Joyce Shimetz Email & Phone Number

Santa Rosa, California, United States

Business Infrastructure Development (how to set up processes and document procedures)Human Resources Management (compliance, hiring, firing, and staff development)Strategic Accounting and Finance (how to set up and use your financial information to run your business). Specializing in QuickBooks online and cloud based apps.Change Transition Management (what.

• Selected by Board of Directors in September 2001, to “turn around” a membership association that had been failing financially for more than two years. Responsible for developing business strategies and restoring.
• Review of revenue streams and implementation of corrections resulting in an increase of more than 20% revenue
• Increased membership over a four year period by 40%
• Re-established and built relationships with affiliated community organizations resulting in several grant application awards and collaborative contracts for legal program services
• Re-instituted and revitalized social events and quarterly newsletter

• Started at Tegal, a manufacturer of capital equipment for the semiconductor and telecommunications industries, in February 2000 in a newly created position with profit and loss responsibility for the spare parts.
• Increasing revenue for this 10 million dollar division by more than 8% during the 1st year
• Evaluating and making strategic pricing decisions to regain parts sales lost to 3rd party competitors including the introduction of a spare parts kit concept to a major account resulting in regaining lost annual.
• Redesigning and implementing a new web page and developing spares marketing literature along with reactivating the presence of spares in the booth at major trade shows

• Joined Rheodyne, the leading manufacturer of precision valves for scientific equipment, in 1997 to create the Customer Satisfaction Department and act as the customer ombudsman. Was instrumental in...
• Developing and producing annual sales forecast information with 95% accuracy resulting in improved materials buying decisions and min/max inventory control
• Redesigning and developing company-wide processes and procedures related to customer satisfaction and quality leading to the acceptance of several vendor awards for customer satisfaction
• Negotiating annual contracts with 100% of the major accounts stabilizing pricing, delivery, and forecasts leading to 99% on-time deliveries

• Joined Jane Iris Designs, Inc., a jewelry manufacturer, in 1995 to manage the administrative, sales and operational sides of the company while the owner concentrated on product design. Accomplishments included:
• Outsourcing manufacturing operations reducing costs and improving flexibility during seasonal fluctuations resulting in the 1st profitable quarter in more than 2 years
• Formulating department budgets, streamlining pricing and buying processes including implementation of a JIT materials system resulting in a 30% inventory reduction

Joined Industrial Devices Corp., a manufacturer of electric linear positioning systems for motion control equipment, in 1992 with a charter to reorganize the Inside Sales Department for improved efficiency, communications and responsiveness to customer needs. Selected in 1993 to be the JIT Project Leader taking over an inventory management system and.

Joined this company in 1988 to develop systems for improving legal, marketing and customer service functions. Served as the primary interface between Sunflex and ouside legal counsel on contract, trademark and patent issues. Also had responsibility for financial planning, budget tracking and cost management, as well as developing policies, procedures and.

Worked for E.F. Hutton as part of the Real Estate Investment Group. That company is now defunct but parts of it were absorbed through mergers, etc.

Worked at Optical Coating Labaratory, Inc. prior to it's merger with JDSU in 20001982-1985 Engineering Administration Supervisor1981-1982 Program Administrator (R&D Project)1978-1981 Contracts Administrator & Supervisor

Jd, Law

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Administration And Management, General