Laura Williams
Graduate Assistant – Accounting Lab Tutor at Texas Woman's University- Claim this Profile
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I found Laura to be a driven, passionate, and skilled coworker who always put the best interests of DataReady DFW first. Laura is well organized, communicative, and skilled at balancing and organizing short- and long-term goals. With her wide range of experiences, Laura strives to leave everything she touches better than she found it and to enable those around her to do the same. I often observed Laura leveraging her skills to serve as an advisor to the executive team, bringing forward proposals to enhance DataReady’s organization, project execution, and strategic planning.
Laura possess strong leadership skills, customer-oriented, friendly and helpful. She is a role model at work, and her co-workers always look up to her for advice and recommendations Laura is someone I can trust 100%.
I found Laura to be a driven, passionate, and skilled coworker who always put the best interests of DataReady DFW first. Laura is well organized, communicative, and skilled at balancing and organizing short- and long-term goals. With her wide range of experiences, Laura strives to leave everything she touches better than she found it and to enable those around her to do the same. I often observed Laura leveraging her skills to serve as an advisor to the executive team, bringing forward proposals to enhance DataReady’s organization, project execution, and strategic planning.
Laura possess strong leadership skills, customer-oriented, friendly and helpful. She is a role model at work, and her co-workers always look up to her for advice and recommendations Laura is someone I can trust 100%.
I found Laura to be a driven, passionate, and skilled coworker who always put the best interests of DataReady DFW first. Laura is well organized, communicative, and skilled at balancing and organizing short- and long-term goals. With her wide range of experiences, Laura strives to leave everything she touches better than she found it and to enable those around her to do the same. I often observed Laura leveraging her skills to serve as an advisor to the executive team, bringing forward proposals to enhance DataReady’s organization, project execution, and strategic planning.
Laura possess strong leadership skills, customer-oriented, friendly and helpful. She is a role model at work, and her co-workers always look up to her for advice and recommendations Laura is someone I can trust 100%.
I found Laura to be a driven, passionate, and skilled coworker who always put the best interests of DataReady DFW first. Laura is well organized, communicative, and skilled at balancing and organizing short- and long-term goals. With her wide range of experiences, Laura strives to leave everything she touches better than she found it and to enable those around her to do the same. I often observed Laura leveraging her skills to serve as an advisor to the executive team, bringing forward proposals to enhance DataReady’s organization, project execution, and strategic planning.
Laura possess strong leadership skills, customer-oriented, friendly and helpful. She is a role model at work, and her co-workers always look up to her for advice and recommendations Laura is someone I can trust 100%.
Experience
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Texas Woman's University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graduate Assistant – Accounting Lab Tutor
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Jan 2021 - Present
• Responsible for co-management of Accounting Tutoring Lab within the College of Business and collaboration across all department levels to coordinate with and tutor students.• Developed KPIs to track attendance and participation metrics.• Tutored all undergraduate-level students/classes and multiple graduate-level students/classes in both accounting and finance subjects. • Maintained the Accounting Lab database.• Created and implemented a student study skills program.
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DataReady DFW
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Program/Team Manager
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May 2020 - Sep 2020
• Spearhead project management activities throughout the complete project management life cycle. • Partnered with the Director in the design of all project goals and success markers to determine performance metrics.• Motivated, coached, and mentored team members and team leaders to hit their goals.• Drove daily operational activities to meet and achieve goals.
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Concord American Flagpole
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United States
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Wholesale Building Materials
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1 - 100 Employee
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Customer Service Manager / Sales Manager
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May 2018 - Feb 2019
• Managed multiple sales and customer service teams spread across multiple state plant locations in a call center setting. Provided individual team member and group training sessions on specific topics for greater product knowledge. • Responsible for developing and delivering complex financial reports both internally and to our clients.• New business generation: conducted a full market analysis and created an in-depth strategy to drive news sales goals of +1MM.• Company Revenue; 9MM – LY increase of 1.29%• Evaluated, created, and implemented multiple company Standard Operation Procedures in numerous areas: production, accounting, and customer service. Intercompany communication across multiple departments and plants, order entry, credits and return authorization of merchandise, freight control, and customer pickups.
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Operations Manager/Sales Account Manager
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Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
• Created and implemented multiple company Standard Operating Procedures, inventory control.• Provided individual team member training, Microsoft Suite and QuickBooks.• Exceeded all sales goals by 11%. Showroom revenue; 7.5MM – LY increase of 1.15%.
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Watters
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United States
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Retail Apparel and Fashion
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1 - 100 Employee
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International Sales Account Manager
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Jan 2011 - Jan 2015
• Managed 4 International distributors and 13 International accounts. Analyzed account sales performance and recommended ongoing future strategies.• National Account Manager. Provided direction and development for 2 divisions. Researched market trends and performed detailed analyses for reporting. Strategized new product lines, forecast growth, pricing, and sales planning.• Analyst for iSeries AS/400. Acted as liaison between AS/400 and website developer Novosibirsk, Russia, in developing a Website Traffic Analytics strategy.• Increased International account base and sales by 65%. Exceeded National sales goals and increased sales by 10% in two divisions.
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Education
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2020 - 2021
Texas Woman's University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) - Business Analytics -
1994 - 1999
University of North Texas
Bachelor's Degree, Fashion/Apparel Design, Merchandising -
2014 - 2015
Brookhaven Community College
Continuing Education, Photography, Art, Social Media -
2014 - 2015
Mastered
Continuing Education, Fashion/Apparel Design
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