Hello Placement Services team,

I am quite interested to hear more about the Fragrance Development Manager's position.

I believe with my years of experience in the fragrance industry as well as technical and financial background, I am a solid candidate for this role and could be a great asset. Please find my resume below.

Best,

Roberta

ROBERTA ANDRADE-GRINGORTEN

53 Hall Street

Clifton, NJ 07014

acwcss@r.postjobfree.com

617-***-****

OBJECTIVE Passionate about fragrance and its creation, I am seeking a position as part of a fine fragrance team developing and composing fragrance products.

SKILLS

Fragrance/Laboratory: Fragrance evaluation, formulation and compounding, Fragrance formulation software, Linear and non-linear fragrance composition techniques, Accord and tincture creation, Maintaining detailed technical records of experiments and formulas, Knowledge of Basic lab equipment, Scales and analytical balances, Fundamentals of GC/MS use and analysis.

Product Reviews:

http://blog.robertaandrade.com/2013/12/review-roberta-andrade-fragrances-no-13.html

http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Roberta-Andrade/No-13-18911.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i-e_lieCwE

Client Servicing: Evaluation, Fragrance Briefs, Client Sales Calls, Presentations, RFIs/RFPs, Bottle and packaging design.

Certifications: Perfumery Masters Certification – PerfumersWorld Bangkok, APICS certified – Just-In-Time Manufacturing, Six Sigma Certified– Process Excellence and Six Sigma Green Belt

Software: Perfumers Workbook Fragrance Formulation software, Ad hoc reporting and analysis tools (Business Object, Hyperion, etc.), MS Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Social media applications, Web design

Database Management Systems: MS Access, ORACLE, SYBASE, Hyperion,

Methodologies: Project Management/Process Design methodologies, Six Sigma DSFF, Process Excellence, Green Belt Tools

EDUCATION

PerfumerWorld Bangkok

Masters Perfumery Program graduate

Fisher College

Business Management - college credits

Bristol Community College

Computer Science - college credits

Bristol Community College

High School Diploma

EXPERIENCE

2002 to Present Roberta Andrade Fragrances

Auburndale, MA

Founder / Perfumer

Developed, formulated and launched two commercially adopted fragrance collections (Elemental Scents and Collection Supreme) under the Roberta Andrade Fragrances brand.

Negotiated and gained vendor relationship with Whole Foods Market - North Atlantic Region now carrying the Elemental Scents Collection of 7 fragrances in 11 New England Whole Foods Markets.

Established and nurtured vendor relationships with numerous high end boutiques now carrying both Collection Supreme and Elemental Scents throughout Boston and New England.

Co-developed all packaging, web design, marketing, photography and video content for the Roberta Andrade Fragrances brand.

Provide private label, corporate and customized personal bespoke fragrance services.

Received critical acclaim in the fragrance community for many of the fragrances including Ovtavian Coifan Parisian perfumer, ScentTrunk and numerous YouTube reviews.

Developed relationship with Fragrantica reviewers resulting is all Roberta Andrade fragrances being listed in the fragrance database worldwide.

Facilitate fragrance education workshops for local perfume enthusiasts in the Boston area.

2011 to 2014 Bank of America

Boston, MA

Business Support Lead/Project Manager

Created and implemented BOA’s Attorney Network Firm Management (ANFM) department’s capacity management process ensuring proper control, monitoring, management and predictive modeling of attorneys servicing Bank of America’s foreclosure and bankruptcy portfolios nationwide.

Directed production and management of all ANFM Capacity Management reporting and analysis for Foreclosure and Bankruptcy

Trained and mentored new ANFM associates in the process of capacity management data collection and reporting.

Created process maps and policy and procedure documents of the Capacity Management process. Where processes didn’t exist, created new routines to close process gaps.

Acted as Subject Matter Expert for the automation manual processes of collecting, reporting and distributing capacity ANFM attorney data to leadership

Leveraged previous roles as a Process Design Consultant, Project Manager and Engineer to participate in a large-scale automation process being created with Ernst and Young.

Lead other areas of ANFM through the creation of process maps and policy procedure documents to meet Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Department of Revenue compliance deadlines.

2008 to 2011 Bank of America

Boston, MA

Operations Project Consultant / Project Manager

Managed medium to large projects in technical, operations, customer experience, and product business units across multiple banking channels.

Provided consulting and project management expertise to project and program teams for all impacts to integrated banking channels and their readiness for new initiative rollouts.

Provided analysis of customer, associate and operational impacts brought about by project requirements.

Researched and documented organizational reviews, workflow analysis, management and staff analysis.

Developed project plans including estimates for communications, training and resources required.

Defined and communicated project scope to other banking channels outside of bank operations that became involved in or impacted by each project.

2002 to 2008 Bank of America

Boston, MA

Process Design Engineer

Worked with numerous lines of business within Bank of America to analyze, implement, and update processes to improve efficiency utilizing sound process improvement models and techniques.

Managed the design and redesign of processes and projects for lines of business using six sigma methodologies.

Integrated best practices with process design to ensure continuous process improvement.

Built action plans and drove execution of process improvement.

Applied business redesign concepts and practices using Designed For Six Sigma (DFSS) tools.

Managed 2 green belt/ Just Do It (JDI) project teams to achieve project objectives.

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