Associate of Arts in Visual Communications

Winston Retail Solutions has led the way in defining the consumer experience by creating a unified commerce in retail, wholesale, and online channels.

? Responsible for executing visual merchandising guidelines, planograms by meeting the project requirements for designated clientele.
? Negotiated and supported the designated clientele's sales floor presence within the assigned location.
? Effectively provided assistance and mentoring to assigned store associates on brand knowledge as well as guided on sales and visual direction.
? Troubleshot all the issues related to assigned projects that included execution challenges, inventory obstacles, and sales floor space allocation concerns.
? Held accountable for coordinating with designated clientele's management in order to ensure brand compliance within the assigned location.
? Dressed mannequins with new collections available
? Effectively ensured branded visual elements are placed in prime locations within the designated clientele's allocated space.

Merchandise Coordinator - Part-time

is an American multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

Governance Taxonomy Analyst - Contract
? Responsible for composing and evaluating data governance policies, procedures and standards. Looking after development processes, workflows and procedures for data documentation including internal and external user documentation by implementing and maintaining data governance tools such as metadata management, structure and data discovery.
? Providing assistance in partnering with various cross functional business and technical teams to ensure understanding of effectively utilizing eBay's metadata and taxonomy offerings.
? Oversees taxonomy translations for 16 eBay sites.
? Responsible for working closely with designers and influences change with the data modelers.
? Lead the initiative with designers to fix data issues and develop a remediation plan to prevent future data issues.
? Held accountable for providing training and assistance to designers, subject matter experts, application architects, and other staff to execute data governance initiatives.


Taxonomist - Contract
? Responsible for developing and applying in-depth knowledge of Retail and Services category under Business and Industrial category for eBay as well as collecting segments on how Buyers identify and shop for products, their classification and attributes in order to search for them including researching and enhancing product categories and attribute nuances across multiple locales.
? Has strengthened classification rules for Sellers that ensures they are categorizing their product in the appropriate categories.
? Effectively contributed towards the system of information architecture strategy by evaluating the current state of Retail and Services category, as well as developed recommendations for process simplification and consolidation.
? Assessed the categorized product efficiently to identify inconsistencies within multiple locales, misclassified product, redundant and other unnecessary categorization rules.
? Collaborated with engineers to expand machine learning and other classification models, prioritizing and managing projects as well as deliverables effectively in order to adapt with the changing business needs, processes and requirements.

Taxonomist - Contract

West Marine is an American company based in Watsonville, California, which operates a chain of boating supply and fishing retail stores.

? Created, managed, and coordinated all visual direction, training documents and visual project communications for the entire fleet. Efficiently collaborated with district managers and store teams to provide training and guidance for all visual direction.
? Served as main administrator for the fleet's internal Facebook page and WM Cloud site.
? Served as point of contact for vendors and internal teams on all in-store visual projects; gathered project estimates, negotiated visual elements costs, secured project specifics, and managed project schedules.
? Liaised between all vendors and internal teams regarding all visual projects.
? Ensured quality control on all visual elements for visual projects.
? Troubleshot any situation regarding all visual projects, including budgetary concerns, execution date changes, shipping complications, and communication confusion within the fleet.
? Held accountable for coordinating with the procurement team to ensure visual projects are within budget specification while ensuring coordinating supplies are available for the entire fleet.
? Responsible for maintaining entire fleets visual attributes spreadsheet, verifying stores receive appropriate visual elements for all visual projects; fulfilling entire fleets visual elements requests using Service Channel.
? Managed Visual Team's project calendar.

Visual Merchandising Coordinator

Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.

? Managed acquiring, coordination, and tracking of item page contents, shelves on the website, cross-sells, inbound supplier data, and all item level efforts for Juniors and Women's Seasonal Apparel Categories.
? Worked closely with cross-functional teams to set up new items and maintain item revisions, content retrieval, procurement, and coordination of digital images and samples for the site.
? Tracked purchase orders and cancellations, resolving customer service issues promptly and accurately.
? Conducted daily, weekly, and monthly reporting of category and subcategory sales, inventory availability, and item data to ensure categories and subcategories tracking sales plans.


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Merchandise Assistant - Contract

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Winston Retail Solutions

eBay

West Marine

Walmart

The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising