- Manage Item Master of 4 million plus items for Industrial, Electrical, PVF, Saftey, Janitorial & Sanitation and Power Transmission companies.- Enrich data in Item Master with rich content from a variety of sources, ie. Industry Data feeds, web scraping, Manufacturer Price Sheets.- Create and refine taxonomy of 8 active verticals and 2,100 subcategories and relevant attributes in order to improve search results for customer experience.- Responsible for application and database server management including backups and upgrades- “Hot” Product Management (trends and top moving products across verticals)- Assist in management of catalog software provider work queues including, but not limited to: New product adds; Current product enhancements; Review work product; Maintenance; Current analytics- Interface with customers for demos, product loads- Designed and implemented new customer testing

- Develop, evaluate, implement and manage ontology and taxonomy strategies with strong consideration to navigation systems, search mechanisms & algorithms, and search engine optimization.- Elicit, document and translate the department’s business functions, requirements and specifications into terms that are meaningful to both internal and external solution developers.- Analyze, evaluate and measure systems and processes to assist in driving enhancements to data processes and systems that will allow the business to achieve long-term business goals.- Perform regular and ad hoc data analysis and reporting of category performance using Google Analytics and Adobe Site Catalyst(Omniture) and Amazon Mechanical Turk.- Perform data sampling and testing of enhancements to assess accuracy and completeness on internet yellow page website.- Using Cognos tool, design and run SQL queries to monitor, analyze and maintain Enterprise Data and business classification to ensure accuracy of nearly 20 million business listings.- Regularly evaluate and test user experience on hibu mobile app by analyzing provider metadata and recommending fine tuning of search algorithms to assign levels of trust in a digital and print heading quality initiative.- Develop and maintain an internal dictionary and thesaurus to standardize classification system.- Improved overall relevance of yellowbook.com search results by 30% with a series of taxonomy and metadata improvements. - Coordinate with user research and market research to test taxonomy additions or changes.- Develop governance models, procedures and policies for the taxonomy.- Help to design and develop the architecture of an SME-centric consumer e-marketplace sites.- Led a multi-faceted classification mapping project for a vendor conversion that resulted in more than $2MM cost savings to hibu.

- Manage the daily operations of e-commerce retailers such as Sports Authority, FogDog, Toys –R-Us, Calvin Klein, Timberland, Mark Ecko International, NFLSHOP.com, Store.Nascar.com, GNC on various marketplaces including eBay, Amazon, Buy.com and hosted auctions.- Managed and coordinated the set up and management including: taxonomy, mapping, product setup, executing listing strategies, first-level issue resolution and promotional execution of all product SKUs across several varied category lines - Established and maintained category inventory levels within open to buy goals along with pricing & promotion levels.- Analyzed sales performance of products using web analytical tools such as Omniture SiteCatalyst and Insight to measure such metrics as page views, visits, impressions and source of visit to determine sku/product effectiveness.

- Managed cross functional team to reduce net owned inventory through various channels, i.e., extended payment terms, vendor managed and/or consigned inventory. Result decreased net owned inventory by over 17%.- Managed project to partner with merchants and vendor partners that implemented a seasonal dating and funding program that helped increase margins by over $3 million and increased average payment day terms by 30 days for the period.- Managed and maintained deal and pricing structure related components and systems for Entertainment and Consumer Electronics purchases totaling over $8 Billion in inventory, and ensuring accuracy in gross margin and profitability. - Partnered with the Circuit City legal department in creating master vendor agreements, product agreements, and other documentation necessary for the acquisition of product sold by Circuit City. This initiative helped to improve contract compliance for Circuit City vendors by over 45%.- Managed key project that led to re-negotiating with merchant and vendor partners to reduce the number of active vendor deals by almost 60%.- Worked cross-functionally with a variety of teams including: Accounting, Sourcing Services, Logistics, Merchants, Legal and Inventory to ensure contracts and deals conformed to Sarbanes-Oxley and best practices and were done in a timely manner that allowed inventory to flow into the warehouses and stores.- Managed Vendor Scorecard process to both reward and assess penalties based on vendor performance metrics such as commit to fill, on-time delivery and other key criteria.- Trained and assisted in the education of merchants in the overall vendor setup process.