Arica Gaines Email & Phone Number

Greenwood, IN, US

Indianapolis, Indiana

I entertain customers at local restaurants with quiz questions, music, and humor!

Greenwood, Indiana

Taking care of my infant son and keeping up with chores and errands!

Columbus, Indiana

• Supported the Ariba purchasing system within Cummins.
• Worked with suppliers to set up and maintain their catalogs.
• Coordinated with indirect purchasing team internally to maintain catalogs and improve the catalog update process.
• Became Green Belt certified after completing 3 projects to improve direct purchasing applications.

Columbus, Indiana

• Developed new business intelligence (BI) training program for purchasing applications along with team, and facilitated training needs, including scheduled monthly training sessions which were attended by over 140.
• Supported BI and material cost tracking (MaCTrack) system users by closing over 70 help desk tickets, in addition to monitoring and assisting with IT support tickets
• Facilitated pre-month end meetings with purchasing finance and IT to mitigate risk
• Provided testing support for 12 change requests which improved and repaired MaCTrack and BI
• Completed Six Sigma training and managed a project to define the requirements for the user deactivation process for MaCTrack in SCUDM, and closed in green status
• Completed QUA3900, ITPM, and LGBT Safe Leader trainings

Bloomington, Indiana Area

I substitute taught for K-12 students in the Bloomington, IN area.

Columbus, Indiana

• Created efficiencies through registering over 150 supplier contacts for an invoicing application, and designed and administered supplier surveys to gauge effectiveness of the application
• Improved the invoicing process through corresponding with suppliers to add the contact information for over 600 suppliers to the invoicing database
• Enabled the transition to electronic transactions to increase supplier volume for 75 suppliers
• Completed the engine familiarization class to further my understanding of the industry

Evansville, Indiana

Worked during summers only, promoted to manager during fourth summer. Supervised and trained employees, assisted customers, problem solved, and performed necessary concession stand functions.

Evansville, Indiana

Supervised and planned activities for up to 30 middle school children.

Bloomington, IN

Tutored athletes in various subjects including economics, math, and business.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Adopt-A-Grandparent Club (President and Founder), Hutton Honors Council Association (President of Eigenmann.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Tennis, Concert ChoirValedictorian