Baton Rouge Purchasing Manager
Resume:
Carla L. Austin-Williams
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70812
Cell 225-***-****
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Work Experience
Belle of Baton Rouge Hotel & Casino & Queen Baton Rouge May 2022-August 2025
Area Purchasing Director
103 France Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
-Prepare the yearly budget relative to past, present and future capital expenditures.
-Track requisitions, purchase orders for supplies; equipment; printing for two properties. -Verifying purchase orders receivers for payables.
-Place order for daily operations for the casino
-Supervisor warehouse employees
-Report quarterly compliance to the Gaming Division Board
-Solicit MBE, WBE and Louisiana owned vendors to meet compliance requirements.
-Register new vendors once they have committed to doing business
-Implement Great Plains workflow
Belle of Baton Rouge Hotel & Casino-Trop Casino Greenville, July 2010-May 2022
Regional Purchasing Manager
103 France Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
-Prepare the yearly budget relative to past, present and future capital expenditures.
-Track requisitions, purchase orders for supplies; equipment; printing for two properties. -Verifying purchase orders receivers for payables.
-Place order for daily operations for the hotel and casino at two properties.
- Review contracts and blanket purchase orders before directors of the departments sign off on them for long term purchases.
-Supervisor warehouse employees and F & B buyer.
-Report quarterly compliance to the Gaming Division Board
-Solicit MBE, WBE and Louisiana owned vendors to meet compliance requirements.
-Register new vendors once they have committed to doing business
-Performance evaluations completed for direct reports.
BellSouth Small Business, July 2003-July 2010
Sales Associate/Team Lead
5550 South Sherwood Blvd
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816
-Serviced the needs customers by answering inbound calls of small business clients with inquires about billing, telecommunications products and services.
-Recommended solutions while interacting with multiple online departments for resolution.
-Assisting managers with sensitive customer complaints, sales associates with errors and order issuing.
-Coaching sales associates through calls when needed.
Casino Rouge, July 1997 - March 2003
Assistant Facilities Director
1717 River Road
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
-Prepared the yearly budget for Facilities Department.
-Maintain pars for department’s day to day operation.
-Conducted monthly inventory reported information to Finance Department.
-Responsible for maintenance of equipment within the department.
-Direct supervision of four Housekeeping shift supervisors and indirect supervision of fifty-eight Housekeeping employees, and direct supervision of one Shipping/Receiving Department Supervisor and indirect supervision of four Shipping/Receiving Department employees.
Food and Beverage Buyer, November 1994 - July 1997
Casino Rouge
1717 River Road
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
-Task included bidding/purchasing of food/beverage products for Casino Rouge food outlets.
-Assisted the Purchasing Manager in the preparation of the yearly budget.
-Generated purchase orders for supplies, equipment and printed material.
Education
Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Studies included: Typing, Filing, Accounting, Office Procedures and Mechanical Technology
Diploma, Glen Oaks High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1985
Business Ownership
Owner/Operator: Susie Q’s What Notz, LLC August-2005-December 2009
Gift shop that had five employees at the peak season of the business.
Computer Skills
Accounting
IBM/Macintosh
Data Entry/Word Processing
TWIC card
WordPerfect 6.0/Corel WordPerfect Suite 8
Microsoft Works/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Excel
Purchasing and Payments Systems
Personnel/Payroll/Time Works Infinium
Inventory Software
Kramer
QuickBooks
Excel
TRX-Purchasing system
Stratton Warren
ADP/Pacor
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