ALFREDO ORTEGA-AFAY ***** King Lear Ct. Silver Spring, Md. 20906 301-***-**** CAREER OBJECTIVE To move on to a new level of Marketing Management presently working at Nabisco /Mondelez taking advantage of my current position as Sales Representative in Gaithersburg Area, previously Sales Consultant at Kehe Distributors and Retail experience as a Produce Field Merchandiser at Safeway Stores Inc., with a total of thirty years plus of produce / grocery experience with a reliable character to improve the effectiveness of a great Field Merchandiser, Supervisor, Production, Achieving goals and Marketing Strategy of Retail skills to a new Organization. EDUCATION 10/93 to 12/93 Howard Community College Columbia, MD. EKG Tech And Monitor tech Certificate 01/86 to 05/93 Montgomery College Rockville Campus, Maryland General Studies 45 credited hours 01/84 to 07/86 Prince George Community College Largo, Md. ---General Studies 18 credit hours completed. 04/78 to 12/82 Hipolito Unanue High School Lima,Peru-- High School Diploma. COMMUNICATION SKILLS - Listened to customer requests and implemented action to comply as Superior Service on a daily basis (24x7). Bilingual,Spanish-English.. Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. - Coach produce manager to be a great department manager and to motivate individuals to encourage advancing to the next corporate level - Able to understand, communicate techniques, new programs at store level concerning production, driving sales, marketing skills to achieve goals. ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS - Consistently set goals to realistic time frames and then proccedto meet the deadlines. Organized day-to-day tasks and set priorities with immediate supervisor such as District Manager, Produce MDO, VP Retail Marketing - Verified monthly inventories and able to train new department manager to do inventories, within the area of responsibility. Available to work all hours pertaining produce schedule and very flexible. MANAGEMENT SKILLS - Produce Merchandiser at Dist. 86, Dist. 88, Dist. 85,presently Produce Merchandiser dist 86 re alignment (Montgomery County partial, Southern Maryland Area). - Promoting Produce Managers, Promoting sales events, Promoting sales increase thru ethnic merchandising, neighborhood marketing DC. Area, and the latest and finest Organic Line, outside merchandising, major display contest, encourage Pdms to advance to Produce Field Merchandiser and grow within the Corporate level. - Identified business problems and initiated resolution technique . Able to do training/ to manage diversity personnel in all aspects in store level or backstage concerning Produce Department operation to a profitable department and marketing strategies as well control and maintain positive inventories over all in my area of responsibility.

- Write orders at Safeway and Shoppers multiple times a week and review inventory on hand and any back stock

For proper daily order to be send it . WORK HISTORY 01/84 to 06/97 Safeway Stores, Inc. Store 4812--Langley Park, Md. 01/84 to 06/97 Promoted Service Clerk to Cahier/ Produce Clerk July, 1997 to May 2002 Pdm –Store 1177-86, 4270-86,1276-86 May 2002 to present Produce Field Merchandiser District –86, 88, 85, 86

11/2015 to 08/2017 Kehe Distributors

09/2017 to present at Mondelez/Nabisco ---Sale Representative

Sales Consultant –Silver Spring Area Maryland 01/93 to2001 Worked at Ridgewells Catering Special events, Fedex events, Private events

2001 to present Alacarte Catering Special events, Weddings, Private parties HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS Safeway Stores, Inc Received 30 Years Award, 25 years Award, 20 years Award--01/22/84 to 01/22/04 Safeway Stores, Inc -Service award on Service Dist 86-2003 -Best Shrink results qt-1,qt-3 2011, -Turtle Award (Mangoes-Display), August 2005 --Melon Contest Winner – Dist. 86, December 2005— -Mandarins and Clementines Contest Winner –Dist. 86. -Convention Center events support such as Diabetes Expo First Quarter 2013 Awards on Service for Dist 81 and Dist 86, Awards on best Shrink results Dist 81 REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Kenny Kruhm ---Lancaster Foods Ricky Goldberg Lancaster Foods"

Harry Reategui Gazette Magazine

Robert Werner ---Kehe Supervisor

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