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Greater Denver Area

Hayward, California

Drove profitability through process improvements and efficiencies.Facilitated a team environment and culture; surpassing the sum of the parts.Exceeded revenue and profit goals each quarter - had a great, driven team Modernized and implemented new technologies to drive effective operations

San Jose, California

-Recruited technical talent, sourced quality employees, managed candidate relationships and negotiated deals with Clients, resulting in multiple over $100,000 Direct Placements and contract placements. - Trained candidates on interview techniques to improve skills and provide the best chance of being hired. - Managed projects including developing, updating & overhauling contracts, forms and system processes.- Designed, developed and implemented Excel models to streamline, simplify and improve existing internal processes: Payroll, Client tracking and management, and various paperwork processes. - Utilized Excel formulas and functions (Macros, Pivot tables, visual basic) to standardize data inputs, validate and verify process outputs and calculations, and streamline processes to minimize errors, costs and time used. - These improvements were rolled out across all offices in Western United States. - Set meetings with new clients, ran references, and improved relations with current clients.

Los Altos, California

- Managed daily operations of the restaurant, including guest interactions, employee interactions and managed inventory for all restaurant operations.- Maintained just-in-time inventory management, reducing budget and expenses, minimizing costs and maximizing profitability. - Opened, closed and operated restaurant daily, and managed all cash deposits and collections, supervised and monitored all staff, including the resetting and closing duties of the restaurant. Operations Improvements: - Created new dishwashing area process, reduced breakage by 75%, resulting in monthly savings of $3,200- Designed Excel Model for projecting accurate sandwich demand, reducing food and labor waste, saving ~$1000 a month and 1% total food cost.- Efficiently managed a $17,000 budget, resulting in 12% savings a month through implementing lean, just-in-time ordering and seeking competitive quoting on key products.- Created and utilized Excel inventory modelling to reduce human error, time expended and costs.

Beverly Hills, California

Manager in training at the South Beverly Grill and Honor Bar. Trained in every position of the restaurant from Front of House to Back of House. Gained valuable and extensive management experience through the intensive training and managing both employees, the restaurant and table calls with guests. Learning how to lead, manage and handle a variety of situations that resulted in greater guest satisfaction and employee relations. Projects: Created an excel database system to track, project and predict the ordering needs and costs of the restaurant operations budget. Resulting in the ability to assess trends and minimize both real and holding costs. Through monitoring the loss and breakage of rest-op items, and utilizing formulas that predict the need for an order (based on their lead time and minimum order quantity) the system ensures that the inventory levels will be consistently maintained and tracked. Additionally, the system populates a monthly report page and 3 charts showing monthly trends, for use by management. Additionally, this system unveiled a discrepancy in pricing that resulted in $1,200 in savings per month going forward, reducing the over budget expenses by 25% per month, as well as resulting in a credit for the previous 6 months of overpaying due to the discrepancy.

Dublin, Ireland

Created and implemented a mobile website to improve the mobile customers online experience.Developed a new marketing campaign: Including designing a billboard advertisement in Dublin.Utilized Data analytics to improve our SEO and track the success of our new Marketing campaign.

Newton Centre, Ma

Created a new system for submitting applications: increasing efficiency, clarity and acceptance. Outperformed all agents in rental dollars during July and August, increasing office revenues by more than $8,000.Outperformed fellow summer agents by more than 200%, in both deals and rental dollars. Managed, scheduled and negotiated rental deals and showings with 20-30 clients and landlords per week.

Boston, Ma

Prepared weekly model equity reports for The Barcomb Group to increase efficiency and track the weekly changes for top stocks.Updated and analyzed financial portfolios of prospective investors to determine performance of their individual stocks and funds.Generated $1.2 million in new business in two weeks by creating a database of 230 clients’ current mortgages and assessing their potential for refinancing.

Greater Detroit Area

Gave 600 hours of community service to help rebuild the great city of Detroit through teaching and mentoring urban youths, painting and repairing schools and buildings, and demolishing burned out, abandoned homes.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Operations Management And Supervision, 3.54/4.0 Gpa Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi Deans Host, School of Management (Now Questrom School of Business) Degree: B.B.A. Major: Operations.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba) With A Minor In Hospitality, Operations Management, Senior

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi, Dean's Host SMG, Dean's List, IM hockey and football. Concentrated in Operations with a Minor.