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Beaverton, Or, Us

Beaverton, Or, Us

• Coordinated the inventory management and merchandising team at The vAn, an e-commerce sustainability initiative within Nike.• Was directly responsible for the following processes in our inventory management lifecycle: inventory uploading, pricing, merchandising, product highlights, space allocation, auditing, and improving processes and procedures.• Lead and manage a team of inventory specialists. Provided team members with product knowledge, inventory guidelines, sales goals, and daily/weekly objectives to actively support, motivate, and train team members to excel.• Presented a 75-page lean operations proposal to the Director of Nike’s Special Asset Team, focusing on greater accuracy and consistency of brand messaging, helping streamline processes to reduce duplicated efforts across team functions.

Beaverton, Or, Us

• Forwarded Nike’s “Move to Zero” sustainability initiative at The vAn by driving use of reusable packing and shipping materials, and repurposing damaged or defective product.• Increased efficiency and throughput while reducing errors by streamlining process flow. Managed record amounts of incoming and outgoing product with extremely limited available warehousing space.• Ensured accuracy by locating lost and misplaced product and correcting both system and human errors.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Beaverton, Or, Us

• Worked on site at Nike as part of a six-member team, under Global Procurement, working to enable material pricing system users to more accurately forecast material costs.• Leveraged Excel mastery and project management skills to accurately update tens of thousands of material supplier upcharge amounts in material pricing system.

Rexburg, Idaho, Us

Living Legacy ProjectLed a 4-person cross functional team to test potential demand of various target markets for a potential new product concept being developed by startup in the industry of memorial and genealogy technology.Conducted primary research consisting of 366 potential consumer surveys and 20 collaborator interviews and performed a Porter's Five Forces and SWOT analysis to address other potential legal and logistical concerns. Produced a detailed written report and presentation of our methodologies and findings including spreadsheets containing the data we collected and recommendations of next steps for how to proceed next developing this product.

Rexburg, Idaho, Us

Emerson Electric ProjectLed a 5-person cross functional team to determine on a per region basis the potential market demand for a prototype consumer HVAC solution, identify existing parallel solutions and defining the potential market for the prototype product, accounting for market growth and unserved or underserved markets. Worked with teammates varied schedules and skill sets to assign tasks and schedule meetings in order to complete the project on a tight 14-week deadline.Gained complex project management experience correlating secondary and primary research in the form of US census data (analyzed 66,752 weighted responses to 46 questions) and online consumer surveys (collected and analyzed 728 unique responses to 42 questions) across 9 regional divisions & 15 distinct metropolitan areas in the continental US. Presented the client with a report and dataset summarizing our methodologies and findings and analysis, projecting an increase of $150 million in sales annually if this new product concept was developed and brought to market.

Rexburg, Idaho, Us

Worked in higher education for a collegiate level case-study based business course focusing on consumer behavior.Assisted the course professor in the assessment and data entry of students’ work by using Microsoft Excel and Word to create grading rubrics by which to fairly evaluate and assess students’ work.Engaged with students to correct errors and clear up misunderstandings by giving advice, coaching, instruction, and constructive criticism.

Followed process and procedure in compliance with established policies to assist the disabled and elderly in the activities of daily living.Worked independently and efficiently with little direction or oversight. Communicated effectively with occasionally unpredictable clients to build relationships of trust and mutual respect through an attitude of positivity. Scheduled meetings, managed time and prioritized tasks.Adapted to changing policies and regulations while striving for continuous improvement, noting process developments, suggesting necessary changes to the SOP(standard operating procedures) which resulted in eliminating wasted time and effort, and documenting and creating reports of my client’s progress.

Followed client’s written and verbal instructions to conduct online research and to collect and analyze data for client’s web presence and consumer interaction.Consulted on social media platform performance, developed recommendations, and produced and presented a detailed report of our findings.Developed strong analytical skills conducting collaborative spreadsheet-based data analysis, focusing on the performance of our client’s social media key indicators.

Organized and executed an eight person focus group, in addition to in-depth interviews, ethnographic studies and surveys to determine and make observations and inferences about customer experience, and consumer behavior.Filmed and recorded customers expressing their feeling an, experiences edited together over an hour of footage and audio recordings into brief example clips and sound bites of consumers expressing their feelings and preferences regarding the client’s product and level of service.Authored a detailed presentation of the most crucial data among our findings and recommended strategic initiatives to improve daily operations, better serve target consumer segments, and ultimately increase sales.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Worked on bistro staff for NW Natural sponsored "Street of Dreams" home show.

Co-founded a student-led, small business startup, testing a new concept in the student union restaurant which serves approximately 4,000 students per day.Gained leadership experience in teamwork, business finance, marketing strategy, and operations development.Gained management experience leading a Marketing/R&D team of four members.Managed social media presence across Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Collected and analyzed social media data to formulate strategic initiatives.Created an automated and interconnected ecosystem of cloud shared spreadsheets for managing and tracking all aspects of the business, including: forecasting sales numbers, tracking inventory management, calculating reorder points, and generating performance reports on the success or failure of various initiatives based on KPI’s (key performance indicators).

Corvallis, Or, Us

Cross-trained at an interdepartmental dynamic team environment in an ecommerce small business specializing in international merchandising of wearable electronics for the fitness industry.Tracked, recorded and reported on the quality of hundreds of products daily. Achieved operational excellence in counting and balancing an inventory of over 15,000 items.Was involved in research and development for the testing of five unique new product lines. A/B tested experimental prototypes under various circumstances to exacting standards.Functioned as the office IT/troubleshooting and technical support personnel, servicing Microsoft Windows and MacOS operating systems and local area Wi-Fi networks and wireless printers.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Journalism