Implemented visual merchandising strategies to maximize product visibility and drive sales growth.
Sales Associate/Plumbing
Lowes Home Improvement
03.2000 - 08.2025
As sales associate of plumbing I help the customers in the plumbing department as well as the surrounding departments. I help customers to find the items they are looking for as well as suggest other items that they may need for the job they are doing. I help to stock the shelves as well keep track of the inventory and bring any discrepancies to the management. I also help to sell MVPs to our customers as well as get credit card applications and sell install jobs to customers through out the store. I mentor associates throughout the store and help them to learn different aspects of the Lowes way.
Merchandiser
Cart Solutions
08.2019 - 12.2019
I was responsible for resets, stocking, rotation of product and price changes.
Lumber Associate and merchandiser
Lowes Home Improvement
11.2018 - 06.2019
I was responsible for customer service, downstacking, store material organization, Merchandise to store POG service bays and merchandise signage.
Department supervisor of tool rental
Home Depot
04.2002 - 12.2018
Oversee daily operations of the Home Depot tool rental department with direct supervision of five direct employees. I was directly responsible for the following duties. Delegation and supervision of tasks and assignments to ensure that quality measures of work performance meets regulatory and organizational requirements. Prepare for business walks routinely to meet safety measures, review current financial status of the department (P&L, Sales, inventory, etc.) Ensure that all direct reports complete any mandatory education, skills competency, annual regulatory requirements etc. Participate in the employee review process and disciplinary measures as needed.
Picker and problem solving
Amazon
02.2018 - 10.2018
Bag puller per route and load them into delivery vans meeting time metrics, solving damage or left behind items and getting the rerouted to customers.
Assistant manager
Bicycle Discovery
01.1997 - 01.2002
Responsible for assisting management to over see nine associates in California bicycle retail stores that earned over $1 million in gross sales.
Merchandiser
Advantage Solutions
12.2019 - 03.2000
As merchandiser I did merchandising for the store, auditing, resets and mandated work. Art supplies, grocery items, office supplies, set up, stock, and maintenance, POG placements, product rotation, set and tag items, reset stores and remodel stores.
Warehouse clerk
United States Marine Corps
01.1986 - 01.1991
I was responsible for purchasing, inventory control, shipping and receiving.
DBT - Senior Research Fellow, Govt. of India at Regional Plant Resource Centre, FE&CC, GOODBT - Senior Research Fellow, Govt. of India at Regional Plant Resource Centre, FE&CC, GOO