James Scott

Current

• Business Process Manager at Coldwater Creek Inc.

Past

• Senior Business Process Planner at Coldwater Creek Inc
• Store Planner at Coldwater Creek Inc.
• E-Commerce Manager at Out of Italy

• Merchandise Planner at Payless Shoesource Inc.
• Merchandise Analyst at Payless Shoesource Inc.

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Education

• University of Idaho
• Brigham Young University

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Industry

Retail

James Scott’s Summary

Business analyst and process manager with expertise in retail merchandising, inventory planning and allocation, and assortment management.

- Six years experience analyzing and creating business processes for merchants, planners and allocation staff

- Three years experience providing business analysis and requirements documentation on IT development teams

- Expert-level technical skills (Excel, VBA, SQL)

- Author of several applications used by retail merchandising to build assortments and forecast sales, inventory and purchase orders

James Scott’s Specialties:

Excel, VBA, Access, SQL Server, Cognos Analyst, MySQL, PHP, Quantrix Modeler

James Scott’s Experience

• Business Process Manager

  Coldwater Creek Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CWTR; Retail industry)

  November 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Guide development of inventory systems as primary business contact to Information Systems and outside software vendors.

• Senior Business Process Planner

  Coldwater Creek Inc

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CWTR; Retail industry)

  October 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  Provide systems solutions for expanding multi-channel retailer. Interface with IT and business users to define requirements and build systems relating to Inventory Planning and Item Management.

• Store Planner

  Coldwater Creek Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CWTR; Retail industry)

  December 2004 — October 2005 (11 months)

  Coordinated merchandise and allocation plans for 60 new stores across the US.

• E-Commerce Manager

  Out of Italy

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Retail industry)

  April 2004 — December 2004 (9 months)

  Designed and implemented e-commerce and retail database architecture for a mall-based jewelry company. Focus on web conversion, internal data consistency, and office management software.

• Merchandise Planner

  Payless Shoesource Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PSS; Retail industry)

  June 2003 — April 2004 (11 months)

  Managed inventory planning and allocation to twelve Latin American markets, as well as marketing directives and coordination with financial planners.

• Merchandise Analyst

  Payless Shoesource Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PSS; Retail industry)

  June 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 1 month)

  Analyzed and optimized inventory allocation to $50m footwear category.

James Scott’s Education

• University of Idaho

  MBA, 2007 — 2009 (expected)

  Currently enrolled in executive MBA program

• Brigham Young University

  BA, International Studies, 1996 — 2002

  Minors in Business Management and Middle East Studies