Experience

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  The Park Showroom

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Sales Consultant

    • Oct 2019 - Present
    • Greater New York City Area

    Open since 2006, The Park Showroom is the premier multi-line wholesale agency specializing in the men’s & women’s contemporary/streetwear fashion and lifestyle industry. Located in the fashion districts of both LA and NY, The Park focuses on brand development, business strategies, and sales (to all tiers). With unparalleled long-standing relationships in clothing, footwear, and accessories, The Park not only offers unrivaled service to our customers, but collaborates with our brands to develop unique and paramount product for maximum receipts.

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  Hustle Foods Inc.

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Business Development Consultant

    • Aug 2017 - Present
    • Greater New York City Area

    Helping food & beverage companies grow through creative sales & merchandising efforts in New York City and the northeast region. AMAZ / 11.1.19 - PresentSiete Family Foods / 8.2016 - 5.2019 Mr. Maaks Gin Bao / 9.2017 - 5.2018 Cappello's Gluten Free / 11.2016 - 8.2017Picnik Butter Coffee / 3.2017 - 8.2017

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  UberEats

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Business Development Consultant / UberEATS Dallas

    • Mar 2016 - May 2017
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    This is such a cool role in which I was able to contract with one of favorite companies and assist in the launching of the UberEATS app in the Dallas market. As a Restaurant Partnership Representative, I was responsible for getting on the ground and signing up restaurants, on-boarding and training restaurant managers & employees on the UberEATS technology, setting up their ipads and accounts, and uploading their menus so that they can successfully field orders from millions of Uber users.

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  HNGR Inc.

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Co-Founder

    • Oct 2013 - Dec 2016
    • Greater New York City Area

    HNGR is a mobile application that allows users to track food trucks’ location in real-time, place their orders ahead and even pay with their debit/credit card. As a co-founder, my responsibilities have been overseeing the development of version 1.0 for iOS, raising investment, managing relationships with our investors and building meaningful relationships with current and potential food truck partners. Over the past 3 years I’ve worked to bring this from an idea, to concept, to a fully functioning mobile application in the App Store. To date, I’ve 30k in investment through my personal network of family, friends, and colleagues.

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  The Brass Bottle

  • Brookln, New York

  • General Manager

    • Aug 2013 - May 2014
    • Brookln, New York

    The Brass Bottle is a live jazz & hip-hop bar located in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. As General Manager, my responsibilities were primarily to budget for the bar while ensuring that it stayed fully stocked, overseeing the management and payment of our bartenders, hosts, and security, and booking artists/live talent. In this role I also served as a bartender, host, custodian and security myself. This was truly a jack of all trades position in a start-up organization.

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  Students For Education Reform

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Regional Director

    • Jan 2013 - Aug 2013
    • Greater New York City Area

    SFER is a non-profit education start-up located in Manhattan, New York whose mission to develop college students into grassroots activists who organize around issues of educational justice in their communities. As a Regional Program Director, my primary responsibility was to manage 10 state captains who worked outside of our target states as they organize students in their region to support education reform policy agendas that align with the mission of our national organization. I did this through building relationships with donors, partner organizations, political leaders, chapter leaders and students and by collaborating with outside organizations and individuals whose vision & mission were similar to ours. All while engaging community leaders, community members, students and stakeholders and using the critical insight and feedback to guide the work of the students I advised.

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  UNCF

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Relationship Manager

    • Sep 2011 - Dec 2012
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    As a Relationship Manager at UNCF, it was my responsibly to manage and organize two of their premier summer internship programs. On the student side, I managed the application process, helped select and place the students with the organizations they'd be working with for the summer, ran logistics for their transportation and housing, and served as mentor/liason between them and the organization. I partnership side, I built and maintained great relationship with the partner organization that would be hosting our students, I oversaw the budget for the summer programming, and conducted site-visits over the summer to see how our students were performing on the job.

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Program Coordinator x Research Assistant / Minority Summer Research Program

    • May 2011 - Aug 2011
    • Greater Boston Area

    In this role I was able to work as a Program Coordinator as well as a mentor to all of the students that were taking place in "MSRP" Minority Summer Research Program. In this program, students of color from all over the world who are interested in pursuing doctoral degrees in STEM fields were able to come to MIT for the summer, take classes, trips, seminars, and GRE prep in order to prepare them for their graduate studies. I served as the main point of contact for the students over the summer, set-up seminars & guest lectures, recorded content, edited video, ran logistics and was able to serve as a mentor to lots of wonderful students. Some who even were actually admitted to MIT through the program.

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  University of Pennsylvania - The Lauder Institute

  • Greater Philadelphia Area

  • Graduate Assistant / The Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life

    • Jun 2010 - May 2011
    • Greater Philadelphia Area

    As the Graduate Assistant for the Office of Sorority & Fraternity Life, it was my primary responsibility to manage and guide the student organization presidents & officers as they held intake processes and hosted events on campus. In addition, I also assisted the Director of Student Life through many research projects and programming including the 2013 NASPA Convention held in Philadelphia.