Category: APPAREL

         SR. PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE           Professional Profile     Results-oriented Project Administrator with 14+ years' experience in the toy manufacturing industry. Meticulous and collaborative professional with unsurpassed skill at managing diverse needs in deadline-driven environments.        Qualifications         , core competencies and strengths are as follows:   *Ability to communicate effectively with team members and management team.   *Develop and maintain key relationships/partnerships with both domestic and international functional groups and line functions.   *Multi-tasking: Able to handle more than one project simultaneously.Time management ability  Schedule management       Time management ability  Ability to prioritize  Professional demeanor   Schedule management  Problem resolution  Deadline-oriented  Microsoft Office              Experience      Sr. Project Management Associate    November 2010   to   Current     Company Name   -   City  ,   State      Barbie Product Development Manage projects from original concept through final implementation Performs concurrent project management assignments for moderately complex toys and high volume skus relative to product development (planning, costing, and engineering); proactively meets company milestones and deadlines while ensuring projects remain on budget.  Projects with high visibility/key drivers that generates over 2 million dollars in sales annually.  Facilitate weekly team meetings to provide timely project status updates to all cross functional team members.  Travel to the company's China and Indonesia manufacturing plants to track the development/production progress of the Barbie product line.  Utilize Agile software platform to actively track the key milestones in the product lifecycle.          Administrative Assistant    April 2008   to   November 2010     Company Name   -   City  ,   State      Design Assist VP of Design, Director and three Design Managers for the Girls Inc.  Design team with calendar management, setting up meetings and special projects.  Coordinate all aspects of appointments, conference calls and meeting set-up, including (but not limited to): conference room booking and set-up, catering arrangements, preparation of handouts, video/teleconference and AV equipment needs and set-up, and communication of meeting info via e-mail.  Create purchase requisitions and process AP for vendors.  Assist in coordinating special events.  Manage all aspects of extensive domestic and international travel arrangements.  General support for Girls Inc.  Design (ordering office supplies, shipping, etc).  Process expense reports for travel Design VP, Director and Managers.  Prepare and track monthly spending budgets for the department.          Administrative Assistant    May 2007   to   August 2007     Company Name   -   City  ,   State      Assist one Executive and three Senior Client Communications Directors for the Nissan/Infiniti account team.  Coordinate all aspects of appointments, conference calls and meeting set-up, including (but not limited to): conference room booking and set-up, catering arrangements, preparation of handouts, video/teleconference and AV equipment needs and set-up, and communication of meeting info via e-mail.  Primary office-wide point-of-contact for general OMD phone calls.  Coordinator for all external (reps and vendors) office events.  Manage all aspects of extensive domestic and international travel arrangements.  Maintain and update Executive Client Communications Director's files, contacts list and databases.  Process expense reports for travel and in-town expenses for 4 Client Communications Directors.          Intern, Office Manager Assistant    September 2006   to   January 2007     Company Name   -   City  ,   State      Maintain and manage our high end fashion showroom which includes over 400 designer clothing, shoes, and accessories.  Assist fashion stylist as well as celebrity clientele with pulling pieces from our showroom for their respective events.  Prepare Press Release kits.  Maintain and update client database Keep inventory of all items of clothing, shoes, and accessories as they arrive from our designer clientele.  Work on special projects as needed.          Sales Associate    March 2006   to   September 2006     Company Name   -   City  ,   State      Ensure that customers have a rewarding experience that kept them coming back time after time.  Set up visual merchandising displays and change in-store floor plans.  Demonstrate excellent customer service skills, meeting hourly selling and expressed credit goals.  Provide product knowledge to customers and worked as part of a team to meet individual and store objectives.          Project Administrator    October 1999   to   February 2006     Company Name   -   City  ,   State      Barbie Product Development/Samples Administrator Manage all aspects of Mainline Barbie product development from design concept approval through production start.  Point of contact for Orient Plant and Vendor Operations (both US and abroad).  Responsible for the sourcing, purchasing, and determining tooling of accessories and textiles.  Maintain hard cost from Transfer of Product to Final Production Release within 10%, while being able to incorporate design concepts into products ready for manufacture.  Assist the Marketing Team with advertising, commercial shoots, toy fairs, and sales line reviews.  Attend Domestic Toy Fair Shows as a representative for development to trouble shoot for Girls Brands (Barbie, Specialty, Fashions and Accessories).  Also assisted with the set up/tear down for toy fair shows.  Support Worldwide Sales and Marketing by coordinating all premium (handmade) and production samples.  Responsible for shipping highly sensitive, rather expensive prototype samples and documents to domestic/international subsidiaries.  Received awards for Best New Product launch for the 2004 Product Line as well as for Excellent Customer Service.          Education      Bachelor of Science Degree   :   Business Management  ,   05/2010    University of Phoenix          Business Management          Merchandising and Design  ,   9/07    American Intercontinental University   -   City  ,   State      Merchandising and Design          Business Administration Marketing  ,   5/98    California State University   -   City  ,   State      Business Administration Marketing          Skills    advertising, Agile, AP, budgets, budget, concept, costing, credit, clientele, Client, Excellent Customer Service, databases, database, drivers, e-mail, special events, expense reports, fashion, floor plans, functional, inventory, Director, Marketing, meetings, office, Multi-tasking, ordering office supplies, product development (planning, Press, Product Development, progress, project management, purchase requisitions, purchasing, selling, Sales, shipping, tear, phone, travel arrangements, video, visual merchandising