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Bentonville

Summary

Inclusive leader passionate for innovation, cross collaboration, and fostering individual excellence.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Coordinator, Team Lead

Sam's Club
06.2025 - Current
  • Collaborated with management to establish strategic goals for departmental growth.
  • Trained and mentored 28 team members on best practices and operational standards.
  • Presented learning materials on integrating AI into daily workflows.

Product Coordinator

Sam's Club
02.2023 - Current
  • Collaboratively improved OTIF scores by 24.34% by working with the Merchant, Supply Planning, Global Sourcing, and suppliers across four merchandising categories.
  • Onboarded 9.3% of all new Sam's Club items during my time in the chair.
  • Recouped over $18 million in revenue from supplier-funded agreements.

Produce Associate

Harps Foods
03.2020 - 10.2021
  • Rookie Associate of the Year - 2020
  • #1/112 in departmental revenue across the Harps Foods organization.
  • Handled stock replenishment by receiving deliveries, ensuring proper storage, and FIFO (First In, First Out) inventory management for optimal product longevity.
  • Drove sales through promotions, seasonal product setups, and new arrivals, using trend analyses and an understanding of our market.

Education

B.S - Business Administration

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR

Skills

  • Walmart Retail Link
  • SQL
  • Syndigo (Sam's Club Replenishment database)
  • Code Puppy - AI Agent
  • Process improvement
  • Attention to detail
  • Customer focus
  • Coaching and mentoring

Interests

  • Host and curator of "The Spincycle," a vinyl-only radio program


  • Founder and DJ for a private event service, booked for weddings and events across NWA


  • Continuous learning: researching artificial intelligence, the future of nuclear energy, and global financial trends

Timeline

Product Coordinator, Team Lead

Sam's Club
06.2025 - Current

Product Coordinator

Sam's Club
02.2023 - Current

Produce Associate

Harps Foods
03.2020 - 10.2021

B.S - Business Administration

University of Arkansas

Leadership


  • Organized a networking event for 60 Replenishment associates across 7 different job functions.
  • Co-founded a "Replenishment Mentorship" program that has paired 16 associates with personalized mentors to date.
  • Educated 5 Merchant teams over item-data best practices through market specific SQL data-pulls.
  • Taught 28 peers import item “best practices” to increase their efficiency in item creation and maintain quality item data.
  • Volunteered to process three vital Import Purchase Order tasks: 1)Assigned import PO’s to merchant teams - daily. 2)Verified import PO data and completed costing updates as requested. 3)Re-distributed incorrectly assigned items between two Los Angeles import facilities - three times per week.

Strategy

  • Created a business-critical tech support request log to solve time sensitive tech requests:
  • Response time decreased from 4 days to 3 hours.
  • Used by 92 employees, averaging 150 business critical tech-requests per week.

Analytics

  • Recovered approximately $10 million in forecasted revenue by identifying incongruent item data within the 2023 Sports Tailgating item creation rollout, and re-educated merchants and supplier's over “best practices”.
  • Solved systemic incorrect pallet data throughout Sam's Club Global Sourcing, Direct Import, and Item Lifecycle software's.
  • Discovered inconsistent weight variance standards and implemented consistent data requirements company-wide to minimize inaccurate data within import Purchase Order's and our DC network.
  • SQL queries to identify business growth opportunities and create exception reports to quickly identify data errors.

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