Antonio Peña Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Chicago, Il

Assist customers and provide information on luggage, bedding, bath and housewares. Give options and drive sales. Open and close registers as needed. Organize merchandise to promote sale items.

Recruiting - Create flyers and posters to advertise testing sessions, assist in scheduling the testing of job applicants, score the tests, maintain testing files, review application forms, generate and maintain census reports, conduct phone interviews for field positions.Field Operations - Prepare enumerator assignments, control records, data keying, quality control of incoming and outgoing work.

Created impact analysis reports involving stores near or within government land condemnations, involving road-improvement projects. Investigated and analyzed drawings, photographs, and project scope, discovering overall store disruption. Reviewed new, adjacent businesses' proposals, assessing overall store operation impact. Offered store remodeling design solutions, and reviewed elevation drawings. Conceived new store prototype exteriors. Evaluated new store construction documents, verifying corporate standards compliance. Customized freestanding signage, fulfilling local code compliances. Inspected newly opened stores and corrected construction errors during final walk-through process. Liaised with corporate attorney for negotiation of recovery compensation from municipalities. Standardized signage for Happy Harry chain acquisition (over 70 stores). Created a template to electronically save site plans for impact analysis reports, resulting in savings of staff time.Implemented a centralized, permanent location for impact-analysis report documents, resulting in the establishment of valuable archival data.

Held responsibility for updating and revising newly purchased stores, to Walgreens' standard, for minimal costs. Represented design group at facilities' assessments on new stores, and recommended repairs or modifications. Reviewed final checklist to ensure that building was structurally and aesthetically sound. Trained junior staff in walk-through process. Acted as technical adviser to construction superintendent in order to locate project errors and omissions. Assisted in updating building criteria drawings and specifications. Made recommendations for changes based on design modifications and budget constraints. Designed Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, centralizing design priorities and standards, resulting in time savings during staff review of construction documents and completion of design drawings. Created a prototype design drawing for buyouts of existing stores, which was used as a guide for outside architects to remodel approximately 25 existing stores, representing a savings of 9% of exterior remodeling expenditures.

Represented department at remodel meetings, chaired by store operations vice president, who initiated remodel plans. Provided guidance on site plans or store exteriors that needed modifications. Collaborated with real estate manager, project engineer, and store planner to complete remodel plans. Provided design drawings for store redesign, in collaboration with internal architectural planners. Provided feedback on design drawings, with architectural planners. Conducted final review with planner and manager to complete drawings. Routed completed drawing to construction project engineer for cost estimate analysis. Initiated proposed remodel design studies archiving process, establishing permanent recorded database.Initiated an electronic storage plan to save remodel design drawings, decreasing planner drawing time.Created prototypical custom sign drawings that met specialized requirements, yet maintained corporate uniformity standards.Centralized design filing system, which enabled planners to access internal drawings.

Conducted preliminary site space plans, office plans, and designed custom freestanding signs for new and existing stores. Coordinated with project architect to establish project schedules, budget, and construction requirements to implement preferred sign options. Collaborated with external vendors to determine project feasibility and specifics. Reviewed construction documents of outside architects to determine adherence to company standards for site and signage. Revised construction drawings to implement sign changes per code requirements. Developed new store site and space plan proposals, gaining company executive approval. Revitalized new store design prototype in 2001, saving Company construction expenditures, and impacting the design of over 1,000 stores nationwide. Devised checklist tool to train new staff members in reviewing construction documents. Created a template for use with sign drawings, which saved approximately 33% of architectural planners' drawing time.