Danielle Rubinstein-Towler Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

As Manager of my Good Vibrations location, I complete many of the same responsibilities and tasks I did as Assistant Manager. My administrative tasks have increased and I serve as a higher management figure for the staff. My new responsibilities include:• Generate weekly reports gathering weekly sales totals and feedback regarding popular products, inventory, and customer service issues.• Organize store events for educational and entertainment purposes for both customers and outside parties.• Keep track of the progression of employees and their training; I shape my training style to accommodate their learning style.• Complete schedules to ensure the retail space is as prepared as much as possible for the flow of customers on any day.

San Francisco Bay Area

My promotion to assistant manager came a little over a year after my first promotion at Good Vibrations. I gained more responsibility with this new title and position, and I steadily grew during my time in this position. My leadership skills greatly improved; additionally to my management position, I also contributed to the company's blog and did copywriting for the brand's website. As my role continued to flourish, my skills expanded as well:• Constructed weekly item movement spreadsheets to send to company's inventory team.• Composed summaries for products on company website and review other pieces of writing when needed.• Coached staff on providing excellent customer service and how to navigate stressful or difficult situations with problem solving skills and good judgment. • Penned blog posts on different topics related to the company's message of sex education and sex positivity and submit them to the company blog.

San Francisco, Ca

Within my first year working at Good Vibrations, I was promoted to Lead Sex Educator/Sales Associate at my retail location. In addition to continuing my role as a Sex Educator/Sales Associate, I was now responsible for more inventory-oriented tasks and I served as a point person for my coworkers to reach out to. I performed the following duties:• Utilized monthly Excel spreadsheets to track and process defective merchandise value. • Generated weekly lists consisting out of stock inventory to submit to inventory department.• Co-instructed a workshop titled Reclaiming Yourself: Healing Through Sex-Positivity and Communication; workshop was well attended and positively received.• Assisted management in supervising staff on the sales floor and in completing tasks.• Navigated inventory discrepancies with great attention to detail and resolved many of the errors discovered.

San Francisco

Creative writing has always been one of my biggest passions, but sexuality studies and sexual education was an area I focused on in college as well. Joining Good Vibrations, a feminist and education focused adult boutique, allowed me to provide sex education and resources to customers. My role at Good Vibrations consisted of:• Attended 16 hours of sex education training; all employees were provided with sex education training to strengthen customer service and be able to give the educational information the company is known for.• Provided excellent customer service in regards to both product knowledge and education.• Assisted in setting up events and event space for a variety of workshops, book signings, and demonstrations.• Transferred inventory between other retail locations and to wholesale vendors.• Received product into store inventory and processed paperwork properly in both hard copy and electronic format.

Oakland, Ca

My final year of graduate school, I worked as a research assistant for an esteemed member of my department's poetry faculty. Over the course of the year, I was privy through my work to an intimate correspondence between my professor and his fellow late poet; their letters and poems to each other showing a strong friendship. My professor wanted to compile a book of their friendship, down to the very end of her life, and I was responsible for putting this together. Over the year, I achieved the following:• Organized professor's correspondence material in chronological order in his office.• Scanned letters, postcards, and poems to be uploaded onto the professor's personal computer.• Created an index for the correspondence book.• Typed up all written media to match the style of the rest of the material.• Compiled the correspondence book electronically.

San Francisco Bay Area

Interning at Zoozil Media, which focused on historical fiction choose your own adventure stories, combined my passion for children's literature with my desire to enter the publishing world. My experience working at Zoozil fleshed out my editing skills and I developed a sharper eye for recognizing what had potential as a publishable story. I accomplished the following:• Read one to three manuscripts a week and edited the manuscripts, focusing on grammar and suggestions on improving the content and flow of the stories.• Reached out through recruiting websites and advertisements to potential authors; I read through any interested candidate's writing samples and gave my feedback on whether I believed they were a good fit for Zoozil's message and focus.• Participated in weekly phone conferences with the CEO of the company and Managing Editor, and sometimes fellow coworkers and authors.• Organized important files on potential and recruited authors and kept their progress and information up to date.

Emeryville, Ca

Working at a bookstore had been an interest of mine on both a personal and education level; I have been an avid reader and writer since I was in elementary school and my educational focus in graduate school was writing and editing. During my time at Barnes & Noble, I learned valuable information about book trends and book sales at the retail level. I grew knowledgeable about what made certain books stand out and all of the details that made book sales successful. I excelled at many sections while at Barnes & Noble and my main focuses while working there were:• Cycled books from each section to return to publishers and to make way for new releases• Shelved new releases and popular titles in each section to ensure customers had access to desirable book titles.• Created multiple displays to capture customer interest highlighting certain books or themes, such as Beach Reads, Top Children's Novels, Bestselling Nonfiction Books, etc. • Utilized knowledge about inventory to best assist customers and provided excellent customer to customers in-store and over the phone. • Focused on keeping the Children's section up to date on popular books and emphasized focus on specific themes and trends. • Assisted in setting up various book-related events, ranging from book signings and author panels.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Creative Writing

Activities and Societies: Member of literary magazine 580 Split

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing/Women And Gender Studies/Sociology