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Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

• Orchestrate technology-driven solutions that streamline manufacturing processes, enhance operational efficiency, and foster innovation.• Spearhead financial strategies, overseeing budgetary planning, financial analysis, and risk management to ensure fiscal health and maximize profitability.• Collaborate cross-functionally to align technology investments with business objectives, driving strategic initiatives to achieve organizational goals.Establishing robust financial controls and leveraging technology advancements to augment financial reporting and compliance measures.• Drive continuous improvement through the integration of cutting-edge technology and data-driven financial insights.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

• Identify and analyze business opportunities to provide CEO with financial recommendations• Troubleshoot IT related issues, such as, printer connectivity, loss of internet to workstations and human interface. Escalate and communicate with outsourced IT company for larger issues. • Develop custom Microsoft Excel reports using our ERP database (Sage 100)Examples:o Provide sales data by week that can be further broken down by customer and item type using pivot tables and graphs. Previously all data was monthly and could either be sorted by customer or item type. o Create labels dynamically using VBA whenever a new sales order is processed. Previously each label was manually created.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

• Guide 8th-12th grade students to further develop their skills in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math)• Lead students in designing, building, and piloting robots• Assist with mentoring programming robots

• Provide strategic business advice to CEO regarding fundraising, event planning and business operations.• Facilitate weekly local charity events

Morganton

Cary, North Carolina

• Manage store employees, product placement, scheduling, conflict management and customer satisfaction.• Reduce product loss by over 80% by implementing decisive measure to stop Internal and External theft.• Surpass district goals and maintained #1 customer conversion spot for 3 consecutive months.• Consolidate paperwork for proper compliance with government and corporate regulations.• Reorganized backroom to increase productivity and improve morale.

Wilmington Area, North Carolina

• Decrease expenses by controlling internal and external product loss. Maintained #2 spot in region of 300 stores.• Maintained #1 spot for customer conversion in district of 12 stores for entire length of stay.• Develop and review direct reports including part time managers.

Wilmington, North Carolina Area

• Built window displays following detailed instruction.• Answered client questions and presented product benefits to interested clients.• Handled cash receipts and reconciled end of day balances.• Assist Customers in finding the perfect outfit.

Wilmington, North Carolina Area

• Managed 80 students and successfully held a charity event.• Raised $2,000 dollars for charities.• Built connections with town officials and local business owners.

Wilmington, North Carolina Area

• Responsible for handling ten outbound calls per hour.• Worked with fellow sales agents to close potential clients.• Developed skills for quickly bypassing gatekeepers.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Serve customers delicious Ice Cream in a fast and effective manner.• Developed Customer service, Team dependability, Stress adaption skill.

Raleigh

• Tightly managed time to complete responsibilities as well as additional tasks.• Clearly documented and communicated measurements to effectively complete tasksCreate and install signs, while working with customers to place signs in the best place for their customers to see.

Master Of Computer Science, Computational Vision And Robotics

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing; Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Epsilon, Theatre, Fencing,

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