Experience

L. Luster & Associates

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Outreach Specialist

  • Mar 2016 - Present

  Work with Alameda County Public Works Agency Civil, Maintenance & Operations engineers and with key personnel in other local public agencies to raise the awareness of local business to current and upcoming contracting opportunities. Encourage Small/Local/Disadvantaged/Minority and/or Women-owned businesses to become both certified and registered with partnering public agencies to both diversify and increase overall participation in awarded contracts. Work with Alameda County Public Works Agency Civil, Maintenance & Operations engineers and with key personnel in other local public agencies to raise the awareness of local business to current and upcoming contracting opportunities. Encourage Small/Local/Disadvantaged/Minority and/or Women-owned businesses to become both certified and registered with partnering public agencies to both diversify and increase overall participation in awarded contracts.



Retail Merchandising Solutions Inc.

• United States
• Retail
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Retail Merchandiser

  • Mar 2016 - Present

  Ensure merchandise is displayed appropriately with proper signage and favorable shelf placement. This includes shelving set-up, planogram/schematic execution, as well as stocking, fronting, facing and rotating of products. Work with store managers to identify, cut in and/or re-order missing items. Ensure merchandise is displayed appropriately with proper signage and favorable shelf placement. This includes shelving set-up, planogram/schematic execution, as well as stocking, fronting, facing and rotating of products. Work with store managers to identify, cut in and/or re-order missing items.



Advantage Sales and Marketing, LLC

• Pleasanton, CA

• Retail Merchandiser

  • May 2015 - Feb 2016

  Perform store audits at several major retailers. Build merchandise displays in dedicated or prominent areas where space permits. Report on inventory levels of specific consumer goods. Perform store audits at several major retailers. Build merchandise displays in dedicated or prominent areas where space permits. Report on inventory levels of specific consumer goods.



Safeway

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Category Analyst

  • Jul 2002 - Feb 2014

  Execute and manage sales and marketing initiatives designed to penetrate and grow targeted markets. Provide direction to internal and external teams to effectively implement key sales and profit-driving initiatives. Conduct regional market and consumer-centric research. Play integral role in category development activities and introduction to market of new items.

• Printed Advertising Coordinator

  • Mar 2005 - Jun 2006

  Supervised transition of weekly marketing and sales initiatives to advertising and card/loyalty teams. Accurately and effectively represented weekly Beverage & Snack Group features in-print.

• Beverage & Snack Group Team Leader

  • Mar 2004 - Mar 2005

  Educated new hires on Safeway systems (RTPP, SSIMS, QMF), internal best practices, and the regional/divisional dynamics of retailing direct delivery and warehoused grocery items.

• Promotions & Sales Analyst

  • Jun 2002 - Mar 2005

  Forecasted sell and ship quantities for upcoming promotional activity within the Beverage Group. Pulled sales data and history from QMF, RTPP, MicroStrategy, and Business Tracker to create post-promotional analysis reports for Carbonated and Non-Carbonated Beverages.



McGraw-Hill

• Direct Mail Coordinator

  • 1997 - 1998