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Tamarac, Florida

• Management of 3rd Party Marketplaces (Amazon, eBay, Sears, Walmart...)
• Managed transition of entire product catalog to a single unified platform (Channel Advisor) to expand and scale the product catalog feed to multiple marketplaces
• Hands on management of catalog expansion and maintenance
• Work closely with Category Management, Purchasing, Warehouse and Operations teams in ensuring smooth and efficient product launches
• Continually expanding and maintaining operations across e-commerce channels
• Maintain primary data source for catalog maintenance and day to day operational business intelligence

Pembroke Pines, FL

• Management of all Product Development initiatives including:
• Building and maintaining product catalog - Managed offshore data support teams, at one time numbering 3 teams in 3 countries with a total of 50+ team members
• Expansion of catalog into 3rd party marketplace feeds (Amazon, eBay, Sears) - Managed rapid product expansion listing hundreds of thousands of products into 3rd party marketplacesAchievements & Contributions
• Managed dramatic expansion of product catalog from 65k - 270k products over 3 years
• Distributed catalog work strategically across multiple teams to maximize productive throughput while minimizing cost per sku.
• Designed and implemented product QA system which resulted in increased production transparency and a dramatic improvement in error rates.

Pembroke Pines, Florida

• Responsibilities included:
• Hiring, training and managing quality assurance team (both local and offshore data partner teams)
• Providing functional specifications and beta testing all system enhancements
• Overall responsibility for ensuring that product uploads and updates are processed correctly

Pembroke Pines, Florida

• Responsibilities included:
• Upload and maintenance of online product catalog
• Driving for system and process innovations to increase throughput and reduce error rates
• Training and managing offshore data partner teams
• Providing functional specifications and beta testing all system enhancements.

Boca Raton FL

• Quick Service Franchise Restaurant offering a full menu of healthy fare: smoothies, wraps, sandwiches, salads and breakfast.Responsibilities Included
• Hiring and training all shift leaders and team members
• Inventory Management
• Financial management
• Vendor relations
• Marketing & advertising, including numerous outside eventsNotable Achievements:

• Retail Sales Representative for the entire South Florida region (over 350 stores) spanning from Vero Beach to Okeechobee to Key West. Responsible for servicing existing customers and prospecting and cultivating new.
• Utilized mapping software to optimize territory routing for maximum efficiency
• Contributed to ongoing warehouse maintenance resulting in superlative inspection reports

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

• Multiple contract assignments maintaining e-commerce websites
• Long-term contract assignment working for Vanguard Car Rental Corporate Headquarters in the Risk Management Department Duties included: - Management of company bond exchange project - Day to day Risk Management duties.

New York, NY

• Functional and content development, marketing strategy and execution and extensive communication with clients and internal departments at all levels for the company’s largest and most visible IT initiative, a web.
• Managed development of a corporate Client Services Intranet serving the company’s national call center serving 1000+ employees and nearly 10,000 clients
• Managed three web application developers in numerous overlapping projects
• Lead Project Manager in the configuration of a new company wide information system supporting every aspect of the business from processing specimens, producing pathology reports, billing clients and the warehousing and.
• Business analysis for Operations producing all management reports on operational metrics

• Troubleshot & Administered a LAN/WAN network and email server
• Responsible for maintaining backups and loss/recovery systems for the entire network
• Installed and configured hardware and software on servers, workstations and laptops
• Designed, produced and maintained company website
• Served as technical support contact for an international network of consultants
• Produced all company presentations and implemented templates and design standards

Ba, English, Communications, Cultural Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma National FraternityPhilanthropy Chair and House Manager for Fraternity.

High School

Activities and Societies: Band, Tennis Team