Add additional tier one vendors and brands to our growing stable of supplier partners while increasing procurement revenue and profit

Dual responsibility of leading a team of 11 while maintaining full-time Buying and Vendor Development duties.

Senior buying position with additional focus on developing new Vendor partnerships and strengthening existing partnerships by delivering our company's messaging as to what sets us apart.

“What is A Mediocre Corporation?” one might ask. Simply put, we are a stocking distributor that is easy to do business with in what we call "Event-driven Retail". We admit to being out of the ordinary, transparent, price-point conscious and brutally honest. We deny being like anyone else. We deal in exclusive and fresh opportunities on products in multiple categories and do our darndest to avoid blowing up everyone’s channels.Obviously, we have a sense of humor, and enjoy what we do. We’ve checked our ego’s at the door. We know that while we might be good cooks, we’re not chefs. We know that while we appreciate art, we‘re not artists. But we do understand “the art of the deal” as we continually build strong vendor relationships and concoct new product opportunities. (It just so happens that our CEO, Matt Rutledge, founded Woot, Inc., parent of woot.com and Woot Wholesale among others, another somewhat memorable business, but that’s another story.)“Only the mediocre are always at their best” – Jean Giraudoux

Helped to grow a small specialty wholesale distributor (Synapse Micro, Inc.) into a ground breaking, industry leading eCommerce family of websites (Woot.com, et al), and ultimately through acquisition by Amazon.com in 2010. Developed hundreds of vendor relationships at many levels, and in multiple categories, in creating partnerships to turn inventory issues into to non-issues.

Managed a team of sales people in an opportunity-driven speciality electronics distribution business.