Bike

Golf

Dive

Creative Agencies

Fashion

Fishing

Lifestyle

Moto & Powersports

Music

Outdoor

Skate

Snow

Streetwear

Surf

Swim

Tech

Triathlon

Wake

Yoga

Health & Fitness

Pilates

Hiking

Long walks on trails and on the beach

Travelling.

Director of Operations

Logistics, Shipping & Operations

Energetic Operations professional with a strong skill-set in progressing business needs with the following broad-based competencies:

Interpersonal Communication, Strategic Planning,	 Analytics, Key Relationship Building, Social Media, Problem Resolution, Team Player/Individual Contributor, Marketing, Multi-Tasking, Customer Satisfaction, Forecasting, Negotiation

As part of a small start up luxury vacation rental business, my key responsibilities include:

•	Delight clients with exceptional customer service via phone, email, and face-to face interaction from lease issuance to time of check out.  
•	Create and execute calendar booking process using Excel and company website.
•	Project manage property improvements from negotiations and scheduling to distributing payments.  
•	Collaborate with Finance to prepare monthly client reports that include profit and loss statement, income detail, expense detail, and booking calendar.

When I began at Reef, I started as a Receptionist right after graduating from SFSU.  Shortly after, I was promoted to a Production Specialist, then Apparel Planner, then finally Forecasting Analyst.  In the last few years there, I actually was the key point person for all of the Operations on the Apparel side of the business.  From forecasting product based on seasonal sales goals to tracking on-time performance with the vendors, I have high expertise the full Operational process.

In my latest Forecasting role, my responsibilities include the following:

•	Forecast seasonal line plans utilizing top down and bottom up methods, historical sales data, and business trends.
•	Develop and execute global buy plan with international distributors and domestic sales teams based on regional to-market dates and lead times from vendors.
•	Manage and coordinate monthly purchasing cycle and seasonal sample buy with vendors for the domestic and international markets.
•	Work closely with the VF compliance team to ensure that all vendors and factories producing the product are maintained at an “Accepted” level in the Fair Factories Clearinghouse database.

Forecasting Analyst

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Melissa van Velthuysen: Director of Operations in Carlsbad, CA