Blake Burford
Port Saint Lucie,FL
Summary
17 Years Supervisory Experience; 10 years Retail and Sales; 2 years Security Experience
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Hardlines Team Lead
Academy Sports and Outdoors
Port St Lucie, FL
08.2023 - Current
- Firearms Sales Certified. Approves sales and ensures rules are being followed by gun bar team members
- Leads team members from the Team Sports and Outdoor Departments
- Leads team members to ensure great customer service with greet, help, thank and making it a great shopping experience
Customer Engagement Leader, Merchandise and Inventory Leader
Petsmart
Port Saint Lucie, Florida
07.2017 - Current
- Interact with customers to help decide what they want and push store sales
- Setting all planograms and sales for the month
- Pricing and Presentation of merchandise
- In charge of live animals as well as Pet Care and Cashier Teams driving customer service and ensuring positive guest interactions
- Work with Store Manager to ensure store is set correctly and to come up with plans to make sure everything is set in a timely manner
- Working on scheduling team
Office Assistant
Florida Senate
Tallahassee, Florida
03.2014 - 12.2015
- Worked with state Senators to ensure meetings went to plan with minimal interference during meetings
- Strong communication skills by keeping order with the people during meeting without making a scene to ensure the committees could continue
- Escort Senators back to their offices during controversial bills for their safety
- Office work
- Worked with spreadsheets, Microsoft Word, Emailing other offices
Sales Representative
Uhaul
Pensacola, Florida
11.2012 - 02.2014
- Complete sales transaction for truck rentals and moving supplies
- Opened and Closed, set up registers with money from safe and on close take extra money to bank and deposit it
- Trained in numerous required courses to stay up to date on all programs UHAUL offered to ensure best performance
Collateral Duty Inspector
United States Marine Corps
06.2006 - 03.2011
- Worked on maintaining helicopters and working a flight schedule
- Adhered to all safety regulations set by numerous safety manuals
- Leadership Worked as a Work Center Supervisor in military
- Led a shop of 60 workers tasking fifty plus jobs a day
- Ran Publication program and would give numerous classes to Marines on updates from Bell Manufacturing
- Worked in senior management positions in charge of multiple employees
Education
Some College (No Degree) -
Indian River State College
Ft. Pierce, FLSkills
- Store operations
- Employee training
- Merchandising strategies
- Leading sale floor
Timeline
Hardlines Team Lead
Academy Sports and Outdoors
08.2023 - Current
Customer Engagement Leader, Merchandise and Inventory Leader
Petsmart
07.2017 - Current
Office Assistant
Florida Senate
03.2014 - 12.2015
Sales Representative
Uhaul
11.2012 - 02.2014
Collateral Duty Inspector
United States Marine Corps
06.2006 - 03.2011
Some College (No Degree) -
Indian River State College