Founded and managed a brick and mortar and on-line business featuring retail sales of 20th century vintage/antique home decor from Art Deco to Mid Century/Danish Modern to 1970s/1980s kitsch. Sales thru Ebay, storefront and website.Significant knowledge of 20th century furniture designers and manufacturers. 8 years experience of inventory procurement (at auctions, residences, etc), sales, photographing inventory and furniture cleaning/restoration.Involved in all day-to-day business operations, including finance, on-line (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) and print advertising, marketing and public relations.

Managed logistics of all annual music festivals, tours and consignments: Shipping and receiving back loaned pianos domestically and internationally , coordinating with freight companies, warehouses and festival venues.Prepared all Canadian Customs paperwork, NAFTA certifications and Certificates of Origin. Performed/reconciled physical inventories of pianos at US site locations. Specialized in recovering "lost" pianos left at music festivals and other locales (over a dozen found, value $100, 000+).

With a staff of three, acted as sole inventory manager for 20+ warehouses across all product lines. Reduced total inventory SKU's by 25% and eliminated the need for 2 warehouses, thereby saving storage costs.Reduced the number of inventory databases and created “single item master”, enabling sales across all product lines.

Beginning with $10,000,000 in inventory at five (5) warehouses: reduced inventory 75% in 4 years through disposition of obsolete product and inventory planning and management.Revised traditional view of disposing of obsolete inventory - from destruction (which involved cost to RD) to donation (with tax write off) to schools, low-income communities, Katrina relief, etc. Approximately $200,000 in products are donated each year.Worked with marketing and purchasing to optimize product purchasing, manufacturing and cartoning in order to reduce leftover inventory without incurring product shortages.Coordinated with production plants/warehouses for plant-to-plant shipments, product cartoning, scheduling and fulfillment in order to ensure on-time customer delivery.Worked with accounting and finance to ensure optimal customer sales revenue.Sole inventory manager of four (4) US warehouses for Books and Home Entertainment products - includes day to day inventory control functions and monthly reconciliation of Oracle inventory balances to plant inventory balances.Revamped physical inventory procedures by involving Marketing to a greater degree thereby minimizing customer shipment delays.Purchased all merchandise premiums for Book Series division. Responsibilities included price negotiation, purchase order creation and monitoring delivery of product.Planned and audited physical inventories at site locations.Planned optimal inventory procurement for books, music and video product - consistently provided adequate inventory coverage while minimizing the company's cash investment.Saved $80,000 in storage costs through analysis/planning of premium usage.Lead member of Oracle Inventory Implementation team - testing, implementation and training of new users - earned excellence award for participation.Daily inventory control functions such as entering purchase orders, receipts, creating Inventory codes, etc for products and raw materials.