My Resume (2024)
David Pomes
Political Analysis, Retail Operations, Management Tools & Development
Experience
Inventory / Project Specialist
Best Buy
Los Angeles North
09/2016 to 06/2024
- Market Project Specialist responsibilities included display/fixture placement and L2 field support.
- Installation and care for premium appliance and audio brands.
- Leading interactions with partner contractor; vendor reporting and resolution.
- As Inventory Specialist (2017-18, Pasadena), maintained weekly results to produce a year-end store shrink variance of 80% below budget.
Operations / General Manager
Pacific Theaters, ArcLight Cinemas
Los Angeles Market
Sep 2006 to May 2015
- Manager: Pasadena, Sherman Oaks 5/14, Culver City, Glendale, Chatsworth. General Manager, Glendale, Chatsworth
- Responsibilities: oversight of Facilities, Film/Staff Scheduling, Sales, Projection, HR (hire/fire), and Marketing. Weekly forecasting and annual budgeting.
- Developed a reporting tool for Film, Concession, and Payroll operations (Excel/VB) that was adopted to guide all weekly planning and daily operations across both Pacific and ArcLight circuits.
- Maintained editorial privileges over the Pacific Theatres website.
- Glendale- Opened projection and BOH operations for a 2008 ‘Iron Man’ Grand Opening. Coordinated holiday hiring and onboarding, Fall 2011.
- Pasadena, Sherman Oaks 14- Worked with underperforming projection teams to restore operational integrity and staff achievement.
- Chatsworth- Arranged a marketing agreement with a concession partner that delivered $10K+ annually across three Pacific locations.
- Sherman Oaks 5- Identified a reporting issue that had erroneously overstated payroll improvements by ~$80K over 11 weeks (2015).
Staff > Operations / General Manager
AMC Theaters
Los Angeles Market
May 1994 to June 2006
- Promoted from staff through projection to management
- Manager: Burbank 6/8/14, Montebello, Sherman Oaks, Century City, Santa Anita; House Manager, Burbank 6; General Manager, Sherman Oaks 2/5
- Responsibilities comparable to those of Pacific/ArcLight.
- As General Manager, multi-site leadership of managers/operations of the Sherman Oaks 2+5
- Authored a weekly newsletter for the Burbank and Century City staff communities.
- Developed (MS Excel) a set of scheduling, cash handling, and reporting tools to support weekly operations.
- Market Trainer, Projection- Completed a course on manager training. Helped to develop a projection education course for leadership teams and served as a regional management trainer.
- Burbank 6- Co-led the company in payroll efficiency for 2+ years as staff scheduler (6.1% of revenue, 1998-2000), uncovered a $12K embezzlement fraud by senior management.
- Sherman Oaks 2/5- As General Manager, maxed out the location’s tiered incentive capacity in its final year of AMC operations.