• Developed partnerships with Americas top zoo organizations to operate artistic retail stands, specializing in face painting, henna, airbrush tattoos, caricatures, and souvenir photography.• Oversaw 300% sales growth in 8 years. • Provided zoo organizations with over $1.5 Million in additional liquidity that helped fund zoo projects and finance current expenses. • Built a staff of 60+ employees, while maintaining minimal seasonal staff turnover year over year. • Organized and lead the introduction of staff and retail locations to various zoos from concept to creation in under 60 days.

• Oversaw the process of purchase order creation, management and delivery of merchandise to a receiver to ensure that the perpetual inventory systems provide complete and accurate data to retail management. • Analyzed selling in each region to complete monthly accessory buying nationwide as well as providing recommendations for active and lifestyle wear. Consulted with regional managers to ensure that future orders accurately reflect sales patterns and trends. • Accurately and timely managed the open to buy and open orders documents to reflect orders received and pending. • Oversaw semi-annual inventory counts nationwide by reconciling, compiling, and analyzing results. • Managed all aspects of online retail store from uploading new product to fulfilling orders as well as overseeing the change in ecommerce platforms.

• Worked with a team of property accountants on a project to reorganize and prorate accounts payable for six managed apartment properties entering receivership. • Assisted senior property accountants in month end close functions, such as bank reconciliations and financial statement analysis of general ledger account coding.• Helped compile audit reports for the Chief Financial Officer of accounts payable utility late fees for seventeen fee-managed properties.

• Prepared month-end journal entries and organized all supporting schedules to perform account reconciliations and analysis to generate financial statements for three clients. • Maintained and reorganized accounts payable for regional sales client in order to help restructure expenses and increase cash.• Prepared individual and corporate income tax returns for upwards of 100 clients.