Timothy Rice, Independent Distributor

Timothy Rice

Independent Distributor

Bimbo Bakeries, USA

Location
United States - Dearborn
Education
Bachelor's degree, Consumer Behavior
Experience
25 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 3 Months

Independent Distributor at Bimbo Bakeries, USA
  • United States
  • My current job since May 2008

-Independent Operator is a self employed business owner.
-Wholesale Distributor for the world's largest commercial bakery.
-Wholesale Distributor of America's best and most well known National brands: Thomas' English Muffins, Swirl Beads, Bagels, and Mini bagels; Brownberry Whole Grains Breads, Beefsteak Rye bread, Nature's Harvest
-Customers include Target, Wal-mart, Kroger, Greenland Arabic Grocery Chain, Al-Madina (Dearborn Fresh), plus many other Arabic independent Grocers.
Responsibilities include building and maintaining many public relationships at all levels of the corporate chain.
-Forecasting orders to maintain freshness levels to meet customers demands
-Forecasting orders to satisfy the end user customers and to keep costs and returns low.
-Utilize my Professional Marketing Skills and talent
-Utilize my skills in Merchandising to move and sell mass amounts of product on a daily basis.

Store Management at The Kroger Company
  • United States
  • May 2006 to April 2008

Full service store manager.
Responsible for opening/closing/operating full service grocery store on a daily routine.
Responsible for growing store sales.
documents and proven sales growth on double digit levels. I don't play games, when I focus on sales growth my sales growth are 10 - 25% on a consistent basis.

Software Lab Administrator at Ford Motor Company (Contract Assignment)
  • United States
  • July 1998 to September 2005

Software Lab Administrator:
Administrator of planning, design, budgeting, and procurement of Ford Motor Company's software development lab for Pre-programmed Engine Powertrain Controls software development and testing.
Procurement of budget funds for sophisticated software development tools of testing for Engine Powertrain Controls.
Vehicle design programs include:
Aston Martin Vanquish
Aston Martin DB7
Ford F-150
Ford Fusion
Ford Focus
Ford Mustang
Ford Escape
Ford Explorer
The software development lab supported testing stages of engine and transmission powertrain controls in the design and development process of software engineering and control module programming.
This testing facility purpose was to link developmental software to vehicle testing stage.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Consumer Behavior
  • at University of Michigan
  • April 2006

My GPA is 3.25. I earned my Bachelor's degree over a fourteen years, while working full-time. First, I earned an Associates in Science in 1996, then an Associates in Science in Electrical/Electronics Technology focused in Microprocessors in 1998. Then I attend the University of Michigan part-time and worked to achieve graduation in 2006. Consumers Behavior is a triple minor degree: Marketing Management, Communications focused in Public Relations, and Economics.

Specialties & Skills

Food Marketing
Public Relations
Logistics
Team Leadership
Top Management
Management
Team Building
Logistics and Transportation
Marketing and Merchandising
Electronics
Entreprenuer

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner