Rebecca Nowlin
Port Orchard,WA
Summary
Experienced in home remodeling estimating and purchasing, with a strong eye for design and detail. Skilled in material selection, budgeting, and vendor coordination. Now pursuing a career in interior design to combine technical expertise with creative vision.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Estimator/Purchasing Coordinator
Stonehenge Custom Tile and Home
Poulsbo, WA
02.2023 - 10.2025
- Attended on-site visits to gather measurements, photos, and detailed project requirements.
- Identify potential challenges, risks, or special conditions that may affect pricing.
- Collaborate with project managers and designers to refine project scope and ensure feasibility.
- Build and maintain strong relationships vendors.
- Ensure vendor quotes are comprehensive and aligned with project specifications.
- Adjust estimates as design changes occur during the preconstruction phase.
- Order all materials, finishes, and fixtures based on approved client selections and project specifications.
- Procure key items such as plumbing fixtures, tile, flooring, and installation materials (e.g., thinset, grout, underlayment, adhesives, waterproofing systems).
- Verify product availability, lead times, and delivery schedules with vendors.
- Ensure all orders are placed accurately with correct model numbers, finishes, and quantities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with preferred suppliers and distributors.
- Coordinate with vendors to resolve issues such as backorders, substitutions, or damaged goods.
- Maintain good client communications, provide customer service for walk-ins
- Condition and receive all incoming client selections
- Ensure all materials are on the job site prior to project start
Purchasing Coordinator
Builders FirstSource
Kingston, WA
01.2019 - 10.2022
- Responsible for the accurate entry, proofing, maintenance and submission of purchase orders based on customer demand, stock replenishment and new industry methods.
- Maintain superior level of accuracy while creating and verifying purchase order information including proper product costing, matching invoice totals, correlating UPCs.
- Coordinate order status report submissions from suppliers.
- Resolve changes and discrepancies, and update purchase order information accordingly.
- Routine purchase order review and follow-up, and expediting of orders.
- Receive all order documents to correctly reflect inventory quantities.
- Maintain stock levels of supplies and ensure incoming product for future orders.
Shipping and Receiving
BMC-Building Materials and Construction Solutions
Kingston, WA
08.2019 - 01.2021
- Ensuring products come in correctly and undamaged as what is stated on the packing list.
- Receiving inventory in the system accurately displaying back-orders or mis-shipped product.
- Creating returns to vendors for incorrectly shipped products.
- Communicating with sales to know what Special Orders are incoming and when they are due to customers.
- Occasionally ordering stock to replenish the store.
- Fulfilling orders for delivery and will call both precisely and efficiently.
- Ensuring each customer gets professionally aided with beneficial solutions for their individual needs.
- Issuing credit to customers for their returned merchandise.
Inventory Manager
Eclectic Home Furnishings
Silverdale, WA
06.2017 - 03.2019
- Created and entered inventory orders for both client purchase orders and floor stock purchase orders.
- Receive product into the inventory system and entered it into the database.
- Handling floor stock damages through credit or replacements, RTV’s, or creating part orders.
- Communicating with vendors and sale representatives for the acquisition of our primary stock.
- In charge of keeping updated transfers of product between all (3) stores, running analysis reports and cycle counts.
- Ensuring incoming product was inspected and instantly processed to ensure dependable and fast customer service.
- Tagging items for floor stock after they were processed.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Bachelor of Applied Science in Interior Design
Clover Park Technical College
Lakewood, WASome College (No Degree) - Core Education - Transfer to Technical School
Olympic College
Bremerton, WASkills
- Construction/labor cost estimates
- Residential construction and remodeling knowledge
- Scope development
- Estimating software
- AutoCAD
- QuickBooks
- Microsoft Office
- Computer proficiency
- Productivity software
- Project management software
- Project coordination
- Schedule coordination
- Drafting
- Inventory management
- Purchasing and product procurement
- Order entry
- Receiving
- Vendor relationships
- Product knowledge
- Material specifications
- Materials assessment
- Administrative and office experience
- Data entry
- Customer communication
- Customer service
- Excellent attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Mathematical problem-solving
- Multitasking
- Strategic planning
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Estimator/Purchasing Coordinator
Stonehenge Custom Tile and Home
02.2023 - 10.2025
Shipping and Receiving
BMC-Building Materials and Construction Solutions
08.2019 - 01.2021
Purchasing Coordinator
Builders FirstSource
01.2019 - 10.2022
Inventory Manager
Eclectic Home Furnishings
06.2017 - 03.2019
Some College (No Degree) - Bachelor of Applied Science in Interior Design
Clover Park Technical College
Some College (No Degree) - Core Education - Transfer to Technical School
Olympic College