A proven operations leader who astutely manages both back-of-the-house and front-end business functions, including sales, purchasing, distribution, warehousing, inventory, construction, and new store openings. Excels in hiring, onboarding, training, and managing high-performance teams, focusing on improving quality, sales, and service for multimillion-dollar businesses. Develops and enhances processes, policies, and best practices. Select Career Highlights• Implemented training for adoption of “continuous flow” at Burlington Coat Factory, a corporate strategy that enabled teams to process shipments (up to 400 cartons daily) from truck to floor in the same day. • Negotiated pricing and procurement of store fixtures/hardware for 700+ Stage Stores retail sites. • Established best practices, policies, and procedures for 70 store openings with $5M to $10M budgets. • Developed, implemented, and managed warehousing policies/procedures for 27 retail store locations throughout Texas and Louisiana for Foley’s Department Store. • Trained and deployed more than 50 employees to locations supporting retail stores and warehousing operations, including grand opening of new locations and closing of retail outlets.• Established and streamlined warehousing operations for 50,000+ sq. ft. facilities.