• Directly and solely responsible for the shop’s inventory—its complete procurement, pricing, character, organization, and quality—as well as the shop’s staffing, pay-negotiations, on-sight event planning, and budgeting.• Beverage Director for local restaurants, The Dutch Alehouse and The Millstream Tavern: responsible for constructing and maintaining both wine menus (glass and bottle lists) remotely.• Event Coordinator curating beverage menus for company sponsored, off-sight events (wine pairing dinners with local restaurants and chefs, wedding packages through Shale Hill Catering, tastings and donations with local businesses, etc).• Social Media Manager and Shop Photographer.

• Manage daily operations at a boutique wine shop overseeing sales, customer service, inventory purchase and management, and product research.• Provide personalized wine consultation for up to 100 customers per day.• Construct beverage packages for local weddings. Coordinate with wedding planners and meet directly with couples leading private wine tastings and catering to quickly-changing selections.• Consistently navigate a fast-paced, low-staffed, and layered environment while driving customer satisfaction and maintaining the high standards of a fine wine boutique.• Implemented a subscription-based rewards program to increase customer loyalty and in-store conversion rates. • Refined our case discount policies, driving YTD sales. Gross profit up over 55% respectively since joining.• Expanded the local customer base by partnering with oyster CSA, The World’s Your Oyster.• Co-Managed the shop’s Instagram.

Summer Job Responsible For: • Working the register and attending to customer concerns/questions• Setting up and assisting wine and spirit tastings• Inputing inventory into our management system (Excel)• Restocking and organizing store inventory • Drafting and implementing bottle layout and labeling system • Building and installing wine racks, shelves• Closing the shop nightly, running the shop solo

• Researched and produced bi-weekly content pieces on new album and song releases.• Wrote longer, more detailed lineups each month on both big name and obscure artists of my choosing.• Performed against a deadline and adjusted content to the expectations and formats of an editor.

Reported, researched, and produced articles focused on local academic events and speakers for this 120-yr-old award-winning community weekly newspaper. Circulation 10k.

• Selected for a ten week collaborative research project focused on in-store conversation rates.• Presented findings and suggestions directly to CEO Dave Brandon and the Toys “R” Us leadership team.• Condensed and updated key data from past 10Ks into fresh, reorganized Excel formats of my own making.

Eight week internship during the last term of high school.