• Oversee and direct all operations of home décor store that is part of a public, nationwide company.• Successful in exceeding both plan and comp sales goals for every month since taking over the store, with increases as much as 55% over LY during the vital holiday season. • Fully responsible for hiring and training of all employees, including use of criminal and retail background check programs as well as Tracker I-9 employment verification software.• Implement and develop weekly scheduling, monthly budgets, weekly allocation, weekly inventory & payroll management, customer interactions, employee training and overall maintenance of the store.

• 14 years helping to coordinate annual New Hampshire State DECA Competition.• In charge of making sure all operations of the conference run efficiently and smoothly.• Determine winners in each competitive category by calculating and computing individual scores• Annually called upon to judge written and role-play events at the State Competition. • Extensive use of on the go decision making and problem solving abilities. • Recognized for being a 2011, 2015 & 2019 DECA International Career Development Conference Judge, where I judged the merits of 20 written projects from high school students across the world.

• Oversee and direct all operations of a grocery store that is part of a multinational company.• Manage and exceed monthly sales goals in excess of $1 million during peak times of the year.• First and only employee in division to be promoted from hourly cashier to salaried Store Manager within first 16 months with the company.• Responsible for teaching new employees the “ALDI way”, a unique corporate culture way of working. • Organize and develop weekly scheduling, monthly budgets, daily ordering, customer interactions, employee training and maintenance of the store.• Improved and increased same store sales by 200% in the span of 16 months. • Recognized as a dependable, flexible, hard-working & responsible team player, including a transfer to manage the busiest store in the district during this past holiday season.

I assisted the Sports Department with all aspects of putting together the next day's paper. This included writing news stories to researching historical events to communicating with numerous sources.