Educational Consultant for the Family and Kids division.

Operations expert within merchandise presentation supporting:- Global Target India utilization and future capabilities- Merchandising best practices within Home pyramid• Redesigned division training program for 260+ indirect reports to ensure time relevant knowledge sharing occurred while saving 1,000+ hours in workload capacity.• Designed, facilitated, and maintained training and process documentation for 300 enterprise systems in support of delivering billions of dollars in sales to Target.• Developed best practice and procedure toolkits to assist 350 team members in managing global communication and workflows driving significant reductions in duplicative work across the division.• Leveraged category plans, inventory management, merchandise distribution, and marketing negotiations to create innovative and scalable store displays across the chain.

•Lead analyst driving 400 store implementation of new merchandising innovation within Home Decor, transforming aisle based merchandising into open floor/fixture presentation. •Developed best practice tools to aide in the execution of the innovation roll-out across total Home merchandising team, including innovation rollout alignment/sequencing, execution tracking, and workload forecasting tools. •Onboarded Target India global team onto Home Innovation strategy and execution, transferring 1700 hours of HQ based work to global Target India team.•Received VP award for personal leadership within the role.

•As part of this position, partnered with cross functional teams within Target to create new, innovative presentation strategies to drive sales within the $2.8B domestics division•Piloted new presentation design process for Target's own brands during the Back to College timeframe. Presentation and process provided recommendations for reduced assortment, optimized packaging, college based localization, space for new marketing based elements and reduced store workload. Recommendations were implemented and drove a 20% beat sales beat to previous college seasons.•Developed space proration tool to provide greater clarity and understanding to merchants to better forecast their purchasing strategy to their instore space. This tool minimizes transitional markdowns, and aligns space and segmentation strategies earlier in the product development timeline. •Designed and virtually presented 4 unique space and presentation reflows to the home divisional, leading to a 40-store test and driving a 10% sales comp across the affected categories.

•Created and implemented an 10 month biology curriculum for 450 students that has resulted in 95% of students achieving scores of advanced/proficient/basic on the California state exam•Facilitated network professional development for biology teachers on developing common protocols, assessments, skills and expectations for students. •Differentiated curriculum and strategy to match 120 individual students needs based on student performance data on multiple assessments•Crafted school-wide professional development program by serving on school’s Instructional Leadership Team•Acted as an academic advisor for 4 years for a group of 17 students, seeing them from their first day of high school to their graduation ceremony.

Selected as one of 12 National Semi-Finalists for Teach for America’s Sue Lehmann Award for Outstanding Classrooms.

•Edited and revised scientific content to improve fluency in 2 Biology textbooks•Improved image quality for images in 110 book chapters based on quality, content and relevance•Researched and vetted legal copyright information for all images used in 5 science textbooks•Streamlined legal vetting process by creating an online repository for all existing images