Sam Merrick Email & Phone Number

Billings, Montana Area

Billings, Montana Area

• Payment Alliance provides premier electronic processing solutions for retailers, businesses, and financial institutions. It provides ATM processing, and maintenance services, ATM sales and support, and ATM branding.
• Employee orientation, development and training
• Employment and compliance to regulatory concerns
• Benefits administration
• Employee safety, welfare, wellness and health
• Organizational space and planning

• Harvest Church is a multi-site church based in Billings, MT with other locations in Lockwood, Plentywood, MT and Cody, WY. Since 2004 they have seen growth in attendance from 1300 to 2500 people in 2010, and have.
• Hired to implement vision set by the Lead Pastor, managing daily operations of the church and oversight of multi-site campuses – major emphasis in project management
• Successfully met goals to build a $4.1 million church facility and a $500,000 major remodel project for the Lockwood campus facility
• Development and implementation of two key capital campaigns to raise funds for Harvest Church to pay off a $4 million facility ahead of schedule and be a major contributor of $2.2 million pledge drive to the Heights.
• Set-up new online accounting systems generating new general ledger accounts and coding
• Managed food, concessions and personnel to feed over 9,000 people at annual Celebrate Freedom 4th of July event

• Northwest Regional food distribution company based in Seattle, WA. Wholesaler of restaurant, healthcare, and institutional food and equipment supplies.
• Developed sales and consulting for local restaurant territory, increasing productivity and profitability
• Designed and implemented employee newsletters to provide ongoing education regarding seasonal menu items, sales techniques, and customer comment information

• Locally owned micro-brewery/restaurant, receiving national recognition for its craft beer.
• Developed programs to increase sales from 1.1 million-dollars to 1.5 million-dollars through improved service, increased individual ticket sales and sales incentive contests
• Efficiently managed food costs by implementing kitchen staff incentive programs, minimizing waste, standardizing portions, identifying best buying and distribution opportunities, and implementing controls to avoid.
• Increased sales by offering ongoing service staff training, related to improved service and suggestive sales techniques
• Realized a reduction in labor costs, while increasing staff productivity
• Created, designed and implemented new menus quarterly

Bs, Business Administration/ Marketing

Bs, Elementary Education