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Bruce D Stiff
Objective
I am an experienced manager and carry several years of varied and diverse on-the-job, hands on experience. I
believe, I have a strong capability of handling challenges and a never-say-die attitude to work out the
toughest of problems. I can provide guidance, team support, and an excellent customer service. I wish to
utilize my talents in an inventory control, sales, human resource, or systems support position. I am a people’s
person with excellent listening skills. I can lead, direct and support a brand and ensure maximum
productivity, profitability, and compliance with company procedures. I strongly believe that
given an opportunity, I can prove to be a vital and essential input towards the success of an organization with
the contribution of my hard work, diligence and intelligence.
Experience
S ave -A - Lot Grocery
June 2006-present New Castle, De
NOW PENNSVILLE NJ
Assistant Store Manager
• Ensure that the store operates at the standard set forth by the company.
• 0perates the store that provides positive earnings for the company.
• Assist the Store Manager in the training of all employees.
• Assists the Store Manager in directing effective safety, security, and sanitation programs in
compliance with the company policy and procedure.
• Provide supportive leadership to all store employees.
• In the absence of Store Manager, directs store in a manner that maximizes sales, earnings
and customer satisfaction.,
April 2005-May 2006 La-Z-Boy Furniture Wilmington, DE
Assistant Store Manager
• Supervises a group of people to achieve company objective. Motivates employees to reach
sales goal.
• Responsible for my own sales and customer base, Develops base to achieve maximum sales.
• In less than a year moved for sales associate to Sales Manager
• Provide Customer Service
• Design Consultation.
• Build Customer Base
• Attention to detail
• Point of Sale Entry
• Computer Literate
March 2001- February 2005 Old Navy/Gap Inc Wilmington DE
Merchandise Manager
Builds Talent
Recruits, interviews, and hires for all store positions
Maintains optimal store staffing levels.
Ensures the use of all company training programs
Trains and coaches the Co-Department Manager and Assistant Manager positions to the next level of
responsibility
Ensures that performance appraisals and compensation reviews are handled in a fair, timely, and
consistent manner
Follows the Performance Management process as documented in the HR guidelines
Identifies and resolves performance issues and policy violations according to company policy, in
partnership with the District Sales Manager and applicable Brand Headquarters’ associates
Ensures the documentation of unsatisfactory performance and policy violations
Ensures compliance with all Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies
Sales Generation
•Ensures the highest level of customer service at all times
•Ensures the execution of the company’s customer service policies
•Ensures the scheduling of the staff to maximize sales potential
•Ensures action is taken to achieve store sales goals and corrects negative sales trends
•Ensures an adequate level of floor supervision
•Ensures the maintenance of merchandise standards to maximize sales
•Ensures that the sales floor is full and sized
•Ensures the achievement of store metrics on a consistent basis
•Communicates customer feedback, best sellers, and recommendations to DSM
•Uses company reports to analyze business results
Builds the Brand
•Ensures the achievement of company merchandise standards
•Ensures the execution of the visual presentation direction and updates
June 2000-Dec 2000 ` TEK
SYSTEMS Newark DE
Trouble Evaluation Tec Conectiv Communication Inc
• Handle income calls at call center.
• Evaluate and document customer’s troubles.
• Dispatch, Repair, follow up on customers trouble.
• Knowledgeable of various software and troubleshooting techniques.
• Knowledge of major software package including TBS Telecommunication Business
Systems, and Vantive Database.
• Telecommunication 101
• Excellent customer service skills
• Problems solving skills
July 1979- March 2000 ` Duron Paints & Wallcoverings Beltsville
Md.
Project Manager/Operations Manager
Part of Buten / Duron Transition Team
District Operations Manager
Store Manager
• Worked at various Job title in the company.
• Work on a Inventory control system for Point of Sales system the was home grown by the
company
• Manager a select group of stores/and Employees consisting of all aspects of Store
Operations.
CompUSA Computer Super
Store Wilmington DE
Retail Sales/Lead (Part-Time
• MS office, Lotus SmartSuite, Windows 7, Windows 98, NT 4.0 OS/2
• Knowledge of hardware and configurations
• Daily sales quotas achieved in both sales and warranties
E ducation
1993 Yorktown Business Institute York, PA
Associate, Business Administrations
Obtained this by going to night classes for many years
References
References are available on request.