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New York, New York, United States

San Diego County, California, United States And Bay Area, Ca

• Managing and optimizing operations for multiple retail outlets, ensuring adherence to company standards and policies through operational excellence and consistency across all sites.• Developing and implementing strategies to improve customer relations, resulting in increased customer retention and satisfaction.• Direct customer relations initiatives to enhance customer success and satisfaction, fostering a positive and engaging shopping experience, both through our e-commerce platform and brick and mortar retail.• Establishing and monitoring KPIs and sales goals, driving the team to achieve and exceed targets.• Designing and executing succession planning programs to ensure a strong leadership pipeline, promoting internal talent growth and development.

La Jolla, California, United States

Across my two-year tenure as Store Manager at CP Shades, I was dedicated to driving operational excellence despite the ever-changing backdrop of the COVID-19 era. Amidst these challenges, I spearheaded numerous successes, demonstrating resilience and adaptability.• Led recruitment, training, and development efforts, cultivating a high-performing team dedicated to delivering exceptional customer service.• Played a pivotal role in the successful launch of our La Jolla store, overseeing operational setup and implementing captivating visual merchandising displays.• Introduced innovative sales strategies, resulting in strong customer loyalty and consistent revenue growth, positioning our store as the top performer across the retail fleet.• Directed the creation of dynamic visual merchandising displays, tailored to store-specific product inventory levels, new launches, seasonal trends, and customer preferences, fostering an immersive and captivating shopping atmosphere.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

At Outdoor Voices, the primary goal is inclusion - making products that move with you and make doing things fun again - regardless of your skill level. • During my time here, I was a representation of the brand itself, serving as the motivator to get people moving.• Assisted in field marketing in the North Bay area, primarily focusing on events in-house as well as in the outdoors. • Utilized my customer service skills to serve as an asset on the retail floor, while also speaking of product details while doing things!

San Francisco Bay Area

Fuerza is a revolutionary fitness studio serving Northern California. • Managed daily operations and scheduling of two studio locations, as well as maintained client relations. • Consistently challenged my ability to work remotely while also keeping close communication with the studio and assessing all of their needs. • Used Instagram posts and studio events with retailers such as Athleta and Beyond Yoga to reach a larger audience and develop a new clientele for the studio.

Park City, Utah

• Developed recipes, based on seasonality of organic produce.• Worked alongside grocers to assure the produce received was of the highest organic quality. • Showcased my dedication by working extended hours during periods of high demand.

Park City, Utah

At the small, family-owned ski shop in the historic district of Park City, UT, I worked in both the shop and on the retail floor. My daily tasks could include board and boot fitting, or helping a vacationing family be fully decked out in their slope to apres apparel.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Worked in the processing of the archival collection of Anne D’Harnoncourt, the museum's late director and CEO. • Frequently dealt with highly confidential material regarding pieces of artwork housed at the museum and private correspondence between art museum curators, disciplining me in the respect for working with highly sensitive material. • Created an immediate finding aide for researchers, as the D'Harnoncourt collections were in high demand, particularly because she was an expert scholar on the works of French artist, Marcel Duchamp.•Made restricted portions of this collection more readily available by taking precautions in individually housing sensitive material.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Working with environmental research archives has been one of my favorite successes thus far. • Worked with rare books pertaining to entomology, housed in climate-controlled vaults, but also with artifacts and 19th-century expedition materials. • Created online content for 19th-century glass lantern slides taken for research by past academy members, some of which dated back to 1812. This process included using a slide reader to accurately depict what is on the slide, creating a rough finding aid for each slide and scanning on a matte background onto Adobe Photoshop to produce clarity in the image. • Aided in uploading all images and artifacts to an online database for members of the academy to access, along with permission-granted researchers.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Assisted in the processing and organizing of numerous collections, both in print and photo. • Assessed new collections as they came into the Special Collections Research Center, including the Constable and Company Records.• Processed and created finding aids for the papers of Ewart Turner (including papers related to Martin Niemöller) and Emily Brookes. These collections went on to become the Ewart Turner Papers and the Emily Brookes Reference Files on Political Extremism. • Aided the SCRC team in the processing of the Franklin H. Littell Papers, by intellectually interfiling materials later added to the collection and constructing the finding aid. • Surveyed and maintained an inventory of rare books and all archival collections. • Prepared exhibition materials for display in the library and across locations in Philadelphia.

Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom

Eye Magazine is a carefully curated quarterly publication focusing on the beauty and depth of design through graphics and typography. As a journalism student with a deep appreciation for the editorial layout and the structure that goes into a constructed publication, serving on the team at Eye opened my eyes to a different type of journalism. • Edited written content for Eye online, as well as for Issues 86 and 87, which were printed during my time at the publication. • Wrote critiqued material on collections, researched content for articles (which also included fact-checking), was a part of the ultimate layout decision making process, took photos for online content, and managed curated photo collections in an online database. • Managed the Eye events page, which led to me working with international press, using my outreach management skills and creating a presence for myself in the London design industry.

Philadelphia, Pa

Grid Magazine is a free publication, based out of Philadelphia, focusing on environmental sustainability in an urban environment. The question I raised was: How does anyone know if a place is 'sustainable?' Which then brought up the issue that 'sustainability' is such a loose term that the general public may not even know what it fully means. • Assisted in crafting a team of researchers and writers to create a Sustainable Business Guide for Philadelphia. Together we spent months reaching out to businesses, asking about their practices and going onsite to experience for ourselves.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Environmental Studies

International Media

As an international student through FIE, I was able to focus and compare my studies in European and Global Media Analysis. I focused.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Kappa Tau Alpha National Journalism Society, Lead Committee for proposing and propogating compostable containers.