Wawa, Inc., a privately held company, began in 1803 as an iron foundry in New Jersey. Toward the end of the 19th Century, owner George Wood took an interest in dairy farming and the family began a small processing plant in Wawa, Pa, in 1902. The milk business was a huge success, due to its quality, cleanliness and “certified” process. As home delivery of milk declined in the early 1960s, Grahame Wood, George’s grandson, opened the first Wawa Food Market in 1964 as an outlet for dairy… Show more Wawa, Inc., a privately held company, began in 1803 as an iron foundry in New Jersey. Toward the end of the 19th Century, owner George Wood took an interest in dairy farming and the family began a small processing plant in Wawa, Pa, in 1902. The milk business was a huge success, due to its quality, cleanliness and “certified” process. As home delivery of milk declined in the early 1960s, Grahame Wood, George’s grandson, opened the first Wawa Food Market in 1964 as an outlet for dairy products.Today, Wawa is your all day, every day stop for fresh, built-to-order foods, beverages, coffee, fuel services, and surcharge-free ATMs. A chain of more than 645 convenience retail stores (over 365 offering gasoline), Wawa stores are located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Central Florida. The stores offer a large fresh food service selection, including Wawa brands such as built-to-order hoagies, freshly brewed coffee, hot breakfast sandwiches, built-to-order specialty beverages, and an assortment of soups, sides and snacks. Show less

Tractor Supply Company is the largest operator of rural lifestyle retail stores in the United States. The company operates over 1,400 retail stores in 49 states, employs more than 21,000 team members and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn. Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol "TSCO". With annual sales over 5.7 Billion and plans to add 1,100 additional stores, Tractor Supply Company is "Doing Whatever It Takes" to make sure the rural lifestyle customers have a Tractor… Show more Tractor Supply Company is the largest operator of rural lifestyle retail stores in the United States. The company operates over 1,400 retail stores in 49 states, employs more than 21,000 team members and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn. Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol "TSCO". With annual sales over 5.7 Billion and plans to add 1,100 additional stores, Tractor Supply Company is "Doing Whatever It Takes" to make sure the rural lifestyle customers have a Tractor Supply store within distance. As a Store Manager, my responsibilities include but are not limited to:• Responsible for overall store operations• Hiring, training and coaching employees• Leveraging expenses to the stores plan• Ensure a “can do” winning attitude with employees across the store• Motivate and drive the team for maximum productivity• Create a work environment that is productive and lives up the TSC’s Missions and Values Show less

• Self managed integrity of a business• 100% of client base and retention responsibility• Logistics planning to ensure best use of resources to reach customers• Managing customer communications on multiple levels• Responsible for the scheduling of apprentices and customers• P&L Management

• Managed all budgets relating to store operations for a 32M retail location• Maximize profitability through superior customer service, effective and prompt communication and follow-up on all pending matters with customers.• Responsible for overall operational integrity of the store.• Responsible for inventory control and reducing shrinkage to ensure maximum profitability and no excess inventory is carried by managing ordering and receiving processes.• Build Credibility… Show more • Managed all budgets relating to store operations for a 32M retail location• Maximize profitability through superior customer service, effective and prompt communication and follow-up on all pending matters with customers.• Responsible for overall operational integrity of the store.• Responsible for inventory control and reducing shrinkage to ensure maximum profitability and no excess inventory is carried by managing ordering and receiving processes.• Build Credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with customers at multiple levels.• Scheduling and Payroll Management of over 100 employees• Daily monitoring of coaching and mentoring to establish, and improve overall customer service scores.• Team member staffing management including hiring, training, motivating and counseling • Shrink Control Management and Loss Prevention• Negotiate all maintenance contracts in order to leverage expenses to the allotted budgets I created to maintain a profitable location.• Reliable for all store level IT services, including hardware replacement, reimaging workstations, mainframe server maintenance, Linux server processes redundancy, POS, remote installation of new services and training of all new highly technical software programs to ensure maximum customer services, and data integrity.• Contact for corporate office to implement new security policies at server level to be migrated out to workstation PC’s for end users to protect the access to highly confidential company information available over the intranet Show less

Worked as manager over the technical support team, assisted with development and testing of new software. As well as ensure complete adaptability of stores in the field using our software.

Responsible for overseeing the front end operations as well as ensure the operational integrity of the store and ensure financial obligations are met.