Deborah Boughton is a highly qualified Project Manager/Analyst with over 15 years of experience in marketing, sales, and project management. She has a track record of driving key engagements, achieving supply chain goals, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Boughton also has experience analyzing processes, maintaining vendor relationships, and evaluating current performance to provide recommendations. She is proficient in various software programs including Excel, Outlook, and CRM platforms.

1. Deborah Boughton
Charlotte, NC 704.359.7551
Executive Summary
Highly qualified and motivated Project Manager/Analyst with extensive experience in Marketing and Sales,
I combine an analytical approach with market awareness and interpersonal skills to coordinate support
across all levels to achieve results.
Professional Experience
Archway Marketing Services
Project Lead – Lowes
 Drive key participant engagement across the Lowe's and partner settings.
 Achieve excellent supply chain delivery through consistency in planning and evaluating project activities.
 Collaborate with Lowe’s project teams, participate and/or facilitate meetings and provide complete project plans
and execution.
 Develop and maintain vendor and merchant/client relationships.
 Evaluate current processes to provide recommendations for improvements.
 Mitigate any project health issues with distribution centers, vendors and merchants and convey solutions to client
teams.
APEX Technologies, Cornelius, NC 2015
IT Project Manager/Account Manager
 Responsible for all IT projects for customers and tracked their technical service status.
 Worked with Service Manager to schedule all phases of a project to ensure on-time completion.
 Maintained project and customer account records.
 Designed and analyzed project time budgets.
JELD-WEN, Charlotte, NC 2013 to 2015
Print and Fulfillment Manager (promotion)
 Created sales and usage reports aiding in the management of third party inventories for printed materials and sample
merchandise as well as oversaw internal sample and literature on-line store.
 Drove the design and development of new sample and demonstration merchandise.
 Analyzed and determined most suitable and cost-effective print and POP vendor per project saving the corporation at
least $5,000 weekly.
 Coordinated print and graphic production jobs through entire lifecycle, insuring timely and accurate client requests
and printed materials.
 Contributed to project planning teams and meetings where printed items or product samples were required and
assisted with setting realistic project delivery goals.
 Maintained vendor relationships across all aspects of the business, from project initiation to invoicing
 Responsible for researching and selecting potential vendors as well as overseeing their on-boarding process.
 Managed all departmental Accounts Payable
 Developed spend reporting for budget analysis and to be used by higher leadership for future annual planning.
Project Manager – Home Center
• Developed usage and inventory reports for managing all in-house and third party inventories for store level
product literature as well as maintained supply for inventory.

2. • Organized all trade/road shows and their components affiliated with The Home Depot.
• Using current purchasing data, initiated and designed spend reporting within The Home Depot Group eventually
used to determine following year planning
• Collaborated with Field Reps, Regional Managers and MET in maintaining all store displays, graphics and
literature.
• Worked with VP’s and directors in the R&D and Marketing teams to follow best practices, achieve project scopes
and obtain resources as well as developed and maintained standard documentation to ensure project plans.
• Coordinated all items needed for creation of sales sample items and demo kits for internal and external Home
Depot PARs and ensured additional stock would be available for future hires.
• Managed project components of time, cost, quality, scope and resources as well as monitored the lifecycle and
any future changes to ensure high quality deliverables.
Pavestone Company, Charlotte, NC 2012 to 2013
Inside Sales Representative (Concrete Paving and Hardscape Materials)
 Assisted clients with product selection and orders.
 Developed reports to manage product specifics and inventory.
 Set up new customers and commence credit applications, produced sales orders using J.D. Edwards.
 Generated aging reports and resolved payment issues.
Active Concepts, LLC, Lincolnton, NC 2010-2012
Inside Sales Coordinator (Cosmetics/Personal Care Raw Materials)
 Working with the Vice President of Sales, created comprehensive current and historical sales reports to assist
with forecasting and demand planning; analyzed sales trends and any discrepancies or needs.
 Responsible for researching as well as tracking/maintaining spreadsheets of competitor data including pricing
and product specifications to assist with coming up with competitive pricing quotes.
 Coordinated with marketing department to ensure understanding new specification needs per client and worked
closely with team members to identify trends or discrepancies based on data to improve future sales.
 Responded to client inquiries regarding product information, specifications and discussed pricing (up-selling), as
well as provided product quotes, marketing literature and samples to customers.
Momentive Performance Materials/GE Sealants, Charlotte, NC 2007 to 2009
Tradeshow Manager/Business Analyst (Supply Chain)
• Supervision of the fulfillment operation and inventory of marketing collateral and direct sample orders.
• Provided dashboard reports for Co-op clients (True Value, DoItBest and ACE).
• Created and analyzed reports based on Supply Chain sales data (per product/per store/per region, etc.) with
deep dives into competitor data.
• Competitor product research including specifications and market sales.
 Designed sell-sheets, training materials and product order forms.
 Reported on yearly promotions and met with department heads to management and tracking of
 Input and upkeep of GE product specifications in the Lowes PCM application.
 Customized product images, graphics and logos for print production and web.
 Supplied added marketing and brand support with planogram design, new product development, prototypes and
testing, as well as tradeshow booth design, presentations and demos.
 Acting tradeshow manager, coordinating 10 to 20 shows per year.
Education & Certificates:
 Rutgers University, Camden, NJ – Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
 Notary Public of North Carolina - Valid until April 2016

3. Technical Skills:
 Excel Power User
 Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Pro, MS Project, SharePoint
 Salesforce.com, MAS 90, SAP/BW, MapPoint, ProFx, Cognos/VISTA, J.D. Edwards, ConnectWise
 Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)
 Facebook Insights/digital marketing reporting and analysis
 Training in LEAN/Six Sigma Processes