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• Handle clients’ properties in New York City and Long Island.• Manage rental process, which includes working with real estate agents, reviewing tenant applications, working with condominium boards to secure approvals for tenants, reviewing leases.• Design cost effective renovations, review bids from contractors, obtain approvals from condominium boards. • Correspond with tenants about necessary maintenance and repairs and expedite the work, while keeping tenants informed about the progress.• Manage monthly rent receipts and security deposit accounts.

John Wiley & Sons is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing with 2015 revenue of $1.8 billion. Divisions include STMS (Science, Technical, Medical and Scholarly); Professional Development (including the “For Dummies” series); and Global Education.Manage global and domestic inventory for more than 10,000 titles. •Supply chain management including negotiating unit price, discounts and terms with import vendors and ensuring compliance with purchase order processes and procedures; forecasting inventory demand for newly published titles; demand planning for domestic and imported product. Manage imports from UK, Canada, Germany, Australia and Singapore.Manage conversion of publications from print to digital, including Print on Demand. Reduced backorders by activating 500 titles a year into the digital print business, growing it to 8,000 titles with annual sales of more than $5 million.Work with IT project managers to develop and troubleshoot inventory systems and tools. Train marketing staff to use subsidiary systems and reports. Establish purchasing procedures. Authorize import inventory purchases. Ensure compliance with contractual agreements, unit costs and payment schedule. Monitor foreign currency transactions. Manage import operations and schedules with worldwide suppliers. Ensure vendors’ compliance with import specifications and regulations. Key contact between in-house departments including Marketing, Editorial, Manufacturing, Sales, Customer Service, Distribution Centers, Information Technology.

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world by the number of publications, publishing more than 6,000 new books every year and employing nearly 6,000 people.Manage frontlist and backlist inventory for six divisions. Responsible for approximately 12,000 active titles, including domestic and import titles. Review costs and financial margins for each reprint, while meeting inventory and fill rate targets. Work with Business Managers to improve supply chain metrics. Implement new SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) inventory system for centralized management of inventory. Project leader for design and evaluation of APO system. Hire and train three new demand planners. Manage staff of four reprint controllers and three demand planners. Manage remainder process. Key contact between in-house departments including Marketing, Editorial, Manufacturing, Sales, Customer Service, Warehouse. Establish reprint schedules and priorities with printers and other suppliers. Voting member of IT User Group committee.

Supervise and direct all purchases and sales, procurement, pricing, and tracking for retail and corporate architectural resource and design firm. Clients include Ralph Lauren, Victoria’s Secret, Coach Leather, Aeropostale, Sears, Movado, and Lancôme. Responsible for vendor relationships and negotiations, project management, customer service, transportation services and logistics, international importing, U.S. and foreign customs regulations and clearances. Generate price quotes and purchase orders. Project management responsibilities include generating construction schedules, coordinating delivery deadlines, problem solving supply and quality control issues, provide material and installation specifications, resolve Customs holds on import shipments, arrange for warehousing and storage of materials, manage freight damage claims.

Responsible for department that handles inventory management, production and purchasing for all BMG Classics releases - including commercial releases, advertising and promotional material - within time and budget requirements. Supervised staff of five. Managed inventory assets of $50 million. Monitored key inventory statistics, approved all initial orders and reorders, developed forecasts and performed turnover rate analysis. Managed all aspects of CD, DVD, videocassette, and audiocassette production including printing of all packaging. Set up production schedules. Responsible for tracking and controlling production costs. Developed project P&Ls for Product Managers and senior management. Negotiated vendor pricing. Reviewed and analyzed vendor contracts. Worked with department heads and Finance Department to analyze and control marketing costs. Developed automatic inventory ordering system and set reorder parameters for various music and video genres. Established production priorities based on sales and marketing priorities. Developed production forecasts in coordination with sales and marketing departments. Performed annual analysis of slow-selling titles and overstock, established deletion list, and negotiated cutout sales.

Responsible for department of fifteen people handling production for all PolyGram and Island Records releases, including Pop, Classical and Jazz labels on CD, cassette, VHS and Laserdisc formats. Responsible for manufacturing of all PolyGram product for U.S. sales and marketing; maintenance of inventory levels; coordination of new releases with Creative, Purchasing, A&R, International, Marketing, and Sales departments; quality control; file maintenance on mainframe computer system. Supervised takeover of production for newly acquired Island Records.

Simon & Schuster Video Division - Prepared corporate budget plan and quarterly updates. Developed strategic plan for three-year period. Prepared capital expenditures analysis with depreciation expense. Established departmental and marketing budgets; updated monthly with actual expenses. Set sales goals and monthly sales forecasts. Supervised intercompany transactions with Paramount Pictures. Controlled manufacturing costs. Supervised inventory management and production.Prentice Hall Press Division - Performed gross profit analysis. Generated pricing P&Ls. Reviewed contracts. Performed earnings and synergies analyses regarding potential acquisitions. Handled transition issues for newly acquired units. Monitored actual sales versus forecasts by title. Tracked best-selling product. Set up remote offices.

Bba, Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Finance, General