Colleen Rast Email & Phone Number

San Tan Valley, AZ, US

San Tan Valley, Arizona, United States

• Conceptualized, cultivated and maintains thriving multi-channel e-commerce business selling apparel, gifts and collectibles with 5000+ skus.
• Collaborates with team members on long term planning that contributes to growth and strategic direction of the business while remaining flexible in a shifting environment.
• Seeks out and fosters relationships with fashion and gift wholesale distributors along non-traditional channels; leverages relationships and negotiation skills which result in increased profits through better.
• Constantly researches and evaluates tools and technology to save time and money.
• Relocated operations from a personal residence to warehouse space and hired 3 employees in 2011.
• Continually doubled eBay business year after year; expanded onto the Amazon selling platform in 2011 and increased revenues over 300%.

Horsham, PA

• Championed the deployment of the Project Life Cycle 2000 framework throughout CIT and IT organizations within North America and Europe to drive standardization and quality for program/project management.
• Collaborated with executive sponsors to enhance and develop additional strategies around the project management framework.
• Prioritized CIT projects to meet the strategic goals of the organization as a whole.
• Successfully achieved project goals on schedule and within budget by driving planning efforts, mitigating risks, evaluating all stages of project activities and taking corrective action as needed.
• Excelled at relationship management and served as an inspirational leader and global team builder while maintaining diplomacy with local and regional cultures.
• Chaired the CIT Project Management Committee

Langhorne, PA

• Provided role of Chief of Staff to the CIO of Priceline.com Gas and Grocery Division and Project Manager for the development and deployment of Webhouse 2.0 during the fast paced high energy dot com boom.
• Partnered closely with IT engineers to create and document product and technology strategies for Webhouse 2.0; kept meetings focused and on schedule and subsequently followed up on assignments.
• Maintained the CIOs schedule prioritizing appointments in a constant reactionary environment.

Hatboro, PA

• Served as liaison between MIS Operations and 5 independent subsidiaries with approximately 800 employees across 90 branch locations.
• Evaluated, trained and promoted a team of 5 external Technical Liaisons to assist in daily MIS operations support for the branch network.
• Responsible for the PC Specialist Supervisor and internal PC Specialist Team of 7 individuals who provided daily MIS support for the entire corporation.
• Planned and monitored Y2K compliance project with all subsidiaries and came in ahead of schedule and without incident.
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team to develop and manage a project to assimilate all subsidiaries into a single corporation.
• Reported directly to the CEO on all major project/assimilation issues.

Philadelphia, PA

• Participated in process re-engineering projects to maximize and sustain acceptable levels of productivity, efficiency and overall financial performance.
• Obtained extensive exposure to various companies in Financial Services, Health Care, Consumer Products and Real Estate.
• Conducted assessments of policies and procedures as well as the documentation of process flows.
• Developed performance measures to monitor different levels of operational results.
• Conducted financial audits of Privately Held and Not for Profit companies; performed balance sheet, income statement and business risk analysis.