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Brea, Ca

-Built and maintained vendor relationships as well as client relationships, communicating purchasing needs as well as any potential order delays and backorders while also coordinating with other departments relating to delay or potential delay of orders.-Managed open orders and backorder lists to ensure that prioritized backorders are expedited and fulfilled as soon as possible while striving for 100% same day shipping.-Reviewed material requirements and placed purchase orders accordingly.-Maintain purchase order reports to ensure timely supplier order confirmation and product delivery.-Maximized use of the various tools in the ERP system in order to analyze trends, review inventory, process purchase orders and maintain a steady flow of the supply chain as well as investigating and resolving inventory discrepancies and variances.-Within first year as Purchasing Agent, found $37,000 in annual savings by implementing RFQ processes that forced long time vendors to re-bid for our business and brought on new vendors that were more in line with market prices, while also increasing the value added services that we received from our vendors.-Reduced component part storage space from 4700 square feet to 1500 square feet by removing obsolete inventory and implementing purchasing procedures that took carrying cost and long term forecasting into consideration.-Designed and implemented a purchasing program for the company's consumable and shipping supplies that calculated reorder points and EOQ, resulting in a significant drop in stock outages while also reducing our carrying cost of capital tied up in overstocked supplies.

Compton, Ca

- Responsible for operational auditing, inventory counts and placing food orders, weekly sales projections, scheduling of managers and crew members, community outreach, and recruiting.- Led team to secure a nomination for Largest Sales Recovery award following the 2015 company-wide food safety crisis.- Designed and deployed systems for self-auditing cash handling policies, resulting in the store’s first successful cash handling audit in two years, within one month of my taking over operations.- Implemented improved training systems for the crew and removed low performers from the team, leading to higher standards in customer service and in food quality. This resulted in a 30% increase in average daily sales from January 2016 to September of 2016.

Gardena, Ca

- Managed all aspects of vendor relations, from pricing discussions, to project management of deliverables, to invoice reconciliation, growing on-line sales business from 5% to 40% of company revenue.- Designed databases and processes for supplying digital assets and product information to e-commerce vendors, increasing company productivity by shifting the work load from 80% preparation to 80% implementation.- Implemented processes and systems to decrease turnaround between events, enabling a 5x growth in the number of events held. - Developed an inventory tracking system to manage furniture goods, shortening average order fulfillment from 30 days to 5 days.- Built a reporting tool to enable monthly tracking of inventory sold.

Fountain Valley, Ca

- Operated and managed furniture warehouse, including sales management, forecasting, logistics, inventory management, and final assembly. - Created a forecasting model and inventory model that allowed us to have proper inventory on hand, decreasing the length of time to delivery of product from 2 weeks to next day delivery, and increasing sales by 30% to $1.5 million.- Optimized warehouse storage to allow for proper on hand storage by removing unsellable products, returning low volume SKUs to our main warehouse off site, and increasing the amount of high volume SKUs stored on site. - Organized database of existing customers, decreasing preparation time for direct mailing campaigns, and allowing for tracking of repeat customers, increasing repeat business by 25%.

Fullerton, Ca

- Managed production of many of Spectacles Improv Engine’s signature and specialty shows, as well as produced three of their ongoing teams.- Responsible for creating and writing the theme and flow of each show, casting the performers, scheduling and running of rehearsals, arranging for prop and costume needs, implementing marketing strategies, acting as director during performances, and collecting and delivering feedback from company officers following events.- Oversaw staffing of all events for the company, including scheduling, training, and performance of staff members for box office, house management, and technicians.

Los Angeles, Ca

- Responsible for implementation of technical requirements for School of Theater productions, including lighting, audio, and video.- Maintained all equipment and the building itself in between productions of the School of Theater, including organization and cleanliness of storage areas.- Responsible for making creative design decisions for the lighting aesthetics of theatrical productions and collaborating with artistic directors to implement our vision for the production, and then communicating those needs to technical crews to lead them through implementation of my designs.

Certification, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Technical Theatre/Theatre Design And Technology