• Managed QuickBooks by placing sales orders, overseeing accounts payable and ​accounts receivable, created new item numbers and descriptions after researching and sourcing products that would fit the need of the customers business, researched pricing from competitors, sourced third parties for products, prices, samples and quality. ​• Sourced equipment parts for used manufacturing equipment to provide to our ​technician who had identified the problems with the machine and was able to fix them with the parts identified, sourced and bought for the best price.

80% travel to 27 units and recruit at each location to bring awareness of job opportunities to that location.• Improved staffing for the region by 87%. • Utilized Staffing Reports. ​• Trained UTC’s (Unit Training Coordinator), “on the floor” to help in motivating teamwork, self-confidence and clarity of the busy atmosphere resulting in a 40% increase in teamwork and positive attitude growth.

Prepare, facilitate, monitor, evaluate, and document training activities in partnership with unit managers and employees to identify skill deficiencies, skills needed for advancement, and assessment of needs.• Traveled 100% to 27 units in Tennessee and Mississippi.• Trained new hires and UTC’s (Unit Training Coordinator), “on the floor” to help in motivating team work, confidence and clarity of the busy atmosphere resulting in a 40% increase in teamwork and positive attitude growth.• Facilitate learning through a variety of delivery methods including classroom• instruction, virtual training, coaching, mentoring, and shadowing.• Host train-the-trainer sessions.

• Fill in for the 13-unit managers when they are on leave or working at another location.• Manage a staff of approximately 30 hourly employees in a 24-hour restaurant with an open kitchen area, which is noisy, busy, and requires 90% standing, bending and proper use of hands. Provide general and ongoing direction, supervision, and developmental coaching. Assist in training and enforcement of company policies and procedures. Manage payroll and maintain personnel records. In house recruiting, interviewing and maintaining retention.• Oversee the production and service of making food, handle daily/weekly management, administrative and related duties (such as employee scheduling, assigning work, expediting orders, placing US Foods, produce orders and other needs such as hiring lawn care professionals, managing inventory of food, handling customer complaints, and authorizing payment of bill); collects, secures, and deposits cash in the evening.• Highest average sales managed was a $5800, 7 hour first shift with a staffing of one host, 2 cooks, 4 servers and one facilitator.• Filled in for any position that was short staffed for one out of three shifts that day may it be cooking, marking, serving, hosting, facilitating or expediting.

• Brought in 26% new business for fiscal year 2019 and made a gross profit 32% ​higher than fiscal year 2018.• Brought 18% penetration to existing accounts in fiscal year 2019.• Maintained 36 accounts, bringing in between $38,000 to $52,000 per week.• Cold calls and weekly meetings to hospitals, schools, country clubs, restaurants, day cares, fairs, dog stores, event planning agencies, church, catering service, airport and every business that had any need for produce.• Partnered with brokers to learn about new products beginning with the specs of the item and how to break down what each piece should be sold at so the client will make a profit from their sales.• Bring brokers to each account to bring samples of any product that would work with that specific account. Demonstrating how the product should be cooked, stored and sold in.Led POS system integration with inventory management software, reducing stock outs by 15%.

• Maintained 28 accounts, bringing in between $30,000 and $50,000 a week.• Brought on 11 new customers in nine months.• Won back six previous accounts that were seeded at employment.• Recommended purchase of food products, menu design, culinary equipment supplies, chemical and cost profit.• Assessed marketing potential of new and existing store locations, consideringstatistics and expenditures.

•​Managed a $3 million Shelby County Schools account with over 250 schools involved.•​Obtained and managed 85 personal accounts, averaging a total of $50,000 to $100,000 a month in sales.•​Managed 70 contract accounts that were an average of $100,000 in sales a month.•​Managed and obtained over 50 Walmarts within a 500-mile radius of Memphis that averaged $50,000 a month in sales.•​Resolved customer complaints regarding sales and service with a calm and collective attitude.•​Directed, coordinated, and reviewed activities in sales and service accounting and record-keeping and in receiving and shipping operations.• Cold calls and weekly meetings to hospitals, schools, restaurants, country clubs, day cares, zoos, banks, airports and every business that had any need for produce.

•Aesthetically organized both men's and women's showrooms and stockrooms.•Created textiles on Adobe Illustrator for the fall 2011 line.•Created flats of garments for the spring 2011 presentation.•Steamed and organized garments.•Organized swatches with eye toward diverse sets of tints and shades.