Karen Chen Email & Phone Number

Tustin, California

Orange County, California Area

• Taught science curriculum to engage afterschool elementary students grade K-6, for students to obtain hands on learning experiences and be inspired by science.• Summer camp counselor on site, I lead summer camp in person and virtual lessons for hands on science experiences and activities.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Planning, scouting and preparing locations and materials needed for annual scavenger hunt event.• Communicating, collaborating with local business of tasks and plans to obtain permission to use sites.• Monitoring participant check-in’s for smaller scale weekly adventure hunt events.• Collaborate in strategy partnership discussions and promotions to increase traffic to website and obtain new participants.• Updating and maintaining scavenger events on eight publicly visible local sites.

Riverside, Ca

• Provide merchandising and pricing analysis for Blinds.com product lines to increase sales and improve user experience.• Prepare centralized program matrices for setting up new products and updates, containing product line and pricing.

Irvine, Ca

• Produced daily and weekly, sales activity and marketing benchmark reports for management and weekly staff meetings.• Migrated source data for 10 sales force reports, increasing report efficiency and data consistency• Worked closely with all departments of company to check and maintain data accuracy and integrity• Assisted in launching group buying efforts, such as Groupon and Living Social, for Marketing department from tracking metrics to validating redemption

Irvine, Ca

• Participated in full product line review realigning and updating top product lines• Coordinated clearance sales containing $200,000+ of discontinued inventory• Initiated price grid analysis for pricing review and competitive analysis.• Key personnel in systems testings for product relaunch; validating product information with engineering and partnering with IT to implement updates

Rowland Heights, Ca

• Promoted to lead administrative position supervised and evaluated new employees performances. • Initiated parental informational program script for student improvement.• Administered office duties, utilized excel, word, and database daily for maintaining student profiles and progress. • Assisted students' needs with homework help • Communicated with parents bilingually about concerns and questions about classes and their child(ren's) progress.

Rowland Heights, Ca

Math Instructor-Assisted students with school homework; instructed students on weekly math topics and word problem practice. -Prepared bi-weekly quizzes and additional handouts tailored to individual students needs.

Irwindale, Ca

• Partnered with schools to schedule events and develop relationships with chairperson and other school professionals through sales support and customer service to provide a successful book fair for the students.• Assisted chairperson with ideas to increase sales year over year and to motivate volunteers.• Worked closely with warehouse personnel in Hawaii to deliver book fair events for schools

Santa Fe Springs, Ca

• Participated in development of new division selling window covering components - Maintained sales reports used at weekly meetings for managers, Vice President, President & CEO - Communicated with external and internal (domestic and overseas) clients to expedite and resolve order concerns. - Attended product planning meetings providing client based information for market trends. - Collaborated with internal clients to create standard operating procedures resulting efficiency with operations and manufacturing• Provided user feedback to improve company system used for account set up and order processing• Comparatively shopped by analyzing prices, product offerings, and quality of product for three other competitor lines.• Participated in discussions and meetings for hard window coverings programs by providing various sales reports for stock and import products. • Assisted clients with account set ups, product questions, order placement and status, and various order arranges for stock and import products.• Coordinated and built relationships between departments, account clients, and outside sales managers

Cerritos, Ca

• Successfully coordinated annual B2B trade show attended by more than 1500 clients - Maintained portfolio of schedule, expenses, confirmation pages for hotel reservations and planed tickets - Partnered with associate to monitor 4 booth exhibits to maximize product demonstration through lighting and product display - Represented company at show educating clients on products and programs available• Maintained status and client information for 700 accounts• Handled 6 non traditional orders to one-time customers; working closely with production to provide specific details on orders• Participated in program review and development for B2B operations providing sales reports.

Micro-Credential, Learning Behaviorist

My micro-credential is a Master’s level course load that focuses on special education.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Adminstration

Child Development

Certificate Of Achievement, Web Authoring