• Solicit and secure financial support from individual community members, groups and businesses.• Review fundraising materials and evaluate potential identified opportunities• Exercise discretion and take steps necessary to protect privacy

• Established and directed a successful Parisian style café in Toronto’s mid-town neighbourhood on Yonge Street over the term of its lease resulting in a profitable operation consisting of $850,000 in annual sales.• Pivotal in engaging the café on Toronto’s Life Magazine’s list of “Best Places in Toronto” for five consecutive years and established positive reviews from the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.• Ran a successful business by enhancing the customer experience within a warm and inviting atmosphere, hiring and managing a strong team, ensuring a high quality of standards, and effective marketing materials and techniques.• Designed café from the bare walls out focusing not only on customer enjoyment but also for staff efficiency and safety.

• Encouraged optimum store operations and a superior customer experience by fostering a positive and productive environment of sales associates and peers by using current employment statistics to prioritize and focus behaviours. • Drove business results by generating creative sales ideas and proper action-taking measures, ensuring the effective productivity of the sales team and the on-going development that gave rise in conversion• Developed effective schedules and responsible to deploy all areas of Menswear to reach goals.• Coordinated and liaised with the merchandising team to ensure proper representation of sizes and attaining store standards.