Armando Garcia36 Ostrum Rd

Kirkwood, NY 13795607-343-4894

Agarcia7@yahoo.com

EXPERIENCE8/2009 – Current Kost Tire 8/06/12 to Current: Director of Purchasing / Distribution

Responsibilities include: Myers approvals for supplies (all Myers approvals sent to me for

approval. Through my negotiations I have been able to get low costs for supplies. Ex: $12.00 plastic duck heads).

Order Oil Filters/ Oil Stock/ Wipers/ TPMS/ Replacement Parts/ Machines/ Tools For the Stores

Order Office Supplies and Apparel for the Employees Point person for Parts Vendors, Tire Vendors, G3X Program, National

Accounts, Customer Complaints, Negotiating WM, Haun Welding, Pricing (Negotiated and saved $10,000 on last WM contract)

TAG Groupe Representation Special Order Tires Distribution of all tires and parts Set all retail pricing on Tires and Parts Maintenance on all Company Trucks and working with the

Maintenance Department Implemented Store Financing and Monitored Stores Performance with

the Goodyear Credit Card and CFNA Managing Warehouse Staff of 5 and Unloading Containers Forecasting and Ordering Containers

2/15/10-8/06/12 Regional Manager Shared Responsibility with Owner and Head of Retail Store

Operations

9/12/04-2/05/10 Kost Tire Court Street, Binghamton Store Manager During this time, sales at this store had an initial increase of 20%.

Sales of over 2.4 million a year with gradual increases.

2/18/02-9/12/04 Kost Tire, Sayre Store Manager Increased Sales 40% in the first year. Was rewarded by Kost Tire with

a Trip to Jamaica.

8/22/99-2/18/02 Kost Tire Court Street, Assistant Manager Worked in Johnson City Store and increased sales

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

Forecasting Program with IT that took 8 months, to develop, for tires maximizing dollars spent on inventory from 1.8 down to between 1,200,000- 800.000 and actually lower than that presently.

Keeping the inventory circulating for any inventory sitting in store for longer than two months is pulled and cycled to a store or region that will sell it including marking down inventory that is obsolete or aged which added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Made a major jump in tire GP of 5% last year alone, all season and snows through better buying and negotiating with all vendors foreign and domestic.

Kost allowed me to purchase 11,000 snows of which only $900-$1500 were remaining after the season ended due to forecasting.

Primary Parts Selection:

Uniselect lifted $280,000 parts and negotiated special pricing.

I had NAPA, Advance, Auto Part, AutoZone and CARQUEST all in the process.