Experience

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  Credit Human

  • San Antonio, Texas

  • Purchasing and Ancillary Services Manager

    • Sep 2016 - Present
    • San Antonio, Texas

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  Levy Restaurants

  • AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX

  • Director of Purchasing

    • Jun 2010 - May 2016
    • AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX

    Beginning as Senior Purchasing Manager at Washington Nationals and progressing to Director of Purchasing at Houston's Toyota Center and then to San Antonio's AT&T Center (home of the NBA Champion Spurs!).Levy Restaurants/ AT&T Center San Antonio, TXManaged supporting operations to superior results during Rodeo and Spurs playoffs and championship run. Duties included purchasing for all premium food and beverage areas. Analyzed sales trends to maximize procurement potential. Organized inventory for multiple locations. Worked closely with managers to plan buys. Set up new inventory in system. Planned special inventory buys. Managed annual inventory of $3 million purchased product. Duties included traveling in support of various properties, including for 3 weeks to the US Open Tennis Championship.Levy Restaurants/ Toyota Center and Dynamo Stadium Houston, TX.Responsible for purchasing for all food and beverage areas, warehousing functions, and accountspayable operations. Within one year at Toyota Center, improved internal audit score from 78% to 96%. Led the purchasing team to a successful grand opening of the new Dynamo stadium in May 2012. Set up new inventory in system. Directed annual inventory of $8 million purchased product. Planned special inventory buys. Worked closely with managers to plan buys. Directed transportation initiatives to maximize efficiency. Organized inventory for multiple locations. Performed detailed review of high and low performing products. Analyzed sales trends to maximize sales potential. Researched competitors and sourced new vendors.

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  Sea World

  • Director Support Services

    • Jan 2007 - Jun 2008

    Responsible for direction of culinary, merchandise, and shipping and receiving warehouses with annual inventory in excess of $10 million. Directed off-site storage of 70 percent of merchandise stock. Hired leads in both culinary and merchandise warehouses and provided extensive training of existing leadership team.

  • Director Culinary Operations

    • Jul 2003 - Jan 2007

    Led successful team that more than doubled department gross margin revenue from 2002 to 2006 by implementing successful initiatives and addressing critical issues that expanded revenues. Focused on leadership development. Coordinated HACCP training for all members of leadership team. Responsible for profit and loss outcomes.

  • Purchasing/Office Manager

    • Jul 2001 - Jul 2003

    Areas of responsibility included purchasing, food service accounting, department training, analysis, and supervision of clerical staff. Part of a team that reduced cost of goods as a percentage of revenue from 26 percent to 21 percent within two years, a significant part of the total from savings initiated by purchasing.Coordinated analysis efforts, including development of budgets and capital requests, analysis of labor and cost of sales spending, line speed efficiencies, auditing of cash handling, auditing and analysis of restaurant food waste.

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  Busch Entertainment Corp

  • Corporate Culinary Analyst

    • Jan 1999 - Jul 2001

    Responsible for coordinating analysis efforts for culinary departments across nine BEC amusement parks, gathered and summarized data for corporate management. Traveled to individual parks to work on specific projects in tandem with local analysts and park management. Troubleshot SAP-MM issues at all parks. Created vital statistics spreadsheet summarizing park data for use by corporate management.

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  Busch Gardens

  • Purchasing Supervisor/Department Analyst

    • Jan 1988 - Jan 1999

    Starting as department analyst and purchasing agent, role expanded to include inventory control and cash auditing before taking over leadership of purchasing team. Developed complex but user friendly spreadsheets to replace many paper based department processes. Brought analytical focus to purchasing and vendor management, improving bidding and negotiation processes.Member of team that successfully implemented SAP as purchasing and warehouse inventory application. Pilot for roll out to all BEC parks.

  • Restaurant Supervisor

    • Jan 1985 - Jan 1988

    Unit supervisor of diverse food service operations including smoked foods, fried chicken, and cart operations

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  US Navy

  • Quartermaster E5

    • Jan 1980 - Jan 1984

    PO2/Quartermaster - Responsible for ship's navigation and logs. Ran bridge for officer of the deck.