Earl Singleton
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Professional Profile
Strategic Planning / Business Comp Growth / Relationship Management
Adept at driving growth of company revenues and improving team performance.
Exceptional mentor and coach. Tenacious in building new business, and
securing customer loyalty.
Core competencies include:
(Solution Selling Strategies (Business Growth/Development (Key Client
Retention
(Team Building (Effective Merchandising (Organizational
Leadership
Education
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, COMPUTER ENGINEERING, December 2009
Minor, Mathematics
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
Experience
SHOE DEPARTMENT MANAGER, 2009-PRESENT
Shoe Dept, Flowood, MS
Oversee business sales and development functions of team members to enhance
customer satisfaction. Provide cross functional team training, coaching,
and mentoring responsibilities to better productivity and business growth
TARGET MANAGER (SENIOR), 2009-2009
Target, Flowood, MS
Managed multiple departments within the Target community while driving
sales and guest scores up to corporate standards. Managed a complete
turnaround in my respected areas (electronic, entertainment, and
automotives) from RED departments to GREEN ones just by recognizing talent
and driving results. Responsible for developmental training and ensuring
team member understood the focus of the business by implementing proper
procedures, developing team members routines, and maintaining ethic
behaviors while driving outstanding results.
HOME THEATER SUPERVISOR(SENIOR), 2008 - 2009
Best Buy, Flowood, MS
Oversaw Home Theater sales and business development functions, including
new product rollouts, customer relationship development, and order
fulfillment. Held P&L and budget responsibilities. Provided cross-
functional team training, coaching, and mentoring.
Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), Summer Intern, May 2008
University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA
Participated in a twelve-week internship program headed by the US military
to pioneer creative technologies for military tactics training. Developed
an instrument for commanders that teaches socio-cultural and environmental
metadata in an Area of Interest (AoI).
TECHNOLOGY SHIFT SUPERVISOR, 2006 - 2008
Office Depot, Jackson, MS
Selected to be the technology specialist shift supervisor. Delivered
quality specifications on the newest and latest technology, strategic
merchandising techniques, and effective business growth strategies.
REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates), Summer Intern May 2007
Humboldt State University: Arcata, CA
Participated in a ten-week internship program headed by the National
Science Foundation. Researched related fields of software design in an
attempt to elicit requirement specifications in the intensive software
design process. Developed a framework for an electronic sketching device
that will aid for accurate software requirement specifications.
Skills
Computer Hardware/Software, C++ Programming, Windows/Linux Operating
Systems (basic), Microsoft Office Suite, Java Script HTML (basic), Robotics
Design
References
Available upon request