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Petaluma, California, US

Managing a global operations and customer support team to provide a great customer experience for both hosts and guests for short term rentals. With over 120 team members across the US, Mexico, Philippines, Pakistan and Indonesia.

Petaluma, California, US

• Previously Awning, acquired by RedAwning March, 2024.Managed a team of 25+ across the US, Mexico, Pakistan and Philippines to provide a strong operational and support experience for our customers, including guests and.
• Responsible for Customer Support and Live Operations functions, running day to day operations for full service properties, remotely. Teams are responsible for guest and host support, and day to day operations of.
• Customer Success manager for 2/3rds of the portfolio.
• Helped grow the customer base from 80 hosts to 250+, quintupling revenue while increasing average review scores, reducing churn and keeping headcount stable over that time period, which helped lead to successful exit.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Managing six teams over four levels, a total of 25 employees in the US and an additional team of 20 in Mexico. The team is comprised of three managers, four team leads, two analysts and a team of operations and support.
• Improved onboarding time from two weeks to one day turn around and one hour turn around for urgent tickets.
• Built out new Carrier Payment (AP) team to help recover funds from factoring companies and carriers, and provide resolution for payment issues for carriers.
• Built out new Expansion team to develop onboarding best practices for new markets and modes.
• Built new App Success Team, to focus on process improvement and creating a better onboarding experience for our carriers.
• Collaborate with legal team to develop new onboarding processes to reduce risk of fraud and improve carrier quality for customers.

Co-founder and partner in Hostkeeping, now AMENITY, a linen subscription company which also provides cleaning services to residents in high rise apartment buildings.

San Francisco, CA, US

Part time volunteer for Tech for Campaigns, working on back end operations.Operator for Text Project for Michele Knoll's campaign for State House, District 44 in Pennsylvania, building lists, formatting and assigning them in Hustle app to help with GOTV campaign.

Chicago, IL, US

• Manage day to day work of team of four Ops / Customer Success Team members with focus on process improvement to drive increases in efficiency and efficacy of departments.
• Provide support for both B2B and B2C customers, including installation of printers, onboarding and account management.
• Direct hiring and training of new team members
• Manage Operations Team – Prepping, inventory management, repair of printers in field (550+)
• Run sales operations – Salesforce.com administration, sales reporting and analysis, lead management and territory management
• Purchase, implement and train employees on sales tools, notably Ring Central, Groove.co, and Salesforce.com

Oakland, California, US

• Built out Sales Operations for Prezi as we expanded to B2B sales, transitioning from B2C sales and launch of new business oriented product (July, 2016). Reported to the Head of Customer team to provide Operations.
• Salesforce.com Admin - Manage iteration of SFDC for Prezi Sales and Customer Success team.
• Provided reporting and analytic insight for Sales and Customer Success teams.
• Implementation of Insight Squared and build out of Sales Funnel reporting.
• Built out and implementation of territory model.
• Drive integration of sales reps from acquisition Infogram, introducing them to all technical aspects of Prezi sales process, and manage their training with Prezi team.

Chicago, IL, US

• As a member of the sales leadership team, manage the operations of the sales team using analysis and industry experience to provide strong direction to the rest of the team and improve efficiency throughout the sales.
• Manager of five person team, two business analysts and two sales operations coordinators along with one lead database analyst, providing training, supervision and direction for their work.
• Manage sales operations for sales team of 700 sales reps, (300 inside, 400 outside / inside mix). $1B+ in Annual Revenue.
• Lead from sales team for implementation of new CRM system, Salesforce.
• Direct strategy and implementation of regional sales focus throughout inside and outside sales groups.
• Contributor in weekly strategy meetings with sales managers and sales leadership team.

Chicago, IL, US

• Creation and analysis of weekly reports, for tracking productivity metrics for 20+ teams of 300+ sales reps.
• Contributor in weekly strategy meetings with sales supervisors and sales leadership team.
• Monthly reporting of five sales branches, including sales performance, turnover and tenure based metrics
• Creation and management of reporting for new training program for new sales reps.
• Management and tracking of reward programs.
• Management of sales accounts and distribution of accounts.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Each month update Shipping P&L's, comparing actuals vs. budget.
• Review with each branch, Shipping P&L with branch manager of shipping (role varied by branch, 20+ branches).
• Working with new TMS system (TMC) to implement into Anixter.
• Working on project based RFP's (milk runs in Mexico, cross border analysis, etc..)
• Review / approval of international shipment BOL's
• Review of Small Parcel shipments costs, finding mismatches.

Rosemont, Illinois, US

• Tracking and analysis of international shipping rates.
• Drop shipment tracking, management of drop shipment inventory.
• Work with carriers to resolve freight claim disputes (domestic and international).
• Quoting of international shipments (including Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.. for military shipments).
• Create new process to quickly quote for international shipments (dimensions / sizing of equipment, to automate determination of size of shipment).

Vevey, CH

Monthly reporting and analysis. This includes exception reporting to highlight inefficiencies and to provide monthly commentary against budget and prior year actuals.Provide visibility and reporting around costs, projects, and programs impacting freight spend.Track cost savings programs, and determine methodology of calculating cost savings for each.

Work with small businesses to set up internet check deposit systemsAccounts Payable, scanning, data entry and printing of checksUpload of transactions, quality check daily transactions.

Dekalb, IL, US

Student worker for university library (Circulation Desk / Reference Desk)

Masters, Business Administration

Bachelors, Finance

College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program