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Helping Parsec Education make the world a better place to learn by improving and transforming K-12 education and student outcomes.parseceducation.com

Helping Gabb Wireless build safe technology for kids.Gabb Messenger is a safe messaging app that uses smart-filtering to prevent high-risk content from reaching the child's device in the first place. Gabb Messenger is included on all Gabb Phones and can be managed by parents with the companion app, Gabb Messenger Parent. This companion app allows parents to monitor harmful messages and manage parental controls by child.Learn more at gabb.com/gabb-messenger

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(Impacted by company-wide restructuring)-Improved conversion rate by building a seamless cart and checkout experience as part of a complete application redesign-Enabled customers and customer service agents to retrieve quick, real-time access to information about their current and past orders My roadmap included: -Enhancing Gopuff’s fulfillment capabilities by designing and building a next generation Order Management System and Territory Service-Expanding Paid Marketing Efforts and Customer Reach by enabling guest users to create and modify a cart

Managed the roadmap for a new mobile scanning application and web-based reporting and analytics applications. Our products are part of a suite that provides retailers with a view of their entire Outbound Logistics network and improved store delivery visibility. • Develop and own the product roadmap for our new build and legacy products (mobile and web-based) • Work in an agile scrum team to prioritize user stories and produce value out of every iteration• Translate feedback from user groups and beta testing into product requirements and wireframes• Leverage understanding of revenue and business impact to prioritize the development and release of product enhancements and features

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Cultivated relationships with 20+ client accounts to ensure successful onboarding, retention, and growing adoption• Served as a trusted advisor with clients to drive strategic projects and continued value of our products• Advocated client needs/issues cross-departmentally and identified best practices to improve customer success• Worked in an agile scrum team and assisted in prioritizing the backlog and roadmap for our three inter-connected store delivery visibility platforms

Greater New York City Area

• Acted as the liaison between IT and the Travel Retail division by being the point of contact for individual Business Intelligence set up, training, best practices, and specific reporting needs• Improved user adoption of demand review reports by understanding business needs of Demand Planners and working with IT team to create reports with requested capabilities• Engaged with regional sales teams in order to gather feedback and evaluate changing marketplace risks and opportunities• Developed and maintained strong relationships with Marketing, Finance, Global Supply Chain, and Inventory Control for multiple brands in order to ensure alignment on global and divisional strategies• Successfully lead and facilitated brand consensus meetings by providing strategic input to Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain to influence the financial estimates and year-to-go strategy

New York, New York

• Developed and retained relationships with Store Planning, Merchandise Planning, and Distribution to understand high-level and daily ad-hoc business needs and strategy for Men’s Woven Bottoms• Collaborated with merchandise planning to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities• Successfully on-boarded four new hires into their Allocator roles and continued to be their point of contact as needed• Prioritized allocation of shipments based on the divisional strategy and achieving key sales metrics

Clark, New Jersey

• Developed and maintained strong relationships with new and current global suppliers in order to identify diversification opportunities for multiple raw material portfolios to meet procurement metrics• Worked in a fast-paced, high-energy environment, and successfully managed the diversification of fifteen raw material codes, including one that resulted in about $100,000/year savings• Served as the main point of contact for the Montreal and Piscataway plants for multiple portfolios• Gathered feedback and data to create and present a Global Vision & Strategy for the Fatty Substance Portfolio to top management

Piscataway, Nj

•Teamed with the Strategy & Systems Team on a Sustainable Systems Utilization(SSU) Initiative to improve overall HR Master Data quality and integrity•Collaborated cross-functionally to analyze perspectives of business process issues•Assessed and analyzed gaps in people, process, and systems for manufacturing employees globally to understand the data needs of the business customers•Identified five key potential master data issues in the HR data set that continued to be reviewed/addressed by Corporate HR Operations•Prepared and presented final recommendations to senior management that allowed the SSU Team to continue to work on the implementation of the project

South River, Nj

•Created reports to analyze inbound inspection procedures that were used to enforce vendor violations, ship product, and issue charge-backs•Improved receiving procedures by analyzing the receiving process and creating an Inbound Receiving SOP for the East and West Coast Distribution Centers that process 30,000 cases per shift•Compiled a fuel surcharge matrix that covered the surcharges applied by delivering carriers on store deliveries, used by the transportation team to analyze and negotiate rates