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Dublin, California, United States

• Serving as project manager to a growth expansion project, including: - Performing detailed market analysis to understand the new regulatory climate and customer demographics. -Developing detailed execution plans of all required market entry action items by collaborating with 25+ team leads across the company and summarizing the key milestones and potential risks into executive level materials. - Leading monthly meetings of 60+ cross-functional leaders by coordinating meeting agendas across teams, creating all meeting materials, and leading the discussion of key topics.

Dublin, California, United States

• Provided the COO visibility to 20+ large-scale initiatives totaling $200M+ in run-rate savings by summarizing key updates and tracking financials monthly. - Worked with project leads to perform deep dives into underperforming projects, aimed at identifying the key causes and suggesting potential solutions.• Served as Project Manager for the post-COVID Return to Office Initiative, including the following: - Collaborated with 30+ team leads to understand their in-office needs, talent pool impacts, and training concerns and summarized these for the CEO, COO, and functional heads to gain alignment on the work model for each team. - Drove change management processes and built morale by supporting company-wide associate communications, including building outreach timelines, writing & reviewing drafts, and gaining alignment across key leaders.

Dublin, California, United States

• Increased efficiencies of the Merchant spend approval process by collaborating with Senior Merchants to design and build 20+ Excel models, with the goal of projecting future performance based on weekly spend estimates. • Improved teams’ productivities throughout the supply chain process by implementing new Merchant buying strategies. - Analyzed the potential sales impact of the new strategy, trained Senior Merchants on the new processes, and analyzed key performance metrics post-implementation.• Facilitated alignment among Senior Leadership on the future growths across key product areas by building a dynamic financial forecasting model that summarizes the 5-year sales outlook.

Dublin, California, United States

Dublin, California, United States

Dublin, Ca

• Developed a new model to financially evaluate the viability of potential new store sites, including fixed and variable operational costs and store-specific factors.• Worked with the model’s users to discuss the inadequacies and difficulties the prior model presented and to align on the key functionalities to incorporate into the new build.• Designed the interface and layout of the new model to help with efficiency and being more user-friendly.

Oakland, Ca

• Actively managed the company’s media database, consisting of hundreds of thousands of product images, videos, and commercial production takes. • Redesigned the structural storage and schema to more easily identify and retrieve relevant data.• Expanded the breadth of available data by identifying and purchasing additional media components from outside sources.• Gave recommendations to upper management about the usage of certain images given legal restrictions.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics And Psychology

Activities and Societies: Research Assistant in Child Psychology, Alpha Omicron Pi, Sage Mentorship

Specialization, Python

Received a Python Specialization certificate after completing a 5-course online class series

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