Responsible for maintaining visual merchandising standards, training new employees, and offering guidance and support to other employees as needed. Earned my retail stripes in a hectic and upbeat environment, by providing superior customer service with my deep understanding of store inventory and organization, thinking on my feet, adapting to changing requirements, and communicating effectively to staff at all levels and to customers. I also gained experience in retail receiving, and was responsible for managing the flow of product from the truck to the sales floor.

I overhauled the data base for this recruiting firm’s resume tracking software. In this effort, I cleaned out corrupt resume data, established procedures for proper data input, identified reporting capabilities, and instructed staff on software capabilities.I also developed a mailing list and procedures for an online marketing campaign.

Managed chef services for as many as a dozen clients at a time.Planned, shopped for, prepared and packaged personalized meals for clients.ServSafe certified and trained

Contributed to a variety of projects for this government contractor, participating in all stages of the computer systems development life cycle. Worked closely with clients to develop system requirements and program specifications, participated in structured walk-throughs, developed and implemented test plans, and did general programming.Beginning with technical writing, learned all aspects of systems design and implementation. Assignments started with the development and revision of technical documentation, and progressed through extensive system and unit testing of new systems; coding, testing and debugging in dBASE, COBOL, and other mainframe languages; preparation of data flow diagrams and system requirements documents; performing risk assessment; task scheduling; and training colleagues in client procedures.Contributed writing and editing skills to a variety of proposal efforts.

Editing and revision of speech copy, newsletters and internal reports, plus general administrative duties.