Human Resources Sales

RAMONA WELLS

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Los Angeles, CA 90056 (C) 310/626-5932

r2qw9i@r.postjobfree.com

THE KROGER COMPANY

Executive Assistant

Western Region Construction, Compton Office April 2007 – Present

Assistant to Vice President and Regional Director for Kroger’s Western Regional Construction

• Executive Assistant to Vice President Kroger’s Western Region Construction which includes four major grocery chains Ralphs/Food 4 Less, Foods Co in Southern and Fry’s in Arizona ,Smith’s food chains in Salt Lake City Utah and Las Vegas Nevada.

• Liaison between General Office and Human Resources in Cincinnati Ohio as well as Ralphs Human resources in Los Angeles to ensure all Kroger policies and procedures are cohesive throughout the regions.

• Maintain calendar for VP as well as schedule travel, training and meetings throughout the regions

• Assist in the divisions recruitment process spearheaded marketing project for drawing attention to the Company’s goals in diversity in the hiring process (i.e. Recruitment Fairs )

• Maintain Regional Construction Forecasting Report s for all four divisions. Serves as the main tracking and forecasting device for construction activity on stores in all four of the west divisions. It is published and distributed weekly to Construction Managers, Project Managers, and Architects and is posted quarterly on the Kroger Company’s intranet for use throughout the regions.

• Administrative lead person for all four divisions

NAT’L HOMEBUYERS MORTGAGE Apr. 2005 – Jan 2007

Real Estate Salesperson

Trained and licensed to assist clients in the purchase and/or sale of residential properties in State of California.

UCLA COLLEGE

Events Coordinator, Westwood CA

External Affairs UCLA College Development June 2002 – Jan 2006

Responsibilities included assisting in all fundraising and special events for Assistant Vice Chancellor of UCLA College. Main focus and time spent on identifying philanthropic sources to increase scholarship donations and assisting in crafting multiple funding approaches. Established close working relationships with faculty, becoming thoroughly familiar with activities and research interests in order to develop accurate and compelling case statements, gift opportunities and appropriate linkages with prospective donors.

• Assist in establishing long-range goals and objectives for development programs and activities that reflect academic priorities for private support to the UCLA College.

• Conducted prospect research and develop philanthropic donor profiles of high-net worth individuals through electronic database screening and Internet searches.

• Extensive research of foundations, corporations and private donors.

• Daily interface with Deans, Development Officers and academic staff to develop program criteria and funding guidelines.

• Assisted in coordination of annual College Awards benefits gala in Beverly Hills California grossing over $1,000,000 in scholarship opportunities.

LEINER HEALTH PRODUCTS

Product Manager – New Products, Carson CA Oct 1998 – Apr 2002

Responsible for executing initiatives to attain $14.MM in sales with Blue Cross, Blue Shield Insurance programs throughout the country. Activities included launching twenty–four new products on deadline, competitive market analysis, new product development, packaging and promotion.

• Executed new product initiatives, resulting in new product sales.

• Supervised all aspects of day-to-day activities to achieve new product launches

• Participated on a cross-functional team to ensure project initiatives were supported

• Researched new product information and worked closely with internal graphics departments on packaging, label content and design.

• Evaluated and selected call center vendors to handle sales inquires

EDUCATION

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Northridge, CA 1977 – 1979

ALLIED REAL ESTATE SCHOOL, Los Angeles, CA 2005

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