barbara almond

House Manager working in the Dorchester and Roxbury Family Shelters consisting of 8 shelters serving 47 families total. Provide families with intensive support in a safe, home-like setting while they work to address the root cause of their homeless. Services include housing search, life skills training, education and employment services, financial literacy, and asset development. Responsible for ensuring that all shelters run according to the program guidelines and structure.

Assistant Manager 2009 -2011 Manage, drive and exceed daily sales and profitability goals, coaching staff on sales programs for providing superior customer services with a staff of 20 hourly employees covering 16 hours per day, seven days a week. Successfully provided exemplary guest service, ensuring safety and security for employees and guests. Meeting and exceeding visual merchandising presentation and operational standards. Successfully provided direction and leadership standards; recruit, coach and develop store management teams and sales associates as part of Succession Plan. Reduce loss of inventory by successfully implementing a reports and orders inventory management process. Sales Associate 2001 -2009 Work closely with store manager on opening/closing duties, leading and direct staff in driving daily sales performance following the Sales Program.

* Head Start’s approach to child development and education is comprehensive, including the child, family, and community. The program helps children develop social competence by being designed to: * Be developmentally and linguistically appropriate * Be inclusive of children with disabilities * Integrate a comprehensive array of services into the general classroom curriculum * Provide an environment of acceptance that supports and respects gender, culture, language, ethnicity, and family composition * Provide a balanced program of child-initiated and adult-directed activities, including individual and small group activities.

* Supervisory position supporting 1800+ semi-connector test employees * Responsibilities included building preventative maintenance and improvements, major repairs, inspections, customer service requests and on-call 24/7 * Handled 800K sq. ft. multi building campus, supervised 8+ maintenance staff with various trades including electrical, HVAC, carpentry, administrative assistant and contracted labor ects in a hard hat environment up to 100K * Evaluated real estate locations to accommodate constraints and coordinated several trades on a pre-determined time line * Coordinated all OSHA, Hazardous Communication training and Fire Inspection requirements * Proficient in Johnson Control and AutoCAD, MS Word and Excel working knowledge of Oracle computerized purchasing program.

I attendent Suffold University while working full time at Teardyne and part time at the Wang Center of Performing Arts. Activities and Societies: My major was in Accounting and my minor was Socioligy