Rick Baker

Purchasing @ Importer

About

Currently a purchasing agent for an importer. Experience with Microsoft Office365 (Admin) Excel, Outlook, Adobe, CorelDraw, Prophet21/Epicor software (P21) and Epicor Business Analyzer (EBA), and Quickbooks. Very good at PC/computer issues. Special projects from research to data management. I can tackle many projects.I've also worked in retail for over 20 years. From sales, to store management, and people management; mostly in hardware and building materials, and also Inside sales. Specialties: People management. Organization. Thoroughness. Analytical thinker, and an 'outside the box' thinker. Problem solver.

Country

United States

City

Chesapeake

Industry

Wholesale

Skill

Product Marketing, Merchandise, Cashiering, Inventory Control, Sales, Inventory, Merchandise Planning, Microsoft Office, Organizing, Attention To Detail, Door and window knowledge, Building Material knowledge, Hardware knowledge, Merchandising, Order Processing, Purchasing, Customer Service, Streamlining Operations, Market Research, Customer Research

Experience

Purchasing

Importer

2010-9 - Present · 16 yrs 1 mo

Chesapeake, VA

Purchasing, Inside Sales, Customer service. Customer, product, and market research. Report generation and presentations in Excel. Order entry and follow up. PC and software maintenance and administrative duties for Prophet21 and Office365 (Admin). Maintain company web site using backend software. Process freight shipments, track incoming containers. Inventory adjustments. Prophet21 software experience includes mass price change and new item uploads. Usage of EBA (Epicor Business Analyizer) to extract and analyze data from Prophet21. Experience with administrative duties with VOIP phones such as Shoretel and Vonage.

Inside Sales

Building Material supplier(several)

2003-1 - 2008-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Daily order entry. Coordinating deliveries. Window, door, and building material knowledge. Organizational skills. Attention to detail. Customer service.

Store Manager

Hardware Store

1994-1 - 2002-1 · 8 yrs 1 mo

Daily store management. People management and scheduling. Ordering merchandise. Cash managment. Merchandising. This was a real hardware store that stocked everything, if you needed it, we stocked it. Very proud of my work and success there, and my employee's who I was responsible for.