Austen Knight
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Credentials
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Level 1: Access White Belt
McGraw-Hill - SIMnetDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Level 1: Excel White Belt
McGraw-Hill - SIMnetDec, 2020- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Factory Wheel Outlet
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United States
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Individual and Family Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Operations Manager
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Jan 2019 - Present
- Drive company growth through forecasting, marketing, and advertising initiatives.- Work with customers to generate order quotes and finalize details of custom orders.- Develop partnerships with local companies such as MeLe Design Firm for cross-promotional projects.- Manage staff and create weekly/monthly staffing schedules. - Order parts, track equipment maintenance schedules, and meet deadlines of company production schedule.- During the summer 2020 wildfires in Oregon, led a company initiative to raise nearly $4,000 in one day to donate needed supplies to first responders.
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Subie Events, LLC.
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sponsor Sales and Marketing Manager
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Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
- Responsible for 200+ individual sponsor accounts regarding cross promotional material, event details, and day of event happenings. - Managed five separate social media accounts totaling into the hundreds of thousands of followers. This included campaigns both paid and unpaid, creating segments and target sets as well as responding to followers and daily updates about events. - Managed marketing campaigns to track ROI and ensuring that they were presenting to the correct audience.- In 2018 played a key role in an event in a new market bringing together over 20 new sponsors and over 2,500 attendees.
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Lowe's Companies, Inc.
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Loss Prevention Safety and HAZMAT Specialist
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Jan 2012 - Dec 2017
- Managed the inventory integrity of a $50m/yr store.- Managed shrink trends, executed cycle counts, inventory research, and inspected bills of lading.- Highly skilled in operational investigations, utilizing the office suite to record and track the data.- Internal investigations such as theft, time theft, pass off’s and cash handling procedures.- Selected to be part of the disaster relief team in 2016, was sent to Houston TX after the hurricanes and floods to support local store level staff with the rebuilding operations. - As a sales specialist I covered Plumbing, Millwork, Appliances and Outdoor Power Equipment at different times retaining high levels of product knowledge in all categories.
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Education
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2017 - 2020
Portland State University
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