Craft and curate a wine selection approachable to the masses while maintaining appropriate inventory and adhering to a weekly budget.Research and prepare for product expansions, including branded merchandise, seasonal packages, marketing campaigns.Develop and launch Direct To Consumer program allowing for nationwide shipping with the development on an online storefront and relations with shipping partners.Working with the team in a flexible manner to provide support where needed; including product packaging, bartending, and product delivery.

Managing websites and product inventory for two locations, adding hundreds of products for online sale while maintaining accurate inventory. Selecting and researching a Monthly Wine Club, which entails crafting a custom newsletter, highlighting the producers and regions of each wine.Coordinating a monthly educational class, selecting featured items and region based on customer feedback and interests.Receiving inventory from several distributors, communicating to drivers and sales representatives to ensure correct product is received, as well as inputting new items into the stores point of sale.

Managed a staff of over 20 employees, handling their onboarding and training on point of sale system, company policies and procedures.Conducted trainings with staff to provide knowledge of a range of products including fine wines, liquor and craft beer. Worked to coordinate schedules to ensure complete staffing of two store fronts as will as the warehouse.Managed product inventory and deliveries while ensuring the most accurate data on incoming products, and organizing necessary products transferred between three locations.

Produced a variety of stories ranging in topic from drug addiction and recovery to extravagant evenings at the opera. Conducted interviews with various officials and company representatives to obtain information needed for articles. Works were completed within strict deadlines to ensure a product that could succeed both in print and online.

Attended multiple monthly city council meetings to ensure coverage of local government happenings. Cultivated sources to ensure trust throughout the community while maintaining the most up-to-date information on local matters. Investigated the nuances of small towns and how they affect a community’s survival with a large metropolitan neighbor.

- Organization of the staff and publishing content both through our website and weekly print edition- Published content online before it went into our print edition - Developed an engagement team to increase our presence on campus and through social media

- Laid out weekly print edition- Wrote stories across all sections and assist staff in various areas- Completed a 10-week digital project highlighting the most unique offices across campus with two other students. Included a text story, a video and a panoramic tour of each office. To involve the campus community, the conclusion of the project featured a week-long voting period for people to vote on their favorite office.

- Responsible for writing weekly sports feature stories for our print edition and covering various sporting events- Laid out and published special basketball section that highlighted both the men's and women's basketball teams upcoming 2014-15 seasons

- Cultivated relationships with community to create content for local newspaper- Learned to better work with tight deadlines while producing quality content- Covered growing businesses around the community and local government meetings

- Kept track of materials and inventory at warehouse and job sites- Transferring and purchasing materials required for various jobs - Various tasks included manual labor and secretarial work