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Playa Vista, California

• Pricing Systems Team
• Created a Global automated system that alerts users when offerings they've uploaded in the past are about to expire, this has reduced the amount of service requests to nearly 0%, allowing for automatic requotes and.
• Created parsers for LATAM and US Export contracts, which increases accuracy to 100% and reduced time spent gathering rate data by ~90%.

Playa Vista, California

• Pricing Systems Team
• Pipelined our bid season data from a 3rd party provider into an automated sheet to provide the Procurement and Yield/Allocation teams with the most accurate and recent data.
• Created contract parsers for all of our ISC tradelane contracts and eliminated the need for manual inspection of these contracts.
• Developed a tool for managing Origin and Destination Surcharges that allowed teams to brainstorm new pricing strategies and transform user inputs into a format ready file that can be ingested into our primary pricing.
• Created Looker dashboards to visualize comprehensive data sets pertaining to Origin, Destination, Import Customs, and Export Customs surcharges.
• Developed a Quality Assurance Standard Operating Procedure (QA SOP) designed for universal usage. This SOP enables proactive monitoring of uploaded rates within our system and if an error is discovered, it specifies.

Playa Vista, California

• Global Pricing Team
• Onboarded and actively managed 100% of our 2023-2024 TPEB clients with NAC ocean space contracts into one of our pricing tools that helped us limit the potential risk of over booking on a specific lane and to track the.
• Developed and managed the tools that track indices and create offerings for our index-based pricing clients that teams can quote on.
• Developed dashboards to track add-on charges of shipments and analyzed how their pricing impacts volume and revenue overtime.
• Consulted on the creation of our new parsing system and worked with the Software Engineering team to ensure that the output of each contract parser was accurate.

Playa Vista, California

• Yield Management and Pricing Team
• Worked with Data Science to upgrade the logic of a subsection in our internal pricing system, that manages our Ocean NAC allocation, to allow for full implementation of all trade lanes. These changes allowed for TPEB.
• Developed dashboards on Snowsight using SQL queries to track key metrics for our internal pricing system which includes coverage, prices, conversion rate, and volume throughout different trade lanes.
• Developed a dashboard that tracked all quote attributes in one place, which was used by our Economics Research team to test which attributes impacted the quotes' likelihood of being accepted or not.
• Parsed TPEB/ISC tradelane carrier contracts and amendments using Python scripts for our spot market rates.
• Managed the inflation proposal for the Ocean FCL business section of the company to adjust shipment fee prices in accordance with cost increases we are facing in 2022 while still remaining competitive in the market.

Santa Fe Springs, California

• Commodity Intelligence.
• Developed an automated foreign currency/raw material forecasting tool to help gauge future manufacturing costs on our fasteners.
• Updated the parameters that went into customer contract reviews to account for 90% of our costs, the previous model only accounted for 44%.
• Conducted market research on raw materials, foreign currencies, inflation, etc. and assisted in updating the company’s monthly internal market report that is distributed to all of our sales personnel in the company.
• Broke down competitors’ pricing models using data gathered from web scraping tools and the Freedom of Information Act.
• Created the new Commodity Intelligence webpage using Sharepoint.

Santa Fe Springs, California

• Analyzed regional income reports of 150+ branches in order to identify struggling locations and then provided consulting services to improve efficiency and/or save money.
• Led a project with the Pricing Analytics team to correct inefficiencies in our pricing model within the region, this resulted in an increase of profits of $750k+ for the year.
• Negotiated Special Pricing Agreements (SPA) with vendors to increase company profitability by 20k a month.
• Administered the sale of 50+ regional vehicles to the public and kept updated details of the fleet to provide quick and accurate information to potential buyers.
• Worked closely with Accounts Payable by verifying and approving purchase orders over certain dollar amounts in order to reduce the purchase of non contributing products.
• Conducted branch audits to assure compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Commerce, California

• Assisted in the maintenance of 10 customer accounts, resulting in revenues of approximately 130k+ a month.
• Sourced different products from various vendors and provided price quotes to our customers.
• Developed long-term relationships with the management team within the customers' organization.

Commerce, California

• Conducted various inventory audits to avoid any inventory discrepancies and maintain accurate stock levels.
• Managed customers’ inventory by analyzing usage rates and introducing them to different products and services to minimize their overhead cost.

South Gate, California

• Updated the fixed asset detail for FY 2017-2018 by adding/removing assets, depreciating assets, and transferring Construction in Progress (CIP) accounts to completed.
• Drafted a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Audit.
• Updated the Budget to Actual Worksheet and analyzed if costs were accurately charged.
• Assisted Sr. Accountants in analyzing revenues and summarized them in journal entry format for accruals.
• Assisted Accounts Payable in updating their disbursement worksheets and organized files for audit purposes.

Long Beach, California

• Provided support to 50 prospective students weekly by informing them about our institution’s requirements usually through the phone or in person.
• Tracked inventory on an excel document that will be used for college fairs and campus visits in order to maximize our supplies.
• Prepared and transported materials to their intended location.

Long Beach, California

• Conducted secondary data analysis to develop questions and eventually conduct primary research in the political science department at CSULB.
• Presented findings at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in 2016 to an audience of 100+ attendees.
• Attended bi-weekly workshops on improving research methods and learning about different ways to conduct research.

Long Beach, California

• Maintain a safe and secure environment for associates and customers by enforcing store safety policies with a 99% success rate.
• Trained 20+ new associates on store policies, expectations, and job roles, while continuing to follow-up with them every week.
• Reduced theft in store by working closely with the management team and keeping constant communication with the store associates.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Economics

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Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance, General

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