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. Professional inventory specialist with strong leadership skills and focus on optimizing inventory processes. Proven experience in enhancing team collaboration and ensuring efficient stock management. Adept at adapting to changing needs, leveraging skills in data analysis, inventory forecasting, and systematized organization to drive results and reliability. Skilled in using inventory management software and fostering cohesive work environment.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Logistics And Supply Chain Management
Colorado Technical University | Colorado Springs, CO | 07-2026
Work History
Inventory Control Lead
4 Years
Perfetti VanMelle | 07.2022 - Current
Hired in as Shipping/Receiving Clerk, learning to maintain the working queue for turret drivers, pickers and replenishment drivers.
Responsible for allocating, releasing, prioritizing, and assigning orders nightly. Also, responsible for researching shorts, and cutting actual short orders so the remaining order would process. Trained how to place outbound trucks in a door and assigning the work to be loaded.
Trained to assign work to specific team members based on timeline for order to ship and being picked by ship date.
Moved to Multipack/Gondola Kan-Ban team and trained in new areas of JDA and SAP. Able to do research to find orders or product in both systems and problem solve solutions in highly stressful situations.
Trained on creating and dropping STO’s needed for production if there is a system issue to keep the lines running. Experienced in creating training documents for processes that do not have them or updating the existing documents to current.
Multipack/Gondola Kan-Ban Team Member
Ensured proper documentation of all incoming shipments by verifying packing slips against purchase orders before updating the database accordingly.
Assisted in cycle count program implementation which led to more efficient and accurate inventory control processes.
Resolved discrepancies in inventory records through thorough investigation, collaborating with relevant departments to address any underlying issues.
Performed data entry and completed proper paperwork.
From June 2019 until March 2020, I picked orders based on customer request. The orders were picked then confirmed to ship using RF scanners. I was also responsible for loading these orders on trucks, as well as the other orders drivers were picking and confirming.
In March of 2020 I switched departments to the reefer department. And this department my responsibilities change to keeping the lines stocked for packing a product for the pickers to pack orders. I was also responsible for rotating our ice which was used to pack cold product every two hours and making certain that the freezer that it was kept in was clean and kept in order.
I have been involved in multiple kaizen events as well as implementing several changes to assist in production and quality improvements.
Floor Person
9 Months
U.S. Playing Cards | 09.2018 - 06.2019
Order product in SAP to run the production line. Do cycle counts to verify what you need is on your line based on the computer-generated data. Set up assorted machines based on customer demand. Break out employees when it is time for their breaks.
Inventory Control/ Compliance Specialist
8 Months
Verst Logistics | 01.2018 - 09.2018
I started in January with Verst as a Customer Service Representative and my daily duties would include working in multiple systems such as SAP, Accellos, FileZilla, BarTender. Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
I would also handle customer orders printing out shipping labels, resolving customer issues, cancelling orders per customer request. Other duties I performed would consist in, assisting in the receiving of inbound deliveries into the system from vendors as needed by the receiving department.
After working on the start-up of a new account for about a month and showing I was capable of handling larger things, I was moved to Inventory Control to assist and learn the processes used to cycle count, supervisory count, quality hold, add new product and track down inventory issues as they arise.
I have also been asked to assist in training several of my co-workers in basic Microsoft excel, word, and outlook functions to assist in their daily jobs.
Cherry Picker Driver
1 Year 2 Months
Wayfair.com | 06.2016 - 08.2017
My main goal is to pick orders correctly and deliver them to the correct department as needed for shipping. I am required to drive several pieces of equipment such as a cherry picker, reach truck and/or pallet jack to pick orders for customers upon request.
I am very driven to excel and make the customer happy. I continually look for jobs to do and ask if there are any special task that need attended to. I have also worked in shipping assisting to load trucks as well as helping locate misplaced product as needed.