Kris Brooks

Collect data during store visits using company tablet, ensuring accurate and timely reporting. Maintain optimal product distribution and display, enhancing in-store visibility and sales. Clean, stock, rotate, and price merchandise to meet retailer standards and customer expectations.

Merchandiser/Vendor at Acosta (2023-10 – Present)

• Collect data during store visits using company tablet, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
• Maintain optimal product distribution and display, enhancing in-store visibility and sales.
• Clean, stock, rotate, and price merchandise to meet retailer standards and customer expectations.
• Conduct audits for date codes and plan-o-gram compliance, ensuring product freshness and proper placement.
• Coordinate with management to meet goals, report observations, and suggest additional sales opportunities.
• Distribute promotional materials and coupons, driving customer engagement and loyalty.
• Analyzed product placements, optimized store layouts to enhance visibility and sales.
• Exceeded sales targets through strategic stock rotations and promotional displays.
• Pioneered innovative merchandising techniques that increased client product uptake.
• Supported team members to meet shared goals, enhancing team performance and efficiency.
• Ensured meticulous adherence to plan-o-grams, improving product accessibility and compliance.
• Ensure strict compliance with store plan-o-grams for optimal product placement.

Para Educator Substitute at Bremerton School District (2019-09 – Present)

• Maintain Safe Work Environment at all times
• Assist the teacher with classroom instructional tasks as assigned, including reading and listening to students, and reviewing their work.
• Work with students individually and in small groups to assist with the learning of content and skills introduced by the teacher.
• Observe student behavior and learning, communicating observations regularly with the teacher.
• Assist the teacher with clerical work, record keeping, and preparation of instructional materials, preparation of displays and bulletin boards, and other non-instructional tasks as assigned.
• Assist the teacher and students with cleanup from activities. Enhances classroom dynamics by providing tailored support to students and teachers.
• Boosts student engagement through proactive group facilitation and individual mentoring.
• Ensures accurate record management and instructional material preparation.
• Contributes to innovative teaching strategies and classroom organization improvements.
• Energetically supports educational activities, fostering a positive learning environment.
• Streamlines classroom operations by preparing materials and managing records.

Seasonal Auction Prep Assistant at Caring transitions (2023-05 – 2023-09)

• Inventory, Sort, De-clutter, Downsize
• Disperse, Donate, Recycle, Discard Items
• Liquidate Business Assets
• Repair, Paint, Clean, Stage Home for Resale
• Assist Executors, Attorneys, Trustees, Realtors
• Decluttering and Organizing
• Fund Raisers
• Other Special Projects Streamlined asset liquidation process, enhancing efficiency by 30%.
• Expedited home staging and repair, increasing market readiness by 25%.
• Provided crucial support in estate management, aiding in 50+ successful transitions.
• Developed innovative decluttering strategies that reduced project timelines by 20%.
• Managed detailed inventory tasks ensuring accurate asset categorization and valuation.
• Boosted estate sale efficiency by 30% through streamlined asset liquidation.

Care Team Assistant at Kitsap Mental Health Services (2020-12 – 2023-01)

• Provide support to Residential Services. Work closely with other departments and external entities.
• Assist in maximizing revenue and accuracy in the data collection process
• Complete and submit the signed financial agreements
• filing, copying, and distributing mail
• Prepare monthly census reports for the program.
• Keep calendars and information boards updated and current.
• Perform bookkeeping responsibilities
• Distribute funds from petty cash
• Inventory, order, and stock unit supplies.
• Work with Inpatient manager/director to maintain up to date policy and procedure manuals.
• Assist staff with coordinating of client appointments (transportation, rescheduling, canceling, etc.)
• Paycom talent Acquisition and applicant tracking Managed up-to-date policy manuals, enhancing operational efficiency.
• Streamlined client scheduling, improving appointment coordination.
• Supported cross-departmental collaborations to enhance service delivery.
• Introduced innovative supply management system to reduce costs.
• Analyzed monthly census data to forecast program needs accurately.
• Analyzed data to enhance accuracy in financial reporting and resource allocation.

Warehouse Specialist-contract at Technica LLC (2020-06 – 2020-10)

• Perform a variety of warehousing duties requiring an understanding of the establishments storage plan
• Verifying materials (or merchandise) against receiving documents, noting and reporting discrepancies and obvious damages
• Routing materials to prescribed storage locations
• Storing, stacking, or palletizing materials in accordance with prescribed storage methods
• Rearranging and taking inventory of stored materials
• Examining stored materials and reporting deterioration and damage
• Removing material from storage and preparing it for shipment.
• May operate hand or power trucks while performing warehousing duties. Optimized warehouse layout for 15% faster material access.
• Enhanced inventory process, reducing discrepancies by 20%.
• Conducted detailed reports on material damage, improving storage methods.
• Boosted shipment efficiency by optimizing material prep processes.
• Evaluated storage methods to cut material damage, enhancing longevity.
• Streamlined inventory audits, reducing errors by 20%.

UPS Package Handler-seasonal at UPS (2019-10 – 2020-05)

• Unloaded, picked, staged and loaded products for picking.
• Operated UPS shipping system efficiently and accurately.
• Oversaw warehousing and storage practices and housekeeping.
• Worked at a rapid pace to meet deadlines
• loaded 2-4 trailers each day.
• Handled merchandise in accordance with product handling standards.
• Reported any errors in shipping documents to supervisors

Internet Fulfillment-seasonal at Toys R Us (2016-10 – 2017-12)

• Retrieved, picked, packed and processed Internet orders.
• Handled customer care via Email, fax, telephone, Manuel shipping and returns.
• Assist in opening and closing processes including bill-outs, daily note, and filing paperwork.
• Daily use of LTR guns and databases

Assistant manager at The UPS Store (2007-05 – 2013-05)

• Greet customers in a friendly manner; determine customer needs, and how to exceed their expectations.
• Deliver exceptional customer service through customer engagement and quality product delivery.
• Be knowledgeable of products and services offered and properly promote them to customers.
• Identify customer needs and offer additional services which could benefit them.
• Receive, sort and place mail in mailboxes accurately.
• Record all sales transactions completely and accurately in Point of Sale system.
• Pack contents for shipping using established procedures and products.
• Receive and prepare documents for printing.
• Operate all other software packages.
• Receive and process packages for shipping, including lifting and weighing packages, accessing shipment manifesting software, and generating labels. May require retrieving packages from customer's vehicle when requested.
• Process and document damaged shipments, late and lost package claims.
• Assist in merchandising the store, including: stocking shelves with product, ensuring clean and orderly appearance of product, informing appropriate personnel of inventory levels for re-ordering supplies.
• Perform end of day duties: reconciliation of cash, checks, money orders, credit cards, and all other transactions accurately and in accordance with company policy and procedure.
• Operate copiers, fax machines, binding equipment and all other office machines in a safe, efficient and productive manner. Help customers operate office machines located in retail area.
• General housekeeping duties. Boosted store revenue by effectively upselling services and products.
• Maintained high accuracy in package sorting, enhancing customer satisfaction.
• Implemented efficient document processing systems to expedite service delivery.
• Trained new staff on POS systems, ensuring quick adaptation and competency.
• Led team to streamline end-of-day reconciliations, cutting processing time by 30%.
• Streamlined package tracking, reducing lost items by 20%.

Associate's degree in Business – University of Phoenix