KAREN WELLS
Willingboro,New Jersey
Summary
Project Management – 20 + years Corporate Accounting – 15 + years Presentation skills – 20 + years
Project manager during COVID for Agiliti New Jersey.
Project manager for DSNS regional sites and project areas.
Oversee Agiliti New Jersey project area while consistently receiving 100% inventory accuracy maintained to the highest standard. Coordinate transportation of assets. Operational knowledge of automated inventory systems. Comprehensive knowledge of logistical procedures. Demonstrated flexibility to respond to new initiatives and evolving preparedness expectations. Coordinator of team cohesiveness and effectual functionality. Versatile Inventory Specialist with advanced problem-solving and time management abilities. Proficient project coordinator and administrative leader. Highly familiar with inventory counts, business audits and documentation requirements.
Overview
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1
Certification
37
37
years of professional experience
Work History
PARAPROFESSIONAL
ESS
07.2025 - Current
- Follow the classroom teacher’s expectations and procedures.
- Under teacher direction:
- Circulating through the classroom to maintain control and assist students.
- Assist in prompting, cueing, and redirecting student attention.
- Perform clerical and monitoring tasks.
- Assist in implementing behavior management plans and provide feedback.
- Provide healthcare-related assistance as directed.
- Help students with assistive technology under the direction of the classroom teacher, school nurse, and/or other related service providers.
- And/or other related service providers.
PARAPROFESSIONAL
Lenape Regional High School
09.2025 - 06.2026
- Student Club: Selected to be an advisor and coordinator for 40 + students of the school’s African American Club
- Successfully coordinated several student activities as they related to the club’s ethnicity.
- Educating the student on the normal permissible socialization in an uncontained school environment.
- Behavior Management: Improved student behavior that was previously deemed dangerous if unattended.
- Instructional Assistance: Adapt lessons, clarify instructions, and guide the student through daily academic tasks to ensure they can access the general education curriculum.
- Behavior Management: Implement the student’s Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP), redirect off-task actions, and provide positive reinforcement to maintain a safe and productive learning environment.
- Data Tracking: Keep accurate records of the student’s progress toward IEP goals, log behavioral incidents, and communicate observations daily with the lead teacher and support specialists.
- Daily Living & Mobility: Assist the student with transitions between classes, personal hygiene/self-help routines (if applicable), and ensure their adaptive equipment or sensory tools are utilized.
- Inclusion Facilitation: Encourage peer interactions and social development while avoiding "learned helplessness" by promoting the student’s independence.
- Accomplishments
- Responsibilities
INVENTORY SPECIALIST
Leidos
11.2021 - 12.2023
- Perform logistics management functions associated with procurement, storage, sustainment, inventory accounting, and transport of Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) assets that are designed to support state and local public health agencies in event of biological/chemical incident, natural disaster, and other emergency events.
- Plan, manage, integrate, coordinate, and evaluate materiel management functions associated with SNS to include accountability, acquisition, inventory management, maintenance, replacement, transportation, and final disposition of assets.
- Plan, develop, organize, coordinate, and manage projects supporting Division of Strategic National Stockpile's (SNS) mission, initiatives, and processes.
- Assist with coordination and oversight for operational readiness of procurement partners, vendors, storage facilities, and national cargo carriers contracted to support stockpile assets.
- Understand and execute repository asset inventory and distribution operations and be responsible for timely execution of distribution assets.
- Coordinate with process owners or customers to define project scope, requirements, and deliverables.
- Monitor project activities and resources to mitigate risk; implement or maintain quality assurance processes.
- Plan, apply, and evaluate various communication socializing strategies to achieve optimal program results and promote positive outcomes.
- Collaborate with MEMS (Medical Emergency Management Systems team) to resolve logistics challenges.
- Ensure that equipment project area is explicitly maintained in accordance with highest written level of standards by providing recurrent review and recommendations of inbound and outbound medical countermeasures to 3PL stakeholders.
- Validate inventory accuracy by efficiently merging reports of various inventory systems and identifying delta difference to determine veracity.
- Establish and maintain supporting documentation of files and other documents to support new or current supply chain formats, procedures, and programs.
- Understand and execute written site SOPs.
- Ensure documents are complete and current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) are maintained.
- Performed data entry and completed proper paperwork.
- Completed physical inventory counts each month.
- Recorded information, shortages, and discrepancies to keep records current and accurate.
- Keep documentation and records accurate and up to date with latest data to prevent errors in processing or delivery.
- Collaborated with procurement team to establish steady supply of inventory.
Research Clerical SIII
Burlington Stores
08.2020 - 08.2021
- Coordinate activities of team members in conjunction with and in absence of supervisor.
- Train new team members in job duties to standards
- Problem identification and effective resolution
- Produce daily production report and distribute to Research team.
- Assist with receiving and distribution merchandise flow.
- Accurate, efficient, and safe handling of product during all phases of receiving, storage, packing, and shipping.
- Pallet Loop, Quality Verification and Control, Receiving Research, Shipping Research
- Ability to use RF (radio Frequency) technology.
- Enter data in inventory and logistics software programs (WMS)
- Palletize and organize merchandise for accurate storage and potential retrieval.
- Accommodate and carefully handle fragile merchandise.
- Box, wrap and pack merchandise in accordance with relevant procedures and standards.
- Record and manage all impaired or damaged merchandise items.
- Operate adequate merchandise management tools (for example, pallet jack)
- Functional knowledge of company safety standards and guidelines to maintain compliance with company standards.
- Collected data and followed research protocols, operations manuals, and case report form requirements. Followed informed consent processes and maintained records.
- At times, requested to migrate to Put-to-Light area to effectively process larger quantities of product into more manageable packaging.
Retailer Web Administrator
Subaru of America
09.2009 - 07.2021
- Sustain a high degree of discretion of financial and contractual information.
- Process monthly website vendor partner invoices and related dealer recovery of over $35 million annually.
- Ensure accurate monthly billing, dealer recovery and timely invoice payment to vendor partner.
- Track G&A and capital budget tracking and monthly accounting records.
- Includes ongoing tracking of committed/pent/proposed funds.
- Project tracking and managing according to established Statement of Work (SOW).
- Preparing various comprehensive status reports, management summaries, and briefing reports that assist in evaluating findings from division managed work, and recommending more efficient, effective, and economical ways to meet workload and program goals.
- Expert resource to systems enhancements and upgrades requests from vendors, coworkers, and field staff.
- Manage all retailer website user accounts to include activations and terminations.
- Function as liaison with SOA dealer website development team, field teams, new dealers, and Dealer Website partners to ensure appropriate DNS set-up and SOA systems updates and to ensure that new websites are launched adhering to program guidelines.
- Often managing system enhancements and data migration by identifying what is to be migrated and data that is to be eliminated, defining the necessary scope of the project by identifying systems down-time if any, and confirming such with key stakeholders.
- Overseeing and identifying the appropriate time for the testing of any system changes.
- Special events coordinator for annual SEMA trade show, National Training Conference, and National Dealer Business Meeting to include show vehicles prep, presentations, and hand-outs.
- Defined standardized criteria for adoption of third-party deliverables within website infrastructure.
- Prepared technical documentation for communication to site engineers and media designers.
- Tested and debugged site updates and prevented functional flaws from impacting public visitors.
- Developed performance metrics to benchmark websites.
- Worked with art directors to create dynamic websites.
CROSS FUNCTIONAL PROFESSIONAL
Computer Sciences Corporation
08.2001 - 10.2009
- Served as primary representative for ETS account at daily CSC Change Control Review Board meeting and govern change management process.
- Facilitating system enhancements and data migration by identifying what is to be migrated and data that is to be eliminated, defining the necessary scope of the project by identifying systems down-time if any, and confirming such with key stakeholders.
- Ensuring that all proposed migrations and enhancements would work efficiently once completed and identifying the appropriate time for the testing of any system changes.
- Applied effective time management techniques and leadership skills to meet tight deadlines while effectively managing projects from concept to completion.
- Participated in team projects, demonstrating ability to work collaboratively and effectively.
- Cultivated people skills by building positive relationships with others.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Ensured documented procedures are adhered to regarding upgrades and maintenance of Service Request System.
- Developed metrics and related reporting through internal systems, report findings on trends and anomalies to management for review and process improvement recommendations.
- Expanded our existing change processes to include changes driven by vendors and changes in our cloud environments.
- Lead stakeholder meetings to develop improved processes, make recommendations, and drive implementation across teams.
- Team lead in handling periodic auditors' requests to meet SOX and PCI requirements.
- Trained various users on proper process and procedures of Change Management system.
- Developed effective communication and organizational skills through working on group projects while maintaining courteous and effective working relationships.
- Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through development of innovative solutions.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
COMPUTER SPECIALIST
Department of Defense, 252nd Signal Company
11.1989 - 02.1992
- Served as a communication resource during Desert Storm for deployed troops and their families as well as the commanding officers and their non-deployed counterparts.
- Promoted from Computer Assistant to Computer Specialist providing technical support for hardware, software, and data systems.
- Utilized computer operations skills to install PC’s, terminals, printers, and software.
- Served as an expert resource for hardware troubleshooting on more than 200 desktop and laptop systems in the Information Management Division and the user community.
- Performed routine maintenance on the Unisys 5000/80.
- Assigned as backup Network System Administrator
- Requested to develop training manual for the Unisys system.
- Served as an on-site trainer providing user orientation on new systems.
- Developing training manuals for “home grown” programs as well as mainstream software
- Developed hardware maintenance training.
- Developed standard operating procedures for equipment use and maintenance throughout the user community.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts and General Studies
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ05-2019
Associate in Science - Information Technology
Mercer County Community College
West Windsor, NJ01-2013
Skills
- Budgeting and accounting oversight
- Project execution management
- Warehouse operations and inventory
- Data analysis skills
- BI software proficiency
- Jaspersoft reporting tools and OBIEE
- Proficient in MS Office and Adobe Suite
- Management of orders and shipments
- Shipping, receiving, and logistics operations
- Analysis of customer preferences and corrective actions
- Asset protection strategies
Certification
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards – County Substitute - 01891962 – Exp: 9/23/2030
- Azure SQL Database Training - October 2023
- MS Excel Formatting, Formulas, Data Manipulation Percipio - June 2023
- Data Processing, Percipio - August 2023
- SNS Logistics Manager - DSNS - May 2022
Administrative Skills
Expert knowledge MS Office Suite/Office 365
Advanced knowledge of Google Suite
Proficient in Canva design
Proficient in Adobe Suite
Timeline
PARAPROFESSIONAL
Lenape Regional High School
09.2025 - 06.2026
PARAPROFESSIONAL
ESS
07.2025 - Current
INVENTORY SPECIALIST
Leidos
11.2021 - 12.2023
Research Clerical SIII
Burlington Stores
08.2020 - 08.2021
Retailer Web Administrator
Subaru of America
09.2009 - 07.2021
CROSS FUNCTIONAL PROFESSIONAL
Computer Sciences Corporation
08.2001 - 10.2009
COMPUTER SPECIALIST
Department of Defense, 252nd Signal Company
11.1989 - 02.1992
Associate in Science - Information Technology
Mercer County Community College
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts and General Studies
Rowan University