Utilizing high speed lean manufacturing techniques in order to maximize production and profit.

Firefighter for the town of Saint James located on Long Island in New York State. National certification FireFighter 1

Expert in areas of Procurement, Category Management and Merchandising within the Sports, Diet, Food, Baby, Home, and Pet consumer goods online Retail Industry. Known as an innovative negotiator who demonstrates a high level of integrity with a history of successfully developing and growing profitable categories by building long term relationships both internally and externally. Proven bottom line focus, managing projects with cross functional and diverse teams exceeding business goals.

Proactively leverage tools, reports, and processes to achieve payroll goals and control expenses. Drive continuous improvement in areas that directly affect total store profitability through team member training and development, proper certifications, and adherence to best practices. Actively participate in the performance management process, which includes recognizing, coaching, providing meaningful feedback, writing and delivering counseling and corrective actions, and writing and delivering performance reviews. Lead a compliance culture to mitigate legal risk. Lead a sales culture and drive sales performance. Demonstrate awareness, engagement, and accountability for gross margin. Increased gross margin from 28% to 33% through first markdown clearance awareness project.Established food safety routines that improved the Food Safety Audit score from 89% to 96%.Developed and implemented sales techniques that helped to drive 5% sales increase.Awarded Top Contributor in Q4 of fiscal year 2010

Facilitating study groups, and tutoring for accounting students.

Bank reconciliations, data entry

Coordinating customers' needs with quality products in a fast paced demanding customer service environment