Dear Human Resources

I have 18 years of experience with in a corporate environment developing and ma

naging employees. My educational background has given me the ability to recruit,
train and teach in creative and effective ways. I have taught courses at the co
llege level. Working now for Finish line I am a District manager with three stat
es Ohio, PA, and Maryland. Working with Giant Eagle I have learned and implement
ed the management principles of the Toyota Way, this is a very successful, pract
ical and quality way of working, I also put together all the fund raisers and wr
ote for grants. With Giant Eagle I was overseeing 80 stores very successfully. M
y experience with Afterthoughts has given me the ability to train, hire, work wi
th P&L, and come up with creative ideas to increase sales. In a two year span my
district increased by 78%. I was also in charge of ordering fixtures and create
the way the new designed stores were going to look with the fixtures and mercha
ndise that I was responsible to purchase and created plan o grams for the new de
sign. I have a great relationship with a local company who designs and manufactu
res equipment for all industries needs. I have also been purchasing items and eq
uipment for my husband's business for the 20 years he has been in business. The
reason for my leaving Afterthoughts was because Claire's purchased them and all
the upper management positions were dissolved. When planning events for Giant Ea
gle I had to negotiation with many vendors so they would become part of the show
then we had to plan and purchase fixtures, equipment, and product to provide a
successful event. I have done many events including the Race for the Cure in Cle
veland and Pittsburgh, the Hall of Fame opening game for the past 5 years, all o
f our grand openings, fund raisers at the Heinz stadium, and many food shows. I
feel that I would be an asset to your company and would love to have the opportu
nity to show you what I could bring to the table.
Thank you
Sincerely,
Marrissa Patrone

MARRISSA PATRONE
6893 Clingan Rd. Poland, Ohio 44514
Home: (330) 757-3136 Cell: (330) 565-4791
mp5515e2@westpost.net or mpatrone@rocketmail.com

District Manager * Retail Expertise* Excellent Trainer* P&L Oversight

Team Leadership* Management Expertise* People person* Ed
ucated
SUMMARY OF EXPERTIS
E
* Leverage well developed critical and creative thinking processes; develop poli
cies and manage culturally and professionally diverse teams to consistently exce
ed objectives.
* Highly astute and focused district manager with comprehensive history leading
multiple retail locations.
* Proactively establish relationships with management teams, staffs and customer
s to ensure performance levels, store operations and company policy enforcement.
* Implement programs and policies that are adopted as best practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FINISH LINE MAN ALIVE, INDIANAPOLIS, IN (DM) March 2
007 - Present
* District Manager with a team of 20 store managers with over $45 Million in sal
es annually.
* Successfully managed 20 retail stores located in Ohio, Pa, and Maryland.
* Recorded quality store audits ensuring employee performance, store operations
safety and all company policies are being enforced.
* Responsible for total store operations, including HR, P&L, Loss prevention, st
ore standards, merchandising, held great relations with the buyers to make sure
the areas had what was needed in order to sell the most effectively.
* Responsible to hire and train new management to be successful.
* My district continues to be number one in sales increase over LY since I took
over as DM in 2007.
* I have had one store manager under me promoted to DM per my suggestion. Many
sales associated promoted to management. I also have a low turnover rate below
company standards.
DAYMON WORLDWIDE, San Diego, CA (DM) Dec.
2003- March 2007
* District Manager provided direction for 4 Area Managers, with 60 stores and ea
ch store carried one manager and a staff. Ensure a success in demo work at the G
iant Eagle stores located in Ohio and Pa.
* Recorded quality store audits ensuring employee performance, created track rec
ords to provide Giant Eagle managers the success of demos with sale numbers. Hel
d great relations with Giant Eagle employees. Provided safety to customers and e
mployees.
* I also was the Special Event Coordinator with Giant Eagle. I successfully org
anized all events from food shows to Race for the cure in Ohio and Pa.
* I organized and created programs to train in a more effective way for the dist
rict. We carried 100% in all executions of the demos that were to be completed
on a weekly basis.
* I always made sure that Giant Eagle was well represented to the community and
that all events were completed successfully.
Afterthoughts (DISTRICT MANAGER)
Aug. 1990 - Dec. 2003
* District Manager provided direction to 25 salaried store managers located in O
hio and Pa. with 30 Million in sales annually.
* Recorded quality store audits ensuring employee performance and motivating to
have great sales increase.
* I began as an Assistant Manager and was promoted to DM within 7 years. I work
ed at store level building customer relations to promote higher sales. I am very
customer oriented and had a great staff that I developed and promoted throughou
t the years.
* Made interventional ways to increase sales created a board game for each store
they loved that. Gave small gifts to the most outstanding employee monthly, an
d I love inspiring people to succeed.
* For the majority of the time I worked I also carried a full time schedule in c
ollege.

EDUCATION
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
Completed Course Work Toward
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with 3.0
Elementary Education with a 3.5
Doctor of Educational in Educational Leadership with a 3.5
December 2000

SPECIAL INTERESTS
* We make our own cheese, Italian meats and wine.
* Love Professional boxing and football
* Collect old cars and motorcycles, rebuild them and show them
* Cooking and playing the piano