My Resume (2025)

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Experience

Inventory / Project Specialist- Best Buy
^{Sep 2016 to Jun 2024}

• Project Specialist responsibilities included display/fixture placement, L2 field support, facility remodels.
• 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
^{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.
• GM responsibilities included manager development and accountability for budgeting/results.
• 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.
• Sherman Oaks 5- Identified a reporting issue that had erroneously overstated payroll improvements by ~$80K over 11 weeks.
• Chatsworth- Arranged a marketing agreement with a concession partner that delivered $10K+ annually across three Pacific locations.

Operations / General Manager- AMC Theaters
^{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
• Oversight of Facilities, Film/Staff Scheduling, Sales, Projection, HR (hire/fire), and Marketing.
• 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.
• GM responsibilities included multi-site leadership of the Sherman Oaks 2+5 complex, manager development, and accountability for budgeting/results.
• Authored a weekly newsletter for the Burbank and Century City staff communities.
• Developed a set of scheduling, cash handling, and reporting tools (Excel) to support operations across Los Angeles sites.
• 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.

Skills

HRIS, ADP, Oracle usage	HR Compliance and Reporting
Microsoft Office use	Visual Basic Coding
P&L Reporting, Response	Annual Budgeting, Weekly Planning
Team Development and Leadership	Film Projection
L1, L2 Tech/Field Support	Graphic Design
Political Research and Analysis	Communications, Writing

Owner, Editor, Site Design, Webmaster; Pomme Media Group

Education

California State University, Channel Islands
Camarillo, CA
^{2019 to 2020}

Bachelor’s; Political Science (Honors)

Pasadena City College
Pasadena, CA
^{2015 to 2018}

Associate’s; Political Science, Behavioral Sciences, Business (Honors)