Valerie Nichols

*** * **** ***

Teague TX, **860

Cell 254-***-****

abnz57@r.postjobfree.com

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

903-***-****

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

903-***-****

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)

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