Gary Hart Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Work closely with lenders and leasing companies to reduce cost of card acceptance

Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities include customer and inter-departmental relationship development and service, supervision of all “front end” staff as well as store opening and closing accounting. Train newly-hired associates on Publix culture within Division. Served as chair of internal service improvement committee.

Founded construction brokerage with direct responsibility for all business operations. Start-up company recognized first year sales at over $800,000. Developed partnerships with quality contracting companies and completed numerous large projects including Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

Greater Atlanta Area

National sales of payment processing to grocery and drug channels. (National team laid off due to shift to Regional focus by new C level management).

Sold PayCheck Accept check cashing program to C&S Wholesale Grocers. Initiated contact and developed relationships with numerous National and state-based Credit Union Associations and Leagues. Engaged as expert guest speaker at Michigan and Kansas Credit Union League Annual Conferences for Check cashing services.

@pos.com purchased by Symbol Technologies (2002; Signature capture sales expert on team responsible for securing purchase and installation in Wal-Mart Optical Department).

Closed $9M electronic payments solution agreement at Toys “R” Us. Sale was the largest end-to-end solution contract in company history.Awarded $1M+ electronic payments solution agreement at Wegman’s Markets by working closely with IBM and other channel partners.

Regional Retail Sales, Labeling Successfully sold new sheet labeling business into Kroger and Winn-Dixie divisions

Obtained pilot installation commitments from Western U.S. regional grocery chains.Initiated and conducted product research for CRM/Loyalty start up. ISMSI was a start up company that lost funding.

Responsible for Eastern U.S. retail marketing and operations including sales presentations, marketing program development and implementation, personnel, budgets, system installations and support.Directed successful installation, implementation and usage of Catalina Marketing Frequent Shopper/Loyalty Program at over 4,500 retail sites, effectively doubling.

Collaborated with customer to define requirements then organized and participated in development, implementation, testing and release of back office “simplification program” resulting in savings of 1-2 man hours per day in all Winn-Dixie cash accounting offices.