• Practiced target fixation and deadline driven while maintaining positive, energetic, and exciting full-service footwear environment for the athlete.• Directly engaged with customers to explore their needs and offer solutions within their criteria while keeping track of over 900 different style of footwear backstock and maximizing merchandising points to offer the most styles and give our products the best visibility that can be offered.• Have extensive knowledge of all types of footwear which includes construction as well as newest technology.• Exercised coaching adaptability and developed current employees and new hires to ensure success for the company as well as the individual.• Practiced strategic leadership. Created protocols to better department's overall processes and communication between shifts.

• Practiced strategic leadership and worked directly with owners to create a successful and highly operational store.• Specialized in multiple aspects of the business while overseeing day-to-day as well as long-term operations by working with various departments to maximize productivity.• Created high morale and company performance while promoting and improving company culture and sales.• Developed current employees and new hires to ensure success for the people as well as the company.• Maintained a high level of responsibility for animals, understanding their health and care are of upmost importance.• Ensured kennel department and sales floor are presentable for customers at time of open and during the hours of operation.• Overseen Kennel and Inventory departments directly, while working collectively Developed to become the general manager of the store.

• Developed relationships with customers and vendors.• Created graphics and oversee day-to-day operations and in-house projects.• Worked with vendors to negotiate the best value, purchase supplies, and manageinventory.• Participated and attended industry trade shows to meet with potential new suppliers.• Responsible to train, hire, and develop staff team members.• Practiced strong understanding of Inbound marketing, such as social media,campaigns and networking.• Welcomed feedbacks and consulted with customers to identify needs and guidethem to make the best decisions in design and apparel selection, ensuring maximumquality was attained.• Practiced continued researched and developed processes to take artwork fromcomputer to print, reducing pre-press time by 75%.• Self-taught graphic design skills, eliminating outsourcing of artwork and colorseparation.• Created a new system, preventing curling fails in all environments.• Purchased 2 automatic printing machines and dryer, increasing efficiency andproduction.• Implemented wash and reclaim system, allowing staff to triple the number of screensprocessed at a time.

• Purchased/brokered footwear products to be inspected and sold on eBay.• Completed full restoration of sneakers. Staged products for sale and dealt withinspection of products to determine authenticity of sneakers.• Managed direct reports and oversaw all vendor relationships.• Negotiated with wholesalers, securing the best price.• Implemented cleaning process and procedure, leading to a 70% increase inproduction.• Increased gross sales each year by finding new suppliers, gaining market share.• Exceeded target revenue goals by leveraging footwear industry knowledge to findmore affordable vendors and merchandise.