Tina McCoy

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Culver City, California 90230

310-***-****

OBJECTIVE To secure a demanding position where I can best demonstrate and utilize my experience and management skills to promote and achieve challenging sales and organizational targets.

EXPERIENCE PERFUMANIA (Culver City, CA)

03/2008 – 12/11 Store Manager. I have been the Manager of this store since its inception. I recruited my team and we collectively rolled out the new store. I made sure inspections were done with correct work permits, then received the initial shipments and set up the store for opening. I have continued to maintain my payroll, kept my shrink to below 1%, and completed all paperwork on time, receiving above average monthly visit audit reports from my District Manager. I had the highest sales increase of the District last year of 19%.

06/2004 - 03/2008 GAP, INC. (Santa Monica, CA)

Operations Manager. This is a Flagship store. Recruited and trained a staff of 160 employees, completed weekly schedules and ensured shipment was processed and placed correctly on the floor before opening each shipment day. Responsible for maintaining the cash room, ordering weekly change and ensuring any register discrepancies were logged and maintained daily. Responsible for weekly storewide markdowns, accuracy, displaying merchandise to move quickly, setting up weekly storewide promotions and performing opening/closing procedures. Responsible for ensuring all merchandise was sensored, conducted store inventories, maintained a below score for shrink results. I transferred from Gap Inc. to be Logistics Supervisor at Old Navy.

03/2001 - 06/2004 VICTORIA’S SECRET (Santa Monica, CA)

Store Manager. Recruited and trained highly effective management personnel and provided downline employee training.

Conducted POS analysis to project sales trends by product channel and projected the transition of product lifecycle to help develop sales.

Provided vision, roadmap, processes and systems for forecasting, planning and replenishment to drive continuous improvement of revenue, sell-through, inventory productivity and customer service.

Developed, implemented and executed replenishment models to achieve revenue goal, maximize sell-through and minimize replenishment costs. Achieved the lowest shrink results in Southern California in the Company. Won many sales contests including the highest sales increase in launching new fragrances. Achieved the highest overall sales increase in the store from being the bottom 350 stores to the top 5 stores in the company. Completed corporate training programs becoming quick and efficient, resulting in subsequent promotions.

03/1999 - 03/2001 THE HOME DEPOT (Marina Del Rey, CA)

Garden Expert. Gave monthly training sessions to customers on how to create beautiful landscapes, suggested types of plants to use, what type of soils, the best types of roses to plant depending on their area. I placed special orders for customers, received plants daily and ran the Christmas tree lot each year.

05/1994 - 01/1998 IRELL & MANELLA LLP (D.C./Century City, CA)

Litigation Paralegal. Document organization and maintenance in relation to large, complex antitrust, Securities and Intellectual Property Litigation and a Reinsurance Arbitration matter, managing all parts of discover-privilege review, document productions. Prepared witnesses expert/nonexpert for depositions and trial/Arbitration, communicating with courts, hospitals, agencies and individuals, conducting research, proofreading briefs, performing computer imaging searches, compiling trial exhibits, writing “findings of fact” indexing and cataloging documents for trail and for creating database (voyager and summation systems), supervising temps on large complex cases.

01/1993 - 02/1994 579 SHOPS (Bellingham, Washington)

Store Manager. Recruited, hired and trained highly effective management personnel and provided downline training, skilled at projecting and maintaining monthly sales, controlled work hours to reduce payroll.

06/1990 - 05/1992 First Nationwide Bank (Culver City, CA)

New Accounts. Provided teller customer service, conducted daily bank transactions, trained new employees on Bank procedures and the opening of new accounts. Became of Notary Public.

03/1986 - 06/1990 Millers Outpost (Los Angeles, CA) Store Manager. Established ongoing customers and repeat sales through the merchandising of products and customer service, served as district trainer for new managers, reduced shrink to a below target shrink store through great customer service awareness and proper paperwork control.

EDUCATION George Washington University, Washington DC. 1994-1995

Certification, Litigation Paralegal.

Woodbury University, Los Angeles California. 1983-1985

Bachelor’s Degree, Fashion Marketing.

The American College of Fine Arts, London, England. 1981-1983

Associate Degree, Fashion Merchandising

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