Timothy Hickey
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Timothy Hickey


TIMOTHY HICKEY7714 JACOBS DRIVEGREENBELT, MD 20------------ C------------ manager in the areas of planning, distribution and control with over 25 years of retail experience. Proven abilities in forecasting and budgeting sales, as well as managing inventory, turn and profit goals. Experienced in areas of employee development and training, master of customer service. Software expertise includes Arthur, Decision Master, Inforem, MMS, NSB, Oracle, Tandem, QuantiSense and all Microsoft Office applications.CURRENT EMPLOYMENTSeptember 2015 –September 2018 Self Employed – Barnegat, NJSelf EmployedHandyman local business – small home repair, spackling, painting, dry walling, gutter cleaning/repair, power washing, landscaping for small retirement community in South Jersey.March 2015 – June 2015 Great American Group – Woodland Hills, CAContract Consultant3 month contract job to oversee liquidation of OfficeMax stores in Central Florida. Condense selling floor to rope off empty aisles, monitor discount programs on the registers, negotiate prices on selling fixtures, ensure signing reflects proper % off by category. Report to corporate store performance by category to ensure upcoming price reductions maintain/accelerate quick inventory turn and reasonable profit.June 2010 – March 2015 VJC SALES ASSOCIATES – Bristol, CTIndependent Customer Service RepresentativeInvestigative representative for all defective and quality control issues in the Southern New Jersey territory for custom cabinet sales organization that covers the Northeastern U.S. Acting as a liaison between sales generatorand end user reporting on assigned issues and seeking fast and cost effective solutions on a case by case basis.March 2006 – April 2010 BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY – Burlington, NJMerchandise Planner?Designed reports that became corporate format, including weekly excel forecasting tool for one of company’s divisions?Created and monitored seasonal plans for $100M Soft Home Division. Worked in collaboration with buyers and DMM. Improved turn by more than 20% in 2 years, while holding GM% during weak economy.?“Go To” person for ad hoc projects presented to upper management on a regular basis?Member of “New Store” committee helping the company achieve most successful Grand Openings for 10 new stores?Supervise 3 Allocators ensuring proper mix and inventory levels at the store level2000 – June 2005 ROSS STORES INC. – New York City, New YorkMerchandise Control Analyst?Prepared weekly a 3-month rolling open-to-buy forecast based on actual data and trend, in conjunction with input from Merchandise Manager.?Produced weekly liquidity and non-sell budgets?Initiated markdowns on aged inventory?Created seasonal merchandise plans (Sales, MD, Receipts, Inventory, GP, IMU, CIMU) within the structure of corporate goals?Broke down seasonal plans into weekly ladder plans for buyer and corporate review?Oversee Regional Planners ensuring 8 market regions were performing to corporate expectation1996 – 2000 HABAND AND COMPANY – Oakland, NJSenior Financial Analyst/Inventory Manager?Created open-to-buy budgets?Prepared weekly forecasting?Created daily sales vs. budget report (adjusted budget accordingly)?Produced monthly profitability statement?Initiated mark-down formula for aged & obsolete merchandise

??Created spreadsheets that converted mailing events to sales budget (became basis of corporate sales, budgets & all sales plans?Oversaw physical inventories in Georgia facility twice a yearB.S. Business Administration – Montclair State University