Valerie Nichols
Teague TX, **860
Cell 254-***-****
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Career Goal: To achieve professional growth through new skills acquisition and promote career
advancement.
Education: One year basic education classes – Kingwood College (2002 – 2003), Two years Business
Education Classes – Navarro College (2004 – 2006).
Mexia High School – Graduated 2002
Employment
Fastenal Company
Mexia TX, 76667
Fastenal is an Industrial/Construction Supply company that focuses on sales growth through customer
service.
Outside Sales
March 2006 – January 2008
• Responsible for providing excellent customer service to clients in my territory
• Monitoring inventory levels for these customers and the product stocked in our warehouse
• Maintained a positive sales growth and percentage month to month
• Responsible for ordering and sourcing out quality products to meet my customers needs
• Responsible for receiving, staging, delivering and stocking product
General Manager
April 2010 – October 2012
• Performed daily sales calls on Top ten accounts
• Managed Inventory stock levels for these customers
• Created close relationships with ALL customers
• Monitored all inventory levels for the store
• Counted inventory on a weekly basis
• Sourced product to find best pricing
• Created Purchase Orders
• Managed Outside Salesman and monitored their sales and margin daily
• Created Schedules for all employees
• Handled and maintained a certain level of cash on hand daily (weekly cash proofs)
• Attended at least two sales trainings a year
• Maintained a positive growth on our pre tax profit
• Sales grew 120% from April 2010 – August 2012
• Responsible for receiving, staging, delivering and stocking product
Anadarko Petroleum
Buffalo TX, 75831
Anadarko is one of the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production companies.
Safety Specialist
January 2008 – October 2009
• Maintained spill prevention plans for 750 locations
• Created schematics for all plans (update regularly)
• Conducted weekly well reviews and prepared reports for weekly production
• Coded invoiced using SAP
• Prepared all vehicle reports/ handled and monitored weekly spend on these
• Work schedule varied in order to complete monitoring activities, surveys by regulatory staff and
special projects.
Millender Construction
Teague TX, 75860
October 2009 – April 2010
• New Construction, Remodels, Metal Roofs, Painting (performed all duties necessary)
Experience / Skill Level
Computer Skills
• Microsoft Excel – Expert, 10 years
• Microsoft Outlook – Very strong, 6 years
• Microsoft Powerpoint – Expert, 10 years
• Microsoft Word – Expert, 10+ years
Other
• Construction / laborer – Moderate, 1 year
• Customer Service – Expert, 10+ years
• Forklift Certification – Expert, 6 years
• Industrial Safety / MSHA Certification – Moderate, 1 year
• Ruler – English - Expert, 10+ years
• Ruler – Metric - Expert, 6 years
• Shipping, Staging, Delivering & Receiving
• Marketing / Business Development / Merchandising – Strong, 6 years
• Sales – Cold-calling (6 years), Inside (6 years), Outside (6 years), Territory Management (6 years)