skills", such as:• Extensive computer hardware knowledge• Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)• Google Drive (Google Docs, Google Sheets)• Microsoft operating systems (DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)• Apple operating systems (macOS; iOS, iPadOS)• Google operating systems (Android; ChromeOS)• Other operating systems (BlackBerry, Palm, Linux) Show less

What I actually was doing when I left Evertek:• Bid product for all the purchasers (or if they bid it themselves, double-check their numbers to make sure they worked). Evertek shot for a Gross Profit of %, so I’d need to run pricing analysis of a number of products a day to project what they’d sell for on the retail market; what Evertek could sell them for on the wholesale market; what Evertek’s shipping, production (testing, cleaning, and fixing (if applicable), boxing… Show more What I actually was doing when I left Evertek:• Bid product for all the purchasers (or if they bid it themselves, double-check their numbers to make sure they worked). Evertek shot for a Gross Profit of %, so I’d need to run pricing analysis of a number of products a day to project what they’d sell for on the retail market; what Evertek could sell them for on the wholesale market; what Evertek’s shipping, production (testing, cleaning, and fixing (if applicable), boxing, costs would be and as well as compensating for potential drop-out rate for bad units as well as price-points for different grades (cosmetic grading mostly). Also, projecting the pricing trends in the time it took between purchase and when the product would actually be ready for sale. For example, I’d be the actual person who’d run through the lists for items that Evertek could potentially bid on (close to a reasonable price), what number we should bid, and what we could sell it at.• Post all newly arrived product for sale (typically 50 to 100 new SKUs per day either of reposts or product that was new to Evertek). On these products I’d also run the pricing analysis of the retail and wholesale markets and come up with the single product price; bulk-price and the quantity break for where the bulk-price would apply. When Geeks was also running, I’d also price the product for the retail market. Show less

• Track sales to make sure that the product actually sold, its sales trends, and if the pricing needed to be adjusted on the fly or some special attention needed to be applied to the product if it was particularly stagnant. I’d also quickly go through RMA history looking for potential issues and seeing that any issues were addressed. The inventory was very dynamic, with typically 1500 to 3000 SKUs posted at any one time with a value of $5M to $10M (typically it’d be around 2000 SKUs with a… Show more • Track sales to make sure that the product actually sold, its sales trends, and if the pricing needed to be adjusted on the fly or some special attention needed to be applied to the product if it was particularly stagnant. I’d also quickly go through RMA history looking for potential issues and seeing that any issues were addressed. The inventory was very dynamic, with typically 1500 to 3000 SKUs posted at any one time with a value of $5M to $10M (typically it’d be around 2000 SKUs with a value of $8M or so - though towards 2018/2019/2020 Evertek tried to reduce the SKU count to 1000-1500 SKUs posted with a value of about $5M). I’d try to run through the entire inventory at least once a month.• With certain bid sheets, I’d also try to determine the “true source” of the product to see if we could go directly to the owner of the product rather than a broker. Also finding information on potential new product sources (for example, I found the contacts for Evertek to start bringing in refurbished and overstock products).• Pre-Testing and evaluating product samples for salability, as well as project sale price and working backwards for the purchase price Evertek should be looking for. I’d also scrub potential overseas product samples for possible IP or FCC part 15 compliance issues (eg. No “Disney” characters on a video card retail box (true story!)). Show less

• Ferreting out counterfeit product (usually sample product or components (for example, fake magsafe power adapters for Apple product; fake capacity USB drives; fake (unauthorized) lightning cables; etc.)• Visited trade shows (CES and before that, Comdex shows) to “walk them” to try to pick up new vendors (for example, I picked up a new tablet vendor, , who had a large quantity of overstock tablets that Evertek picked up)• Troubleshot products with issues that line-techs… Show more • Ferreting out counterfeit product (usually sample product or components (for example, fake magsafe power adapters for Apple product; fake capacity USB drives; fake (unauthorized) lightning cables; etc.)• Visited trade shows (CES and before that, Comdex shows) to “walk them” to try to pick up new vendors (for example, I picked up a new tablet vendor, , who had a large quantity of overstock tablets that Evertek picked up)• Troubleshot products with issues that line-techs could not work out and writing out repair procedures. For example I did this with Samsung XE303 Chromebooks with trackpad issues (sticking trackpad buttons as well as erratic mouse movements); Samsung Tablets stuck in “retail mode” bought on auction (usually floor stock that the store forgot to remove the “retail mode on); DVR hard drives that would not properly work in PCs (they’d immediately go to sleep); etc.• Extensive experience with computer hardware products going back 25 years such as Windows PC products; Apple products (MacBooks / iMacs / iPads); Android products, as well as numerous computer accessories and components.• Kept excel sheets (that I had built up myself) that kept track of EVERY SINGLE Apple macOS product made since 2006 as well as having it serve as a VLOOKUP source to accurately assign Apple product numbers to Apple bid sheets (such as from ; ; ; , etc.). I also kept a “last bid” excel sheet that tracked all previous bids as well as wins for particular vendors (for example, lists)• Kept track of consumer product trends, and potential issues that would impact a particular products buy/sale price.• Evaluated potential new ways to sell products (End of Support Chromebooks loaded with Linux (or Windows or CloudReady) instead of the stock ChromeOS).• FUN FACT! I was only allowed to take vacation one-week at a time because they “lost too much money” when I was gone. Show less

• Channel Manager for the Amazon Sales Channel (Geeks) from 2002 – 2013 (this ended when Evertek dropped retail Geeks.com sales)o Led Amazon channel from near inception, using Amazon’s back-end Seller Central tools and working closely with Amazon’s Technical Account Manager (TAM). Support for product placement and “winning the buy-box.” Scaled up business from very few products and few thousand per month to approximately 2,000 products on average posted every month with sales running from… Show more • Channel Manager for the Amazon Sales Channel (Geeks) from 2002 – 2013 (this ended when Evertek dropped retail Geeks.com sales)o Led Amazon channel from near inception, using Amazon’s back-end Seller Central tools and working closely with Amazon’s Technical Account Manager (TAM). Support for product placement and “winning the buy-box.” Scaled up business from very few products and few thousand per month to approximately 2,000 products on average posted every month with sales running from $200K to $400K per month with approximately % Gross Profit. I also got an assistant manager that I supervised to help with this channel (as well as the Tech Data sales channel). I’d also attended reseller-specific meetings with other top-tier third-party channel managers at Amazon headquarters in Seattle.• Channel Manager for the Tech Data Drop Ship Sales Channel (Geeks) from 2002 – 2013 (this ended when Evertek dropped retail Geeks.com sales)o Oversaw channel for drop-shipping Tech Data items on the Geeks retail website as well as buying specific deals for customers. Attended shows specifically put on by Tech Data for its customers. I took over channel soon after inception and improved it from $60K per year sales to $1.2M per year sales channel, reaching approximately % GP plus Tech Data product spiffs. Chose items for sale, wrote ads for products, and priced all products while working with internal departments and various brand-specific channel managers at Tech Data.• Department Manager - Advertising / Product Write-up (Evertek and Geeks) - a department with 10 people• Affiliate Manager (Geeks)• Channel Manager (On-sale Auction Site - Geeks)• Product Ad Writer and Photographer (Evertek and Geeks - before there was a “department”)• TechTips Blog Writer/Editor (Geeks)• Email Tech Support and Pre-Sales (Geeks) Show less