Mature professional leader with recently updated formal & extensive progressive
experience in all aspects of organizational, fiscal, and human resource management.
Major Strengths:
- Human Resource Management: Personnel training, documentation, scheduling, and supervision.
- Business Planning: budgeting, expense control, financial analysis, forecasting,
marketing, strategic planning, and tactical action plans.
- Purchasing and Inventory Management.
- Knowledge and experience in the use of operating systems (Windows 95, Windows 3.1,
and DOS), Microsoft & Lotus PC software (word-processing, spreadsheet, database, groupware, and presentation),
and Internet Applications (browsers, HTML, web page design, and web site development)
Special Skills:
- Experience as an organizational troubleshooter.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
- Extremely trainable (completed bachelor's degree with a 3.89 GPA in major) and
adaptable to any work environment.
- Recently completed bachelor's degree focused on the interaction of individuals
within organizations and organizations within markets with a special emphasis on entrepreneurial & small businesses.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with formal diversity training.
Education
Bachelor of Specialized Studies,Summa
Cum Laude, Ohio University, Athens, OH, June 1998 Honors - Dean's List, Honor's List, Who's Who Among Students
in American Universities & Colleges
Coursework: Sociology, Non-Western History, Ohio History, Public Policy, Technology
Applications in Education, Management Information Systems, Marketing Principles, Money & Banking, Human Resource
Management, Technical Writing, Dealing with Diversity, Cross-cultural Communication, Practical Application of Personality
Type Theory, Advanced Practical Application of Personality Type Theory, Controlling Stress and Tension, Introduction
to Educational Media, Fundamentals of Philosophy, Social & Political Philosophy, Liability & Responsibility
in the Law, Environmental Law, Alcoholism Treatment.
Associate of Applied Science in Computer
Science for Business, Devry Institute of Technology, Columbus, OH, 1982 Honors - President's List, Dean's List
GPA - 3.48
Coursework: Business Organization, Management, Macroeconomics, Technical Report
Writing, Statistics, Accounting Principles, Corporate Accounting, System Documentation & Analysis, System Design
& Methods, Public Speaking, Psychology.
Professional Experience
Tri-Valley High School, Dresden, Ohio
Teacher
December 1998 - Present
- Classroom instruction in Ecology & Environmental Science with supervision of
up to 140 students daily.
- Prepared daily lesson plans, assignments, quizzes, and tests for two academic sections.
- Calculated and submitted quarterly, semester, and final grades.
Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center, Zanesville, OH
Substitute Teacher
October 1998 - December 1998
- Classroom instruction on a variety of subjects, supervision of up to 150 students
daily, and documentation of daily activities.
Williams Excavating & Asphalt Paving Inc., Trinway, OH
Excavating Operations Director
July 1993 - June 1997
- Responsibility for fiscal and budgetary control included analyzing organizational
objectives, preparing sales projections and budgets, instituting cost control measures, managing cash flow, lease
management, and staffing recruitment, training, evaluation, & deployment.
- Created and supervised budgets for over 150 projects. Completed 97% of projects
on time and budget.
- Orchestrated the pricing and execution of over 150 projects totaling 3.8 million
dollars.
- Managed labor and expense budgets of up to $600,000 annually.
- Reduced corporate overhead by 8% even after adding company paid healthcare by being
resourceful.
- Established a formal documentation process to be used in employee/management disputes.
- Instituted and performed monthly OSHA safety meetings.
- Administrative role involved strategic planning, accounting & data processing
functions, implementation & maintenance of computer hardware, and the installation & training of accounting,
business, and estimating software.
- Researched, proposed, and implemented healthcare insurance for 25 employees within
two divisions.
- Designed the chart of accounts and standardized accounting reports for two divisions.
- Developed an estimating spreadsheet to evaluate gross profit margin before submission
of bids. Projects falling outside established guidelines were dropped. Estimated annual savings - 422 man hours.
- Profit and loss responsibility included tracking division profits and expenses
on a monthly basis and reporting my findings to the firm's President. Formulated and presented business development
plans to the Vice-president and President as needs became evident.
- Tracked expenses for over 150 projects with sales in excess of 3.8 million dollars.
- Researched the work process of two divisions with 25 employees and implemented
four job classifications with job descriptions. Prepared flowcharts to show work patterns and identify each job
classification's impact for presentation to President and Vice-president.
Disc Jockey Records, Zanesville, OH
Store Manager
October 1989 - July 1993
- Managed the day-to day operation of a high-volume specialty retail outlet. Performed
the hiring, training, scheduling and evaluating of staff. Coordinated the customer service approach with the staff
of 12. Responsible for inventory control: weekly inventories, ordering of merchandise, security, and merchandise
returns.
- Increased store sales every year and met company guidelines for gross profit margin,
labor costs, and inventory turnover.
Music Promotions Inc., Columbus, OH
Wholesale Operations Director
October 1988 - May 1989
- Responsibility for coordinating the buying, sales, and shipping/receiving departments,
profit margin calculations, analyzing product turnover rates, managing product flow, and warehouse management.
- Evaluated the work procedures of three departments with 48 individuals to create
an inventory management system that reduced receiving time by 28% and order preparation by 20%.
New Store Projects Manager April 1988 - October 1988
- Organized, scheduled, and implemented the opening or relocation of 4 retail outlets.
District Manager (Cincinnati/Dayton)
August 1984 - July 1986
- Coordinated the day-to-day functions of 10 specialty retail stores. Provided information
for the resolution of short-term problems and developed long-term strategy. Supervised a staff of 80.
- Created an operations manual for a regional district with 10 locations by being
able to prioritize and operate proactively. The operations manual was adapted into all regional districts within
six months.
- Developed a four-week employee training program for non-management personal and
implemented into a regional district with 10 locations. Employee turnover was reduced 64% in the first year.
Store Manager (3 different locations)
October 1980 - August 1984
Summary of Additional Skills
- Negotiated, approved, and supervised over 40 sub-contractors in my experience.
- Conducted employee orientations for over 300 staff members throughout my career.
- Performed semi-annual job performance evaluations for over 200 employees.
- Compiled, updated and stored over 200 personnel files.
- Conducted exit interviews and documentation to minimize legal risk.
- Counseled employees regarding attendance and performance.
- Completed an eight-hour course in Managing & Financing Independent Business
(1995).
- Graduated at the top of the Omicron Class from the two-week Disc Jockey Management
School (1990).
References Furnished Upon Request
