Benjamin Buie

Current

Distribution Analyst at Payless ShoeSource
Owner/Creator at Olifont
Owner/Creator at MyNiceTie

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Past

Webmaster at Womans Research Institute at BYU
Mortgage Sales Assistant at Flagship Financial (Sole Proprietorship)
Missionary/Volunteer at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Education

Brigham Young University

Recommended

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Connections

78 connections

Industry

Retail

Websites

Benjamin Buie’s Summary

The majority of my experience is online. I have been building and maintaining online businesses for 3 years. This experience has really increased my design skills.

I love to learn and am happy doing anything that broadens my thinking. I have many career goals including becoming an effective leader, finding innovative ways to improve the companies I work for, geting my MBA from an Ivy League school, starting a successful company, and leaving this world much better than I found it. Vague goals I know, but this is a summary right?

Benjamin Buie’s Specialties:

Web Design, Retail Distribution, Power Point, Teaching

Benjamin Buie’s Experience

Distribution Analyst

Payless ShoeSource

(Public Company; Retail industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

I am pleasantly surprised about how many interesting things I am learning at Payless. Right now I am working on mastering Excel and hope to start mastering VBA shortly. I use these skills to analyze my business (which is children's athletics) and provide meaning full information to the planners and manager on my team to help them make more informed decisions. In my opinion, this job is giving me a foundation of knowledge about the retail industry. I am also gaining priceless experience working as a team.
Owner/Creator

Olifont

(Internet industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Olifont is still just an idea for the worlds first interactive journal; however, in the process of refining this business I gained experience in leading a team of 10+ people in writing and refining a business plan. This included market research (focus grouping, surveying, and 3rd party studies), marketing plans, financial projections, team creation, and business model creation.

If anyone has any interest in making this idea become a reality, I have an investment proposal presentation and a complete business that I would love to share with you.
Owner/Creator

MyNiceTie

(Retail industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

My Nice Tie sells quality ties for affordable prices. Check out our website at www.MyNiceTie.com. We lend 20% of all revenue at 0% interest to entrepreneurs in third world countries through KIVA.
Webmaster

Womans Research Institute at BYU

(Education Management industry)

January 2008 — August 2008 (8 months)

I maintained the WRI website and corrected several problems that existed in the current website code.
Mortgage Sales Assistant
Flagship Financial (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

Summer Job learning the mortgage business.
Missionary/Volunteer

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

(Educational Institution; Religious Institutions industry)

July 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Donated two years of my time to serve the people of Russia. During this time I learned to speak the Russian language fluently, became familiar with Russian culture, and grew to love the Russian people.

In addition to helping many Russians, this volunteer experience helped to change me.

Benjamin Buie’s Education

Brigham Young University

Bachelor , Business Management , 2006 — 2009

Graduated magna cum-laude with a 3.94. Received an outstanding student award for being top student in the entrepreneurship emphasis.

Activities and Societies:

CEO club (collegiate entrepreneurs organization)
Phi Kappa Phi
Golden Key Honors Society
Dean's List
Outstanding Student Award