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Northern Virginia, Virginia, United States

Focused on making each client’s journey personal, thoughtful, and positive. My diverse background helps me bring a fresh perspective to the industry and keeps my focus on what matters most, the people I serve.

Leesburg, Virginia, United States

Defy mediocrity and deliver extraordinary experiences by fostering a culture of innovation.Serve as the face of the office environment, welcoming visitors, clients, vendors, and employees.Manage day-to-day operations including answering phone calls, sending emails, overseeing supplies, depositing checks, and handling any tasks necessary for maintaining productivity.Conduct onboarding sessions to welcome new agents to the team.Educate agents on company systems and tools to facilitate optimal business practices in a competitive landscape.Act as a liaison between corporate staff and agents, providing real-time, best-in-class support to ensure their success.Build and nurture relationships with agents, offering training on utilizing innovative technologies to enhance their business opportunities.

Northern, Virginia, United States

As a Northern Virginia-based wedding officiant, I am here to help you start your lifelong adventure together with a ceremony that reflects your love, values, and dreams. If you want your wedding day to be truly special and unforgettable, investing in creating a meaningful ceremony with a Celebrant is key. While other details may fade, the emotions and atmosphere of your ceremony will linger in your memories and those of your guests. It sets the tone for the entire celebration, filled with love and the promise of new beginnings.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Execute scan receiving procedures for all Non-Food Direct Store Delivery merchandise and verify receiving documents are reported correctly. Responsible for the daily warehouse flow ensuring all merchandise is received, transferred, and picked up accurately. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.• Completed, distributed, researched and filed all controlled documents.• Created, processed, and coordinated returns to vendors, store transfers and customer requests.• Audited home department store signing standards and check stand books.• Maintained a clean and organized stockroom.• Modeled “Customer 1st” behavior by delivering excellent customer service to internal and external customers. • Assisted the Customer Service Manager on stock push, floor coverage and any customer or vendor issues.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Meet/exceed customer expectations for ease of shopping, variety, freshness and cleanliness.Behaviors and Skills necessary to perform this position:Anticipation of customer needs, being a champion for the customer, acting with the customers in mind, exceeding customers’ expectations, gain customers’ trust and respect.Develop and care about associates, build effective teams, help people be their best, value and manage diversity, provide candid and constructive feedback. Challenge the status quo, embrace technology, put forward creative ideas, champion and implement process improvements, gather ideas of others, demonstrate good judgement about which ideas will work. Action oriented, results driven, sets clear expectations, reviews progress, acts decisively, solves problems, meet and exceeds goals consistently.Plans and organizes well, sets a clear and simple course of action, and stays focused on the most important priorities.Upholds safety standards.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Pick-up, Customer ServiceFeeding customers spirit and improving shopping experience.Select and gather products for customers on-line orders in the most efficient manner with attention to freshness and quality. Assemble customers on-line orders, process coupons and payment, and deliver and load orders to cars when customers arrive at store for pick up. Provide a positive customer service experience that makes customers want to return again to on-line shopping.

Portland, Oregon Area

Created a magical experiences for everyone who visited with Santa. Supported the Local Manager to ensure the smooth and efficient operations of the Santa photo set on a day-to-day basis. Financial accounting of all sales, budgets, hiring, payroll, costumes and all aspects of set operations. Assisted with supervision and coaching of team members to ensure that operations on the set run smoothly and effectively.Ongoing training and hiring of staff throughout the season.Motivated set employees to create a magical experience for every guest.

Portland, Oregon Area

Drove digital and face-to-face sales of Chloe + Isabel products using e-commerce boutique and physical display set-ups.Organized monthly pop-up shop events to promote merchandise in low-pressure, social atmosphere. Tactfully addressed customer questions and complaints using superior product knowledge and familiarity with salesforce. Follow up with clients to ensure product satisfaction. Past positions at company included Divisional Merchandiser, Recruiter, and Social Media Community Advisor.

Woodland Hills, Ca

Developed and executed annual marketing plans and budgets, strategically utilizing social media platforms, website, and retailer programs to support corporate, owner, and retailer marketing objectives.Implemented corporate direction regarding marketing at the field level.Coordinated all shopping center visual merchandising, signage, and advertising programs to ensure quality and effective use.Managed marketing work surrounding center renovations, redevelopment, and expansions to ensure effective messaging to the shopper base.Provided input on media plans, media buys, and media channels for effective reach of the target audience.Collaborated with public relations agency to enhance overall property perception, establish solid local media relations, and prepare media releases, alerts, and talking points.Drove growth and engagement of social media channels, data collection, SMS, and Email (subscribers) for specific centers.Established strong tenant communications and partnerships, encouraging retailer participation in marketing programs to promote their businesses.Provided expert insight using latest technology to track traffic patterns and analyze lift from marketing events, applying results to ongoing strategic planning.Developed key relationships with city and community leaders.

Woodland Hills, Ca

Woodland Hills, Ca

Sherman Oaks, Ca

• Assisted Studio Owner in daily operations and effective monthly goal planning. • Assisted Studio Owner in marketing/community outreach plans.• Attended all events for internal clients and recruit new clients.• Created a friendly positive entrance into the Jazzercise studio.• Challenged clients to reach their goals daily, weekly, monthly.• Maintained financials and balanced EFT, Cash and Check payments.

Santa Monica, Ca

Engaged prospective style consultants and trained new recruits.Fostered talented team of style consultants from initial phone call all the way through professional development and follow-up mentoring. Maintained reports of calls and status of ongoing efforts to recruit additional sales team members. Managed team utilizing Salesforce and Timetrade, as well as Facetime for employee onboarding.

Toluca Lake, Ca

Oversaw implementation and management of campaigns to build brand awareness in a variety of mediums.Enriched social media engagement, brand voice, and online responsiveness in order to entice attendees to return to classes after initial visit.

Led all aspects of sales department, including recruitment, training, budget setting, and implementation of overall strategic vision.Hand-selected and trained all sales team members; provided constant feedback of their performance in order to help them improve and stay motivated. Monitored expenditures to ensure they didn’t exceed budgetary limitations. Discovered emerging trends and envisioned business plans to address potential opportunities and threats. Communicated information to president on a regular basis; discussed how to best time inventory build-ups to meet customer demand. Collaborated with multiple departments on effective product placement and timely merchandising. Masterminded in-store marketing efforts and product markdowns based on an analytical understanding of consumer behaviors

• Managed all activities related to growth of profitability within the store, including process and productivity standards and improvement, expense controls, and maximizing gross margin.• Set, monitored and followed up on productivity goals and objectives for the store team to maximize sales and profitability.• Ensured that associates were trained to maintain visual presentation and brand standards to provide the best customer experience.• Utilized company tools, reports and feedback to analyze trends and identify opportunities. • Ensured operational excellence through the implementation of company defined best practices; monitored results and productivity through operational scorecard; corrected/adjusted plans accordingly to deliver on target results.• Created, monitored and implemented the scheduling plan to effectively manage workload, support business objectives and maximize productivity • Managed all activities related to staffing and development of the associate population in the store, including hiring, training, and performance management. • Developed short term and long term recruiting, hiring and staffing strategies to support the business.• Developed and executed training and developmental plans for associates.• Created and delivered weekly store schedule for staff of 100+ depending on season. • Recognized by President for my Humanitarian efforts during 9/11, Sri Lanka Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Women in Distress and Adopt-A-Family