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Alameda, California, United States

• Conferred with IEP team to assist in evaluating special education student progress.• Demonstrated patience, compassion and empathy in various situations.• Devised special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based upon understanding of individual students and needs.• Developed and maintained positive relationships with students, promoting positive attitude toward learning.

Alameda, California, United States

• Supervised students to proactively identify and resolve disputes or safety hazards.• Encouraged student independence and academic achievement by exploring new concepts and activities.• Modeled acceptable behavior and built rapport with students to aid in classroom management.• Identified student challenges and discussed corrective actions with lead teacher.

Alameda, Ca

• Assist planning team during SAP Acadia roll out• Assist in communicating and resolving issues with sourcing and DC• Update and maintain Line List • Create and maintain materials in MDM/SAP

Alameda, Ca

• Fill in for Planner’s duties during SAP Acadia roll out• Execute buy and issue PR’s• Assist in communicating and resolving delays with sourcing• Track and issue SMU’s• Update and maintain Line List

San Francisco Bay Area

• Help develop and execute company’s pilot program to realign with new global production planning model• Main responsibilities are issuing, tracking and monitoring PO’s for Northern Asia Sourcing region.• Help develop and rollout new tracking, comparison and monthly schedule upload excel reports. • In addition to US PO’s, GPOM’s duties will expand to track Europe, Asia and other Global affiliate’s purchase orders

San Francisco Bay Area

• Initiate and execute plan responsibility of data integrity in SAP from Vendor Marking to Merchandising and Product Developers• Develop UVM packaging and Care Labels for global Levi’s brand• Monitor, distribute and compile daily exceptions report from Merchandisers and Product Developers.• Resolve daily issues with various managing offices to avoid delay of printing of care labels and UVM’s• Work closely with third party vendors to ensure on-time delivery of UVMs and care labels to production facilities

San Francisco Bay Area

• Collaborated with Supply Planners to ensure on-time delivery of quality products. • Support execution of inventory strategies and issue PO’s (Production Orders) for a large array of products to ensure a seamless flow of raw materials and finished goods through the supply chain• Consolidate POP (Pre Order Production) information to help identify issues that may arise due to production capacity restraints or availability of raw materials• Identified potential problems through review of shipping reports, and analyzed the possible impact to the S&OP• Populate, flag and adjust sizes in Manugistics. • Maintain integrity of Excel based data for in house tracking system and mainframe systems. • Maintain accurate system lead times from PO issuance to WIP (Work in Progress) to inbound transportation to on lot at DC.• Initiate Regionalization from single to multiple stocking DC for core Dockers products• Reconcile fabric markdown, on hand recap and Bill and Holds.• Track inbound trailers to DC utilizing in house tracking system and logistic partners. Prioritizing when necessary.• Provide ongoing summary of Weekly Attainment to ensure weekly cut schedule is met.• In Supply Planner’s absence, responsible for covering and communicating concerning issues surrounding delivery, scheduling and inventory issues. • Created and rolled out various Excel based tools to help streamline and automate common tasks• Fabric inventory tool to help utilize fabric inventory efficiently to minimize wastage• Pivoted tracking tool that combined several different reports to summarize tracking, existing schedule, inbound transportation and on lot at DC information• PO issuance template to massage forecast and stockout data to a simple copy and paste into the SAP PO upload template• PO deletion macro that concatenates Excel based data into a DOS usable format. Saving core programs hours of weekly manual input

Computer Science

Ios Programming In Swift

Revisited basic programming concepts: Variables, Arrays, Loops, Classes, OOP, Functions, etc. New concepts learned: Apple SDK, Xcode 8 &.