Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Runing, working out, fishing, PC gaming, making funny videos, and streaming
Hobbies
Timeline
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Kevin Merkle

The Colony

Summary

Was raised in Seattle area. Moved to Dallas about eight years ago. Always enjoyed helping people and doing sales. Enjoy working with others and helping people find what they are looking for.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Server

Quartino Ristorante
10.2024 - Current

I am a full time server at an Italian restaurant called Quartino. I server mostly nights and closing shifts. They also offer private dining parties, which I have helped out with as well

Manager in Training

Car Keys Express
07.2024 - 10.2024

Car Keys Express offers new keys, remotes, and fobs for your vehicle. We would set up our van at Costco and do onsite keys. One person would have a booth inside and would give information and sell keys. Have a couple of people in the van outside that would do that tech work. When I was a manager in training I was in charge of people, inventory, and paperwork. One day a week the owner would not be there and I was the acting manager.

Dining Department Sales / Cross Seller

Nebraska Furniture Mart
07.2023 - 07.2024

Helping customers pick out Dining furniture and match chairs with tables. I also help people buy furniture in all furniture departments ( Bedroom, Dining, Living room, and Home office / patio) Managers recommending me to take this training. I passed a written and a multiple choice test to qualify for cross selling.

Clearance Trainer / Sales

Nebraska Furniture Mart
04.2022 - 07.2023

Help Customers pick out furniture in the clearance department and train all the new hires. Would help new hires learn the ropes of selling and working the sales tablets. Coworkers come to me when they additional help or questions. Always willing to help out my fellow coworkers and suggest sales tactics.

Inventory Lead / Sales

Mukilteo Cedar
01.2013 - 10.2015

Finalized products, got them packed with packaging material or saran wrap, stored products, retrieved products for orders, and kept inventory of products that have been made. The company would represent it's self at the Seattle Flower and Garden show. There we would showcase and sell our items at warehouse price. I would was very good at selling items and attracting customers to see what we were all about. I got a reward for the most dollar value sold in a day and the most sold in the weekend. I got a bonus for doing so.

Education

High School Diploma -

Cedar Park Christian School
Bothell
06.2008

Skills

  • Great with faces and names
  • A fast learner
  • Enjoys helping others
  • Great with conversations
  • Always has a great attitude
  • Polite and treats others with respect
  • Keeps cool in busy or hectic situations
  • Always willing to help out another employee

Runing, working out, fishing, PC gaming, making funny videos, and streaming

I have always enjoyed video games ever since I was young. My dad is a software engineer so we had computers growing up. Always enjoyed team based games with communication. Ruining and working out relaxes me and I like to go out and run around my apartment. Run about 2 miles every other day. I also enjoy fishing. Did a lot of trout fishing in WA and now I do bass fishing locally.

Hobbies

Running, watching sports, fishing, PC gaming, watching tv/movies, and listing to music.

Timeline

Server

Quartino Ristorante
10.2024 - Current

Manager in Training

Car Keys Express
07.2024 - 10.2024

Dining Department Sales / Cross Seller

Nebraska Furniture Mart
07.2023 - 07.2024

Clearance Trainer / Sales

Nebraska Furniture Mart
04.2022 - 07.2023

Inventory Lead / Sales

Mukilteo Cedar
01.2013 - 10.2015

High School Diploma -

Cedar Park Christian School
Kevin Merkle